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Mishs Global Economic Analysis

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$100,000 Condos Made From Discarded Containers

6:52 hrs ago

Discarded containers have been stacking up at ports. They are cheaper to build new than to return to their country of origin, ...

LIBOR Credibility In Doubt

9 hrs ago

Bloomberg is reporting Libor Poised for Shake-Up as Credibility Is Doubted.The benchmark interest rate for $62 trillion of ...

Housing Bailout Backlash

16 hrs ago

The Wall Street Journal is reporting Democrats Face Rescue Backlash.Democrats may be risking a backlash at the polls in ...

Tax Assessors Nightmare

1 day ago

The Atlanta Journal Constitution is writing Tax assessors boggled by housing dip.For less than the price of a decent used car, ...

Housing Hell in Spain and Oz

1 day ago

Expats\'; dream life in the Spanish sunshine has turned into a property nightmare. Welcome to Helldorado.In Southern Spain, ...

Housing Bailout Plan In Jeopardy

2 days ago

The New York Times is reporting Housing Bailout Bill Seems to Be on Shaky Ground.Even as the housing foreclosure crisis ...

Energy Plan Political Pandering

3 days ago

Whenever Congress puts together a bill attempting to find a solution to some sort of real or imagined problem, my immediate ...

Fannie Mae Gets Married

4 days ago

There was an interesting comment today on Minyanville by Mr. Practical about hedge funds, manufactured money, and Fannie Mae. ...

Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz

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WSJ: Fed's Stern Says U.S. Recession likely

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Q: Do you think we’re going to avoid a recession? A: No. But there are recessions and then there recessions. The previous two were short, and the most recent one was not only short but shallow. I think that’s what really matters to people. The average resident ...

What Is Yahoo Actually Worth, Part II ?

4:48 hrs ago

A few weekends ago, I asked the following questions: - What are Yahoo (YHOO) shares actually worth? Both now, and 3-5 years from now? - When Yahoo\'s stock gets whacked due to Mr. Softee\'s walkaway, does this create an opportunity?Indeed, if Microsoft (MSFT) be ...

Markets: As Good With Elections As They Are With The Economy

5:48 hrs ago

> "What you\'re doing is collecting bits and pieces of information and aggregating it so we can watch it and understand what people know. People picked this up and called it the \'wisdom of crowds\' and other things, but a lot of that is just hype." -Californi ...

April Retail Sales

8 hrs ago

Retail Sales were rather unimpressive: Gasoline, Groceries, Food & Beverage were up, while pretty much everything else was flat to down. If you want to get rid of the Easter factor, compare March/April 2007 with March/April 2008. Perhaps some chart porn might ...

Inflation Ex-Inflation Ex-Inflation

13 hrs ago

I stumbled across a data point yesterday that was quite fascinating: The percentage of food and health care in the Consumer Price Index. It turns out that Inflation may be even worse that I previously thought. According to Mark Faber (via Bill Fleckenstein), f ...

Whitney On Citi's Pandit

16 hrs ago

I tried embedding a Windows Media version of several recent Bloomberg Videos yesterday, but somehow, we ended up with the autorun feature on, regardless of the setting. This morning, I will embed it into a page after the jump to prevent that from autorun reocc ...

Ben Bernanke, Improvisor

1 day ago

A must read piece is in the upcoming June 2008 Bloomberg Markets Magazine titled: The Improviser "Ben Bernanke, the consensus-building academic who toiled in Alan Greenspan\'s shadow, is emerging as the most powerful--and inventive--Federal Reserve chairman in ...

Lowest NYSE Volume of the Year

1 day ago

Peter Boockvar notes: Today\'s consolidated volume for NYSE names was a low for the year to date. Helene Meisler notes: It\'s a bear market -- and these low volume rallies are typical of short covering. (unless you believe all those dark pools are swallowing all ...

Timothy Sykes by timothysykes

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Why Trading Journals Are Just As Important As Trading Profits

3:28 hrs ago

Just got an email from a very satisfied PennyStocking DVD student who???s not only made the DVD???s cost back 13x times over in only a few weeks, but also done something rather interesting and I encourage you all to do the same:Tim, just wanted to tell you th ...

How I Broke My Rules And Lost Short Selling A Fraud, Cannon Exploration Inc (CNEX)

6:59 hrs ago

Just about everyone and their mother understands Cannon Exploration Inc (CNEX) is a an outright fraud. Whether you look at PinkSheets.com displaying a skull and cross bones with the tagline ???Caveat Emptor??? next to its stock quote, its now $470 million mark ...

10 Stocks In Play: Where Do You Fit Into The PennyStocking Spectrum?

12 hrs ago

Remember: just cuz I suck at buying breakouts???patience and actually being around to buy-wise???doesn???t mean you???re gonna suck at it too. It???s much much much easier to buy these suckers on the way up than is it to short sell cuz it???s more fun to party ...

