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Semiconductor Stock Index - SOX
2007-09-19 15:47:00 Just a quick note about the SOX. It's at the 500 level again, with the 50 day moving avg looming at 503. The SOX got to as high as about 550 back in July, and on Tuesday tested the 200 day moving... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Stock , Semiconductor , Index , Mico
S&P Zooms up 43; Dow Up 335; Dollar Index Swoons .63%
2007-09-19 06:33:00 It came down to one of two scenarios as I noted in my "Market Outlook" section in the right hand column on 9/16: either a melt up with a 1/2 point cut, or a melt down from a paltry 1/4 point cut. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Dollar , Index , Doll
Melt UP
2007-09-18 21:43:00 Last night a friend asked me if I thought 25, or 50 basis point cut. I opined it would be 25. Wrong. Though discussed here recently, the implications of a 50 basis point cut and the possibility of a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Morning Market Buzz 9/18/07
2007-09-18 14:02:00 Finally, Federal Reserve policy makers are meeting. At about 2:15 the press release will be given to a gaggle of reporters located at the U.S. Treasury press room and the world will know what... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Market , Buzz , Morning
S&P Falls 7; Dow Down 39
2007-09-18 05:28:00 It's interesting to see how the S&P 1480 area, or Dow 13,400 has been a major battle zone that has kept the market from advancing back to 1500, or Dow 13,500. The market ran in place again today... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Falls
Crude Oil Jumps to Above $81 After Hours
2007-09-18 00:50:00 After hitting yet another record closing high in regular trading, crude oil moved to above the $81 level this evening. What's behind the move? The modest OPEC output increase is seen as a primary... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Hours , Crude Oil
Even More Confessions - Bank of America (BAC)
2007-09-18 00:43:00 Bank of America Sees `Meaningful Impact' From Turmoil (Update2). Hat tip to Mary for alerting me. No change in the stock after hours. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Confessions , Bank of America , Bank , Fess
A Company Put on Probation?? Chaquita Brands (CQB) Cops a Plea
2007-09-17 23:44:00 What line would payments to drug lords be under in Chaquita's financial statements? Judge OKs Chiquita plea deal in Colombian payoffs. Not everyone's happy: "Colombia's Justice and Interior... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Company , Cops , Brands
CS3 Sales Surge, Adobe (ADBE) On The Rise
2007-09-17 22:39:00 Adobe's Profit Doubles on Demand for Creative Suite Software. The stock is up 3%. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Adobe , Sales , Surge , Rise , Urge
A Slow Fade To Black - Novastar (NFI); Troubles at E-Trade (ETFC) Finally C
2007-09-17 22:38:00 NFI is down 20%. NovaStar scraps dividend, REIT status. ETFC is down about 10%. E*Trade Cuts Earnings Estimate by 25%, Citing Mortgage Losses [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Black , Finally , Fade , Slow
General Motors (GM)
2007-09-17 18:44:00 Speculators are making bullish bets on General Motors , presently in the midst of protracted contract negotiations with their chums at the United Auto Workers union. You'd think that GM speculators... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: General Motors
The Hovnanian Hootenanny
2007-09-17 18:10:00 It was called the "deal of the century", a 3 day Hovananian Enterprises (HOV) home sale event. The company says it bagged 2,100 "gross sales". That includes more than 1,700 contracts and 400 sales... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Tena
Morning Market Buzz 9/17/07
2007-09-17 14:18:00 Stocks will stumble out of bed this morning, as the problems at Britain's Northern Rock keep investors uneasy and queasy on both sides of the Atlantic. The bigger picture issue is that a run on a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Market , Buzz , Morning
Just In Case You Missed It: Greenspan on 60 Minutes
2007-09-17 05:37:00 This is part 1, when part 2 becomes available from CBS I will post it: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Case , Greenspan , Minutes , Span , Utes
Financial Times: Greenspan's Housing Alert
2007-09-17 05:11:00 Mr Greenspan said he would expect “as a minimum, large single-digit” percentage declines in US house prices from peak to trough and added that he would not be surprised if the fall was “in double... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Financial , Housing , Alert , Times , Financial Times
Follow The Bouncing Check
2007-09-16 15:26:00 "Check s sent out by the troubled American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. to pay the property taxes of more than 70 homeowners in the Baltimore metropolitan area have bounced, local officials said... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Week Ahead
2007-09-16 14:59:00 It's going to be a busy one with the Fed meeting, brokerage earnings, economic data. I'll let Dow Jones sum it up. (Click here) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Week , Ahead
$150 a Barrel Oil Coming Sometime Sooner than Most Think?
