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Scroll to top Mishs Global Economic Analysis
2. Alexa rank: 5051520730
      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, ...
      9 hrs ago
Bloomberg is reporting Libor Poised for Shake-Up as Credibility Is Doubted.The benchmark interest rate for $62 trillion of ...
      16 hrs ago
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Democrats Face Rescue Backlash.Democrats may be risking a backlash at the polls in ...
      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, ...
      1 day ago
Expats\'; dream life in the Spanish sunshine has turned into a property nightmare. Welcome to Helldorado.In Southern Spain, ...
      2 days ago
The New York Times is reporting Housing Bailout Bill Seems to Be on Shaky Ground.Even as the housing foreclosure crisis ...
      3 days ago
Whenever Congress puts together a bill attempting to find a solution to some sort of real or imagined problem, my immediate ...
      4 days ago
There was an interesting comment today on Minyanville by Mr. Practical about hedge funds, manufactured money, and Fannie Mae. ...
 
Scroll to top Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz
1. Alexa rank: 1879013749
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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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
 
Scroll to top Timothy Sykes by timothysykes
3. Alexa rank: 7009914610
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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) ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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? ...
      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 ...
 
Scroll to top Trader Feed
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      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 ...
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My Technical Strength measure is a quantification of trending behavior over an intermediate-term time frame. The measure ...
      2 days ago
The excellent Barchart site divides the stock market into 232 sub-sectors and tracks their performance relative to the broad ...
      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. ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      4 days ago
Self-Efficacy - It\';s difficult to achieve something if you don\';t experience yourself as capable of achieving. Thanks to ...
      4 days ago
Several traders emailed me yesterday, tripped up by the narrow, range market. After a period of volatility such as we had ...
 
Scroll to top Kirk Report by Charles E. Kirk
4. Alexa rank: 10201456811
      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...
      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...
      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...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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...
      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...
      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....
 
Scroll to top Fat Pitch Financials by George
6. Alexa rank: 11950541717
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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- ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
 
Scroll to top Bill Cara
8. Alexa rank: 15661057091
      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
      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.
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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 ...
      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.
      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 ...
      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.
      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 ...
      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.
 
Scroll to top Infectious Greed by pk
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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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
 
Scroll to top Alpha Trends
9. Alexa rank: 15970072207
      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 ...
      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 ...
      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 ...
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and go away? Here\';s some good RESEARCH on the subject.I spoke to Andrew Horowitz of the Disciplined Investor about my book you ...
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the WALLSTRIP stock today.
      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 ...
 
Scroll to top Madd Money by noreply@blogger.com (2pay)
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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 ...
      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. ...
      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 ...
      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 ...