{"id":1335,"date":"2013-12-24T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T12:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2013-12-24T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T12:29:35","slug":"2013-what-an-incredible-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"2013 &#8211; what an incredible year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog follows and explains 2 stocks:<\/p>\n<p>No. 1: Colfax Corp. (NYSE: CFX) the fluid handling company.\u00a0We started to follow Colfax in May 2009 when the stock traded at $ 7.27 . Today we are at an all-time high of $ 63.06, up more than 56% this year, beating the S&amp;P 500 which is up &#8220;only&#8221; 31% so far and very near to a 9-bagger over the whole 4 1\/2 year time horizon!<\/p>\n<p>No. 2: Markel Corporation (NYSE: MKL) the insurance and superinvestor company which traded yesterday at $ 576.02, up 33% this year and also beating the S&amp;P 500 index so far!<\/p>\n<p>Background of this astonishing development certainly is the general improvement of the US-american economy. But do not forget solid leadership and the hard work within these 2 companies which will continue in 2014 and help our investments!<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s be grateful for 2013 and look forward to 2014!<\/p>\n<p>We wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the holidays with your families!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog follows and explains 2 stocks: No. 1: Colfax Corp. (NYSE: CFX) the fluid handling company.\u00a0We started to follow Colfax in May 2009 when the stock traded at $ 7.27 . Today we are at an all-time high of $ 63.06, up more than 56% this year, beating the S&amp;P 500 which is up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.asmus-puhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}