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Benzinga

24/7 Wall St.

  • Hedge Fund Stock Picks: Whale Hunting of the Kingmakers
    24/7 Wall St. published the full list of positions already for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A).  While there were some surprises out there and 24/7 Wall St. tracked some of...
    - 23 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:43pm -
  • Google Launches “Next Generation Of Search”
    Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it will launch “The Knowledge Graph” which it describes as “the next generation of search”. This is only the case for users who are not...
    - 28 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:38pm -
  • 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — May 16, 2012
    The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as investors appeared to be reacting to a temporarily stronger euro, which indicated some confidence in the Eurozone generally. But the...
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:05pm -
  • Wal-Mart Earnings Preview Against Sears, Target, Home Depot
    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is set to report earnings early on Thursday morning.  This earnings report is likely to be very different from any prior earnings report due to all of the bribery...
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:36pm -
  • Comcast, Skype Team Up for What, Exactly?
    Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has launched a high definition, Skype-based video calling plan for its Xfinity broadband customers. The plan costs $9.95/month and is available in Boston and Seattle...
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:44pm -
  • FOMC Minutes & The Hope For/Against Quantitative Easing
    The FOMC Minutes should mostly be known, but investors and speculators look through these in great detail in an effort to garner any hint over whether or not Ben Bernanke and friends are considering...
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:10pm -
  • St. Louis Fed President Bullard Wants to Keep Genie of Inflation in the Bottle
    In a presentation today, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard that further monetary actions by the Fed’s FOMC had been placed on “pause” as a result of the modest gains in the US...
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:58pm -
  • Blue Nile Loses Head of Merchandising & Diamond Supply
    Blue Nile Inc. (NASDAQ: NILE) is losing a key member of its merchandising team.  The online jewelry, diamond, and raw stone destination has a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:58pm -

Zero Hedge

  • Quantifying The Plan Z Dry Powder - This Is The Greek ELA Borrowing Capacity
    We already posted a full run down from JPM on what the immediate costs from a Greek EMU exit would be (starting at €400 billion and going higher), but one point that bears repeating is just how much borrowing capacity Greece has under the ELA in t…
    - 29 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:37pm -
  • Chris Martenson: "We Are About To Have Another 2008-Style Crisis"
    Submitted by Chris MartensonGet Ready: We’re About To Have Another 2008-Style CrisisWell, my hat is off to the global central planners for averting the next stage of the unfolding financial crisis for as long as they have. I guess there’s som…
    - 48 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:18pm -
  • Silver Corzined, Stocks Einhorn'd, Financials/HYG Iksil'd
    S&P 500 e-mini futures closed at their day-session lows, below yesterday's day-session lows, and heading for overnight lows rapidly - once again giving up some decent early gains amid much heavier volume into the close. Markets were a mess today. Ri…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:24pm -
  • Guest Post: The Fabled Greek Mega-Bailout
    Submitted by John Aziz of AzizonomicsThe Fabled Greek Mega-BailoutIn a truly eyebrow-raising CNBC interview, Matthew Lynn alleges that Europe shall be saved! (As if by the grace of God!).With Europe on the brink yet again Germany will act. The…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:20pm -
  • Listing David Einhorn's Likes And Dislikes
    Here are some of the things that David Einhorn likes and does not like, having just started his speech at the Ira Sohn Conference:Martin Marietta - stock plunges 10% and triggers circuit breaker.France - "a french default is not out of the questi…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:59pm -
  • Apple Stock Has Lost Over 5 Years Of Dividend Gains Since Announcement
    To all Dividend funds who bought AAPL on hope the Dividend would lead them to untold future riches and a perpetual stream of cash we have some bad news: since the March dividend announcement (of $2.65/qtr) you have already forfeited 5.66 years of di…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:30pm -
  • Deja LOL As Financials Continue To Plunge
    It wouldn't be the same in this post-BTFD-always-works, post-LTRO, post-QE, post-central-bank-supported unreality if we didn't see an early day rally rejected and dump back to its lows in the afternoon in the S&P 500 e-mini futures. Of course JCP's…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:19pm -

DealBook

  • David Einhorn and the PowerPoint Speed Read
    At the Ira Sohn Conference in New York, the hedge fund manager zips through a 137-page presentation, leaving audience members puzzled about his investment advice.
    - 56 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:10pm -
  • Republican Lawmaker Questions Uproar Over JPMorgan Loss
    Representative Spencer Bachus of Alabama played down the event's significance for Wall Street and the broader economy, arguing that the loss will barely dent JPMorgan's bottom line.
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:34pm -
  • Martin Marietta Feels the Einhorn Effect
    Martin Marietta Materials' stock price plunged sharply seconds after the Greenlight Capital founder recommended shorting the company's shares at the Ira Sohn Conference.
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:26pm -
  • Coty Is Said to Have Picked Underwriters for I.P.O.
    Coty is said to have selected Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase as the lead underwriters for its initial public offering, days after the cosmetics maker withdrew its $10.7 billion takeover bid for Avon.
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:28pm -
  • 'London Whale' Said to Be Leaving JPMorgan
    Bruno Iksil, the so-called London whale at the center of the trading debacle, is expected to depart the bank, according to current and former colleagues.
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:14pm -
  • In Scrutiny of JPMorgan Loss, Bigger Questions Left Unanswered
    The commentary surrounding the trading debacle at JPMorgan Chase has mostly been about the implications for banking reform. But the first question on everyone's mind should be whether any existing laws were broken.
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:15pm -
  • Grading Last Year's Ira Sohn Presenters
    As some of the biggest names in hedge funds gather for the annual Ira Sohn Conference on Wednesday, AR magazine has surveyed how well last year's investment proposals have worked out.
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:10pm -
  • Business Day Live: Sipping Less Sugar
    Why states use cash meant for homeowners to plug budget gaps. | A look at Eduardo Saverin, Facebook's co-founder. | How soft-drink makers cope with a decline in sales.
    - 7 hours ago, 16 May 12, 11:22am -

Briefing.com

Reuters Business

  • Exclusive: ECB stops operations with some Greek banks
    BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has stopped providing liquidity to some Greek banks as they have not been successfully recapitalized, the ECB said on Wednesday, confirming news earlier reported exclusively by Reuters.
    - 27 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:39pm -
  • Adidas sues Big 5 over alleged sneaker knock-offs
    (Reuters) - Adidas AG has sued to stop a U.S. sporting goods retailer and a skateboarding equipment maker from selling sneakers with three parallel diagonal stripes, a design it said looks too much like its own.
    - 44 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:22pm -
  • Gupta insider trading jury to hear Rajaratnam tapes
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Convicted hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam is in prison, but the jurors of a separate insider trading trial of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Procter & Gamble Co board member Rajat Gupta will hear his voice in court on FBI…
    - 49 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:17pm -
  • Europe drags down Wall Street a fourth day
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks closed lower in a choppy session on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 logging its fourth straight decline as investors worried about Greece's future as a member of the euro zone.
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:42pm -
  • Investors want Chesapeake annual meeting delayed
    (Reuters) - Shareholders have asked a judge to delay Chesapeake Energy Corp's annual meeting, arguing that more disclosures are needed about Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon's compensation and personal loans taken out against his share in company we…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:27pm -
  • Insight: In Ohio, "fracking" boom a delicate issue for Obama
    STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Out past the vacant storefronts and abandoned buildings, beyond the shuttered steel mills and decaying industrial plants, residents of eastern Ohio suddenly are seeing dollar signs.
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:31pm -
  • AIG to sell AIA shares after lock-up ends in September
    (Reuters) - Bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc will sell its shares in Asian insurer AIA Group Ltd after a lock-up period expires in early September, Chief Executive Bob Benmosche said on Wednesday.
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:59pm -
  • U.S. housing, industrial data point to steady growth
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Groundbreaking for U.S. homes rebounded in April and factory activity gained momentum, suggesting a moderate pickup in economic growth early in the second quarter.
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:58pm -

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WSJ-Business

  • Deere Beefing Up Output on Farm Strength
    Deere is speeding its production expansion, brushing aside concerns that the market for its farm tractors and combines has peaked, and offered an improved outlook for the global farm economy.
    - 5 mins ago, 16 May 12, 6:01pm -
  • Google Makes Its Search Engine Smarter
    Google said it is rolling out an extensive update to its dominant search engine by using troves of data to refine the answers it provides to user queries on specific topics.
    - 9 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:57pm -
  • Facebook IPO: Insiders Cashing Out
    Facebook insiders are cashing out, setting plans to sell an extra $3 billion in stock. Goldman Sachs and Tiger Global will now sell 50% of their stakes.
    - 10 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:56pm -
  • 'Dallas' Remake to Air on TNT
    Turner Broadcasting told advertisers at the annual "upfront" presentation that it plans to add 14 new original shows to its TNT and TBS cable networks. They include a remake of "Dallas," with Larry Hagman reprising his role as J.R. Ewing.
    - 53 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:13pm -
  • Coty Chooses Banks for IPO
    Coty picked Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Chase as lead underwriters for an IPO, likely this summer or in early fall. The IPO plan follows Coty's decision to walk away from its offer for Avon.
    - 55 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:11pm -
  • Boyd to Buy Peninsula Gaming for $200 Million
    Boyd Gaming agreed to acquire fellow casino operator Peninsula Gaming for $200 million in cash, expanding its presence in the U.S. Midwest and South.
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:53pm -
  • Time Warner Cable, Viacom Settle iPad Dispute
    Time Warner Cable said it will resume live streaming of some Viacom-owned TV channels to customers' iPads following a legal settlement with Viacom.
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:48pm -
  • Dish Plugs Ad-Skipping DVR---in Ads
    Dish Network is promoting its new "Auto Hop" ad-skipping DVR with a marketing campaign that, ironically, uses TV commercials
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:23pm -

NYTimes-Business

MarketWatch-Top Stories

CNN Money

  • VERIZON WILL LIMIT DATA
    Verizon Wireless is planning this summer to begin forcing smartphone customers with unlimited data plans to switch to tiered plans when they upgrade, the company's chief financial officer told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday.
    - 33 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:33pm -
  • Federal Reserve concerned about fiscal cliff
    The Federal Reserve is worried about indecision in Congress.
    - 39 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:27pm -
  • Greece worries weigh on U.S. stocks
    Following a positive start, U.S. stocks closed in the red for a fourth straight session Wednesday, as investors weighed strong U.S. economic data against ongoing uncertainty about Greece's political situation.
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:51pm -
  • FBI opens JPMorgan investigation
    The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday that the agency has opened an investigation into JPMorgan Chase, the nation's largest bank.
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:43pm -
  • J.C. Penney stock plunges on dismal earnings
    Investors jettisoned J.C. Penney on Wednesday after a dismal earnings report, following the first full quarter with a former Apple executive at the helm.
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:25pm -
  • Outgoing World Bank chief: Fix eurozone
    Outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Wednesday he's concerned about the "ripple effects" on the rest of the eurozone if Greece leaves.
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:52pm -
  • Big tax increases and spending cuts loom
    On Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner all but promised an ugly fight over the debt ceiling this year unless GOP demands for spending cuts are met.
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:50pm -
  • Should you buy Facebook?
    Facebook's IPO is causing a frenzy among investors eager to get a piece of the social networking website.
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:09pm -

CNBC Top Stories

The Economist

  • Japan’s trading houses: Resourceful and energetic
    THE fortunes of Japan’s large trading houses have tended to fluctuate with those of the country as a whole, from its opening-up in the 19th century, through the disaster of war in the 1940s, to the highs and lows of the bubble era. But lately the t…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:06am -
  • Drugmakers and antibiotics: The path of least resistance
    A GROWING worry in medicine is bugs’ increasing resistance to antibiotics. At AstraZeneca’s research centre near Boston, scientists toil to find new weapons. Machines screen thousands of drugs each year, robotic arms nimbly ha…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:06am -
  • Valuing Facebook: Zuckerberg’s rocket, ready for lift-off
    OUTSIDE Facebook’s vast new headquarters in Silicon Valley is a huge sign with an image of a hand on it giving a thumbs-up sign. A tiny digital version of the same hand sits on millions of websites and invites Facebook’s 900m…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:06am -
  • An intellectual-property exchange: Marketplace of ideas
    THE technology industry is at war over intellectual property. On May 7th the first round of a three-part fight between Oracle and Google over patent and copyright claims relating to the Java programming language ended in a decision that denied outrig…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:06am -
  • Mobile gaming in Japan: Gacha? Gotcha!
    NOT again. Just when another tousle-haired Japanese entrepreneur hoped it was safe to make a billion or two, along come the forces of law and order threatening to throw the rule book at him: in this case, the Act Against Unjustified Premiums and Misl…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:06am -
  • Luxury goods in China: Riding the gilded tiger
    ONE recent night, the ballroom at Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt hotel was transformed into an elegant Parisian salon. Several dozen very wealthy families from all over China were flown in for a weekend of cruises, property tours and a gala auction. Chow…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:06am -
  • Cadillac and Lincoln: Unstretched limos
    Big and blingy enough for China AMERICAN presidents have had Cadillacs or Lincolns as official limousines since Franklin Roosevelt, who had one of each—his Cadillac was a bulletproof one, confiscated from Al Capone. But despite r…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:06am -
  • Jewellers in India: Chains of gold
    A customer shops for gold bangles at a branch of Tanishq, India'slargest national jewellery chain, in Mumbai. Source: Shyamantha Asokan…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:06am -

Financial Times

  • Spain bids to pin down real estate losses
    Blackrock and Oliver Wyman to carry out two-stage assessment in move designed to ease investor fears on the possible extent of loan losses
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:32pm -
  • Greece fears leave investors wary
    Markets remained tainted by eurozone fears, with many growth-focused assets near multi-month lows as investors fear political turmoil in Greece
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:19pm -
  • Early Facebook backers add to share sale
    Social networking group to sell more shares than originally planned, highlighting huge demand and ranking it near the largest flotations
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:47pm -
  • How JPMorgan’s storm in a teapot grew
    The bank’s idea for hedging credit risk, which went spectacularly wrong, has become something of an epic tale for hedge fund managers
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:01pm -
  • Shell warns on US natural gas bounce
    Chief executive Voser predicts strong recovery from the 10-year lows the fuel has hit as a result of the boom in shale gas production
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:36pm -
  • Federal Reserve wary of eurozone risks
    The focus on risks to the economy among members of the FOMC helps to explain a clash between the committee’s forecast and members’ individual predictions
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:22pm -
  • Berkeley on pole for Wapping development
    The builder is preferred bidder for the News International site, one of London’s largest development opportunities and subject of wide interest
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:21pm -
  • Wall Street goes bearish on US stocks
    Driving the negative sentiment is a combination of fears, led by contagion worries from the eurozone debt crisis for financials and the global economy
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:09pm -

Mad Money Recap

Economix

  • Will You Be More Successful Than Your Parents?
    If the American dream is doing better than your parents, only about half of recent college graduates think they will achieve it. They are even more pessimistic about the prospects for their peers.
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:00am -
  • When a Spending Cut Can Be Like a Tax Increase
    Spending cuts in programs that are means-tested can have a very similar effect to raising taxes, an economist writes, using Medicare proposals as an example.
    - 12 hours ago, 16 May 12, 6:00am -
  • How Older Workers Weather Layoffs
    A Government Accountability Office report looks at the difficulties they face finding new jobs, and how their financial security in retirement may be compromised.
    - 24 hours ago, 15 May 12, 6:20pm -
  • What Rule Should the Fed Follow?
    Conservatives seem determined to try to bar the Federal Reserve from exercising judgment on monetary policy, asserting that it should focus solely on preventing inflation, an economist writes.
    - 2 days ago, 15 May 12, 6:00am -
  • Regrets About College
    While recent graduates regret many things, having gone to college generally isn't one of them, according to survey data from the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers.
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 6:11pm -
  • Define 'Welfare State,' Please
    Data simply does not support the abstract notion that the "welfare state" is out of control in the United States, an economist writes.
    - 3 days ago, 14 May 12, 6:00am -
  • Behind the Burden of Regulation
    Regulations and restrictions on business activity often arise in response to misbehavior, but their writing and application are often distorted by special-interest groups during the legislative process, an economist writes.
    - 6 days ago, 11 May 12, 6:00am -
  • Jobs and the Election: A Weekly Tracker
    To track the economy, The Times is creating a weekly report on the predicted path of job growth and the unemployment rate between now and the election.
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 12:29pm -

Insider Monkey

  • 9 Year Old Long/Short Hedge Fund’s Top Stock Pick
    John Lykouretzos’ Hoplite Capital isn’t very well known but we have been tracking it for a while now. John T. Lykouretzos launched Hoplite Capital Management in 2003...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other c…
    - 9 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:57pm -
  • John Paulson’s Two Favorite Stock Picks
    John Paulson doesn’t really have a good track record of stock picking. He made his billions by shorting the housing market and by buying physical gold. At the Ira Sohn...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other c…
    - 16 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:50pm -
  • Billionaire Steve Mandel’s Stock Pick at Ira Sohn Conference
    Billionaire Steve Mandel said he doesn’t like fixed income because of extremely low yields and inflation risk. His favorite stock pick is Kohl’s (KSS). Mandel...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content,…
    - 26 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:40pm -
  • Einhorn, Ackman, Greenblatt, and Klarman’s Favorite Analyst
    Einhorn, Ackman, Greenblatt, and Klarman picked a guy named Ardewall as this year’s winner of Ira Sohn Investment Idea Contest winner. I am going to be honest with you....[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:31pm -
  • Did Someone Know Einhorn Won’t Recommend Shorting Herbalife?
    Herbalife was up around 6% on day when everybody was expecting David Einhorn to reveal a short position in the stock at the Ira Sohn Conference. This just doesn’t make sense...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, o…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:11pm -
  • List of David Einhorn’s Likes and Dislikes At the Ira Sohn Conference
    David Einhorn thinks Apple may become a billion dollar stock. Greenlight Capital had nearly $900 million invested in the stock at the end of March. It is by far the largest...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:01pm -
  • Sovereign Defaults: Einhorn Doesn’t Have A Good Track Record
    David Einhorn said today that a French default isn’t out of question and China isnt an investment opportunity. A couple of years ago Einhorn revealed short bets on Japanese...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ot…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:52pm -
  • David Einhorn’s Stock Recommendation from Ira Sohn
    Everybody was expecting David Einhorn to reveal his short position in Herbalife but Einhorn surprised investors. David Einhorn recommended shorting Martin Marietta (MLM) at the...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links,…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:44pm -

