Here are some more tips relating to the Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone, a couple of which are related to the stock quotes. These may be useful to those who have just bought an iPhone and maybe iPhone owners who have had their iPhone for a while but didn't realize these techniques were available. 1. If you are typing in Notes or typing a message in an email, and you need to type a period, instead of clicking the .?123 key then clicking the period, just double-click on the Space Bar and it will automatically put in a period and a space. 2. Need to quickly get to your favorite phone numbers in order to make a phone call, no matter what you are currently looking at (stocks, maps, weather, clock, etc., instead of pressing the Home button (the big indentation at the bottom of your screen), then pressing the Phone icon, then ...

I got an email today from American Stock Exchange that I wanted to pass along:

AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF FIXED RETURN OPTIONS (FROs) ON THURSDAY MAY 8, 2008

New York , May 1, 2008 – The American Stock Exchange® (Amex®) announced today the launch of Fixed Return OptionsSM (FROsSM), which will begin trading on May 8. FROs are “binary” options on popular equities and exchange traded funds (ETFs), including QQQQ, SPDRs and Google that will pay a fixed, cash amount of $100.00 upon settlement “in-the-money.” Fixed Return Options are offered in two forms: “Finish High” – each long contract returns $100.00 if the underlying security settlement value is above the strike price at expiration and “Finish Low” – each long contract returns $100.00 if the underlying security settlement value is below the strike price at expiration. FROs will settle at expiration based on Amex. FRO Settlement Index that will ...

I know we have a lot of readers who subscribe only by email and hence do not come to the website itself, but just as an fyi sometimes we run polls and/or there are comments made by readers that you are missing out on ;) Anyhow in this week's poll we asked 'What is Your Long term View on Commodities?' With 97 respondents 16% responded that this is just the latest in a series of bubbles 84% responded that in 5 years we are going to wish we could buy at these prices Now, I assume there is sampling error because I fall more in the latter camp so most blog readers who were less biased probably are leaning to the latter answer after reading the blog or as most humans do, prefer to read sources that agree with their own viewpoints - hence we attract more people who already came to the blog with ...