Under Pressure (Stock World Weekly)
This week's Stock World Weekly includes many trade ideas discussed over the weekend by Pharmboy, Scott of Sabrient and Allan of Allan Trends and Phil of Phil's Stock World. The short positions Phil...
View ArticleFed Doves Send Risk Soaring, Apples Dropping
More jaw-boning helped squeeze shorts as equity indices, credit, and precious metals all closed their highest since the NFP dive as QE3 hope is back on the table. The best day in four months for...
View ArticleAAPL Plunges Most In Six Months
Amid the fourth heaviest volume of the year, Apple shares fell over 4% today - its largest single-day drop in six months (and largest two-day drop in 23 months) and GOOG also fell over 3%. This dragged...
View ArticleThe Most Surprising Chart Of Q1 Earnings Season So Far
22% of the Q1 earnings season (by market cap) is over, and anyone listening merely to soundbites and reading media headlines would likely think that stocks have soared as a result of a relentless...
View ArticleHeavy Dirt on the Facebook IPO & Hard Indications Of What Looks Like...
The MSM is echoing BoomBustBlog analysis today, as per Bloomberg: Facebook First-Quarter Profit Drops; Costs Almost Double Facebook Inc. (FB), the social network planning an initial public offering,...
View ArticleThe Death Of The Deadbeat Carriers, Part 2 - Apple Avoideth, Google Destroyeth
Yesterday I claimed US Cellular Carriers Are At Risk Of Being Marginalized Into Nothingness Unless They Learn To Think Outside The Box... Yesterday. There are some who allege that the US cellular...
View ArticleNew Level Of Stock Market Quote Insanity
If there is one thing Nanex does with absolute perfection, as in the case below, it is to show how the New stock market Normal is best suited for various robotic creatures, and ideally to be avoided...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 14
Greek Banks Under Pressure (WSJ) France Seeks Eurozone Stability Package (FT) Germany Dashes Eurozone Expectations (FT) Geithner Says European Leaders Know They Must Do More (Bloomberg) In Athens,...
View ArticleFools Rush In After Netflix CEO Boasts on Facebook?
By EconMatters The wild ride of Netflix (NFLX) shares continues. After plummeting from above $300 a share to around $60 all within the past year mostly due to poor management decision. Netflix shares...
View ArticleThe Rally's Dark Side: 68% Of Growth Funds Are Now Underperforming, A 30%...
Prayer, courtesy of central banks, may still be a "valid" investing strategy, but "growth" no longer is: for all the euphoria over the stock market outperformance in the last few days on the heels of...
View ArticleComplete Q2 Hedge Fund Holdings Summary
Q2 hedge fund reporting season has come and gone. Below is a summary of the key funds, and who held what at the end of June. Courtesy of Bloomberg: Berkshire Hathaway Took Stakes in NOV, PSX Exited...
View ArticleBlast From The Past: Netflix CEO, December 2010 - "Cover Your Short Position....
On December 20, 2010, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had one message for everyone who cared: "Cover Your Short Position. Now." NFLX price then: $178.05... NFLX price now: $55.40; Return: -71.20%. And they...
View ArticlePatents Wars 2: The Asian Empire Strikes Back - Are The Tables About To Turn...
Much has been said about Apple's recent victory over its key component supplier, Samsung, in a recent US court decision the direct result of which has been the halt of sales of several Samsung products...
View ArticleFrontrunning: September 20
Obama, Romney tiptoe around housing morass as they woo voters (Reuters) ... just as ZH expected Poll Finds Obama in Better Shape Than Any Nominee Since Clinton (Bloomberg) Romney on Offense, Says...
View ArticleFrontrunning: September 25
China carrier a show of force as Japan tension festers (Reuters) Draghi Rally Lets Skeptics Dump Spain for Bunds (Bloomberg) China’s Central Bank Injects Record Funds to Ease Cash Crunch (Bloomberg)...
View ArticleFrontrunning: September 27
Madrid Protesters March Again as Spain Braces for Cuts (Bloomberg) Euro Can Bear Fewer Members as Czech Leader Calls Greeks Victims (Bloomberg) Chinese Industrial Profits Fall 6.2% in Fifth Straight...
View ArticleFrontrunning: October 3
No Joy on Wall Street as Biggest Banks Earn $63 Billion (Bloomberg) And more good news: IMF’s Blanchard Says Crisis Will Last a Decade (Reuters) Hobbit Returns to Find Middle Earth Has Become...
View ArticleAs Online Retailers Launch Vendor Financing, Is Apple Credit Corp Imminent?
As we have been saying for over a year now, there are two key issues (one of which follows logically from the other) that central bankers are banging their heads against: the increasing scarcity of...
View ArticleRight On Time, My Prediction Of Apple Margin Compression 8 Quarters From My...
apple product chart growth copy Well, it looks as if my Apple ruminations and research have come to Fruition - and rather accurately at that. Since Apple has such a cult following, I will set the...
View ArticleNASDAQ Drops Most In 5 Months As Leaders Languish
AAPL slumbered today (fading at VWAPs) and GOOG stumbled on FTC settlement chatter - dragging Nasdaq to its biggest weekly loss in almost 5 months. Financials were also sold hard (following what every...
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