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Entries from June 2008

Buying company stock

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I thought about buying $10-20K of my company’s stock when it hit near an all-time low a couple months ago. The stock is now back up about 70% above the low point. That would have been a nice little capital gain in a short period of time.
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Moved $60K cash to HSBC

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

HSBC upped their interest rate to 3.5% and guaranteed it for several months recently. In response (and probably what they were hoping for), we moved $60K cash into our HSBC account. Previously it had been earning around 2% in our local credit union money market, which was close to HSBC’s rate. The […]

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