2013 Blog Year In Review + MORE Dec 26th

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:
NYSE
Twitter Inc., up $3.35 to $73.31
The stock has surged 76 per cent this month and has nearly tripled since the microblogging social network went public in November.
T-Mobile US Inc., up 74 cents to $32.93
There are reports that Japan’s SoftBank wants to buy the wireless carrier. SoftBank bought most of Sprint for $21.6 billion this summer.
Barclays PLC, up 11 cents to $17.82
An industry watchdog fined a unit of the British bank $3.75 million for improper record keeping.
Hhgregg Inc., down 38 cents to $14.57
The home appliance and electronics retailer said its CFO is leaving and named a temporary replacement.
Nasdaq
Amazon.com Inc., up $5.19 to $404.39
The online retailer said it had a strong holiday shopping season and has tens of millions of Amazon Prime members.
Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., down $3.19 to $11.81
The Israeli drug maker is selling 1…

2013 was a great year for My Own Advisor thanks to every reader and visitor.  Today’s blogpost will highlight a few milestones for the site and share some reflections as part of this 2013 blog year in review.
Site Traffic
2013 was my second full year running this self-hosted site after moving my blog from Blogger to WordPress platform.  In the summer, the site was also redesigned thanks to Dividend Ninja’s creative and technical expertise.  In 2013:

Pageviews increased to over 30,000 per month compared to 21,000-24,000 per month in 2012.
Almost 50% of all site traffic remains courtesy of new visitors, and I hope you keep coming back!
The average time on my site is about 2 minutes, keep browsing folks and contact me if you can’t find what you are looking for or you want to see a particular post about something.
80% of my traffic is from Canada, 12% from the U.S.  The site also got a few thousand hits from the U.K. in 2013.
There is almost a 50-50 split between male and female visitors…

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Total U.S. money market mutual fund assets rose $22.09 billion to $2.697 trillion for the week that ended Monday, according to the Investment Company Institute.
Assets in the nation’s retail money market mutual funds rose $1.27 billion to $926.93 billion, the Washington-based mutual fund trade group said Thursday. Assets of taxable money market funds in the retail category rose $450 million to $731.63 billion. Tax-exempt retail fund assets rose $810 million to $195.3 billion.
Assets in institutional money market funds rose by $20.82 billion to $1.77 trillion. Among institutional funds, taxable money market fund assets increased by $21.47 billion to $1.695 trillion. Assets of tax-exempt funds fell $640 million to $74.8 billion.
The seven-day average yield on money market mutual funds was unchanged at 0.01 per cent from the previous week, according to Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet Inc. in Westborough, Mass. The seven-day compounded yield was flat at 0…

It claims the Malkins acted in bad faith by aborting a “bidding war”, and instead enriched themselves through IPO

WASHINGTON – Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated). The government’s fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
Total public debt subject to limit Dec 24 17,200,081
Statutory debt limit suspended
Total public debt outstanding Dec 24 17,248,088
Operating balance June 29 93,893
Interest fiscal year 2014 through Nov 40,174
Interest same period 2013 47,959
Deficit fiscal year 2014 through Nov 226,819
Deficit same period 2013 292,107
Receipts fiscal year 2014 through Nov 381,380
Receipts same period 2013 346,045
Outlays fiscal year 2014 through Nov 608,199
Outlays same period 2013 638,152
Gold assets in Oct 11,041
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