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...some measures, insider activity hasn't been this bullish in five years. Insiders sold $882 million in stocks in July, the first month since 1997 that they haven't unloaded at least $1 billion, reports Thomson Financial. And buying has picked up, jumping 17% in July to $143 million. As those numbers show, executive sellers still far outnumber executive buyers. But that's almost always the case. Executives get so much stock as part of their compensation that they don't have to buy, and selling can amount to nothing more than prudent diversification or raising cash...
Kevin Schwenger, who tracks insider activity for Thomson, says insider selling typically runs $10 to $20 for every $1 of insider buying. The current reading: $6.15 to $1, "a very bullish signal," says Schwenger. David Coleman, editor of Vickers Weekly Insider Report, reaches the same conclusion. He focuses on numbers of shares traded, not dollars. In the first part of June, his weekly ratio of shares sold by insiders to shares bought by them hit a 15-year high of 4.2 to 1 but has since fallen to about 1 to 1, a rare episode of parity last seen immediately...
...bullish as some observers are about the country's new direction, plenty of reservations remain. Mokhtar's detractors say he appears to be just the latest rider on Malaysia's crony-go-round. "Mokhtar is enjoying a rapid rise like Halim Saad and Tajudin Ramli and is closely aligned with Mahathir," says Terence Gomez, who teaches economics at Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya. The issue has roiled the usually placid waters of Malaysia's press. Writing in the business weekly The Edge, journalist P. Gunasegeram penned a column about Mokhtar titled, "When One Man Gets Too Much." Gunasegeram chronicles...
...salaries Wall Street pays in boom times are enough to make anybody bullish...
...CRAMER VS. CRAMER: Kirkus is bullish about "Confessions of a Street Addict" by James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster; May 13), giving it a starred review. "Wall Street's most notorious bull bares all in this typically over-the-top memoir. If Alan Greenspan was the superego of the '90s economy, Cramer was surely its libido. This memoir hopscotches between his trademark hyperbole and a peculiar form of self-abnegation (he never seems happier than when flagellating himself). Wall Street-savvy readers will particularly enjoy Cramer's blow-by-blow account of the late-'90s market. The IPO for Cramer...