Fly on the Wall

  • Ctrip.com sees Q2 revenue growth approximately 15%-20% YoY
    See the rest of the story here.Theflyonthewall.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investors, professional money managers, active t…
    - 3 mins ago, 16 May 12, 6:03pm -
  • Seaspan raises dividend on Class A stock 33% to 25c
    See the rest of the story here.Theflyonthewall.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investors, professional money managers, active t…
    - 4 mins ago, 16 May 12, 6:02pm -
  • Ctrip.com reports Q1 adjusted EPS 28c, consensus 19c
    See the rest of the story here.Theflyonthewall.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investors, professional money managers, active t…
    - 4 mins ago, 16 May 12, 6:02pm -
  • Seaspan reports Q4 EPS 30c, consensus 25c
    See the rest of the story here.Theflyonthewall.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investors, professional money managers, active t…
    - 4 mins ago, 16 May 12, 6:02pm -
  • John Lykouretzos of Hoplite likes Starbucks
    See the rest of the story here.Theflyonthewall.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investors, professional money managers, active t…
    - 12 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:54pm -
  • PNM Resources affirms FY12 EPS view $1.20-$1.32, consensus $1.26
    See the rest of the story here.Theflyonthewall.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investors, professional money managers, active t…
    - 13 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:53pm -
  • John Paulson mentions CVR Energy positively at Ira Sohn investor conference
    See the rest of the story here.Theflyonthewall.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investors, professional money managers, active t…
    - 17 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:49pm -
  • Paulson says AngloGold is trading at low valuation
    See the rest of the story here.Theflyonthewall.com provides the latest financial news as it breaks. Known as a leader in market intelligence, The Fly's real-time, streaming news feed keeps individual investors, professional money managers, active t…
    - 23 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:43pm -

Systematic Relative Strength

  • Relative Strength Still Off the Radar
    The Big Picture has a thumbnail summary of the annual Merrill Lynch US Equity and US Quant Strategy pieces, where they interview 100 large institutional managers.  Of particular interest to me was the top ten return factors by popularity. via The Bi…
    - 6 mins ago, 16 May 12, 6:00pm -
  • The Not-So-Normal Bell Curve
    Matt Koppenheffer nicely makes the case for holding on to your winners and cutting out your losers (exactly what relative strength is designed to do): When it comes to investing, there’s no shortage of bad advice floating around out there. Among th…
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 5:03pm -
  • Morningstar Fair Value
    We use relative strength, not fundamentals, but that doesn’t mean we ignore it.  Now that we have powered through another earnings season and we’re having another Greek crisis moment in Europe, it’s interesting to see that the good folks at Mo…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:36pm -
  • High RS Diffusion Index
    The chart below measures the percentage of high relative strength stocks that are trading above their 50-day moving average (universe of mid and large cap stocks.)  As of 5/15/12. The 10-day moving average of this indicator is 54% and the one-day re…
    - 9 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:27am -
  • Navigating the ETF Galaxy
    ETFdb describes the growing ETF universe as follows: At times, it seems as if the number of ETFs available to U.S. investors will soon exceed the number of stars in the sky. That might be overstating things a bit, but the pace of expansion in the ETF…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 10:54am -
  • What’s Hot…and Not
    How different investments have done over the past 12 months, 6 months, and month.  1PowerShares DB Gold, 2iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, 3iShares DJ U.S. Real Estate Index, 4iShares S&P Europe 350 Index, 5Green Haven Continuous Commodity Index,…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 10:19am -
  • Weekly RS Recap
    The table below shows the performance of a universe of mid and large cap U.S. equities, broken down by relative strength decile and quartile and then compared to the universe return.  Those at the top of the ranks are those stocks which have the bes…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 10:01am -
  • Dorsey, Wright Client Sentiment Survey – 5/11/12
    Here we have the next round of the Dorsey, Wright Sentiment Survey, the first third-party sentiment poll.  Participate to learn more about our Dorsey, Wright Polo Shirt raffle! Just follow the instructions after taking the poll, and we’ll enter y…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 4:41pm -

Dividend Growth Investor

  • Replacing appreciated investments with higher yielding stocks
    In my entry criteria, I look for great stocks with sustainable dividend payout, long histories of dividend growth and strong competitive advantages. I also have a minimum entry yield of 2.5%. There come times however, when the company I own keeps inc…
    - 14 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:00am -
  • Searching for Hidden Dividend Stars
    As a dividend growth investor, I try to maintain a disciplined approach to buying attractively valued companies. I do maintain a list with entry criterion, which I apply against a list of dividend growth stocks. I usually use the dividend champions a…
    - 3 days ago, 14 May 12, 4:00am -
  • T. Rowe Price Group (TROW) Dividend Stock Analysis
    T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. (TROW) is a publicly owned asset management holding company. The firm primarily provides its services to individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries. This dividend champion has…
    - 6 days ago, 11 May 12, 4:00am -
  • Variability in Dividend Growth Rates
    One of the reasons why investors are attracted to dividend paying stocks is the consistency in the amount and timing of dividend payments. Unless companies are operating in a challenging economic environment, a portfolio of well chosen blue chip divi…
    - 8 days ago, 9 May 12, 4:00am -
  • Eighteen companies sending more cash to their shareholders
    There were eighteen consistent dividend growth stocks, which announced plans to boost distributions for their shareholders over the past week. Besides my screening process, my compilation of weekly dividend increases helps me stay up to date on any…
    - 10 days ago, 7 May 12, 4:00am -
  • Four dividend paying companies with long term growth plans
    Dividend growth investing is an investing strategy, where investors buy stock in companies which consistently raise distributions. This leads to higher dividend payouts overtime, and also leads to capital gains, as the market adjusts stock prices to…
    - 13 days ago, 4 May 12, 4:00am -
  • Build your own Berkshire with dividend paying stocks
    I recently read the book “The Snowball” by Alice Schroeder. I have been a great follower of anything on Buffett for years, and this book definitely provided additional insight in the way the world’s richest investor thinking process.I have l…
    - 15 days ago, 2 May 12, 4:00am -
  • 25 Companies raising distribution in 2012’s busiest week for dividend increases
    The past week was the busiest week for dividends increases that I have noticed in my four and a half years  as a dividend blogger. There were 66 companies which raised distributions. Apparently, no one bothered to inform these Board of Directors co…
    - 17 days ago, 30 Apr 12, 4:00am -

footnoted

  • Las Vegas Sands exec gets a sure deal…
    There is at least one thing that the powers-that-be at Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS) aren’t willing to gamble on – the continued employment of Robert G. Goldstein, an Executive Vice President and the President of its Global Gaming Operations. Gold…
    - 7 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:54am -
  • Doughnut line keeps chugging at Krispy Kreme…
    There’s plenty of news on the pay, performance and corporate governance front out there today, what with JPMorgan Chase’s (JPM) annual meeting, the recent departure of Yahoo’s (YHOO) embattled chief executive, and more. Those are getting plenty…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 11:04am -
  • Does Abercrombie’s emperor have any clothes?
    It’s probably best not to think too hard about how things work at Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) without plenty of coffee. Even then, good luck making sense of it all. The most obvious question, of course, is why a company that sells clothing features…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 10:59am -
  • Putting lipstick on the pig at Chesapeake…
    We were going to write about something else this morning, but then Chesapeake Energy (CHK), which as footnoted regulars know is something of a frequent flyer here, decided to file its proxy statement, so we quickly changed plans. While the company di…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 10:51am -
  • Island living at $34 an hour, from Axis Capital…
    There are all kinds of tax, regulatory and other reasons that insurance companies like to operate off the coast of the U.S. But it’s also no coincidence that some of the most popular spots for their headquarters are island get-aways like the Cayman…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 10:56am -
  • Wendy’s pays big dough for move to Ohio…
    In the ring of cities that orbits Columbus, Ohio, Dublin occupies the northwest corner, a short 25-minute drive from the state’s capital. Among its other claims to fame, it’s where The Wendy’s Co. (WEN) has its corporate headquarters. And there…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 10:54am -
  • Wal-Mart, Mexico, red flags and hindsight…
    The initial buzz has faded when it comes to David Barstow’s stunning April 21 New York Times report on Wal-Mart and bribery allegations in Mexico, but from what we can tell, it still features prominently in the conversation whenever corporate-gover…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 10:55am -
  • J. C. Penney’s new multi-million-dollar man…
    Today’s the first day of work for Kenneth H. Hannah, the new Executive Vice President and CFO at J. C. Penney, Inc. (JCP). Although an 8-K filed May 3 noted that the giant retailer and Hannah “have not entered into an employment agreement,”…
    - 9 days ago, 7 May 12, 10:59am -

Abnormal Returns

  • Wednesday links: Euro anxiety
    Quote of the day Eduardo Porter, “Europe would be in much better shape if the euro didn’t exist and each member country had its own [...]
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:39pm -
  • The ultimate Facebook IPO linkfest: part one
    That may be overstating things, but we have been overwhelmed with Facebook related material. That is not altogether surprising. We ran a series of posts [...]
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:49am -
  • Wednesday 7atSeven: strategists sidelined
    Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  We will see you later with the daily linkfest.  Good luck out there. Markets Good news: [...]
    - 11 hours ago, 16 May 12, 7:02am -
  • You are not as right as you think you are
    Vitaliy Katsenelson, CIO at Investment Management Associates , blogger at ContrarianEdge and author of The Little Book of Sideways Markets: How to Make Money in [...]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:30pm -
  • Tuesday links: cobbled together strategies
    Quote of the day Tyler Craig, “Keep in mind one can’t simply cobble together two crappy strategies and expect magic to happen.  If both strategies [...]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 1:00pm -
  • When less risk equals more return
    It’s always gratifying when a topic you have been writing about starts getting wider coverage. I have been writing about the ‘low volatility anomaly‘ for [...]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 11:02am -
  • Tuesday 7atSeven: a new wall of worry
    Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  We will see you later with the daily linkfest.  Good luck out there. Markets Is the [...]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 7:19am -
  • Three important lessons for putting the financial odds in your favor
    One thing that I came to realize in writing my book Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere is that the [...]
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 2:10pm -

MarketWatch Newsletters

Economic Populist

  • Industiral Production Pops Up 1.1% on Utilities for April 2012 - Auto Manufacturers on Fire
    The Federal Reserve's Industrial Production & Capacity Utilization report, G.17, shows 1.1% increase in industrial production for April 2012. Manufacturing increased 0.6%, mining 1.6% and utilities increased their production a whopping 4.5% in a cou…
    - 58 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:08pm -
  • CPI 0% for April 2012 on Dropping Gas Prices
    The April Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation, had no increase or decrease from March. The reason was gasoline prices, which declined -2.6% from last month Below is the graph for CPI's monthly percentage change.  Energy overall de…
    - 22 hours ago, 15 May 12, 8:20pm -
  • Retail Sales Increase 0.1% for April 2012
    April 2012 Retail Sales increased 0.1%. Minus autos & parts, retail sales also increased 0.1%. March retail sales were revised down from 0.8% to 0.7%. Retail sales are up 6.4% from the same time last year. Retail sales are reported by dollars, n…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 3:07pm -
  • Your Feet's Too Big!
    Your pedal extremities are colossal  To me you look just like a fossil. – Fats Waller Business executives like to talk about their “footprint”. When JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America were racing all around the United States to see whic…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 12:14pm -
  • The Trade Agreement You Never Heard About - TPP
    Did you know, beyond closed doors, there is a massive trade agreement being crafted? It's called TPP or Trans Pacific Partnership and this one makes NAFTA look like the stepping stone that it is. This is one bad mother.This is a trade agreement be…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 6:24am -
  • Saturday Reads Around the Internets - Romney is Bush Redux
    Welcome to the weekly roundup of great articles, facts and figures. These are the weekly finds that made our eyes pop. Romney's Economic Policies Would Be Bush ReduxBloomberg did an in depth report on Romney's economic advisers and policy positi…
    - 4 days ago, 12 May 12, 10:58pm -
  • Friday Movie Night - Frontline's Money, Power & Wall Street, Part II
    It's Friday Night! Party Time!   Time to relax, put your feet up on the couch, lay back, and watch some detailed videos on economic policy! Tonight's video is Frontline's financial crisis documentary, Money, Power & Wall Street, Part II.…
    - 5 days ago, 12 May 12, 1:26am -
  • Jamie Dimon Eats $2 Billion Worth of Crow
    If you are the CEO of a major global bank and you have to announce a $2.0 billion trading loss, you will no doubt feel that the shareholders, regulators, and reporters are all against you. But if you announce that the loss occurred in a portfolio th…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 7:33am -

Calculated Risk

  • AIA: Architecture Billings Index indicates contraction in April
    Note: This index is a leading indicator for new Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investment. From AIA: Architecture Billings Index Reverts to Negative TerritoryAfter five months of positive readings, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) has fallen i…
    - 29 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:37pm -
  • Report: Housing Inventory declines 18.9% year-over-year
    From Realtor.com: April 2012 Real Estate DataOn the national level, inventory of for-sale single family homes, condominiums, townhouses and co-ops declined by -18.85% in April 2012 compared to a year ago, and declined in all but five of the 146 marke…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:27pm -
  • FOMC Minutes: "Several members indicated that additional monetary policy accommodation could be necessary" if economy slows
    The Fed's program to "extend the average maturity of its holdings of securities" (aka Operation Twist) is schedule to end in June. Now analysts are looking for clues about the possibility of QE3.Although there was no discussion of easing alternati…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:00pm -
  • Q1 MBA National Delinquency Survey Comments
    A few comments from Jay Brinkmann, MBA’s Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Research and Education, and Michael Fratantoni, MBA's Vice President, Vice President of Research and Economics, on the conference call. • All delinquency ca…
    - 7 hours ago, 16 May 12, 11:19am -
  • MBA: Mortgage Delinquencies decline in Q1
    The MBA reported that 11.79 percent of mortgage loans were either one payment delinquent or in the foreclosure process in Q1 2012 (delinquencies seasonally adjusted). This is down from 11.96 percent in Q4 2011 and is the lowest level since 2008.Fro…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:02am -
  • Industrial Production up in April, Capacity Utilization increases
    From the Fed: Industrial production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production increased 1.1 percent in April. Output is now reported to have fallen 0.6 percent in March and to have moved up 0.4 percent in February; previously, industrial produc…
    - 9 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:33am -
  • Housing Starts increase to 717,000 in April
    From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions Housing Starts:Privately-owned housing starts in April were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 717,000. This is 2.6 percent (±14.8%)* above the revised March estimate of 699,000 and is…
    - 10 hours ago, 16 May 12, 8:30am -
  • Look Ahead: Housing Starts, Industrial Production, Mortgage Delinquencies, FOMC Minutes
    Wednesday will be another busy day:• Housing starts for April will be released at 8:30 AM. Total housing starts were at 654,000 in March, on a seasonally adjusted annual rate basis (SAAR), and single-family starts were at 462,000. This was a de…
    - 21 hours ago, 15 May 12, 9:16pm -

Business Insider

Naked Capitalism

Crossing Wall Street

  • The Einhorn Effect
    David Einhorn, the famous hedge fund manager who saw the disaster that was Lehman Brothers, spoke at an investment conference today. He criticized the stock [...]
    - 17 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:49pm -
  • The Diverging Market
    This chart shows what’s been happening with the market recently. The “sell in May” memo apparently didn’t get to everyone. The three defensive ETFs; Staples [...]
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:49pm -
  • Colgate-Palmolive at New All-Time High
    Shares of Colgate-Palmolive ($CL) are up to a new all-time high today. The stock is up more than 14,000% since its 1980 low. I think [...]
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:34am -
  • The Bond Bull Lives
    I continue to be amazed by the strength of the bond market. Folks in the media love to mention how most money managers can’t beat [...]
    - 11 hours ago, 16 May 12, 7:04am -
  • Morning News: May 16, 2012
    Greek Leaders Meet on Election After European Stocks Drop Merkel-Hollande Meeting Yields Greece Growth Signal Rajoy Says Spain at Risk of Being Shut Out of [...]
    - 12 hours ago, 16 May 12, 5:52am -
  • Sign-Up for CWS Market Review
    If you haven’t done so, please sign up for my free weekly eletter CWS Market Review. In each issue, I cover all the important news [...]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 2:57pm -
  • Coty Walks Away from Avon
    Last month, Coty offered to buy Avon Products ($AVP) for $23.25 per share. Avon’s stock had been at $19.36, but despite the premium, the company [...]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 9:49am -
  • More Troubles in Greece
    Today looks like it’s going to be a relief rally for stocks. Today’s CPI report showed that inflation was flat last month. Year-over-year inflation is [...]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 9:22am -

The Big Picture

  • 10 Mid-Week PM Reads

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  • Facebook Stock Certificate Facebook
    Click to enlarge: Source: DC Entertainment Hat tip contrabandista
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:30pm -
  • FOMC get together
    Because not much change occurred in the economy between the March and April FOMC meetings, there was not much new in the minutes from the April get together and why the April written statement wasn’t much different than in March. With respect to do…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:20pm -
  • Factors Institutional Investors Are Favoring
    Every year since 1989, Merrill Lynch surveys a few 100 institutional investors using a broad variety of quantitative, valuation, process and modeling questions. Their responses get summarized in a 39 chart, 27 page report. You can get a sense of the…
    - 7 hours ago, 16 May 12, 11:30am -
  • The Great Moderation, Forecast Uncertainty, and the Great Recession
    The Great Recession of 2007-09 was a dramatic macroeconomic event, marked by a severe contraction in economic activity and a significant fall in inflation. These developments surprised many economists, as documented in a recent post on this site. One…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:30am -
  • 10 Mid-Week AM Reads
    My early morning reads: • 7 Reasons I Don’t Mind Sitting in Cash (Joe Fahmy) • The hedge funds that are profiting off JPMorgan’s bad trade (CNN Fortune) see also As One JPMorgan Trader Sold Risky Contracts, Another (WTF?!?) One Bought Them (D…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:00am -
  • Will Soaring Rents Lead To Higher Core Inflation?
    Chicago Real Estate Daily – Rents rise again in sizzling downtown apartment market Downtown apartment rents hit another high in the first quarter, and more hikes may be in the offing amid a red-hot rental market. The average effective rent at top-t…
    - 10 hours ago, 16 May 12, 8:30am -
  • Murdoch’s Scandal
    For more than a half-century, Rupert Murdoch’s business acumen and political shrewdness built one of the world’s most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat — not from outside competition, but from shocking allegations of journ…
    - 10 hours ago, 16 May 12, 8:00am -

