100th Edition of the Festival of Stocks

Welcome to the August 4, 2008 edition of the Festival of Stocks. The Festival of Stocks is a blog carnival dedicated to highlighting bloggers best posts on stock market related topics. Fat Pitch Financials is the actual birth place of this online weekly event, so it is always a special occassion when I get the chance to host this event.

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Now that you are familiar with Fat Pitch Financials, let’s take a look at this week’s Festival of Stock participants. Here is a quick run down of this week’s stock related blog posts:

• Bank ETFs posted at Deep Value Dividends.
• Top Banks of the World available as ADRs posted at TopForeignStocks.com.
• The Big Mac Index - Applying Simple Economic Common Sense posted at The Personal Financier.
• 5 Advantages of Mechanical Investing posted at MagicDiligence.
• Stock Analysis: Miller Industries Pt 1 – Co. Overview posted at Bootstrap Investing.
• 5 Best Gold Investment Plays posted at Contrarian Profits.
• Is Pfizer (PFE) a value trap for investors? posted at Dividend Growth Investor.
• ShengdaTech Inc, A Small Cap Gem from China? posted at A Slacker’s Quest for His First Million.
• iStar Financial Inc. (SFI) Update posted at Dividends 4 Life.
• Ouch- CROX Just Taught Me A Lesson posted at Stock Investment.
• Dow Jones Select Dividend Index Fund ETF (DVY) Analysis posted at Deep Value Dividends.
• Stock Market Diversification Works! The Proof posted at The Digerati Life.
• Book Review: Profit from the Peak posted at College Analysts.
• Facing Reality Can Be Good posted at My Wealth Builder.
• If Health Care stocks Rally then Buy UnitedHealth Group posted at The StockMasters.
• What are My Investments and How are They Doing So Far? posted at The Sun’s Financial Diary.

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That concludes this edition of the Festival of Stocks. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Festival of Stocks using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our Festival of Stocks index page.

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