Web analyst. (Wall Street West).Do investors want another Wall Street-oriented Web site? David Frazier, former stockbroker at Waterhouse Securities, credit analyst for Dun & Bradstreet, stock market researcher, money manager and investment banker Investment Banker A person representing a financial institution that is in the business of raising capital for corporations and municipalities. Notes: An investment banker may not accept deposits or make commercial loans. , is betting they do. The problem with most Wall Street Web sites is that they don't give honest advice or collate col·late tr.v. col·lat·ed, col·lat·ing, col·lates 1. To examine and compare carefully in order to note points of disagreement. 2. To assemble in proper numerical or logical sequence. 3. economic data in a digestible digestible having the quality of being able to be digested. digestible energy the proportion of the potential energy in a feed which is in fact digested. digestible protein see digestible protein. format, said Redondo Beach-based Frazier, founder of Frazier Research & Analytics and frazierresearch.com. "Look at the sites out there. Look at theStreet.com. It is worthless," said Frazier. "They don't tell you how to invest." And sites that make recommendations are often just running "pump-and-dump" schemes, he added. Frazier's site has lots of financial and economic data and specific recommendations, all archived. For some time, he has produced stock market reports on individual companies, sometimes accepting pay from the companies he covered. (It's legal to do so, as long as it's disclosed. Wall Street firms don't, but have been criticized for linking favorable coverage to invesment banking fees.) For the time being, Frazier's Web site is free to all, though he plans some day to charge a fee. His favorite stock right now is San Josebased HPL HPL - Language used in HP9825A/S/T "Desktop Calculators", 1978(?) and ported to the early Series 200 family (9826 and 9836, 68000). Fairly simple and standard, but with extensive I/O support for data acquisition and control (BCD, Serial, 16 bit custom and IEEE 488 interfaces), Technologies Inc., which makes software which speeds up semiconductor production. HPL didn't pay for the coverage, Frazier said. Contributing columnist Benjamin Mark Cole Mark Cole is a multi-instrumentalist blues and roots musician based in Gloucester, UK Music Mark primarily writes and performs blues music but also writes and performs music influenced by other American roots music genres such as americana, cajun, zydeco, bluegrass and writes about the local investment community for the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Business Journal. He can be reached at sevencontinents@mindspring.com. |
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