Market Folly

  • What We're Reading ~ Abnormal Returns Special Edition
    Today we're pleased to have Tadas Viskanta of AbnormalReturns.com doing a guest linkfest for us.  If you're unaware, it's one of the best financial sites out there, aggregating insightful market links and content each day.Tadas recently released h…
    - 9 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:00am -
  • 3 Reasons To Check Out Our Hedge Fund Wisdom Newsletter: Brand New Next Week!
    A brand new issue of our premium Hedge Fund Wisdom newsletter will be released next week by May 22nd.  If you haven't had a chance to check out the publication yet, here's 3 reasons why you should:  1. Saves You Time: We aggregate the latest hed…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 2:24pm -
  • Howard Marks on Contrarianism: Excerpt From His Book
    Today with permission we're posting up thoughts from Oaktree Capital's chairman and founder Howard Marks from his book: The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor.Contrarianism"Accepting the broad concept of…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 1:21pm -
  • Coatue Management Discloses New Stake in Virgin Media (VMED)
    Philippe Laffont's hedge fund Coatue Management just filed a form 13G with the SEC regarding shares of Virgin Media (VMED).  Per the filing, Coatue now owns 5.21% of VMED with 14,463,301 shares.This is a brand new position for the hedge fund as th…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 1:20pm -
  • Charlie Munger on Investing, Gold, Berkshire & More: In Depth Interview
    If you missed it last week, CNBC's Becky Quick interviewed Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger about a myriad of topics including Berkshire's succession plan, his feelings on the future of the company, the economy, markets, and more.On succession a…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:00am -
  • Notes From SALT Conference Risk Panel: Falcone, Sprott, Rieder & Ivascyn
    At the Skybridge Alternative Conference (SALT) in Las Vegas yesterday, a panel on risk featured Harbinger Capital's Phil Falcone, Sprott Asset Management's Eric Sprott, Blackrock's Rick Rieder, as well as PIMCO's Daniel Ivascyn. The talk was entitled…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 3:01pm -
  • Notes From SALT Conference Panel With Kyle Bass, Dmitry Balyasny & Steven Tananbaum
    At the SALT Conference in Las Vegas today there was a panel called "From Crisis to Renewal: Uncovering Opportunities."  It featured Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital, Dmitry Balyasny of Balyasny Asset Management, Steven Tananbaum of GoldenTree Asset Manag…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 3:01pm -
  • Identifying Opportunities in Emerging Markets: SALT Conference Panel with John Burbank
    At the Skybridge Alternative Conference (SALT) in Las Vegas today, John Burbank (Passport Capital), Robert Koenigsberger (Gramcery), Karthik Sankaran (Covepoint Capital), and Christian Angermayer (Angermayer, Brumm & Lange Group) talked about identif…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 3:00pm -

briefing.com up/down

Notable Calls

Seeking Alpha

  • AT&T May Soar By 30%, But Sprint May Triple
    By Takeover Analyst:With telecom undergoing consolidation despite regulatory challenges, the sector is likely to make winners and losers. Many are anticipating Sprint to be one of those "losers", which has set the bar very low. This struggling compan…
    - 7 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:51am -
  • Hitting The Jackpot With Small-Cap Bio Pharma Investment, Part 3: The Immune System
    By Scott Matusow:In the final part of my three part series on "Hitting The Jackpot With Small Cap Bio Pharma Investment," I shift the focus to the what looks like the future of cancer treatment therapy. What if cancer could be arrested, forced into r…
    - 7 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:50am -
  • Undervalued Stocks Selected By A Pro That Are Ready For A Rebound
    By FAF Research:Francis Chou is the President of Chou Associates Management Inc., headquartered in Toronto. In 2005, he was named fund manager of the decade by the Canadian Investment Award. His approach is to "find bargains and maintain discipline;…
    - 10 hours ago, 16 May 12, 8:16am -
  • May 16th's Bio Pharma Catalyst Watch List
    By Scott Matusow:Recently, the bio pharma sector saw a year to date high in the overall index. This normally happens every year right before the June ASCO meetings in Chicago, IL. ASCO stands for the American Society of Clinical Oncology and is the p…
    - 10 hours ago, 16 May 12, 7:55am -
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
    Wall Street Breakfast Editors submit:Top StoriesJ.C. Penney slumps as earnings suffer from new strategy. J.C. Penney (JCP) sank 12.15% post-market after a woeful FQ1 report in which the retailer missed expectations, and cut its $0.20 dividend and FY1…
    - 11 hours ago, 16 May 12, 7:23am -
  • Arena - What Now?
    By Mina Shaker:In case you have been sleeping under a rock, Arena Pharmaceutical's (ARNA) weight loss drug, Lorcaserin, was approved by an advisory board on Thursday afternoon. Friday, the stock sky rocketed up over 90 percent and closed up over 75 p…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 2:51pm -
  • The Market Is Missing Nokia's Enormous Potential
    By HK Skeptic: SummaryNokia's (NOK) share price suggests that their choice of Windows over Android will consign them to becoming a minor player in the global mobile phone market, and potentially never to be profitable again. This is reflected in N…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 9:10am -
  • Cisco: Too Much Of A Decline?
    By Bill Maurer: Last week, Cisco Systems (CSCO) reported its fiscal third quarter earnings. The company beat slightly on both the top and bottom line, but forward looking guidance was below estimates. That caused a large drop in the stock, and shares…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 8:21am -

Forbes

Slope of Hope

  • Toronto's TSX Index, Commodities, and AUD/USD
    On Tuesday, Toronto's TSX Index closed below major support and below December 2011 lows, as shown on the Daily chart below. The RSI, MACD, and Stochastics indicators are still trending down. The 50 sma has now crossed below the 200 sma and we now hav…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:00pm -
  • The Financial Pugilist (by phantomcapital)
    What can a trader learn from a boxer? One camp makes his living with his fists, the other with their dedication to fundamentals and technicals. So obviously, a trader can learn nothing from a boxer right? Wrong, very wrong. A week ago, Floyd “Money…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:43pm -
  • Skank Tank Bank
    Regular readers know of my fondness for shorting skanky-clothier Abercrombie & Fitch. This was a marvelous short back during the glorious days of 2008, and - - as with so much else - - it's repeating the same performance. This is my best performer to…
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:32pm -
  • My Trading Strategy This Month in One Picture

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  • 1340 SPX Support Broken
    1340 SPX broke with some confidence yesterday and is no longer strong support. The double-top and H&S targets on SPX are in the 1292 area at the October high and that is the next big support level on SPX. Those are both high probability patterns and…
    - 9 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:24am -
  • Heart of Wave Down (by Avi Gilburt)
    These are the types of trade set ups we like to see. Today, we were able to narrow down a short trade set up to within one point of our ideal target top of 1343.50ES (with the market topping at 1342.50), and provide a target of almost 20 points lower…
    - 18 hours ago, 15 May 12, 11:40pm -
  • Bodacious Bounce Blues

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  • For Now
    Yeah, yeah. This is Avenue Q obsession day for me. All the same, this is a wonderful song, and it'll give me time to put something together.
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:20pm -

Cheat Sheet

Globe and Mail

DEALBREAKER

  • David Einhorn Puts Martin Marietta Materials On Notice, Gives GJF.NO His Blessing
    Einhorn says he has a lot of stocks to talk about, starts with Martin Marietta Materials, which he says has “lots of problems.” Einhorn calls MLM CEO a “degree in megalomania”…Einhorn just pulled out a magic wand and I’m pretty sure made…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:56pm -
  • JPMorgan Isn’t Ready To Let Bruno Iksil Go
    You can take your said to be leavings and stick them where the sun don’t shine for all Jamie Dimon cares!Bruno Iksil, the London-based JPMorgan Chase & Co trader known as the “whale” believed to have been involved in the company’s $2 billion…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:01pm -
  • Caption Contest Wednesday
    [via NJD]Continue reading »Follow Dealbreaker on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Andrew Ross Sorkin, caption contests, CNBC, hockey, Joe Kernen, Mandy Drury, mascots, New Jersey Devils, one of these things is not like the other
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:01pm -
  • Trading Against Your Clients Works Best When You Lose Money
    This is sort of a strange footnote to the London Whale: one of the hedge funds that made money feasting off his carcass was run by JPMorgan*: Even as a trader for JPMorgan in London was selling piles of insurance on corporate debt, figuring that the…
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:32pm -
  • Ashley Dupré’s New Career Involves Encouraging Customers To Put Clothes On
    If it feels like it’s been forever since we last heard from Eliot Spitzer’s former gal-pal Ashley Dupré it’s because it has. What’s she been up to since July 2010, when she told reporters she was focusing on getting her real estate license…
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 11:38am -
  • Opening Bell: 05.16.12
    Greece Teeters As Talks Fail (WSJ) In a potent sign of Greeks’ rising anxiety, depositors withdrew €700 million ($898 million) from local banks on Monday alone, according to the country’s national bank—a significant escalation in capital flig…
    - 10 hours ago, 16 May 12, 8:28am -
  • Write-Offs: 05.15.12
    $$$ Greece fails to form unity government [FT] $$$ Greek Depositors Withdrew $898 Million From Banks Monday [WSJ] $$$ “The plane carrying newly sworn-in French President François Hollande was hit by lightning Tuesday afternoon, forcing him to dela…
    - 22 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:50pm -
  • Layoffs Watch ’12: Credit Suisse
    The Swiss bank is not done with its firings.Credit Suisse, the second- biggest Swiss bank, told New York state regulators it will eliminate 126 jobs in Manhattan over the coming months. The dismissals affect offices at 1 Madison Ave. and 11 Madison A…
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:18pm -

The Street

  • Morgan Stanley: Tragic Greek Loser
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Morgan Stanley was the loser among the largest U.S. financial names on Wednesday, with shares sliding over 4% to close at $13.54. Investors continued to worry about a possible Greek exit from the euro, as the country was still…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:33pm -
  • JPMorgan, GE: Dow Movers
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks finished with mild losses Wednesday as concerns about Greece's future in the eurozone wiped out early gains following better-than-expected data on housing and industrial production. The Dow Jones Industrial Average…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:25pm -
  • Today Pandora Officially Crushes Terrestrial Radio
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Unless you're doing something truly unique and compelling on terrestrial radio, Pandora just served you the proverbial papers. Here I explain why investors should pay attention to ratings-related news Pandora released this mor…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:57pm -
  • Is Brocade a Buy Ahead of Earnings?
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Network equipment maker Brocade will be reporting first-quarter earnings on Thursday and I will be paying close attention to see if it presents sufficient justification to remain on my watch list. For as much as I have been an…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:56pm -
  • A Pepsi Split-Up Will Come After Turnaround (Update 1)
    Updated to reflect CLSA analyst comment and updated share prices. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Although activist shareholder Ralph Whitworth of Relational Investors has built up a stake in PepsiCo now worth $610 million and opened dialogue with management…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:59pm -
  • Stocks Weaken on Eurozone Distress, Fed's Warning of Fiscal Cliff
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Stocks fell for the fourth straight session Wednesday as nagging worries about the political disarray in Greece and its future in the Euro Zone continued to weigh on sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 33 points,…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:51pm -
  • Do We Need to Protect Grid From Sunstorms?
    By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff The peak in the 11-year cycle of solar flares happens next year, but electricity regulators have made little progress in deciding how much protection the power grid needs, the Wall Street Journal finds. They are reviewing…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:36pm -
  • FED Warns of Fiscal Tightening in 2013
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The Federal Reserve warned of fiscal tightening in 2013 if Congress doesn't reach a plan for the federal budget. The announcement came Wednesday as part of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in April, as the central ban…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:28pm -

Pragmatic Capitalism

  • DON’T FIGHT THE LAST WAR
    In the science of economics there are no such constants, yet investors often behave as if they operate in a world of logic and certainty. Because such assumptions are made, history is littered with investors who have failed miserably.
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  • AN OPEN LETTER TO EDUARDO SAVERIN
    “Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.” – Bill Gates
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:05pm -
  • TO SEE CHINA’S SLOWDOWN IN REAL-TIME, JUST WATCH THEIR INTEREST RATES
    PBoC, China's central bank, is having trouble stimulating lending. The trouble now seems to be more demand driven, as the economic slowdown sets in.
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:12pm -
  • CAPACITY UTILIZATION: NO RECESSION HERE
    The monthly data on industrial production and capacity utilization always tells us a lot about the economy.   The most important takeaway from this morning’s report is that there are ...
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:11pm -
  • 3 SIGNS JAPAN’S DE-LEVERAGING CYCLE IS ENDING
    Credit Suisse has published a nice note on the balance sheet recession and Japan’s de-leveraging cycle.  Japan has undergone one of the most crushing de-leveraging cycles in history due to ...
    - 17 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:25am -
  • AS RISKS ESCALATE, HIGH YIELD BONDS REMAIN COMPLACENT
    A couple of weeks ago, we pointed out that the performance of corporate bonds and equities were starting to diverge suggesting that credit spreads were reflecting risks emanating from Europe and their escalating debt crisis while stocks were focused…
    - 18 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:02am -
  • GREECE, VERSAILLES AND THE FUTURE OF THE E.M.U.
    No last minute miracle has the Greeks headed to new elections next month. Syriza's Tsipras appears to believe he has much to gain from a new round of elections. Polls put Syriza in first place, though the margin of error makes it look more like a dea…
    - 22 hours ago, 15 May 12, 8:03pm -
  • INFLATION EXPECTATIONS DECLINE AS COMMODITY PRICES HIT NEW LOWS
    The CRB commodities index broke through the apparent support level discussed earlier. Commodities continue to be pressured by the global slowdown and Eurozone driven market stress. Recent dollar strength also added momentum to the selloff.
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:32pm -

The Reformed Broker

MISH'S Global

Daily Finance

  • Think Your Mortgage Refi Rate is Great? IBM Pays Less Than 1%
    Filed under: IBM, CreditThink you've got a good mortgage rate? Thanks to record-low interest rates, Bankrate.com says consumers with good credit can get 30-year fixed-rate mortgages for about 3.75% today. 15-year fixed mortgages are going for as litt…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:35pm -
  • Weird-Mart: Tales of the Bizarre from the Walmart Aisles
    Filed under: Wal-Mart Stores, Features, Secret ShopperA 47-year-old man was bitten by a rattlesnake in the outdoor garden department of a Walmart (WMT) store in Lewiston, Idaho, this week. The rattlesnake latched onto the man's hand, prompting him to…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:15pm -
  • Solid Reasons for the Unbanked to Shun Chase's New 'Liquid Card'
    When bankers come up with a new wonder product, it's rarely good news for consumers. JPMorgan Chase's (JPM) new "Liquid" card is no exception.Unveiled last week, Liquid is touted as "a reloadable card that offers customers financial control and fle…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:40pm -
  • GM Had 1,999 Reasons to Crash Facebook's IPO Party
    Filed under: Technology, Facebook, General MotorsGeneral Motors (GM) really knows how to time an exit.The automaker has announced that it will no longer advertise on Facebook, just days before the social networking giant is set to go public.GM do…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:15pm -
  • JCPenney's Ron Johnson: 'Customers Don't Get Our Pricing Strategy'
    Filed under: Earnings, JC Penney, RetailBy Aimee GrothOn Tuesday, JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson presented on the company's Q1 earnings and its ongoing strategy in New York City. This was right after the company announced that it missed sales expectation…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:35am -
  • Can't Get a Piece of the Facebook IPO? Lucky You!
    Filed under: Technology, Investing, Facebook, Market NewsA lot of people have been scrambling for a piece of Facebook's IPO this week, but you're probably out of luck. Underwriters save their allotments of freshly minted shares for prized clients,…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:50am -
  • The Truth About JPMorgan Chase's $2 Billion Loss: It's No Big Whoop
    Filed under: JP Morgan Chase, Market News, BankingHey, Wall Street? Chicken Little called. She says you need to stop overreacting to JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading loss. I mean, it's not as if the sky were falling...For the past few days, inve…
    - 9 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:10am -
  • Hollywood, Homeland Security Double Up Video Piracy Warnings
    Filed under: Media, Crime, EntertainmentIf you thought the unskippable FBI warning about piracy included on every DVD was annoying before, it's about to get even worse.Soon, home entertainment customers will have to sit through an additional pre-ro…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:52pm -

Oil Price

  • Azerbaijan's International Energy Aspirations Raise Tensions in Middle East
    Azerbaijan has been expanding its international energy aspirations further afield over the past several years, gaining assets in Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Georgia, and offering to build installations in Libya, but it wasn’t…
    - 22 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:38pm -
  • How a Deeper Understanding of Fracking could Increase the Lifespan of Oil Wells
    There is a real, practical limit to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. Depending on the availability and economic viability of different technical approaches that limit might be less than 25% of the total volume of oil original…
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:33pm -
  • Nuclear Plants in Germany Sit Idle as Coal use Grows by 13.5%
    Coal use will rise an estimated 13.5 percent in Germany this year, resulting in at least 14 million metric tons of additional carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, even as the nation continues to idle two-fifths of its nuclear power fleet.The major reducti…
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:13pm -
  • The Lack of Accountability that Allowed JPMorgan to Gamble Billions
    If I were to stake you $50,000 and set you loose in the world's largest casino, you might try your luck in a big way at a number of games to see if you could double or maybe even triple your good fortune. But it would be an entirely different matter…
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:04pm -
  • 46 Million Acres of Federal Land and Water Leased for Drilling just Sitting Idle
    The oil and gas industry has been working in unison with a few congressional allies to constantly blame the Obama administration for the current energy prices in the US, claiming that the government are blocking domestic energy development by not rel…
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 6:59pm -
  • Chevron Sign $15 Billion Deal to Supply LNG to Tohoku Electric Power Company
    With the expansion of Asian economies, and especially as a result of Japan shutting down its nuclear industry, demand for fossil fuels is high in the East.The $29 billion Wheatstone natural gas project just off the coast of Western Australia is perfe…
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 6:57pm -
  • Progress Made on the Atlantic Wind Connection and the NorthConnect Lines
    Google have finally cleared another regulatory hurdle in the long process of trying to win approval for its proposed $5 billion transmission line connecting wind farms off the East Coast of the US, to the mainland’s electric grid. The environmental…
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 6:56pm -
  • Why US Energy Policy cannot Rely on Natural Gas alone
    With natural gas prices at such low levels many people are attracted to focussing on natural gas to supply the majority of US energy, believing that the domestically produced product will protect them from global oil price fluctuations, and ensure en…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 12:31pm -

Kid Dynamite

  • Ira Sohn Ein-Sanity: Herbalife Lives!
    For background of the David Einhorn – Herbalife situation/non-situation, please see my prior posts: -On Einhorn and Herbalife -Herbalife Highlights Lazy Trader Nation So I’m [...]
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:49pm -
  • You Think Options Trading is Easy? Here’s Herbalife
    Here’s a snapshot of Herbalife’s ($HLF – no positions) option chain for May, expiring this Friday, ahead of the Ira Sohn conference: What do you [...]
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:28pm -
  • Herbalife Highlights Lazy Trader Nation
    We’re a bunch of lazy ig’nant fools trading this market.   Not all of us, of course, just most of us. Case in point here is [...]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 3:03pm -
  • JP Morgan, Hedges and Proprietary Trades
    I didn’t really want to write another post about the whole JP Morgan story since others (who we will get to in a minute) have [...]
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 10:31am -
  • Like Trying To Have Sex in Quicksand?
    When I was growing up my buddy Dave had a water bed.   Now, kids, you’re not going to believe this, but a “water bed” was* [...]
    - 3 days ago, 13 May 12, 8:46am -
  • So You Wanna Talk About JPM’s Trading Loss and The London Whale
    I know what’s on your mind this evening – JPM’s announcement of large trading losses related to the London Whale in their CIO division who [...]
    - 6 days ago, 11 May 12, 5:45am -
  • Risk, Reward and Imperfect Information
    “But Virginia they didn’t give you quite enough information” – Billy Joel, Only the Good Die Young” Most people know that many financial activities are [...]
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 9:18am -
  • Saturday Night Live Mothers Day Fake Ad
    This is awesome: Fifty Shades of Grey – “Buy it on Amazon” !!! -KD
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 11:10am -

