NEW YORK (AP) -- Shopping binges on the day after Thanksgiving were likely not enough to save a dismal November for retailers, leaving them with what's expected to be a second straight monthly sales drop and fueling concerns about how much consumer spending can fall....
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The Arms Index or TRIN is an indicator that I watch closely for short to intermediate-term setups. The indicator which combines ratios of advancing issues to declining issues and advancing volume to declining volume is a reasonably reliable contrary signal. Since mid-October the Arms Index has been generating a number of historically high signals. In the chart below, I used a 10 day exponential...
General Motors Inc. is sort of the anti-Ross Perot, the company that informs you that no matter what the circumstance, it still needs a boatload of money just to make getting up in the morning worth it. The automotive giant (ish) asked for $18 billion in federal loans, one-and-a-half times the size of what it asked for a few weeks ago, amid a 41% decline in auto sales in November. But the thin...
Prices of Treasury coupon securities have posted another day of gains with the strongest advance in the belly of the yield curve. The 5 year note, the 10 year note and the Long Bond are all back within in a whisker of the lowest yields of the “modern” era.As I recounted in my opening most benchmarks opened better than late closing levels. The Bond was the lone exception as it suffer...
Excel Maritime (EXM) Bad period for shipping business. Falls to $3.25 from 52-week high of $60.99. Xenoport (XNPT) New drug fails in study. Drops to $17.90 from 52-week high of $66.34. Sierra Wireless (SWIR) Will be buying Wavecom. Wall St. hates deal. Falls to $5,42 from 52-week high of $21.18. Palm (PALM) Smartphone also-ran revised quarter down. Falls to $1.14 from 52-week high of $8.94. Dou...
Filed under: DJIAWhile Bill Gross is big-time bond trader for Pacific Investment Management Co., he also has some interesting takes on the equities markets. Unfortunately, his views are fairly pessimistic. According to Gross, the stock market can be somewhat nuanced. In fact, he compares it to a "fragile flower where price is part perception, part valuation, and part hope or lack thereof." In h...
A simple question yields a surprising answer.
Picking out a CEO to go in technology right now might seem as though the argument could be almost any of them if you count share price only. That is doubly true if you look at just DRAM and flash memory makers. But the one stand out company which could use a new CEO is SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK). Dr. Eli Harari is a co-founder of the company, and he sits as Chairman, CEO, and as a member of ...
The Carlyle Group appears to have lost interest in buying Neuberger Berman, Lehman Brothers‘ asset management unit. And it is unclear whether anyone else is interested besides two private equity firms, Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman. Carlyle, the private equity firm that helped instigate the current round of bidding for Neuberger, has decided not to [...]
Options traders have descended on the smart phone sector Tuesday, with heavy activity in Research in Motion, Nokia and Palm, following poor earnings by the latter, and news of an introduction of Nokia’s entrée into this market. Research in Motion’s options were the most actively traded. The stock was getting hit, down 7.5% after Palm reported less-than-stellar results for its most r...