This 2 part series will cover recent market developments about Berkshire Hathaway, points to a strategy on how you may benefit more on the same trades he did recently and an option trading strategy that probably Berkshire uses for maximizing it returns on the underlying they find worth investing. Don’t forget to read the big picture of US stock markets. Markets are behaving pretty much th...
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In early trade, AEM and ABX, my two gold watch list stocks rose to the top of the % gainers list on a weaker dollar. I was waiting for AEM to retrace or form some NRIBs at the base of resistance (blue line). The dollar ended up being a fade and gold pulled back in. However, I noticed that AEM was halted pending news. Briefing.com reported that AEM announced a $252 mln private placement; or 8 ml...
I’ve been thinking about homeowner rescue plans and it occurs to me that the banks are ignoring a fairly obvious solution, consider this: Outside of loss of income/sudden financial hardship situations, many of the people facing foreclosure are in those situations because they purchased a home they couldn’t afford with an exotic mortgage, correct? In other words any relief that comes...
Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), OptionsThe CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is recently up 3.62 to 71.26, above its 500-day moving average of 20.77, 200-day moving average of 30.38, 100-day moving average of 38.09, 50-day moving average of 53.53 and 10-day average of 64.18 according to Track Data. This suggests that the market is pricing in an upcoming soft economic depression. Yahoo I...
Filed under: Newsletters, Stocks to Buy, Green Stocks, Obama Picks"The new administration will likely soon launch a new spending program to put people back to work and boost the economy," says Jim Powell, adding, "That's even more likely now that the financial crisis is in full swing and growth is declining." In his Global Changes & Opportunities Report he looks at General Cable (NYSE: BGC)...
Fedspeak! Paulson locks horns with lawmakers over rescue fund The risk of Bernanke's cash injections It isn’t a TARP without troubled assets to cover CPI + PPI = Deflation Year's defaults soar past a quarter-trillion S&P 500's Q3 earnings fall 22% from last year An interesting look at quarter EPS beat rates S&P 500 2009 estimates are all over the map Worst recession since 1930s is possible Depr...
Not a huge revelation here, but the market is showing particular disdain today for any stocks that give off an aroma of a need for more capital. Here’s a slightly random list of companies which have in common largely the fact that they will eventually need to raise cash to refinance debt or to carry out their business plan. All have fairly leveraged balance sheets. And all have been rippe...
Circuit City Blows A Fuse… But Here’s Why Its Bankruptcy Doesn’t Spell Holiday Doom For Retailers
Wed, Nov 19, 1:29 PM ET
by Paul Moore, Contributing Editor & Technology Specialist, Smart Profits Report So China has become the latest country to pump up its laboring economy, with a whopping $585 billion stimulus package. Whether it works or not… time will tell. But Asian and European stocks picked up on the move on Monday, grasping onto whatever seemingly positive moves they can. Here in the U.S., the me...
Filed under: Private equity, RecessionHarvard is an easy target for the woes of our economy. Its business school produced George W. Bush, the fellow who's presided over the current economic catastrophe, and Rick Wagoner, the CEO of the largest automobile maker who's led its stock down 95% in the last eight years and now wants $25 billion worth of taxpayer money to keep the millions rolling into...
Citigroup’s Jason Brueschke today cut his rating on Baidu (BIDU) to Sell from Buy, slashing his price target to $110, from $300. As I have noted in several recent posts, Baidu over the weekend was the subject of a highly critical report on China Central Television noting that the company has included paid listings for unlicensed medical products providers high in its search results for ce...