Bespoke

  • Country ETFs Get Crushed
    Every day over at Bespoke Premium, we publish our ETF Trends report, which looks at the current overbought/oversold trends of more than 200 key ETFs across all asset classes.  Below is a snapshot of the various country ETFs that we track in the repo…
    - 17 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:49pm -
  • 100 Russell 1,000 Stocks Down 5+ Days in a Row
    With the major indices now down more than 5% in the month of May, there are a large number of stocks that haven't had an up day in quite a long time.  In fact, there are currently 100 stocks in the Russell 1,000 that are down at least five days in a…
    - 36 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:30pm -
  • Commodities Oversold
    With commodities continuing to take it on the chin on a daily basis, below is an updated snapshot of our trading range charts for ten of the most widely followed commodities.  For each chart, the green shading represents between two standard deviati…
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:14pm -
  • Cyclical Sectors Crushed While Defensives Outperform
    While the S&P 500 is down 6.23% from its 52-week high (reached in early April), there are five sectors that are down quite a bit more than that.  These five are Energy, Materials, Financials, Technology and Industrials.  All five of these are cycli…
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 11:58am -
  • Crude Inventories Rise More Than Expected Again
    Crude oil inventories rose more than expected (2.128 million vs. 1.75 million) again last week.  This marks the eighth straight week where crude oil inventories have seen a larger than expected increase.  For the current time of year, 1990 is the o…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:32am -
  • Technology Sector Down 9-Days in a Row
    The S&P 500 Technology sector is now down 9 days in a row.  Since our daily sector data begins in 1989, the Technology sector has only had one other 9-day losing streak.  That streak came in October 1998, which was another period when markets here…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 5:27pm -
  • Europe's Toll on US Stocks
    The average stock in the S&P 500 is down more than 6.5% since the April 2nd market peak.  We ran our decile analysis on the index focusing on international revenues to see how much Europe and other parts of the world are impacting US stocks.  To ru…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:27pm -
  • NAHB Sentiment Index Rises to Highest Levels Since 2007
    Today's release of the NAHB Housing Sentiment index came in better than expected and (29 vs 26) currently sits at its highest level since May 2007.  In this month's report, all three subcomponents also showed increases, and they're all at or just ne…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 10:16am -

Investopedia

ibankcoin

  • Exactly 11 Years Ago Today, I Destroyed Myself
    I remember May of 2001 like it was yesterday. My birthday was around the corner and my business was stable, albeit boring. After the crash of 2000, my business was solely focused on preferred stocks and bonds. My gross production was a joke, about 15…
    - 44 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:22pm -
  • Stock #Market Recap 05/16/12 {Video}
    Direct Vimeo Link Click Here
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:20pm -
  • Bears Win Again
    Seems like a reoccurring theme, pop the open, close near the lows. Makes it hard to hold anything over night, including shorts. It seems everyone it fixated on 1290, maybe that’s our next stop: _________________   I’ll be back with some charts a…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:12pm -
  • Sad Cloud Song
    It is tough to short the cloud-computing stocks in the technology sector with CRM reporting earnings tomorrow. Indeed, they tend to move in sympathy with each other, just as the optical stocks do. Nevertheless, keep the likes of CTXS FFIV NTAP and es…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:36pm -
  • Upset With Myself
    Greed has set in ovah here. I have been nailing great entry points on a number of names, only to see my profits fade like the wind. I know better. I am normally quicker to the trigger, but for some reason, I want more. Just the other day I caught a n…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:48pm -
  • Afternoon Laugh for a Brutal Market
    The master, Rodney Dangerfield
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:18pm -
  • Hiding Out in Hell
    I am watching this thing you call the market, unravel in front of my eyes–amazed by its simplicity. I know exactly what should happen; but I’ve been trained to expect government to intervene and paper over this problem. If you are betting against…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:09pm -
  • Gave Up the Golden Financial Goose
    To give you an idea of the damage that this market has seen in May, note the XLF (ETF for the financial sector) losing not only its primary breakout point from March, but also support from that base as well. $15 was the key level, and now with that l…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:01pm -

Aleph

  • Skewed Incentives
    May is a tough month for me, because I have to submit reports for the nonprofits that I work with, and this year is worse, because I have a moderate injury that I need  to see a doctor about, but can’t until next week, because of the schedule. But…
    - 16 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:17am -
  • Crossroads
    This is a confusing time: Lousy fiscal policy — way too much borrowing by the government Lousy monetary policy — way too much expansion of the monetary base, and for little good reason, and funding the deficits of the government as a result… Ne…
    - 2 days ago, 15 May 12, 12:43am -
  • Simple Stock Valuation
    I appreciate Eddy Elfenbein.  He comes up with ideas that make me say, “Huh. Interesting.  Let’s test that.”  His recent article, World’s Simplest Stock Valuation Measure, put forth the idea that: Growth Rate/2 + 8 = PE Ratio Cool, reminds…
    - 4 days ago, 13 May 12, 12:08am -
  • Sorted Weekly Tweets
    Eurozone   Danske Bank’s Patience With Moody’s Evaporates http://t.co/eGbf3kV5 Questions over willingness of Denmark to provide support in a crisis. May 11, 2012 CIC Stops Buying Europe Government Debt on Crisis Concern http://t.co/dljk9Tau Over…
    - 5 days ago, 12 May 12, 1:06am -
  • Book Review: The Little Book of Emerging Markets
    This book is written by one of the foremost stock investors in emerging markets, Mark Mobius.  This is a short book that has little to no math in it, and few graphs.  It can be read in 2-3 hours. The edge that this book will give you is understandi…
    - 5 days ago, 12 May 12, 12:24am -
  • Yahoo Finance News
    I want to call attention to News at Yahoo Finance.  I have used Yahoo Finance for 15 years and have found it valuable.  As time has gone on, Yahoo has added low value news sources like Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool, and Zacks.  These are websites tha…
    - 6 days ago, 11 May 12, 12:05am -
  • The Best of the Aleph Blog, Part 15

    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 10:28am -
  • Book Review: The Little Book of Bull’s Eye Investing
    Before I start this evening, if you like my reviews generally, please go to Amazon and tell them that my reviews are helpful.  From this link, it does not take long to do so.  Thanks. This was one of those books that grew on me.  The author, the w…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 7:29pm -

Yahoo Finance

The Atlantic

Random Roger

  • Black Swan Alert--Financial Stocks Still Stink
    Before anyone gets worked up, the title of this post is meant to be sarcastic, I realize a decline in bank stocks is not a black swan. If anything it is a white swan as I have been saying from the time we knew it was a crisis that there would continu…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 8:15am -
  • Sunday Morning Coffee
    Just a brief comment or two about the upcoming Facebook (FB) IPO. According to Barron's, FB has a "user base of 901 million, or 58% of the globe's Internet users (not including China, where the site is restricted)." Barron's quoted company filings as…
    - 3 days ago, 13 May 12, 8:13am -
  • The Big Picture for the Week of May 13
    The other day I stumbled across an article about the dividend yields for four gold mining stocks including Anglo Gold Ashanti (AU). Before the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) came along we used AU for our gold exposure. It did ok and then starting in late 2005…
    - 4 days ago, 12 May 12, 8:12am -
  • Individuals Have No Business Picking Stocks? Really?
    Yesterday on CNBC Steven Rattner made a lot of noise by noting that individuals have no business picking stocks, that they should instead only use index funds. Later in the day the network picked up the ball to try to extend that conversation in a se…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 8:11am -
  • How Bad Is Europe?
    The chart tracks the S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) against what I believe are all of the Eurozone ETFs; iShares France (EWQ), iShares Spain (EWP), iShares Germany (EWG), iShares Italy (EWI), iShares Belgium, iShares Netherlands (EWN), iShares Finland (EFNL) and…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 8:10am -
  • What Does Long Term Actually Mean?
    There was a post at Seeking Alpha about client holding Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) with the title JNJ Is Not A Good Long Term Investment For 2012. This was a pretty funny headline. The author made a bearish case mostly noting the lawsuits and image probl…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 8:09am -
  • Social Security Statements Now Online
    Smart Money mentioned that Social Security statements are now online. The statements always make for interesting viewing so I took a look at mine. My benefit at 67 is slated to be $2459 per month and at 70 it would go up to $3103. My wife will get 50…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 8:08am -
  • Sunday Morning Coffee
    A client asked what I thought was coming next for the stock market as we had a bad week and there is some level of concern over the election in France.The market has had relatively mild declines over the last couple of summer and that it should happe…
    - 10 days ago, 6 May 12, 8:06am -

World Beta

  • Momentum, Low Vol, Risk Parity, and Asset Allocation
    Lots of people emailed this over today.  Nice article (although the Sharpe Ratios are overstated since they exclude the rfr for some reason.) Adaptive Asset Allocation – Butler & Philbrick
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 5:18pm -
  • Hedge Fund Interviews
    Some fun interviews in here including Dalio, O’Shea, Woodriff, and Thorp.  For instance I had no idea Thorp ran a trendfollowing fund from 2007-2010…or that Woodriff formed 3 CTAs, worked as a prop trader, traded his own account all before found…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 3:34pm -
  • Top 10 Financial Research Papers of the Year
    Whitebox folks awarding $25k to the top paper (HT: Tradestream).  Papers below: “Information Leakage Prior to Company Issued Guidance” – Financial Management; Anna Agapova and Jeff Madura “Dynamic Estimation of Volatility Risk Premia and In…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 2:12pm -
  • Self Publishing & Airplane Reading
    I’m on the plane to NYC (and reminding myself how much better Virgin is vs. any other airline) and reading a few new research pieces.  Email me any other good ones and I’ll post: The Devil in HML Details – Asness (HT: BL) Hedge Fund Market Wiz…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 1:50pm -
  • “Every human being on the planet should short Treasuries”
    That was a quote from a famous market pundit in Feb 2010, who also described the trade as a “no-brainer”.  Had you followed this guru’s advice your no-brainer portfolio would be down 50%.  Not that I need to remind our readers to blindly foll…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 1:19pm -
  • Berkshire Summary
    I often post links to Twitter that never make it to the blog, so I will repost this link as it is a great summary of the Berkshire meeting this past weekend.
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 1:12pm -
  • Travel: NYC Trip
    I’m headed to NYC this weekend through next Thursday.  If anyone has a suggestion for a good happy hour spot on Monday and Tuesday for a small group let me know (casual, but room for people to drop in anytime). I’ll be heading to see my buddy Tu…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 12:05pm -
  • Nail in the Mutual Fund Coffin (NAV Based ETF Trading)
    I don’t see the reason so many people are clamoring to make ETFs less transparent (usually 99% of the people don’t need to mask their trades).  In general people don’t like transparency for two reasons – they are doing something they shouldn…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 2:28pm -

Investment Yogi

  • Declining Interest Rate and Investment Options
    The recent policy rate cut by RBI rejuvenated the slowing down of economic activities after series of global financial recession. The policy rate has been slashed by 50 basis points during recently concluded economic policy revision by RBI. Banks a…
    - 12 hours ago, 16 May 12, 6:18am -
  • LIC Jeevan Vriddhi versus Fixed Deposits
        As recently as March, LIC launched a new insurance policy- Jeevan Vriddhi. A traditional non participating limited period policy, Jeevan Vriddhi offers guaranteed returns to investors, apart from a basic sum assured. Termed as the “Fixed d…
    - 10 days ago, 7 May 12, 1:53am -
  • Why, Not to Buy Some of the Insurance Plan?
    Why to Get Insured? Everyone plans for his future and wishes to shield it from monetary risks. With the stride of time, monetary pressure may arise in form of children’s higher education, their marriage, business, career, etc.  To cover…
    - 13 days ago, 3 May 12, 7:58am -
  • Easy Ways to Avoid the TDS on Fixed Deposits
    Fixed deposits (FD) are one of the most-favored investment instruments in India. FD can be defined as a financial investment where money is invested for a fixed tenure at a pre-agreed interest rate. There are many varieties of FD schemes…
    - 17 days ago, 30 Apr 12, 2:42am -
  • Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Ltd – IPO Note
      Company background Established in 1864, Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri Ltd (TBZ), is India’s one of the top jewellery retailer. The company sells gold jewellery, diamond-studded jewellery, platinum jewellery and jadau jewellery. These produc…
    - 24 days ago, 23 Apr 12, 12:25am -
  • Filing IT Return with Multiple Form-16
    Every salaried person must obtain Form 16 from the employer before the end of a financial year. Form16 contains the details of salary earned by the employee and tax deducted from it by the employer. In other words, it can be explained as the deta…
    - 30 days ago, 17 Apr 12, 1:17am -
  • Apply Value Cost Averaging Technique to Invest in Mutual Funds
    An investor tends to buy most when market is at peak and the least when it’s at bottom due to fear of loss. So, while investing regularly through systematic investment plan (SIP), you tend to average your rupee cost on investments. Most investors g…
    - 31 days ago, 16 Apr 12, 3:46am -
  • How to save 1.5 to 2 Crores for retirement
    Q) I am an engineer and my fiancée is also an engineer. Our combined savings is 20,000 p.m. We both are nearly 27 years old. Please suggest me a portfolio, I am not aware of any investment schemes. We both simply have taken Jeevan saral and Jeevan A…
    - 34 days ago, 12 Apr 12, 6:18am -

Angry Bear

  • Solamere Capital offered to help fund the auto-industry managed bankruptcy … just like Bain Capital!
    Ah.  Well, now we know what Romney has in mindwhen he says that GM and Chrysler didn’t need federal bailout funds in late2008 and early 2009 in order to undergo bankruptcy reorganization rather thanbe forced to liquidate, because there was pr…
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:17pm -
  • Elizabeth Warren campaigns in MA
    Elizabeth Warren is running for the US Senate in Mass. and came by Casey's Diner Monday at lunchtime, a stop among many.   Eventually the campaign will heat up as a lot of money is being raised, and the summer ends.Ezra Klein of the Washington Pos…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:45am -
  • A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy
    Brad DeLong points to an article by Gary Younge in The Guardian:A web of privilege supports this so-called meritocracy: Shortly after Mitt Romney's failed 2008 campaign for the Republican nomination his son Tagg set up a private equity fund with th…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:42am -
  • Jamie Galbraith on inequality and macroeconics
    Via Naked Capitalism comes this youtube video from Jamie Galbraith on inequality and macroeconomics, a speech delivered INET talks in Berlin:Galbraith has marshaled a great deal of cross country data over time, and shows how changes in equality…
    - 12 hours ago, 16 May 12, 6:19am -
  • Will America Ever Recover From The Housing Crisis
    This is advertising, but not blatantly so, and is an informative infographic on the current status of our housing crisis.Will America Ever Recover From The Housing Crisis
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  • The Top Two Criteria for Expert Judgment: Curiosity and . . . Curiosity
    First a recap:Philip Tetlock’s Expert Political Judgment was a groundbreaking look at whether political experts really are expert, as judged by their success at making predictions. His overall conclusion: they aren’t. But (lifted from a previous…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 11:59am -
  • Steven Rattner Misses the Point (Romney’s and Obama’s) - POSTSCRIPT ADDED 5/16*
    LastFebruary, in the lead-up to the all-important Michigan primary, Romney wrote an op-ed piece in the Detroit News titled “U.S. autos bailout 'was cronycapitalism on a grand scale'.”  Thedual purpose of the piece was to defend the recommen…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 10:22am -
  • Employment and Deficits: A Tale of Two Administrations
    Stan Collender notes that, for the first time in four years, the U.S. Treasury reported a surplus in the month of April.  It isn’t just that there was a surplus in April of 2008, though.  If you look back through Aprils (data here), the last time…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 6:45am -

Telegraph Finance

Businessweek

FT Alphaville

  • The Closer
    ROUND-UPThe S&P 500 dropped for a fourth day, its longest pace of declines for a month, closing down 0.4 per cent at 1,324.80. Bank shares led the way down (Bloomberg)....
    - 31 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:35pm -
  • Discuss among yourselves, inflation trend path comparison edition
    A chart from Market Monetarist:And one from James Bullard (that’s US PCE below):Caveats related to commodity prices, the ECB’s actual inflation target, the differing time series,...
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:16pm -
  • FOMC minutes for April 24-25 meeting
    Yes, of course, there was a lot of stuff in the minutes about recent trends in the economy and the looming fiscal cliff and inflation forecasts and so on. The word “uncertainty”...
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:44pm -
  • Shifting ECB liquidity to ELA, Greek bank recap edition
    NOT HALTING. SHIFTING. THEN IT GOES BACK LATER.Today was really not the best day for the ECB to signal this:May 16 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has stopped monetary...
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:45pm -
  • Odey’s angst
    At present the lights are being turned down in the markets but the good fund manager, like the good pianist, will be the one who can play in the dark.That’s Crispin Odey...
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:18pm -
  • Fiscal credibility vs democracy
    Last November John Hempton wrote an amusing post arguing that Ben Bernanke’s problem was that the Fed’s credibility was too high, thus creating a liquidity trap, and...
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:24am -
  • Markets Live transcript 16 May 2012
    Markets Live chat transcript for the chat ending at 15:08 on 16 May 2012. Participants in this chat were: Joseph Cotterill, FT Cardiff Garcia JC Hola, rabble.JC And welcome to US Markets Live....
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:00am -
  • What price a slowing population?
    Making babies is fun and good for economic growth (sexing up a lede has never been so easy). Nomura has taken a shot at calculating just how significantly population changes can hit GDP....
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Traders Anonymous

  • AmenRa's Corner 5.15.12
    The Greek Election Committee as they prepare to visit the IMF, ECB, France and Germany. Creditcane™: Who's house?!? Creditcane's house!SPXBearish short day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Failing SMA(89). Tested and failed the 61.8% minor retrace (1343.5…
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  • AmenRa's Corner 5.14.12
    Creditcane™: I am the master of your fate. I am the captain of your soul.SPXBearish long day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Failing SMA(89). Tested and failed the 61.8% minor retrace (1343.55). New low on daily 3LB (reversal is 1358.59). QE2infinity. D…
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  • Week Ahead Look the S&P 500
    Everyone has at least one, so big round of applause to all the Moms out there on Mother's Day.There are less pictures and a little more commentary in this update. Please enjoy responsibly. Market Commentary 13May12
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  • AmenRa's Corner 5.11.12
    "Thanks for buying the dance tickets JPM. Will you have any more available next week?" Creditcane™: JPM is trying to usurp my gig.SPXSpinning top day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and failed SMA(89). Tested and failed the 50.0% minor retrace (13…
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  • AmenRa's Corner 5.10.12
    "It's too late. There is no escape." Creditcane™: I almost created the market close from hell.SPXBullish short day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and failed SMA(89). Tested and held the 50.0% minor retrace (1357.98). No daily 3LB changes (rever…
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  • AmenRa's Corner 5.9.12
    "Is it time yet? Well?" Creditcane™: Otra vez: There should have been more pain.SPXBearish short day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and failed SMA(89). Tested and failed the 50.0% minor retrace (1357.98). New low on daily 3LB (reversal is 1416.51)…
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  • AmenRa's Corner 5.8.12
    Creditcane™: There should have been more pain.SPXHammer day (higher close would be better signal). Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and held SMA(89). Tested and held the 50.0% minor retrace (1357.98). No daily 3LB changes (reversal is 1419.04). QE2i…
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  • AmenRa's Corner 5.7.12
    ...can prevent market melt ups based on phony EU solidarity. Creditcane™: Do you really think I'm not in France or Greece?SPXDoji day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Failing SMA(21,55). Tested and failed the 38.2% minor retrace (1372.42). Failing the low…
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Fox Business