Lessons Of A Publisher/Video Blogger/Trader (In That Order)

1 day ago

Looks like I should???ve scheduled my video interview for after hours because I got back after the market close to find myself down 40 cents/share on CNEX???which practically guarantees a higher opening tomorrow (even if the bid is pretty much where I shorted) ...

My 20 All-Time Favorite Finance Books (Part 2)

1 day ago

As promised, here is the follow up to part 1…read these or risk losing big money in the arkets cuz you didn’t learn the important lessons they teach us.Education of a Speculator - Forge the fact that Victor has blown up twice now, he???s still worth a few mi ...

12 Hot Stocks For Manipulation Monday, Wish It Was Supernova Sunday

1 day ago

PSTIEverybody and their mother is contacting me about this pump and dump to short???now that I have some capital/trades available to me this week, I might short it, but it is down $2 in 6 days and there???s really only $1 of downside leftXRMMarch???s big dr ...

Join TimTV On ChuckTV Live Here Tomorrow, Monday May 12th, 2008, 2PM EST

2 days ago

Check this post tomorrow, Monday, May 12th at 2pm EST cuz the coolest Chuck I know, Chuck Boyce of ChuckTV, will be interviewing me and thanks to this snazzy video player you see above, you???ll be able to watch, chat and interact with us all in real-time. We? ...

Thank The SEC For Once: Wall Street Warriors Open Casting Call

2 days ago

Most reality shows gets tens to hundreds of thousands of applicants so the chances of actually getting picked are like the chances of me kissing and making up with the SEC aka slim to none. But not so in the joke that is the finance industry. Thanks to absurd ...

Trader Feed

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Eternal Truths About Trading Success

14 hrs ago

A portfolio manager lent me an interesting small book from the late 1800s written by Dickson G. Watts and reprinted by Traders ...

Indicator Review for May 12th

1 day ago

My Technical Strength measure is a quantification of trending behavior over an intermediate-term time frame. The measure ...

Stock Picking and the Value of Sub-Sector Perspectives

2 days ago

The excellent Barchart site divides the stock market into 232 sub-sectors and tracks their performance relative to the broad ...

The Importance of Stock Picking

2 days ago

If a commodity is hot, stocks of companies that deal in that commodity should be hot as well, right? Well, not necessarily so. ...

What the Cumulative NYSE TICK is Telling Us About Market Psychology

3 days ago

Recall that the NYSE TICK is a measure of very short term sentiment across the broad universe of NYSE issues. When a stock ...

Shady Proprietary (Prop) Trading Firms

3 days ago

I just received a call asking about a nearby proprietary trading firm that trains their traders. The catch is that they charge ...

Worthwhile Readings to Kick Off the Weekend

4 days ago

Self-Efficacy - It\';s difficult to achieve something if you don\';t experience yourself as capable of achieving. Thanks to ...

Six Signs of a Range Bound Market

4 days ago

Several traders emailed me yesterday, tripped up by the narrow, range market. After a period of volatility such as we had ...

Kirk Report by Charles E. Kirk

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Nothing But Noise

1:34 hrs ago

Like most option expiration weeks, there was a lot of noise on several fronts, but the trading action itself was pretty much as expected - i.e. lots of choppy action and another 11:AM Tuesday turnaround move. Tomorrow morning we have...

A Simple Moving Average Screen

9 hrs ago

Using IBD\'s custom screen wizard, here\'s a fun little screen I like to run at least once a week. This morning I searched for stocks which are trading 50% above both their 50 day and 200 day moving averages. This...

Healthcare Investment Opportunities

10 hrs ago

As I promised last week, I spent some time over the past few days focusing my stock screening tools on the healthcare sector. It is my view that sector is relatively undervalued and it presents some attractive longer-term opportunities with...

Retail Sales, M&A, & Fedspeak

10 hrs ago

Good morning. Premarket futures have been volatile this morning, but currently indicate a positive start. In focus this morning include a better than expected retail sales report, disappointing second quarter guidance from Wal-Mart, and the Hewlett-Packard/EDS ...

Buy The Dippers Return

1 day ago

After last week\'s pullback, the buy the dippers got busy. Once the S&P held its 20 day moving average (now support), confidence surged as buyers moved back into internet, real-estate, consumer services, retail, regional banking, and technology. Merger talk sur ...

Searching For Direction

1 day ago

Is the U.S. in recession — yes or no? Recession odds tick lower "Inflating our way out of trouble is tempting but it\'s another buy now, pay later strategy, both for the economy and investors." - James Saft Why all...

Awaiting New Catalysts

1 day ago

Good morning. We start the new week with some M&A news between Cablevision (CVC) & News Corp. (NWS), some mixed news from financials (see MBI & HBC), and lowered earnings guidance at Fedex (FDX). The dollar is up amid chatter...

