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Why The Market Ignored GOOG's Plunge (If Only Briefly)
Via Michael Faso of FBN Securities, GOOG’s ill timed oops in the early afternoon dumped the S&P 500 approximately 12 handles from what been shaping up previously as a fourth straight “checkmark”...
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Here's What The Machines Are Doing With GOOG Today
We indicated yesterday, as GOOG re-opened, that the day's Volume-Weighted-Average-Price (VWAP) would be a critical level in the next day or two. The earnings SNAFU heard around the world and the sheer...
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Checking Out At The Hotel AAPLfornia With 230 Rooms
Is this it? Nobody knows for sure, but just like yesterday's GOOG pogrom sent 165 hedge funds (at least) scrambling for cover (but, but, it is a perfectly efficient market - unpossible), and destroyed...
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Happy Crashiversary – Are You Prepared for the Next One?
TGIF – Happy Crashiversary – Are You Prepared for the Next One? Courtesy of Phil's Stock World 25 years ago today, the market fell 22%. You never know what's going to panic the markets – since then...
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The Ultimate World Economic Scorecard
When you are out this evening at your cocktail party, discussing the state of the world, how everyone should be buying GOOG on the dips, how AAPL looks cheap (and the mini-iPad is coming soon), all...
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Today's Redbull-Sponsored Market Plunges By Most In 4 Months
Whether its AAPL, GOOG, or the broad equity indices, today saw the bulls 'Baumgartnered'. Despite a valiant attempt to rally into the close, because Bernanke forbid the Dow close the week red, the...
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Ignore the Smell of Blood at Your Own Peril
What kind of batter crowds the plate after a pitcher has aimed a fastball at his head? “Batters” have been doing it routinely on Wall Street lately — most recently yesterday, when they held the broad...
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Q3 Earnings Season To Date Summary: Ugly... And Getting Worse
Roughly one third of the S&P has reported earnings so far, with another third reporting in the next five days and almighty AAPL on deck Thursday evening, and if there is one word to describe what...
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Dead Heat for Romney, Obama (WSJ) The Cheerful Billionaire Who Thinks Obama's a Socialist (Businessweek) "Get to work, Mr. Japanese Chairman": Japan Exports Tumble 10% as Maehara Presses BOJ to Ease...
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Monday Market Movement – A Little Perspective Does Wonders
Monday Market Movement – A Little Perspective Does Wonders By Phil of Phil's Stock World We're crashing! Just look at this chart, from "Chart of the Day": See – over there at the right, on top, at the...
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Draghi's Dike Defended As Market Ends Week Range-Bound
As we noted this morning, today seemed more about defense than offense (even though stocks managed to rally off Draghi's Dike twice). Dow 13,000 and S&P 1400 remain safe. Today's theme is...
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Why The Real Earnings Picture Is Bad And Getting Worse
Listening to the incessant chatter of confirmation bias from CNBC, you could be forgiven for thinking that earnings are 'not that bad'. Headline-makers like AMZN, GOOG, and AAPL scare for a few moments...
View ArticleAs Redemptions Surge, The Dreaded Hedge Fund "Gate" Is Back
Hedge Fund "gating", or the forced administrative limit on how much money hedge fund investors can redeem at any given moment, is one of those bad memories that most wish could remain dead and buried...
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Electile Dysfunction - Market Just Couldn't Keep It Up
The early day surge in stocks and commodities (and sell-off in bonds) managed to get S&P 500 futures up to their 50DMA and the pre-NFP levels (which coincides with Bernanke's Bottom). Volume surged...
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Israel Mobilizes Troops as Hostilities Escalate (WSJ)FHA Sets Stage for Taxpayer Subsidy With 2012 Deficit (Bloomberg)On eve of fiscal cliff talks, positions harden (Reuters)Japan PM Noda contradicts...
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Egypt protests continue in crisis over Mursi powers (Reuters)Greece hires Deutsche, Morgan Stanley to run Greek voluntary debt buy back, sources say (Kathimerini)Executives' Good Luck in Trading Own...
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Turns out no free lunch after all: Greeks rage against pension calamity (Reuters)IMF money for Greece contingent on debt buy back (Reuters)U.N. Gives Palestinians 'State' Status (WSJ)Obama's Cliff...
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Two weeks ago here: The Latest Greek "Bailout" In A Nutshell: AAA-Rated Euro Countries To Fund Massive Hedge Fund Profits... and now on Bloomberg: "Hedge Funds Win as Europe Will Pay More for Greek...
View ArticleFrontrunning: December 10
Central Banks Ponder Going Beyond Inflation Mandates (BBG)Bloomberg Weighs Making Bid for The Financial Times (NYT)Hedge Funds Fall Out of Love with Equities (FT)Obama and Boehner resume US fiscal...
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Cost Shifting Your Way To Prominence Using The Network Effect, Or Google Wins...
One of the inevitable results of cost shifting (see the video below) is not just the compression of margins, but the rapid advancement of adoption by the masses. This rapid adoption causes users...
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