  • Utilities Sector Wrap
    The S&P 500 lost 0.4% while the Utilities sector (XLU) showed little movement during trading today.
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  • Transportation Sector Wrap
    The Transportation sector (IYT) showed little movement on a trading day that saw S&P 500 fall 0.4%.
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  • Services Sector Wrap
    The Services sector (IYC) held steady on a trading day that saw S&P 500 drop 0.4%.
    - 47 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:19pm -
  • Technology Sector Wrap
    During trading today, both the Technology sector (XLK) and the S&P500 showed little movement.
    - 50 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:16pm -
  • Health Care Sector Wrap
    During trading today, the Health Care sector (XLV) showed little change while the S&P 500 fell 0.4%.
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  • Retail Sector Wrap
    During trading today, the Retail sector (XRT) showed little change while the S&P 500 fell 0.4%.
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  • Financial Sector Wrap
    The Financial sector (XLF) held steady on a trading day that saw S&P 500 drop 0.4%.
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  • Energy Sector Wrap
    During trading today, both the Energy sector (XLE) and the S&P500 showed little movement.
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Northern Trust Daily

Daily FX

I heart Wall Street

Tischendorf Letter

  • DNN DML.TO – Denison Mines – Chart Update
    Quick chart update on DNN – Denison Mines as I consider recent price action to be technically constructive. The chart is pretty obvious, so no need to comment that much. If DNN can break out to the upside a price target in the 3.00 USD area looks f…
    - 79 days ago, 27 Feb 12, 9:17pm -
  • Audio Analysis – Technical Thoughts On Uranium – DNN, CCJ, UEX.TO, U.TO
    Here’s an audio post with my thoughts on Uranium as the uranium mining stocks are now setting up for a potentially great trade in 2012. The audio file is roughly 18 minutes. Enjoy! Press play in order to listen. If you prefer you can click on the a…
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  • Greatest Debt Bubble In History – Harry S Dent Video Interview
    Harry S. Dent commenting on what he sees developing down the road. ‘Down the road’ meaning the time period 2008 – 2023 according to his analysis. His analysis and conclusions are derived from trends in demographics. The baby boomers are going t…
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  • Happy New Year
    A Happy New Year to all my readers! I will probably take another week off and then start updating the website again. Going forward I will spend more time with non-blogging activities. Although I haven’t made a final decision yet, my plan is to chan…
    - , 5 Jan 12, 9:07pm -
  • Hellmeyer Video Interview – Europe Inflation Gold
    Here’s an interesting view on Europe and America from a European’s perspective. James Turk interviews Volker Hellmeyer who addresses quite a few issues Americans simply do not focus upon. So for those of you interested in analyzing the current…
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  • Kyle Bass Video Interview Japan Gold And MF Global
    Actually I thought about going for ‘Stay defensive’ as an alternative headline choice. The stuff I read and watch makes me want to use that famous Shakespeare quote that ‘something is rotten in the State of Denmark’. The evidence that all is…
    - , 12 Dec 11, 9:45pm -
  • CBST Cubist Pharmaceuticals – Biotech Stocks Potential New Leaders
    Current market action still doesn’t make me want to put on big positions or trade aggressively. That’s why I am spending a lot of time doing research, watching market related videos and why I do lots of scanning in order to find new ideas. One se…
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  • Silver – Where To From Here?
    Silver is a tough one here. As you can see in my updated long-term weekly silver chart annotations there are two possible outcomes. We could see a complete breakdown if the trendline is broken and the double top pattern comes into play. One could als…
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Live Vol

  • Pre-Market/Post Market: 5-16-12
    To get an e-mail alert when a new pre-market report is posted please send an e-mail to support (support (at) livevol.com) with "Pre-market" in the subject line.-----------------------------------------------------------Click for Free Trial----…
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  • Pre-Market/Post Market: 5-8-12
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  • Pre-Market/Post Market: 5-7-12
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Carl Futia

  • domed house update
    The chart at the top of the post shows daily bars for the Dow industrials going back to the beginning of 2011. It has been labeled to correspond to the schematic of Lindsay's 3 peaks and a domed house formation. I have been tracking this particular f…
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  • Guesstimates on May 16, 2012
    June S&P E-mini Futures: Today's range estimate is 1329-1342. The ES reached the top edge of the 1310-20 target zone last night. I think the end of the drop from 1419.75 is imminent. QQQ:  Downside target is 62.50.          TNX (ten year no…
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  • Guesstimates on May 15, 2012
    June S&P E-mini Futures: Today's range estimate is 1332-1347. I think the ES is headed for 1320-30 where I expect the drop from 1419.75 to end. QQQ:  Downside target is 62.50.          TNX (ten year note yield):  The 10 year yield is back…
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  • Guesstimates on May 14, 2012
    June S&P E-mini Futures: Today's range estimate is 1327-1342. I think the ES is headed for 1320-30 where I expect the drop from 1419.75 to end. QQQ:  Downside target is 62.50.          TNX (ten year note yield):  The 10 year yield is back…
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  • Guesstimates on May 11, 2012
    June S&P E-mini Futures: Today's range estimate is 1335-1350. The J.P.Morgan news after yesterday's close has produced a trading range lower than yesterday's day session. I think this means that the ES is headed for 1320-30. QQQ:  Downside target is…
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  • Guesstimates on May 10, 2012
    June S&P E-mini Futures: Today's range estimate is 1357-1370. It now looks like yesterday morning's drop below the Sunday night low at 1342.50 was a shakeout. I think the ES is headed for 1370 today and I also think the odds favor a breakout above th…
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  • Attention Traders
    Are you a day trader or a swing trader or both? Since my trading seminar CarlFutiaRealTime started in September of 2010 the blog's day trading account is up 83.0% based on one contract trades in the e-mini S&P futures in a $10,000 account.Want to fin…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 12:04pm -
  • reaction low in place or nearby
    This morning low in the cash S&P (its daily chart is the second one above this post) may well prove to be the end of the drop from the early April top. If it isn't the exact low then the worst I see is another 20 points on the downside. You can see m…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 12:03pm -

Zen Trader

  • Aaron Sorkin’s Commencement Speech
    On 13 May 2012 Loads of wisdom here and if you have kids the first couple of minutes will be extra special to you.  
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  • Market Astrology: The Facebook IPO Risk Trade
    By Karen Starich Facebook is set to launch it’s initial public offering on May 18th. The social media giant has an initial target valuation as high as $100 billion. Looking at the astrology for May 18th we can get some clues as to how the stock wil…
    - 24 hours ago, 15 May 12, 6:14pm -
  • The Death Of The Bull Is Near
    By Chris Ebert As with all technical indicators, the Option Indices are intended to be tools to help traders plan future trading in a manner that increases the probability of a profit. Last week, it was reported here that the Long Call/Married Put In…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 12:05pm -
  • Where SLW Would Be Attractive
    SLW closed today at 24.40 and the area of support where I would get interested in this stock is the $17.75-19.25. That would represent enough of a “fear factor” that metals need to represent a good buying opportunity and it takes us down to sign…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 10:18pm -
  • Update on Bonds, Dollar, & Euro
    Dollar looks ready to break out above significant resistance which would be very bad for the general markets. Euro is confirming strength in Dollar by the weakness in it’s own chart. Bond strength is confirming weakness in general markets. I’ve b…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 12:33pm -
  • Market Timing Signal: Down

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  • Super Moon Brings Down The Financial Sector
    The following is an except from last Sunday’s premium newsletter by Karen Starich, who uses astrology to forecast events in the financial markets. Learn how Astrology Traders can give you an unparalleled edge in trading. Full Moon May 6, 2012…
    - 4 days ago, 12 May 12, 11:20pm -
  • Tips On Picking A Trading Service
    In the following video I answer a reader’s question about using stops in one’s personal trading when using a paid subscription service. Sometimes trades do go against us and it’s important to take steps to protect our trading capital. Reader qu…
    - 4 days ago, 12 May 12, 11:27am -

Fund My Mutual Fund

  • Market Montage Officially Launches Tomorrow
    Dear readers,After a long period of introspection (nearly 3 minutes) I've decided to follow the ideology of the boxing world and come out of retirement.I shall continue my career in prose at MarketMontage.com beginning tomorrow.  Hope to see som…
    - , 13 Dec 11, 3:40pm -
  • Goodbye and Goodnight Fund My Mutual Fund
    With post #8286 I am officially retiring  (see the post at 3:40PM before you panic).This blog started Aug 6, 2007 with a few test posts and Aug 7 the real thing began to an audience of.... errr... 3 or 4. I might be over estimating. :)  Of course…
    - , 13 Dec 11, 3:30pm -
  • Nothing Much from the Fed Other than a Few Words Changed
    Carry on...Most importantly a few hawks exit stage right in 2012, and more Yellen and Bernanke types will enter.  Also with the 'inflation is easing' commentary they take care of any issues with those who claim there should be a break from even ea…
    - , 13 Dec 11, 2:37pm -
  • [Videos] Howard Davidowitz Grumpy as Usual
    As we await the first Fed meeting in a while that no major policy easing or language change should occur, we bring one of FMMF's favorite grumpy eccentric uncles - Howard Davidowitz.  At this point, some of what he is saying is purely for entertainm…
    - , 13 Dec 11, 1:55pm -
  • Bad Economy? Yeah Right - Not in the Farming Heartland
    While I believe in the long term thesis in farming (indeed I said in 2007-2008 farmland would probably be the best long term i.e. decades long, investment) year over year gains of 40% in Nebraska and 31% in Iowa just are not sustainable.  Easy money…
    - , 13 Dec 11, 12:57pm -
  • Marketwatch: Why Did 24 Hour Trading Never Take Off?
    I remember when the first discussions of 24 hour trading gained force in the late 90s thinking to myself "oh no.... won't they ever let us sleep? This is ridiculous."*  (then again the stock market was "fun" and "easy" then because we all could beco…
    - , 13 Dec 11, 10:25am -
  • Still Holding On
    The 'Battle of the 200 Day's' looked to potentially be resolved mid afternoon yesterday but a stick save late in the session pushed the S&P 500 back over the 200 day exponential moving average.  There was essentially a bounce off the 50 day moving a…
    - , 13 Dec 11, 9:20am -
  • Some Caution Now Technically on the Gold (GLD) Trade
    Please note I am using the Gold ETF (GLD) rather than the commodity as stockcharts.com has a 1 day delay on the actual underlying. Gold is acting punk today - a lot of people are trying to find reasons why.  I thought perhaps this would be due to…
    - , 12 Dec 11, 12:33pm -

dshort

  • Whither 2012 GDP? Comparing the WSJ Survey and Fed Projections
    May 16, 2012 Doug Short  Earlier this week the Wall Street Journal posted the results of its May Survey of economists. Naturally I charted some of the data, focusing on GDP, but I held off on sharing it until we got the latest Federal Reserve GDP…
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  • S&P 500 Snapshot: Tenth Decline in 13 Sessions
    May 16, 2012 Doug Short  The S&P 500 continued is in relatively slow but persistent downward trajectory. Today was the fourth consecutive decline and the 10th of the last 13 sessions. The index popped up at the open on better-than-expected Indust…
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  • Buy and Hold: Is It Still the Way to Go?
    May 16, 2012 Dominic Cimino  The last four years have ushered in a debate that questions the effectiveness of the buy-and-hold investment strategy. Here is my humble opinion on the subject. Buy-and-hold is a fine approach during a secular bull ma…
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  • Fed Intervention and the Market: New Update
    May 16, 2012 Doug Short  Note from dshort: After posting my update yesterday on Treasury yields, I received several request to update this snapshot of Fed intervention and the market.We're well into our sixth month since the latest Federal Reserv…
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  • Best Stock Market Indicator Flash Update: OEXA200R is now at 65%
    May 16, 2012 John F. Carlucci  The OEXA200R closed out the day at the critical 65% level, the point at which it is advisable to sell all long positions in anticipation of a major market decline. See the "Background" section below for a fuller exp…
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  • Treasuries Update: 10-Year Yield Near Its Historic Low
    May 15, 2012 Doug Short  Note from dshort: The market selloff in recent days prompted me to update my Treasury yield data. The yield on the 10-year note hit an interim high of 2.39 on March 19. Today it closed at 1.76, which is only four basis po…
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  • A Long-Term Look at Inflation
    May 15, 2012 Doug Short  The May 2011 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released today puts the April year-over-year inflation rate at 2.30%, which is well below the 3.95% average since the end of the Second World War. Let's take…
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  • Inflation: A Five-Month X-Ray View: New Update
    May 15, 2012 Doug Short  Here is a table showing the annualized change in Headline and Core CPI for each of the past five months. I've also included each of the eight components of Headline CPI and a separate entry for Energy, which is a collecti…
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Contrarian Advisor

  • REVIEW OF BULLISH PER CENT CHART

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  • IT HAS BEGUN
    "Seniors clamoring to invest in Facebook IPO"Sure, go ahead and make that ahole Zuckerberg a BILLIONAIR, and what better people to do it than the ultimate bagholders, our seniors.More than likely a NEW BEAR MKT has begun, I have been warning about th…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 6:15am -
  • BREAKDOWN FROM CONSOLIDATION

    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 4:53pm -
  • AM SPX CHART
    *click to enlarge.If open goes way of futures, the trading range consolidation will be brokenD
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:59am -
  • A WAY OUT
    Here is the bottom line, the way out of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is to print money. With freshly minted money, this would be used to pay off the debts that were incurred with older money (higher value). Anyone getting pai…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:34am -
  • NO FEAR....YET?
    JPM loses at least $2B on bad "bets", so glad there is a big difference between investment houses and banks.We're still in a trading range, lower level defined is highlighted. VIX below levels that would show rising fear. Bonds for 10 years yield aro…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 4:12pm -
  • NICE HEADLINE TO START THE MORNING
    JPMORGAN's $2 BILLION LOSS7:21AM: CEO Jamie Dimon cites 'errors' and 'bad judgment' in trades meant to hedge risk
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 7:49am -
  • MAY SPX SWOON
    *click to enlargeThere is a VERY good chance stocks have made THE TOP in this cyclical bull mkt that began in 2009, small investor participation was already, or better described as never bought into the recovery theme, so volume in the rally has been…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 7:34am -

IBTimes

Daneric's Elliott Waves

  • Elliott Wave Update ~ 16 May 2012
    The analysis of tonight is pretty much a repeat of the last two updates: That the market is giving strong evidence that it is soon headed for a "third of a third" wave down of strong panic selling.The charts below have added a "base" channel. Price…
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:54pm -
  • E-minis

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  • Elliott Wave Update ~ 15 May 2012 [Update 6:52PM]
    Update 6:52PM: Update on the Gallup Presidential approval chart.  Still inside the up channel but diverging with 2011's high. Keeping an eye on that red up channel. Corrected at 6:56PM: Had initially uploaded the wrong chart.ORIGINAL POSTIf we…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 5:38pm -
  • Elliott Wave Update ~ 14 May 2012 [Update 8:11PM]
    Update 8:11PM: Corrected 3 mistakes of using "1240 pivot" when I clearly meant "1340". Sometimes when rattling numbers in my head I am off a mere 100 points...I was in a hurry because dinner was on the table getting cold....grrr.ORIGINAL POSTP…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 4:45pm -
  • E-minis

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  • Elliott Wave Update ~ 11 May 2012
    The DJIA sports a very nice contracting running triangle so we'll have to count it that way as of the end of today. We'll see how futures turns out Sunday night.E-minis also makes a nice bearish triangleThe Wilshire 5000 can probably said to…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 9:16pm -
  • E-minis

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  • Elliott Wave Update ~ 10 May 2012
    The all-hours futures paints a picture. The waves area choppy and uninspiring and looks like a "pause" to the downside. So far that pesky neckline has held as resistance.Certainly the market is not oversold at any extreme level technically nor…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 7:30pm -

Front-Run The Delta

  • CNBC does not understand "arbitrage"
    It should come as no surprise that a network of journalists who have never traded a share, a currency, an option, or a future in their lives repeatedly cite and support the "research" of Nanex/Themis.  I overheard a segment this morning regarding th…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 2:18pm -
  • IndexUniverse Interviews Knight's Reggie Browne
    The full interview can be found here. I previously touched on Knight's trading in the ADR sector using RWE Group as an example.Ulam: What are some of the key challenges regarding new ETFs coming on the market in terms of establishing liquidity?Browne…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 12:15pm -
  • New Blog of Interest: Limit Up Trading
    For those interested in automated trading strategies, currency trading, and software development in the trading world, check out Limit Up Trading.  I have had a great deal of dialogue with the author over the last few months and he has proven to be…
    - 35 days ago, 11 Apr 12, 7:49pm -
  • WTI Forward Curve: Where Abundant Supply Meets Geopolitical Uncertainty
    Several of the spreads on the front of the curve are nearing very compelling levels.  And if you're interested in a longer term play on WTI, consider the sloping severity of the back of the curve.  via 4 Apr Reuters,Traders said between 20-30 cargo…
    - 42 days ago, 4 Apr 12, 3:03pm -
  • Sanction Arbitrage in Action: Iranian ship registered in Bolivia carrying Syrian crude sold to China
    via Vesseltracker.com,An Iranian tanker carrying Syrian crude oil is being held in Egyptian waters because it has not paid the Suez Canal Authority the fees required for passage, the Egyptian authority said on Monday.Reuters reported on Friday that…
    - 42 days ago, 4 Apr 12, 9:26am -
  • ETF / Futures Arbitrage: Deviation in Practice
    This is a basic ETF / futures spread built from a block of shares traded against an offsetting futures contract.  Several breaks occur in this study from August, 2011. Hi-ResHi-ResHi-Res
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  • WTI Forward Curve Update & Physical News - 22 Feb 2012
    The front 12 months are particularly curious.  Some news clippings this week:Feb 22, via Reuters:"Sentiment in the Asia-Pacific crude market firmed on Wednesday, with Australia's Enfield crude expected to fetch double-digit premiums due to tight sup…
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  • Class Structure Spreading: Berkshire Hathaway
    This is the spread of Berkshire Class A vs. Class B shares.  Obviously capital intensive.  Lei goes into more detail in his 2008 paper on the subject.  Prices were recorded 11 September, 2011.
    - 90 days ago, 16 Feb 12, 8:20pm -