2007-09-16 14:38:00 Former Shell chairman says that diminishing resources could push price of crude to $150 a barrel, according to the UK newspaper The Independent. There are as many ignorant scoffers today about Peak... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Some , Barrel
Looks Like the $8 Mln Will Payoff Big Time
2007-09-16 14:07:00 $8 mln is the hefty advance Alan Greenspan was reported to have received for the writing of his memoirs entitled, "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," published by Penguin Press. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Time , Looks
Bank Run - Did You Ever Think You Would See It Happen?
2007-09-16 03:20:00 More lines today at branches of the UK's Northern Rock: [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Bank
The Next Shoe - Commercial Real Estate
2007-09-15 14:35:00 Lots of shoes are dropping these days. This must be a shoe closet that Imelda Marcos would be proud of. "The Midwest led the biggest-ever drop in the national quarterly commercial real-estate index... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Commercial , Estate , Real Estate , Real , Shoe
A Few Weekend Vids
2007-09-15 13:09:00 The BBC looks at the Credit Crunch... Previewing the Federal Reserve Policy Makers Meeting... A Cold War Murder Investigation Heats Up... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Weekend , Vids
S&P 500 Up 0.30, Dow Gains 17
2007-09-15 04:46:00 The executive summary on what happened today in the stock market: Stocks ran in place ahead next Tuesday's Fed meeting. For the most part the same could be said of Treasurys, forex, metals and even... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PC Supply Chain Cuts
2007-09-14 20:16:00 Last night I alluded to reports HP was cutting orders. Today in Goldman's Intrday market note... "IT is flat with internet names outperforming and weakness in anything PC related. In Internet, YHOO... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Supply Chain , Chain , Cuts , Hain
Merrill Lynch: "Requisite Fair Value Adjustments"
2007-09-14 16:33:00 Not many details, including how this might affect the bottom line: Merrill Says It Made Fair Value Adjustment s for Subprime Crisis. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Merrill Lynch
Industrial Production Data: TEPID
2007-09-14 15:55:00 DJ Data Snap shows overall production, weaker than expected at 0.2%, would have been little changed were it not for a more than 5% jump in utility output during the hot month of August. Key... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Industrial , Industrial Production , Production
Morning Market Buzz 9/14/07
2007-09-14 14:32:00 The market seems surprised that retail sales ex-autos fell 0.4%. Wow, these folks bidding down stock futures this morning need to get out more among the masses and get a clue about what's going on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Market , Buzz , Morning
S&P Up 12; Dow Rises 133
2007-09-14 00:44:00 It's deja vu all over again with the S&P 500 back at the 50 day moving average. The S&P has gone no where fast since the end of August as everyone awaits the Fed and its day of decision this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Goldman Alpha Fund
2007-09-13 19:12:00 Yes, indeed... past performance is not indicative of future results: Goldman Sachs Alpha fund plunged last month. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Fund , The Go , The G
Build a Bear (BBW) Options Volume Surges
More articles from this author:2007-09-13 18:59:00 I went to a Build a Bear , once and now try to steer clear. Options players are paying a visit to BBW calls today. Over 2,000 October 20s have popped up on my Options Screener vs open interest of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Volume , Urge 1, 2, 3 |
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