Summer Stocks, The U.S. Open, And The Brutal 16th

Tiger Woods took a drop after he hit his drive in the water at the 14th hole yesterday, and now there's another illegal drop controversy. He had to drop as close as possible to the point at which his ball entered the hazard.

Over the weekend I read a post at Seeking Alpha titled Will Your Retirement Savings Last? It was a dividend oriented post that drew a lot of comments including the following;

Here. We. Go. The penultimate weekend of this football season has two pretty good games. They're not as good as last week's, but they're pretty exciting.

Australia is burning. Extreme heat and drought during the country's summer wildfire season have helped fierce winds spark about 100 bushfires across southeastern Australia. Sound familiar?

By Tradevestor:So, the summer pullback is officially here. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, for example, has fallen from 13,200 to about 12,500 since the beginning of May. As long term investors know, such pullbacks present buying opportunities in good stocks which remain sound fundamentally but get knocked down due to fear in the overall market. This article presents three such dividend paying stocks that we believe will be good additions to most portfolios.

IN AN effort to boost transparency, the Federal Reserve now releases full transcripts of its Federal Open Market Committee meetings. In an effort to limit transparency, however, it does so on a lag. As of today, therefore, we are able to look back and see what was said in Fed meetings in 2006. In commemoration of this moment, Free exchange now presents: A selection of comments from Federal Open Market Committee meetings which resulted in laughter.From the meeting of January 31:

Spain's Mikel Nieve won the 16th stage of the Tour of Spain here on Monday, a 181.4-kilometre ride from Gijon to Cotobello in northern Spain.The 26-year-old Euskaltel rider finished in four hours, 51 minutes and 59 seconds, one minute and six seconds ahead of Luxembourg's Frank Schleck of Saxo Bank.His compatriot Joaquin Rodriguez of Katusha regained the overall leader's red jersey, with a lead of 33 seconds over nearest rival Vincenzo Nibali.