MarketSci Blog

  • Out and About
    I’ll be travelling for the next few weeks. Business and trading will roll on, but the blog will be napping while I’m away. Looking for your fix of trading geekery? Check out our most popular posts of the last month: . . . . . Strategy #1 for T…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 10:23pm -
  • The Markets are Nocturnal, but Not This Year
    Revisiting an old observation… Most of the stock market’s volatility comes in the daytime (open-to-close), but most of the market’s gains come overnight (close-to-open). [growth of $1, logarithmically-scaled] The graph above shows two hypotheti…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 10:59am -
  • The Evolution of “Sell in May”
    One last bit of follow up to my previous post questioning the “sell in May” rule. In the table to the right (click to zoom) I show how the stock market’s best 6 months of the year has evolved over the last 80+ years. Each row represents 20 y…
    - 12 days ago, 4 May 12, 12:35pm -
  • “Sell in May” Debunked?
    This time every year the “sell in May and go away” strategy rears its head again. It’s hard to buy in to the idea that such a simple approach could have such divining powers, but the results are (on the surface) compelling. I’ve been ponderin…
    - 14 days ago, 3 May 12, 2:42am -
  • EconomPic’s Seasonality Strategy
    This is a test of EconomPic’s seasonality strategy, a variation on “sell in May and go away”: go long the S&P 500 the 6 months from November through April, otherwise go long government/investment grade bonds. Strategy results since 1962 (addin…
    - 14 days ago, 2 May 12, 9:38am -
  • Drilling Down on the TAA Model’s Real-time Performance
    My personal trading is focused in two places right now: (a) trading volatility ETPs, and (b) tactical asset allocation (TAA). My vol. trading is a big return generator today, but I recognize that I’m exploiting market imbalances that may not exist…
    - 15 days ago, 1 May 12, 1:01pm -
  • TAA Model for May, 2012
    This is a monthly feature at the MarketSci Blog. Our Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) model selects up to four assets from a diverse basket of asset classes on the final trading day of each month. Below is the new allocation for today’s close. Click…
    - 16 days ago, 30 Apr 12, 12:48pm -
  • Deciphering the VIX:HV Ratio
    I’ve been researching how I might use the relationship between the VIX and the historical volatility of the S&P 500 (HV) in my own volatility trading. For the uninitiated, the VIX (which is an estimate of future volatility) is closely tied to recen…
    - 22 days ago, 24 Apr 12, 12:19pm -

Goldman Sachs - Viewpoints

Pictet

BNY Mellon

  • Cognitive dissonance?
    In the face of renewed economic weakness in the UK, the government is under growing pressure to change tack. It may yet be GBP that forces its hand
    - 30 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:36pm -
  • Cognitive dissonance?
    In the face of renewed economic weakness in the UK, the government is under growing pressure to change tack. It may yet be GBP that forces its hand
    - 13 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:59am -
  • Blowout
    Currency options volatility prices continue to evoke calm
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 5:04pm -
  • Blowout
    Currency options volatility prices continue to evoke calm
    - 2 days ago, 15 May 12, 4:22am -
  • The Greek gamble
    Greece may soon be in the hands of politicians willing to gamble on German benevolence
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 4:29pm -
  • The Greek gamble
    Greece may soon be in the hands of politicians willing to gamble on German benevolence
    - 3 days ago, 14 May 12, 4:51am -
  • US Producer Prices
    US producer prices were -0.2% m/m and 1.9% y/y in April from 0.0% m/m and 2.8% y/y in March, on consensus expectations of 0.0% m/m and 2.1% y/y.  Core PPI (ex food and energy) rose 0.2% m/m and 2.7% y/y in April from 0.3% m/m and 2.9% y/y...
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 1:05pm -
  • US Producer Prices
    US producer prices were -0.2% m/m and 1.9% y/y in April from 0.0% m/m and 2.8% y/y in March, on consensus expectations of 0.0% m/m and 2.1% y/y.  Core PPI (ex food and energy) rose 0.2% m/m and 2.7% y/y in April from 0.3% m/m and 2.9% y/y...
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 7:42am -

My Investing Notebook

  • Buffett, Munger, And Gates on Fox
    9 videos (embedded below.) Shop at Amazon.com and support My Investing Notebook
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 9:35pm -
  • Munger on Occupy Wall Street
    Charlie Munger interview with CNN:Shop at Amazon.com and support My Investing Notebook
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 7:02am -
  • Berkshire's Charlie Munger Speaks
    Vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation Charlie Munger talks to CNBC's Becky Quick about the consistency of Berkshire, Warren Buffett's health, the company's succession plan and his feelings on the future of the company.…
    - 12 days ago, 4 May 12, 5:41pm -
  • Bill Ackman & Hunter Harrison on Canadian Pacific
    Embedded below is a clip from Ackman & Harrison's appearance on CNBC (rss readers click here)Shop at Amazon.com and support My Investing Notebook
    - 15 days ago, 1 May 12, 6:43pm -
  • Bill Ackman on Barnes and Noble and Burger King
    Embedded below is a clip from Ackman's interview on CNBC (rss readers click here)Shop at Amazon.com and support My Investing Notebook
    - 15 days ago, 1 May 12, 6:39pm -
  • A terrible treadmill to get on
    Warren Buffett:While I was on the board at Gillette, the company would go to Wal-Mart and offer discount razor blades at quarter-end to boost results. It is a terrible treadmill to get on.Continue ReadingShop at Amazon.com and support My Investi…
    - 17 days ago, 29 Apr 12, 7:12pm -
  • Bill Ackman on Canadian Pacific
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    - 23 days ago, 23 Apr 12, 7:15pm -
  • How To Own a Market
    For a company to own its market, it must have some combination of brand, scale cost advantages, network effects, or proprietary technology. Of these elements, brand is probably the hardest to pin down. One way to think about brand is as a classic co…
    - 26 days ago, 20 Apr 12, 6:09pm -

Spiegel

  • Interview with Air Berlin's CEO: Airport Opening Delay 'A Huge Embarrassment'
    In a SPIEGEL interview, Hartmut Mehdorn, 69, CEO of Germany's second-largest airline Air Berlin, discusses how the surprise delay in opening the capital's new international airport will affect the company. He also describes widespread financial diff…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 11:44am -
  • Electric Dreams: Congested Streets Spark E-Scooter Trend
    As cities become more crowded and traffic more snarled, commuters and engineers are searching for better ways to get around the world's urban hubs. E-scooters, once considered an unpromising technology, are making a comeback as major car manufacture…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 12:36pm -
  • 'Norway's Moon Landing': Massive Carbon-Capture Facility Spawns Skepticism and Hope
    The world's largest facility for filtering carbon dioxide out of industrial emissions was inaugurated in Norway this week. While some see it as a godsend in efforts to reach environmental targets, others find the technology too dangerous and expensiv…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 8:10am -
  • Bankia Bailout: Spain Struggles to Control Escalating Bank Crisis
    This week's move by Spain to nationalize the country's fourth-largest bank almost overnight is just the latest in a financial sector crisis that has been growing since the Spanish real estate bubble burst. It is likely to increase calls for Madrid to…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 6:55am -
  • $202 Million Deal: Deutsche Bank Settles Lawsuit with the US
    Deutsche Bank has settled a legal dispute with the US Justice Department for $202 million as part of Josef Ackermann's attempts to clean house before his stint as CEO ends next month. US officials had sued a Deutsche Bank subsidiary for knowingly vio…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 6:15am -
  • Millions Left Behind in Boom: The High Cost of Germany's Economic Success
    Countries around the world envy Germany's economic success and look up to it as a role model. But a closer look reveals a much bleaker picture. Only a few are benefiting from the boom, while stagnant wages and precarious employment conditions are mak…
    - 12 days ago, 4 May 12, 11:22am -
  • Backlash against Consumerism: Handicraft Sites Turn Hobbies into Big Business
    Internet companies like Etsy and Germany's DaWanda are helping to promote a renaissance in handicrafts in Europe and around the world. The firms provide platforms that enable individual artisans to sell their wares on the web in a growing market nic…
    - 12 days ago, 4 May 12, 10:10am -
  • Cost-Cutting at Lufthansa: German National Carrier Undergoes Mass Restructuring
    The CEO of German flag carrier airline Lufthansa has been forced to make cuts in the face of growing losses. With the restructuring, Christoph Franz is dismantling the legacy of the company's former CEO and future supervisory board chairman. Is he st…
    - 13 days ago, 3 May 12, 6:17am -

FINalternatives

  • Prisma In Talks To Sell Stake To KKR
    Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts may buy its way into the fund of hedge funds business.KKR is in talks with Prisma Capital Partners about buying a stake in the New York-based firm. It is unclear how large a stake KKR is seeking in the on…
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:41pm -
  • Gottex Acquires Hong Kong Fund Of Funds Penjing
    Gottex Fund Management has agreed to buy a Hong Kong fund of hedge funds, nearly doubling its assets in Asia at a stroke.read more
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:36pm -
  • Carlyle Profit Drops As Firm Plans 11 New Funds
    The Carlyle Group's first quarterly report as a public company was a forgettable one, indeed.read more
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:22pm -
  • Contractor Charged With Stealing From Citadel
    A New York City contractor has been charged with ripping off Citadel Investment Group to the tune of $1.2 million.read more
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:21pm -
  • Ex-Treasury Official Backs Elliott In Argentina Debt Battle
    With President Barack Obama's Justice Dept. opposing his efforts to be paid in full on defaulted Argentine debt, Elliott Management Corp.'s Paul Singer has turned to a former official from a more congenial administration.read more
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:20pm -
  • Level Global Insurer May Have To Pay Bills
    Level Global Investors' insurer will have to keep paying the defunct hedge fund's legal bills, a federal judge said last week his is inclined to rule.read more
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:19pm -
  • Paulson, Einhorn To Speak At New York Conference
    John Paulson's new semi-sunshine policy will take him today to one of the most prominent investment conferences in the world.read more
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 11:49am -
  • Agecroft Names Fleckenstein Managing Director
    Virginia-based third-party hedge fund marketer Agecroft Partners, has hired industry vet Cara Fleckenstein as a managing director.read more
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:27am -

Market Ticker

  • The Market Ticker - Why NOT Shrinking Credit In Recession = U R Screwed
    Today's lesson that you should have derived from your elementary and middle-school math is served.... Let's recap first.GDP = C + I + G + (x - i), where "C" is consumption, "I" is investment, "G" is government spending and (x - i) is net exports.GDP…
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  • The Market Ticker - FLASH: Greek Banks Cut Off?
    Flash off the rumor mill, unconfirmed -- it appears the Greek banks were just cut off by the ECB.If this is true then this is the latest "Gun up the nose" game by the Germans and ECB, and is almost-certain, in this political climate, to blow up their…
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 11:58am -
  • The Market Ticker - Counterfeiting: See, They Really Do
    But remember folks, Nobody committed any crimes (according to Gary Johnson, Obama and, I suspect, Mitt(ens) Romney.)Last week, in response to an Overstock.com motion to unseal certain documents, the banks’ lawyers, apparently accidentally, filed an…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:52am -
  • The Market Ticker - Oh, And Martin? It Appears He Did Punch Zimmerman
    It's falling apart for the prosecution here folks...WFTV has learned that the medical examiner found two injuries on Martin’s body: The fatal gunshot wound and broken skin on his knuckles.When you compare Trayvon’s non-fatal injury with Zimmerman…
    - 9 hours ago, 16 May 12, 8:37am -
  • The Market Ticker - Greece Will Leave The Euro: Be Prepared
    Stop pretending folks, and start preparing.Karolos Papoulias, the Greek president, warned party leaders that their   continued failure to agree was risking “fatal consequences”. Citing a secret   government document, he said Greeks were alrea…
    - 10 hours ago, 16 May 12, 8:18am -
  • The Market Ticker - Zimmerman WAS Injured: Time For The Sign
    Time for the sign again..... MIAMI – Court records show George Zimmerman had a pair of black eyes, a nose fracture and two cuts to the back of his head after the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.Let me guess, before the race-baiters com…
    - 10 hours ago, 16 May 12, 7:42am -
  • The Market Ticker - Tickerguy On Capital Account Today (5/15)
    Here it is from this afternoon -- enjoy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD-Tdxj-oCA&feature=youtu.be
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 6:45pm -
  • The Market Ticker - My God, Common Sense Showing In Europe?
    Wow....Denial is leading to collective economic suicide in Europe and the United States. The French elected a socialist president who wants to raise taxes on those elusive rich and keep spending as if there is no tomorrow.Many on the left, including…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:22pm -

All About Alpha

  • Pensions, Inflation and Longevity Risk
    The phrase “hybrid pension system,” as you might expect, refers to systems that can be categorized neither as defined contribution nor as defined benefit simply. This may involve for example risk sharing amongst employees, within or between gener…
    - 22 hours ago, 15 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • The Obvious Place to Look for Stable, Consistent Returns: African Trade Finance
    by Doug Friedenberg We had the good fortune whilst we were in London to make the acquaintance of Nicolas Clavel, chief investment officer of Scipion Capital, a hedge fund that invests in financing imports and exports.  Not just any imports and ex…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Alpha Hunters: A Conversation with Peter Stein
    New columnist Charles Skorina interviews Peter Stein, veteran alternative investments professional.
    - 3 days ago, 13 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Simplifying the JOBS Act for Alternative Investment Vehicles
    By Ron S. Geffner, Partner, Head of Financial Services, Sadis & Goldberg LLPOn April 5, 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, H.R. 3606 (“JOBS Act“). The JOBS Act requires the Securities & Exchange Commission (“…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • The Ultimate in High-Frequency Trading
    Quite aside from the neat through-the-planet short-cuts they might allow: how fast is a neutrino? This turns out to be a very controversial matter. Last year, scientists working at CERN set off weeks of feverish speculation with reports indicating th…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 8:13pm -
  • EDHEC Survey: Contracts, Not Regulation, Should Clarify Restitution
    The issue of restitution for loss has been very much on the midns of the asset management industry over the last four years. As EDHEC observes in its new report on non-financial risks, “The collapse of Lehman not only [showed] the world that a syst…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • 22 Years since Lamfalussy: Infrastructure Issues
    Awkward and unexpected results from insolvency are among the legal risks to which inadequate financial market infrastructures (FMIs) can lead. There are also credit risks, liquidity risks, and in a future time of crisis or stress: contagion.
    - 9 days ago, 7 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Video: CAIA Conversations: John Ruffolo, CEO, OMERS Ventures
    From Lynne Feldman, Director of Marketing at the CAIA Association:John Ruffolo, Chief Executive Officer of OMERS Ventures and Head of Knowledge Investing for OMERS Strategic Investments, discusses opportunities now and in the future for private equ…
    - 10 days ago, 6 May 12, 6:30pm -

Investment News

IBD

  • Nationstar Mortgage, Valspar Rise On Real Estate Data
    A slug of strong data Wednesday, diluted by a couple of caveats, earned a mixed reaction from construction and real estate stocks. April housing starts and weekly mortgage applications jumped while mortgage delinquencies decreased in the first quarte…
    - 25 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:42pm -
  • Analyst: 'Treasury Market Is Priced For Armageddon'
    Treasury prices were steady to higher in another choppy session on Wednesday as news that the European Central Bank cut off funds to some cash-strapped Greek banks and bond-friendly minutes from the Federal Reserve's April meeting supported bids for…
    - 30 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:37pm -
  • Greece's Crisis, Falling Stocks Send Oil Diving
    Crude oil tumbled Wednesday, weighed by pressure from equities, as banking woes in Greece highlighted the euro zone debt crisis, sparking risk aversion across markets. Falling for the fourth straight session, June crude settled at $92.81, down $1.17…
    - 30 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:37pm -
  • S&P 500 Logs Fourth Straight Loss
    Stocks extended losses Wednesday in a seesaw session. Equities dealt with mixed earnings and economic news, as well as Greece's continuing debt saga. The Nasdaq dropped 0.7% after having been up as much as 0.7%. The S&P 500 fell 4% and stretched its…
    - 46 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:21pm -
  • Be Patient As Market Identifies Winners And Losers
    Bad investing usually comes down to one word: impatience. If a cash position during a market correction makes you so anxious you just have to jump back in to stocks, you might win here and there. But over time, you will lose because the trend has the…
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:45pm -
  • Ignite Restaurant Group Makes A Zesty Market Entrance
    When a salesman hands a buyer the keys to a new car, it's ready to drive off the lot. So how should an investor treat a stock that is roaring full-throttle right after its IPO? As the Investor's Corner has explained, it's wise to watch and wait. Watc…
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:43pm -
  • B&G Foods Forms A New Base; Pays Fat Dividend
    Good stocks form bases during corrections and that's just what B&G Foods (BGS) is doing now. The stock has actually been consolidating since reaching a high of 24.64 in late December. Currently, B&G Foods is in a long flat base with a 24.74 buy point…
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:43pm -
  • MFS Mid-Cap Growth Fund Resists Pull Of Low Quality Stocks
    The broad market sell-off can pose many temptations. A lot of stocks end up in the bargain bin. But that's precisely when it's most important to keep your discipline, says Paul Gordon, co-manager of $1 billion MFS Mid-Cap Growth Fund . His goal isn't…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:34pm -

Between The Hedges

  • Stocks Reversing Lower into Final Hour on Rising Global Growth Fears, Rising Eurozone Debt Angst, Less Financial/Tech Sector Optimism
    Broad Market Tone: Advance/Decline Line: LowerSector Performance: Most Sectors DecliningVolume: Below AverageMarket Leading Stocks: UnderperformingEquity Investor Angst: VIX 22.21 +1.09%ISE Sentiment Index 82.0 -7.87%Total…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:05pm -
  • Today's Headlines
    Bloomberg:ECB Stops Loans to Some Greek Banks as Draghi Talks Exit. The European Central Bank said it will temporarily stop lending to some Greek banks to limit its risk as President Mario Draghi signaled the ECB won’t compromise on key principle…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:11pm -
  • Bear Radar
    Style Underperformer:Large-Cap Growth -.60%Sector Underperformers:1) Coal -3.50% 2) Steel -3.0% 3) Agriculture -1.41%Stocks Falling on Unusual Volume:CHU, SNP, MCP, JCP, ANF, ACTV, TNGO, CCJ, CALL, AKAM, TYC, LUK, TAXI, PETD, ASEI, LRCX, FRAN, CNQR,…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:47pm -
  • Bull Radar
    Style Outperformer:Small-Cap Growth +.49%Sector Outperformers: 1) Airlines +1.39% 2) Gold & Silver +1.28% 3) Oil Service +1.27%Stocks Rising on Unusual Volume:SFD, GM, SINA, PBR, VNET, GE, ACHC, OSUR, RDWR, ABMD, GRPN, PAAS, CREE, MAKO…
    - 7 hours ago, 16 May 12, 11:15am -
  • Wednesday Watch
    Evening HeadlinesBloomberg: Greek President Told Banks Anxious as Deposits Pulled. Greek President Karolos Papoulias was told by the central bank chief this week that financial institutions are becoming anxious about their prospects as Greeks pull ou…
    - 18 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:16am -
  • Stocks Falling into Final Hour on Rising Eurozone Debt Angst, Rising Global Growth Fears, Less Financial Sector Optimism, Technical Selling
    Broad Market Tone: Advance/Decline Line: Slightly HigherSector Performance: MixedVolume: Below AverageMarket Leading Stocks: Performing In LineEquity Investor Angst: VIX 21.63 -1.10%ISE Sentiment Index 96.0 +24.68%Total Put…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:03pm -
  • Today's Headlines
    Bloomberg:Greek Vote Escalates Crisis as Schaeuble Raises Euro-Exit. Greece’s decision to return to the ballot box in the search for a government unleashed a hazardous new phase in Europe’s debt crisis, with German Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 2:54pm -
  • Bear Radar
    Style Underperformer:Mid-Cap Value -.43%Sector Underperformers:1) Coal -5.03% 2) Oil Service -1.63% 3) Gold & Silver -1.33%Stocks Falling on Unusual Volume:CHK, LFL, ANGI, BMA, FIO, EPAM, DB, ACAT, VTUS, PHMD, FRAN, WCRX, HMIN, JAZZ, FOSL, AUXL, PETD…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 1:36pm -