One Week Pullback

3 days ago

After three straight weeks of gains, the market lost its mojo this week as trouble stirred in the financials, oil prices set a new highs, and there were few positive catalysts to keep the "worst is behind us" rally going....

Fat Pitch Financials by George

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Sotheby's Added to the Fat Pitch Port

4:20 hrs ago

Today I added shares of art auction house Sotheby’s (BID) to the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio. The shares were purchased earlier this morning for an average price of $24.55. As is typical with any new purchase, shares of Sotheby’s dropped further today to a ...

Festival of Stocks at Stock Market Prognosticator

21 hrs ago

The 88th edition of the Festival of Stocks is up at Stock Market Prognosticator. There were articles this week covering Ingersoll-Rand (IR), Investortools (SWIM), AeroGrow (AERO), Dover Corp (DOV), AIG, Melco PBL Entertainment (MPEL), Coca-Cola Company (KO), a ...

Weekend Reading - Post Berkshire Edition

3 days ago

This weekend’s reading list is actually my own reading list. I was on business travel this past week in Port Townsend, WA, and I struggled to get access to the internet at my hotel. Thankfully, it looks like Value Investing News worked perfectly even without m ...

Festival of Stocks at Finance ViewPoint

7 days ago

The 87th edition of the Festival of Stocks is up at Finance ViewPoint. This edition brings a bit of an international flavor to the Festival of Stocks since it is written by an Australian.Finance ViewPoint highlighted three editor’s picks: Allocate 50% to Non- ...

Ultimate 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Guide

10 days ago

If you couldn’t make the 2008 Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa) (BRKb) annual meeting to experience Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger first hand, then I hope that the following guide can again offer the next best thing to being there in person.We can kick off this ye ...

Berkshire Weekend Reading

10 days ago

This is the time of year when value investors from all over the world gather in Omaha, Nebraska for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting. At Fat Pitch Financials, I’m already starting to develop the 2008 Ultimate Guide to the annual meeting. I will be updatin ...

Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio April 2008

11 days ago

The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio was down 1.21% in April. Considering that the S&P 500 was up 4.87% last month, this performance was rather disappointing. Looking back over the past 12 months, performance was was a bit better. The Fat Pitch Financials Port w ...

Now Available: The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

13 days ago

I received the news that Bud Labitan has released his first book entitled The Four Filters: Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. As you might recall, I provided a sneak preview of The Four Filters back in March. That excerpt provides a good overview ...

Bill Cara

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Bill Cara's Community Chat, Tues., May 13, 2008, 8:23am ET

10 hrs ago

Is it my imagination or are there very few traders remaining on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange? Are computers doing almost all the work while the few remaining warm bodies merely put a human face to things? ADDENDUM

Daily Report for Tue, May 13, 2008

11 hrs ago

Markets Re-capRisk aversion, supported by crude oil prices that dropped -$1.73/bbl on the session, led to a gain of between +1 and +2-percent in US equity prices on Monday.

Bill Cara's Community Chat, Mon., May 12, 2008, 9:06am ET

1 day ago

Today is May 12th - Whit Monday (Seventh Monday after Easter). This national holiday in The Bahamas marks the beginning of public witness of the Christian Church and is the Monday after Whit Sunday, The Feast of Pentecost, which comes 50 days after Easter. Enj ...

Week in Review #19 (2008-05-11)

2 days ago

Apologies to the many that write but have to go without answers. When you are taking a break, as I am, there are only so many hours to blog.

Bill Cara's Community Chat, Sat., May 10, 2008, 8:15am ET

3 days ago

Today is time for some R&R as I\'ll be flying out either to the Berries or Andros (depends on the wind) to enjoy a day there. The Family Islands of The Bahamas are incredibly beautiful.This country covers some 700 islands over 100,000 square miles. It is much ...

Daily Report for Sat, May 10, 2008

3 days ago

Markets Re-capThe worse-than-expected Q1 loss from AIG (AIG) and another record for Crude Oil pulled down the DJIA (-120.90), S&P 500 (-9.40), and Nasdaq (-5.72) on Friday.

Bill Cara's Community Chat, Fri., May 9, 2008, 8:38am ET

4 days ago

Whether the largest insurance company is in the US (like AIG) or Europe (like Allianz), or claiming the problems are sub-prime related (like AIG) or something to do with holdings of commercial and investment banks, as says Allianz, it is clear the industry is ...

Daily Report for Fri, May 09, 2008

4 days ago

Markets Re-capPositive April chain store sales from Wal-Mart (WMT), Costco (COST), and McDonalds (MCD) boosted hopes Thursday, taking the DJIA (+52.43 +0.41%) to 12867, S&P 500 +5.11 +0.37%) to 1398, and NASDAQ Composite (+12.75 +0.52%) to 2451.

