It was a good day. My growing interesting - and growing long positions - in commodities-related items (particularly DIG) served me well. Trying to trade the ES right now..........even for those with conviction.........is treacherous. I've got some things to do............so I'll do a post late tonight. I'm pleased - really pleased - with how everything turned out today.
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It takes all kinds to make a world. Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research may not be very bright, but he is intrepid. According to an account in Barron's, the analyst thinks Google's (GOOG) revenue will drop for each of the next two years. "He sees the company posting revenues of $15.71 billion this year, $15.23 billion next year and $14.57 billion in 2010, with profits of $19.44 a share th...
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Hedge funds have had a lousy year, losing an average of 10.8%. But two hedge funds -- big winners in 2007 -- kept making money this year as well. Meanwhile, those two winners mask an awful lot of losers who will probably find their way into oblivion. The winners for 2008 (at least through September) are run by James Simons (a math genius whose money-making techniques elude explanation) and John...
Filed under: Rants and raves, Money and Finance Today, Wachovia Corp (WB), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, Stocks to Buy, Best Stocks for 2008This has been a terrible year for financial institutions. However, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) has been able to make it through the obstacle course better than most.The stock has been up and down with the market but the scandals and large write-downs that h...
Two days before the chief executives of Detroit’s Big Three - General Motors Corp. (GM), Ford Motor Co. (F), and Chrysler Corp. - march back to Capitol Hill to again petition Congress for a $25 billion bailout, details about each company’s plan to scale back operations are emerging. Each CEO - GM’s Richard Wagoner, Ford Chief Executive Alan Mulally and Chrysler’s Robert ...
President-elect Barack Obama will reportedly name New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to head the Commerce Department, reaching out to a fixture of Democratic politics who once headed the Energy Department and was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Given the sharp moves we've seen in the US Treasury market over the last several days, we updated our trading range charts of major international 10-year government bond yields. In each chart the blue shading represents 2 standard deviations above and below the yield's 50-day moving average. As shown below, the sharp declines have not been confined to just the US. In five of the six countries/r...
UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE: UNH) has made some rather bold predictions for 2009. What is interesting here is that these projections are not the projections of old showing continued growth nor showing continued goals total dominance. But the possible surprise here is that this depends upon the state of just how bad things get in the economy and also upon several factors which might now be ou...
Filed under: Law, Bank of America (BAC), HousingEveryone cheered when Countrywide Financial, owned by Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), agreed to modify loans under a settlement with 11 state attorneys general reached in October.Everyone, that is, except the people who held those mortgages and stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of slashed balances and reduced interest rates. S...