Crain's

  • JPMorgan shareholders file suit
    Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase & Co. have filed two lawsuits against the nation's biggest bank, accusing it and its leaders of taking excessive risk and causing a monumental $2 billion trading loss.The company disclosed the loss last week, saying it…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:14pm -
  • Credit Suisse to cut 126 Manhattan jobs
    Credit Suisse Group AG, Switzerland's second-biggest lender, told New York state regulators it will begin cutting 126 jobs in Manhattan in the “next few months.” The dismissals affect offices at 1 Madison Ave. and 11 Madison Ave. and will extend…
    - 24 hours ago, 15 May 12, 6:13pm -
  • Council defies mayor on wage and banking bills
    A City Council that is increasingly flexing its muscle against Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday overrode his rejection of a prevailing wage bill and passed a banking bill that set the stage for another veto.The Council voted 44 to 4 to override the…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:48pm -
  • Shareholders approve Gorman's 25% pay cut
    More Morgan Stanley shareholders approved the firm's executive compensation package for top managers including CEO James Gorman after he took a 25% pay cut and received no cash bonus.Investors voted 95% in favor of the compensation policy in a non-bi…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 11:31am -
  • Saks 1Q profit jumps 13%, misses Street
    Saks reported a 13% bump in first-quarter profit, but sales came in well below Wall Street expectations.The New York company said Tuesday that it has seen a sales slowdown in women's designer clothing and expects that extra markdowns will erode profi…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 9:58am -
  • Greek politics send U.S. stocks falling
    A political stalemate in Greece rattled financial markets worldwide on Monday, driving U.S. stocks lower.The euro sank to a three-month low against the dollar and borrowing costs for Spain and Italy jumped as bond traders anticipated that financial s…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 11:47am -
  • Banks look to overturn MBIA restructuring
    Bank of America Corp. and Société Générale SA go to court Monday seeking to overturn New York's approval of MBIA Inc.'s restructuring in 2009, alleging the bond insurer misled the regulator.New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick is…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 10:47am -
  • JPMorgan exec out after $2B loss
    The chief investment officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street, will retire, the company said Monday. She becomes the first casualty of the bank's $2 billion trading blunder.The bank said Ina Drew, 55, would re…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 10:09am -

stockcharts.com

  • May-hem in the Markets with all Sectors Lower this Month
    May has been nothing but mayhem for the market as all nine sectors moved lower. The PerfChart below shows the percentage change since May 1st. Over the last 11 trading days, the Finance SPDR (XLF), Energy SPDR (XLE) and Basic Materials SPDR (XLB) are…
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:31pm -
  • Seeing Ads on Wikipedia? If So, You Have a Virus
    Just a quick heads up about a new security issue to worry about. If you see ads on Wikipedia, you have a virus on your computer. Here's a link to all the details. I mention this to everyone here at StockCharts because: 1.) chances are you visit Wikip…
    - 18 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:00am -
  • A Bollinger Band Squeeze for Google
    After a big decline in April, Google ($GOOG) consolidated the last few weeks and the Bollinger Bands narrowed significantly. This could be called a Bollinger Band squeeze or volatility squeeze. The next directional signal depends on the band break. A…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 8:36am -
  • Is your portfolio on a profit diet? It could be for a while!
    One of the things the world keeps talking about is food inflation. Well, wheat futures are breaking to new lows. The chart below is the current month contract for $WHEAT. However, the futures curves all look weak and are getting weaker. The Current M…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 12:18pm -
  • May 12th Public ChartList of the Week - Dirk Hettrich's "Broad Look To Various Markets"
    Dirk Hettrich's "Broad Look To Various Markets" contains some seriously long-term charts that he's been commenting on for years - back to 2005 in many cases. These long-term monthly and weekly charts are focused on the relationships between the diffe…
    - 4 days ago, 12 May 12, 2:14pm -
  • Support for Blogger, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Pintrest Added to StockCharts.com
    Support for Blogger, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Pintrest Blogs Added - Now users with Blogger, Tumblr, LinkedIn and/or Pinterest accounts can post a chart directly from StockCharts by clicking on the "Share" link located just under any SharpChart.
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 7:18pm -
  • Your Canary In the Trading Room
    In the sports world, parties debate whether a premiere defense defeats a premier offense or whether great hitters beat great pitchers. Successful long-term investors have no such debate. They know that after making sacrifices to accumulate their asse…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 9:00am -
  • Activision Gaps up on Big Volume $ATVI
    Stocks were under pressure the last three days, but ATVI bucked the trend with an advance and gap on high volume. This gap off support is bullish as long as it holds. Resistance at 13 marks the next challenge. Click this image for a live chart.
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 7:54am -

Dash of Insight

  • The Investor Edge from Europe
    Here is a surprise for you. European leaders did better than your favorite pundit! They will also do better in the future. For the last two weeks the dollar has moved higher versus the Euro and stocks have moved lower...
    - 19 hours ago, 15 May 12, 10:55pm -
  • Weighing the Week Ahead: Any Help from Housing?
    Economic growth continues at weak, below trend levels just at the time the stimulus programs are wearing off. For some this implies that the next recession is just around the corner. From another perspective the current economic growth has occurred..…
    - 4 days ago, 12 May 12, 11:40pm -
  • When Something Goes Wrong: The Case of JP Morgan Chase
    Managing your investments would be easy if you just bought stocks and watched them move higher. In your dreams! In the real world, even the best managers must deal with adversity. Our choices, no matter how carefully chosen, do not...
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 9:34pm -
  • Why Not to Panic about Europe
    I feel no panic about Europe. This is a typical test. Every long-term investor considers the question of risk tolerance and understands that markets will fluctuate for mysterious reasons. So far, so good. Then, when the event actually happens, it...
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 11:47pm -
  • Weighing the Week Ahead: Here Come the Candidates!
    In a light week for economic data, we can expect more attention to elections both in Europe and the US. Political activity provides both an opportunity and a trap for most investors. It is so easy to use our own...
    - 11 days ago, 6 May 12, 12:24am -
  • April Employment Report Preview
    Employment is crucial. Everyone wants to know whether the economy is improving and, if so, by how much. Employment is the key metric since it is fundamental for consumption, corporate profits, tax revenues, deficit reduction, and financial markets. W…
    - 14 days ago, 3 May 12, 12:11am -
  • Weighing the Week Ahead: An Economic Turning Point?
    [Note to readers -- Whenever I actually enjoy some time off on a weekend, there is a challenge in posting the regular WTWA article. I could always do a simple indicator update, and I monitor many sources in real time....
    - 15 days ago, 2 May 12, 12:08am -
  • Don't like the real data? Just pretend!
    If you are reaching an important investment decision, I have a suggestion for you: Insist on data -- accept nothing less! Investors should monitor diverse sources of investment information to avoid confirmation bias. If you want to succeed, you still…
    - 21 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 10:37pm -

Guru Focus

Seeking Alpha - Long Ideas

  • Wednesday's Large Decline Provides Great Entry Point For Abercrombie & Fitch Shares
    By Chris Katje: Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) hit a two year low when they closed at $39.50 on Wednesday. The shares dropped thirteen percent despite beating earnings per share estimates for the first quarter. Shares traded for $75 back in Nove…
    - 14 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:53pm -
  • Buying Value And Growth With Adtran
    By Oltan Akin: Value and Growth with AdtranWith exceptional management, exceptional margins, and exceptional growth prospects, Adtran (ADTN) is poised to deliver long-term value to shareholders. Company OverviewAdtran, Inc. is a low-cost provid…
    - 19 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:48pm -
  • The 160 Million Unit Club: Monster Beverage Corp. Vs. Apple
    By Stephen Rosenman:Apple (AAPL) and Monster (MNST): Could any two companies be more different? Unless you're guzzling Monster while surfing the web on your iPad, there's very little to tie the two together. Volume - volume - everywhere: Each sold…
    - 25 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:42pm -
  • An Exciting New Technology That Could Take Pressure Off St. Jude Medical
    By Alan Brochstein, CFA: Renal denervation. This is something I had never heard about until St. Jude Medical (STJ) mentioned it at their February analyst day after first disclosing it in late 2011 (press release). As I include STJ in my Top 20 Mode…
    - 52 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:15pm -
  • Oracle Could Leap On Cloud In 2013
    By Mel Daris:Oracle (ORCL) has been known for buying up smaller companies and integrating them nicely under its roof. During the last decade, Oracle acquired PeopleSoft (2005), Siebel Systems (2006), Hyperion (2007), BEA Systems (2008), and Sun Micro…
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 5:00pm -
  • Pepsico Lags Its Peers
    By Jim Van Meerten: Pepsico (PEP) has been on a tear lately but for the year still lags its peers by a very large margin. Pepsico intends to remedy its image with something for everyone: A major increase in advertising, and increases in dividends and…
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:45pm -
  • You Can't Have My SiriusXM!
    By Crunching Numbers:A comment by Seeking Alpha member TexasRazz that was intended to provoke SiriusXM (SIRI) longs concluded "I still have those PALM shares." Yes, I get it is a joke, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to emphasize an important…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:32pm -
  • Mining For Profits In Coal
    By Aaron Murdoch:With shares of Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) near all-time lows and down about 75% over the past year, it might be tempting to jump in here. However, with the challenges facing the coal market and no dividend, I don't believe now is…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:31pm -

Euro Pacific

Afraid to Trade

  • A Quick Check on May 16 SP500 Breadth Divergences
    As we start Wednesday morning with a bullish gap, let’s take a quick step inside the market for a “Breadth Check-up” on the S&P 500.Here’s the intraday chart structure:What we’re seeing is the S&P 500 Index on the 5-min frame with two Ma…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:01am -
  • Mid-May Key Support Check on India Nifty Index
    India’s “Nifty 50″ Stock Index currently faces a key inflection support level at the 4,800 level.Let’s take a quick look at the Index and plan for potential action at this visual chart level.First, let’s see the Confluence Support Line th…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:42am -
  • Join Corey at the June Summer Traders Expo in Dallas
    The Summer session of the Trader’s Expo is rapidly approaching!It’s time to go ahead and make plans to attend the Traders Expo in Dallas, Texas June 6-8 if you will be able to attend.If you’ve attended a prior Traders Expo, you know how fun…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 7:27pm -
  • Updating Distribution Volume Trends in SPY and DIA
    Here’s an update to a prior volume-centric post that highlighted the April trend towards Distribution Volume in the US Equity Markets.The recent sharp sell-off confirmed the earlier signals and added to the broader Distribution Picture.Let’s ta…
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 9:55am -
  • Structure and Support Breakdown Update for Gold
    One of the big headlines of today was the sharp decline and breakdown under chart-based support in Gold.Let’s take a look at what happened, what levels are important here, and what current structure reveals.First, the intraday 30-min “Structure…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 4:20pm -
  • Top 5 Stocks Most Extended from 200d SMA Scan for May
    Which stocks are most over or under-extended from their 200 day simple moving average?Let’s take a look at the current scan results and the opportunities these stocks may present.First, here are the most ‘bullishly over-extended’ stocks in th…
    - 12 days ago, 4 May 12, 9:54am -
  • Finding the Key Short Term Levels in CMG
    Many traders have been following the stellar move in Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) though the recent sharp pullback has spooked many participants.Let’s take a look at the key short-term price levels (and chart structure) to watch for potential oppo…
    - 16 days ago, 30 Apr 12, 4:55pm -
  • Cross-Market Currents after April 25 Fed Day
    Wednesday’s Federal Reserve announcement and Press Conference shook the cross-market landscape in a somewhat expected pattern.Let’s take a look at the intraday ’spiky’ movements and then assess the broader Daily Chart levels in the S&P 500,…
    - 21 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 10:16pm -

Economic Data

  • (U.S.) Relative Strength
    Despite the recent turmoil, unlike when I showed this chart last August (a time when the dollar was selling off and gold / commodities were roaring), the ETF's showing the least strength are all currency or real assets. I believe this accurately refl…
    - 19 hours ago, 15 May 12, 10:37pm -
  • Checking in on Inflation
    Marketwatch details:Inflationary pressures are fading, just as Federal Reserve officials expected. But don’t think that the decline in the inflation rate will automatically lead to further quantitative easing by the Fed.The consumer price index was…
    - 20 hours ago, 15 May 12, 10:18pm -
  • EconomPics Recap
    I just came to the realization that I haven't had an EconomPic recap since March 9th, so here goes:Economic DataTrade Deficit Blow OutThe Consumer is Back... Consumer Credit Positive (even excluding student loans)Ugliest Employment Chart You'll See?E…
    - 5 days ago, 12 May 12, 12:22am -
  • Trade Deficit Blow Out
    Remember when we thought the U.S. was going to export our way back to prosperity riding European and emerging market aggregate demand (that wasn't a crazy statement even a year ago... promise)? BusinessWeek details the reality:The trade deficit widen…
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 11:40pm -
  • Stocks for the Long Run?
    While the below chart cherry picks one of the best performing fixed income sectors, it is still pretty amazing.Bonds (defined in this example as the Barclays Capital Long Government / Credit index) have now outperformed stocks (defined as the S&P 500…
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 10:29pm -
  • The Consumer is Back... Consumer Credit Positive (Even Excluding Student Loans)
    SF Gate details:Consumer borrowing in the U.S. surged in March by the most in more than a decade on growing demand for educational financing and autos.Credit rose by $21.4 billion, the biggest gain since November 2001, to $2.54 trillion, Federal Rese…
    - 9 days ago, 7 May 12, 10:00pm -
  • Ugliest Employment Chart You'll See?
    Per Felix Salmon:As Mike Konczal noted this morning, a key indicator of labor recession is still in force: if you’re unemployed, you’re still more likely to drop out of the labor force entirely than you are to find a job.Let's see how that trend…
    - 12 days ago, 4 May 12, 10:51am -
  • Employment Market Continues to Muddle Along
    The NY Times details:The nation’s employers added 115,000 positions on net, after adding 154,000 in March. April’s job growth was less than what economists had been predicting. The unemployment rate ticked down to 8.1 percent in April, from 8.2 p…
    - 12 days ago, 4 May 12, 9:31am -

Mad Hedge Fund

  • Beverly Hills June 11, 2012 Strategy Seminar
    Come join me for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Seminar, which I will be conducting in Beverly Hills at 2:00 PM on Monday, June 11, 2012. A PowerPoint presentation will be followed by an open discussion on the crucial issues facing inv…
    - 19 hours ago, 15 May 12, 11:06pm -
  • Zermatt, Switzerland July 27, 2012 Seminar
    Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Seminar, which I will be conducting high in the Apls in Zermatt, Switzerland at 2:00 PM on Friday, July 27, 2012. A PowerPoint presentation will be followed by an open discussio…
    - 19 hours ago, 15 May 12, 11:05pm -
  • The Energy Revolution on Our Doorstep
    A major plank in my golden age scenario for the 2020’s is the collapse of the cost of energy. This won’t occur because of a single big discovery, but from a 1,000 small ones that aggregate together to create a leveraged effect. The upshot is that…
    - 19 hours ago, 15 May 12, 11:02pm -
  • May 16, 2012 – Quote of the Day
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man” said George Bernard Shaw, an early 20th century writer and philosophe…
    - 19 hours ago, 15 May 12, 11:01pm -
  • ETF Scam of the Week
    When I heard that the managers of exchange traded funds were raking in huge fees from lending out shares in their index portfolios I thought “That’s great, the managers are really working hard to maximize returns for their shareholders.” These…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 11:03pm -
  • The Zhanjiang Kids Organization
    I follow a broad range of unconventional, but highly useful leading economic indicators that gives me a decisive edge when predicting the future direction of global financial markets. One of them has started flashing a warning sign. I fund an orphana…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 11:02pm -
  • May 15, 2012 – Quote of the Day
    “I view Euro as a doomsday machine,” said a European economics professor.
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 11:01pm -
  • The Tip of the Iceberg
    JP Morgan (JPM) just gave us the preview of the next financial crisis. A surprise, hidden $2 billion trading loss in esoteric foreign derivatives at on offshore branch by America’s premier bank is exactly what the markets did not want to hear right…
    - 3 days ago, 13 May 12, 11:02pm -

Sea of Opportunity

Cobras Market View

  • 05/16/2012 Trading Signals
    THE BOTTOM LINE, THE SHORT-TERM TREND IS DOWN.The low today touched the blue trend line of the evil plan I posted in the last night’s Market Outlook. [Read the Rest]
    - 47 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:20pm -
  • 05/15/2012 Portfolio Update
    Nothing to say today other than I still couldn’t let my winners run. The portfolio is now well hedged but the ultimate goal is to make profit not hedge! [Read the Rest]
    - 20 hours ago, 15 May 12, 9:52pm -
  • 05/15/2012 TSX Trading Signals
    The HXD.TO buy order was filled. Please remember the usual rule: As soon as the current daily low (say, tomorrow’s HXD.TO day low) is above the entry price, it’s time to out half and set breakeven stop loss. [Read the Rest]
    - 20 hours ago, 15 May 12, 9:41pm -
  • 05/15/2012 Market Outlook (The selling still is strong)
    THE SHORT-TERM EVIL PLAN:The adjust point I mentioned in the yesterday’s report was broken today indicating no weakness in selling so chances are there’s at least one lower low ahead. [Read the Rest]
    - 21 hours ago, 15 May 12, 9:14pm -
  • 05/15/2012 Trading Signals
    THE BOTTOM LINE, THE SHORT-TERM TREND IS DOWN.If you read my last night Market Outlook, you should know what today’s drop means, so no more blah blah here, check tonight’s report to see if you’ve got the right answer. [Read the Rest]
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 4:50pm -