Infectious Greed by pk

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Icahn/Yahoo, Part II

Just to be somewhat more serious on this rumored Carl Icahn proxy tussle with Yahoo: Do I think it could a) happen and b) work out? Sure it could. And, given how much internal cleanup is going to be required at Yahoo, a pure financial push from an aggressive s ...

Yahoo Rumor #7,349, Septuagenarians, and Steve Ballmer

1:05 hrs ago

Yahoo has been pounded by rumors ever since the Microsoft deal fell apart. There was the rumor that Microsoft would return. Or the one that it wouldn\'t return. Or that it had returned. Or the rumor that shareholders are suing. Or not. Or that a new board is be ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is Full of Daytraders

1:36 hrs ago

I had noticed that Supreme Court justices were more frequently recusing themselves from cases, but it took the Washington Post to put it in context. It\'s their many investments that are causing the problem. I should have known that spending all that time sitti ...

Toyota Prius: Setting New Records in '08

2:25 hrs ago

Despite prices rising and generally being in short supply, Toyota\'s Prius hybrid is turning in a standout year for the Japanese car company. Check the following figure from Bloomberg: In short, Toyota has sold more Prius cars in the first quarter of 2008 th ...

Lost Airports: Mapping U.S. Cities Losing Air Service

2:40 hrs ago

Airlines are in the middle of radical service cuts. Not just increasing prices, but reducing the amount of air service to large and small cities in the U.S. It is partly because of a weakening economy, partly because of higher oil prices, and partly because of ...

Cars, Oil, Chance and the Shallow Charles River

2:50 hrs ago

Fascinating MIT presentation by Fred Salvucci out about the role of chance in transportation and oil/energy markets. The first commercial use of rail in the New World, Salvucci tells us, was to haul in granite for the Bunker Hill monument, and to bring di ...

Gas Prices and Real Estate

20 hrs ago

Interesting piece picked up by The Oil Drum on the relationship between gas prices and real estate in Australia. It summarizes a study of the effect on commuting costs when considering various communities progressively further outside the urban/suburban/exurba ...

Be It Resolved: Harvard is an Investment Bank

21 hrs ago

I love this quote that Felix picks from a Brad DeLong commenter in the ongoing debate about whether Harvard\'s endowment gains should be taxed: Harvard is an investment bank with a mom-and-pop non-profit enterprise attached to it for tax purposes. There i ...

Alpha Trends

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Stock Market Trend Trade Review 051308

4:06 hrs ago

Here is what CHARLES KIRK has to say about my book. Click the picture to go see the full review. Charles also gave me 10 ...

Screener Questions

12 hrs ago

I received a few questions about the stocks I posted on Saturday. All of the stocks were found the old fashioned way, I ...

June 7

1 day ago

is the day my book will be shipped out. If you would like your book autographed without having to send it back to me, order no ...

Stock Market Video 5/12/08

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Sell In May

1 day ago

and go away? Here\';s some good RESEARCH on the subject.I spoke to Andrew Horowitz of the Disciplined Investor about my book you ...

Ventas Inc, (VTR)

1 day ago

the WALLSTRIP stock today.

Stocks Setting Up For Trend Trades

3 days ago

Below are some stocks I will be watching for potential trades next week. When I look for stocks to trade I do not set out to ...

Stock Market Video Trend Review 5/9/08

4 days ago

Madd Money by noreply@blogger.com (2pay)

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Fast Money Recap

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Trader RadarShares of Washington Mutual (WM) were among the most actively trades stocks on the NYSE Tuesday.POPS&DROPSPOPS- Dell (DELL) popped 3%. Macke said he likes Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) better. Fluor (FLR) surged 15% after analysts at Lehman Broth ...

Jim Cramer's Stop Trading

2:53 hrs ago

"This is the year of natural gas," Jim Cramer said on CNBC\'s "Stop Trading!" segment Tuesday. EnCana (ECA) announced it will split into a natural gas firm and an integrated oil firm and Cramer thinks some other companies in the sector should do the same thing. ...

Cramer Bullish On Emerson Electric

21 hrs ago

"Why trade in fads when you can invest in long standing greatness?" Jim Cramer asked fans of his "Mad Money" TV show Monday. Cramer said he is tired of hearing about Research In Motion\'s (RIMM) BlackBerry and Take-Two Interactive\'s (TTWO) Grand Theft Auto 4 vi ...

IPO Play Colfax

22 hrs ago

Cramer recommended shares of Colfax (CFX), a play on fluid management that recently came public on May 8. Coflax makes makes pumps and transfers liquids for sectors like oil, paper, chemical and shipping. "Think of it as the lubricant that keeps so many marke ...

Cramer Likes Wind Power Play Owens Corning

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