Motley Fool

Preqin

  • Canada-Based Investors in Real Estate
    CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)As of May 2012, Canada-based investors in real estate had an average allocation of 9.3% of their assets under management allocated to real estate. The average target allocation of t...
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:24pm -
  • Private Equity Fund Managers Based in Eastern Europe
    Preqin’s extensive research shows there are currently 153 private equity firms located in Eastern Europe. The latest data from the Fund Manager Profiles database shows that collectively these fi...
    - 6 hours ago, 16 May 12, 12:22pm -
  • Development of Emerging Manager Programmes in the US
    As many LPs look to invest with experienced managers that have strong track records or with managers they have worked with previously, emerging managers have historically found it more difficult to se...
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 12:41pm -
  • UCITS-Compliant Hedge Funds Continuing to Attract New Investors.
    UCITS-compliant hedge funds are continuing to grow in prominence amongst European investors. A recent Preqin study indicates that 30% of European investors have an allocation to UCITS-compliant hedge ...
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 1:25pm -
  • Venture Capital Funds in Market – May 2012
    Preqin’s Funds in Market product shows that there are currently 132 early stage venture capital investment vehicles on the road, which are collectively seeking $11.5bn in capital commitments. Of...
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 7:31am -
  • Private Real Estate Fundraising: Signs of Improvement?
    CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)There has been a steady increase in the number of interim closes and aggregate capital raised for these interim closes between Q1 2009 to Q4 2011. Only 12 funds held an interim clos...
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 7:43am -
  • Private Equity Investors in Australasia
    Preqin’s Investor Intelligence shows that that there are 101 Australasia-based investors, excluding fund of funds managers, investing in private equity funds. These investors collectively alloca...
    - 6 days ago, 11 May 12, 5:23am -
  • Pacific Equity Partners cleans up with acquisition of Spotless
    The announcement of the privatisation of Spotless by Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for just over A$720million represents the largest Australasian PE-backed buyout of 2012 so far. PEP’s initial o...
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 1:21pm -

Venture Beat

  • Bitly reportedly raising $20M and launching a viral search engine
    Four-year-old link shortening service Bitly is reportedly working on raising a $20 million funding round and launching a few new products. Bitly apparently also moved out of Betaworks and into its own space, reports The Verge.If true, the round ……
    - 48 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:19pm -
  • Tech materials of the future (and how you can make them yourself)
    Flexible screens, wearable computers, conductive ink, wires that move like muscles: These are the materials that will make up the gadgets of the future, and they’re being dreamed up and developed in do-it-yourself hacker labs and garages all aroun…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:13pm -
  • Verizon to kill off grandfathered unlimited 3G data plans
    Verizon Wireless will soon get rid of its unlimited data plans held by customers who were grandfathered in before the company launched tiered data pricing, according to a report from FierceWireless.Verizon CFO Fran Shammo reportedly told an audienc…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:48pm -
  • Facebook is breaking these three records with its IPO
    Facebook’s IPO is being heralded in rather vague terms as the biggest tech IPO in history. But this initial public offering actually does break a few records, and not just in the tech sector.This week, Facebook’s IPO will be …
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:17pm -
  • Pirate Bay is under (DDoS) attack! Torrent site remains down after 24 hours
    The Pirate Bay is currently experiencing a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which has caused the site to remain inaccessible for the last 24 hours, reports TorrentFreak.Members of The Pirate Bay confirmed the news with an update…
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:53pm -
  • Whoops! VeriFone’s Sail user agreement ripped off Square’s
    VeriFone’s Sail mobile-payments platform was clearly a Square wannabe from the beginning — now it seems that’s more true than we initially thought.VeriFone apparently lifted significant chunks of its user agreement from Square, GigaOm’s Rya…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:37pm -
  • A Windows racket: Microsoft will clean crapware off your PC for $99
    The PC crapware problem has finally gotten bad enough that Microsoft is now charging users to fix it.For $99 Microsoft is now offering to strip consumers’ Windows PCs of all unnecessary software pre-installed by PC makers, AllThingsD reports.…
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:10pm -
  • Web typography: create “art from code”
    Sponsored Post Thanks to CSS3 web design techniques and font-foundries, the ability to create gorgeous typography and beautiful design for browsers, is more accessible than ever...
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:00pm -

Stock on Wall Street

MACRONOMICS

  • Credit - Interval of Distrust
    "Realism doesn't mean outright pessimism" - Max Lerner - American journalist."The principle behind confidence intervals was formulated to provide an answer to the question raised in statistical inference of how to deal with the uncertainty inherent i…
    - 4 days ago, 12 May 12, 9:52am -
  • Markets - Credit - The Tempest
    "Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."Will Carleton - American poet.Back in March we wondered if in our Credit Space it would be "Plain sailing until a White Squ…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 5:49pm -
  • Credit Hunger in Hungary
    "An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money." - Gro Harlem Brundtland As a follow up to our pet subject Hungary ("Hungarian Dances") which we discussed in more details a couple of days ago ("Hungarian B…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 1:52pm -
  • Credit - Peripheral Banks, Kneecap Recap.
    "That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens." - Frederik Pohl We already touched at length in our past credit conversations on the liability exercise management taken by many weaker peripheral banks in rela…
    - 10 days ago, 6 May 12, 2:26pm -
  • Credit - From Hektemoroi to Seisachtheia laws?
    Seisachtheia (Greek: σεισάχθεια, from σείειν seiein, to shake, and ἄχθος achthos, burden, i.e. the relief of burdens) was a set of laws instituted by the Athenian lawmaker Solon (c. 638 BC–558 BC) in order to rectify the wides…
    - 10 days ago, 6 May 12, 10:20am -
  • Growth divergence between US and Europe? It's the credit conditions stupid...
    “The European Central Bank has a different task from that of the US Fed or the Bank of England”Chancellor Angela Merkel.Given many pundits have been noticing the growing growth divergence between the US economy and  the European economy as indi…
    - 14 days ago, 2 May 12, 5:05pm -
  • Credit - Hungarian Borscht
    "A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges." Benjamin Franklin Given Hungary has been our pet subject in relation to the study of systemic risk diagnosis (Modicum of relief):"A liquidity crisis happens when banks canno…
    - 15 days ago, 1 May 12, 7:06am -
  • Markets - Credit - Mutiny on the Euro Bounty
    "The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board." Grover Cleveland - 22nd and 24th President of the United States.Recently in one of our usual credit rambling "Plain sailing until a White Squall",…
    - 18 days ago, 28 Apr 12, 10:06am -

Bronte Capital

  • Wexford Capital and Gulfport Energy
    Gulfport Energy is a reputable Oklahoma based oil and gas company with widespread interests including in Canadian oil sands (via Grizzly Oil Sands) and in the Utica shale. It trades on the NASDAQ and has a market cap of a little over 1.2 billion dol…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:40am -
  • A stock called Comedy: the joke is on someone or other
    China Medical Technologies – a Chinese diagnostic, medical testing and genetic tools company which I am short – is possibly the strangest story in our portfolio. Here is the official “business description”:China Medical Technologies, Inc.,…
    - 8 days ago, 8 May 12, 3:50pm -
  • The question I wanted to ask at the Berkshire meeting
    I never got to ask a question at the Berkshire meeting. I was a little awed and did not even ask until about 2pm (which was silly). There was a lottery ticket system to determine who got to ask a question anyway.So here goes (and for the most part…
    - 9 days ago, 7 May 12, 11:07am -
  • Thoughts on the Berkshire meeting and a comment on long term care reinsurnace
    I am in Omaha and have just been to the Warren and Charlie show. It has been on my "to do" list for my whole adult life and I am strangely disappointed.It is of course blasphemous to be disappointed in Charlie and Warren. These octogenarians could…
    - 11 days ago, 5 May 12, 6:31pm -
  • Huabao Suspends Trading After Falling on Short-Seller Report
    Huabao - a Chinese flavours and fragrances company in Hong Kong - has suspended trading after falling on a short-seller report. To quote a Business Week article:Huabao International Holdings Ltd. (336), a maker of flavors and fragrances used in cig…
    - 21 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 6:16am -
  • Do I have any blog readers in Istanbul?
    Just asking. I am visiting.Send me an email through the blog.
    - 29 days ago, 17 Apr 12, 10:21am -
  • Daddy you are more evil than I thought
    It is the holiday part of the trip and I was strolling through the back-lot footpaths of Venice with my twelve year old son. We were doing out best to get lost (surprisingly easy) and I had given up worrying that my wife had (dangerously) gone shoppi…
    - 31 days ago, 15 Apr 12, 1:55pm -
  • Lessons in my laundry: Italian edition
    On my travels I found myself in a fine hotel in Central Milan. I came in about Midnight the previous night from London (courtesy the atrocious service of Easy-Jet*).At 6.15AM I was up for my morning meeting - via a fast-train to Bologna. My shirt…
    - 34 days ago, 13 Apr 12, 4:30am -

Vox

  • Greece’s predicament: Lessons from Argentina

    - 22 hours ago, 15 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Greasing the wheel: Oil’s role in the global crisis
    Lucas Chancel, Thomas Spencer, 16 May 2012Between January 2002 and August 2008, the nominal oil price rose from $19.7 to $133.4 a barrel. This column gathers evidence on the role of this rise in prices in the global crisis. It suggests that oil pric…
    - 22 hours ago, 15 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • The Eurozone crisis: Fiscal fragility, external imbalances, or both?
    Pietro Alessandrini, Michele Fratianni, Andrew Hughes Hallett, Andrea F Presbitero, 16 May 2012Unsustainable debt along Europe’s periphery is bringing the euro to breaking point. But this column argues that this is not simply the result of fiscal i…
    - 22 hours ago, 15 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Regional integration and natural resources: Who benefits?
    Céline Carrère, Julien Gourdon, Marcelo Olarreaga, 15 May 2012Regional integration schemes that include natural-resource-abundant countries have by and large been unsuccessful. Part of the reason is the uneven distribution of gains when resource-po…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • School-to-work pathways in Europe and in the US
    Glenda Quintini, 15 May 2012Recent sizeable increases in youth unemployment are compromising the school-to-work transition of recent school graduates. This column uses optimal matching, a method borrowed from molecular biology, to study the transitio…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • The housing market and the case for higher inflation targets in the US and the Eurozone
    Joshua Aizenman, Menzie D. Chinn , 15 May 2012Might more inflation be good for the US and Europe? This column looks at the housing market in the US and argues that, with houses dropping in price, buyers are playing a waiting game. And as buyers keep…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • US debt issuance since 1951 and the fallacy of issuing floating rate notes
    Manmohan Singh, Peter Stella, 14 May 2012Much of the debate over public finances in the US relates to the amount of debt, this column explores the type of debt. It criticises the recent suggestion that the US Treasury should start issuing floating ra…
    - 3 days ago, 13 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • The impossible hope of an end to austerity
    Charles Wyplosz, 14 May 2012With French and Greek voters rejecting austerity, politicians are once again taking the government spending debate seriously. This column argues that the voters are right – it is a bad idea to tighten fiscal policy when…
    - 3 days ago, 13 May 12, 8:00pm -

Bloomberg

  • Queen Elizabeth, Venture Capitalist for Marauders
    On Jan. 27, 1596, Sir Francis Drake died of dysentery aboard his ship off Portobelo, in what is now Panama. He was buried at sea in a lead coffin. It was a sad end to one of the great lives of the 16th century.
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:14pm -
  • Russian Protesters Break Out Their Walking Shoes
    In the wake of Vladimir Putin's surreal inauguration as president of Russia, both protesters and police are struggling to figure out what their new rules of engagement should be.
    - 9 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:29am -
  • Good U.S. Jobs News Can Be Found in Big Business
    Big business, we keep being told, hasbeen so hampered by regulatory uncertainty over the past fewyears, it has been reluctant to hire workers.
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:00pm -
  • Order ‘Big Short’ for an Out-to-Lunch Congress
    For all the criticism of the Dodd-Frank Act, one thing the law does right is fill theinformational and analytical blind spots that allowed oureconomy to unwittingly approach the precipice of disaster.
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:00pm -
  • Wrapping Stilettos in Foot-Binding Debate
    Named for a type of dagger with aslender blade, the stiletto’s defining characteristic is not somuch the height, but the girth, of its heel.
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:00pm -
  • Rob Portman: The Best of the Boring White Guys
    The minute Senator Rob Portman, theRepublican from Ohio who helped Mitt Romney win his state’sprimary, walked into the room, I knew that he would be theRepublican vice presidential candidate.
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:00pm -
  • Regulators Snooze While JPMorgan Lights the Fuse
    Don’t worry your pretty little heads,JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Financial Officer Douglas Braunsteinseemed to assure listeners on the bank’s quarterly earningsconference call last month. Regulators knew everythingJPMorgan’s chief investment…
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:00pm -
  • Obama’s Tariffs on China’s Solar Products Will Cost U.S.
    Simple economics holds that if youwant to promote mass adoption of something, you have to make itaffordable and available.
    - 23 hours ago, 15 May 12, 7:00pm -

Value Walk

  • Bill Ackman Likes JCP as Ultimate Contrarian Investment (Live Upates)
    Bill Ackman is the CEO of Pershing Square Capital, a value oriented hedge fund with over $11 billion under management.The slide is titled Think Big.Best investment ideas are contrarian. The most contrarian investment is to buy a company…
    - 3 mins ago, 16 May 12, 6:04pm -
  • DWIGHT ANDERSON Likes Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) (Live Updates)
    DWIGHT  ANDERSON is the Managing Partner of Ospraie Management. He previosly worked as an analyst for Paul Tudor Jones, and Julian Robertson.Dwight likes Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX), there are a few drivers going forward.The global coff…
    - 17 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:50pm -
  • Apple (AAPL) Shares Down after Gundlach Comments, Einhorn Counters
    …Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares were down on Wednesday after DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach indicated that he now has a short position in the technology firm. The shares were down as low as $541.04 per share in trading, however the
    - 26 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:41pm -
  • John Paulson Likes Caesars, Anglo Gold Ashanti, CVI [UPDATED]
    …John Paulson is the CEO of Paulson & Co. Paulson runs one of the largest hedge funds with over $20 billion under management.Paulson likes Caesars Entertainment Corp (NASDAQ:CZR), Anglo Gold Ashanti, CVICaesars is highly leveraged, and the equi…
    - 27 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:40pm -
  • Steven Mandel Likes Kohl’s Hates Bonds
    …STEVE  MANDEL is the founder of Lone Pine Capital, a a long/short ‘Tiger cub’, $14 billion hedge fund. Mandel was formerly a consumer analyst at Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management.Fixed income is a game I wins very small and tails
    - 32 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:35pm -
  • Michael Price Liks JCP, Contest Winner Xerox
    …Michael Price is now presenting the winner.Last contest winner Bridgepoint Education, the stock is flat. The stock seeks to be cheap. Price was bullish on Goldman Sachs Inc (NYSE:GS), but that might have changed. The big banks need toRelated po…
    - 1 hour ago, 16 May 12, 4:37pm -
  • Facebook IPO Investors May Be Better Off Waiting
    …While investors around the world scramble to get a piece of the Facebook IPO, some analysts are suggesting that those interested in acquiring a piece of the social media giant should probably wait until prices normalize, potentially weeks after t…
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:35pm -
  • Today’s Earnings Show Mixed Reactions: SPLS, TGT, SKS, ANF
    …Wall Street has been wedged in unending rambling following the release of earnings reports for big players. It is a melting pot of reactions as divides are being made and investors are taking sides. Some of the big names that
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:15pm -

Value Investing World

  • Einhorn Moves the Markets Again (CNBC video)
    Link....................Related link: ValueWalk's notes from Einhorn's presentation
    - 51 mins ago, 16 May 12, 5:16pm -
  • Meredith Whitney on JPMorgan's Mess
    Link
    - 2 hours ago, 16 May 12, 4:22pm -
  • Raghuram Rajan on Bloomberg (video)
    May 16(Bloomberg) -- Raghuram Rajan, professor at the University of Chicago andformer chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, talks about theEuropean sovereign-debt crisis and global economies. Rajan talks with Tom Keeneon Bloomberg…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:19pm -
  • Japanese pension fund switches to gold
    OkayamaMetal & Machinery has become the first Japanese pension fund to make publicpurchases of gold, in a sign of dwindling faith in paper currencies.Initially,the fund aims to keep about 1.5 per cent of its total assets of Y40bn ($500m)i…
    - 5 hours ago, 16 May 12, 1:02pm -
  • Nassim Taleb quote (experts)
    “You cannot ignore self-delusion. The problem with expertsis that they do not know what they do not know. Lack of knowledge and delusionabout the quality of your knowledge come together—the same process that makesyou know less also makes you s…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 10:31am -
  • TEDxSanAntonio - Benny Lewis - Fluent in Three Months - Rapid Language Hacking
    Link
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:53am -
  • The Benefits Of Being Bilingual – By Jonah Lehrer
    SamuelBeckett, born in a suburb of Dublin in 1906, was a native English speaker.However, in 1946 Beckett decided that he would begin writing exclusively inFrench. After composing the first draft in his second language, he would thentranslate the…
    - 8 hours ago, 16 May 12, 9:44am -
  • Leucadia National Annual Meeting Notes 2012
    From The Brooklyn Investor blog (found via the Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax).LUK is an Inflation PlayIn answering the above question about the future of LUK, Steinberg said that they started first and foremost as opportunists.   He then went…
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 5:19pm -

Street of Walls

Crackerjack Finance

Total Return WSJ

  • More on Facebook Insiders’ Estate-Tax Strategy
    Digging into the "cost basis" value of the shares of Facebook's co-founder, and other questions.
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  • Help Wanted (Unless You’re Over 50)
    A new analysis of employment data is finding that older workers have been among the hardest hit, and it’s taking them close to forever to get re-employed.
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 2:09pm -
  • Dimons in the Rough, and Other Bad J.P. Morgan Puns
    There are only so many bad puns you can gin up out of Jamie Dimon's name. Here are the leading contenders.
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  • Bargain-Shopping for Retirement Communities
    Some facilities with thousands of residents have relatively small memory-care units, meaning that they could be forced to break up resident couples if there isn't room.
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  • Don’t Get Burned by Facebook’s ‘Hot’ IPO
    Investors who don’t get shares at the offering price are likely going to have to pay way up for a piece of the social-media giant. And that might not be such a great idea.
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 11:24am -
  • IRS Whistleblower Program Under Fire
    The IRS's Whistleblower Program still hasn’t adequately addressed internal problems identified several years ago, according to a new report.
    - 6 days ago, 10 May 12, 12:18pm -
  • The Retiree Health Cost Price Spiral
    The amount you and your spouse may need to cover health expenses in retirement climbed 4% from last year to $240,000, according to a new study.
    - 7 days ago, 9 May 12, 11:41am -
  • Balancing the Budget With Retirement Savings?
    Congressional cost-cutters are eyeing cutting back on tax deferrals for 401(k) contributions as a possible way to raise money.
    - 8 days ago, 9 May 12, 12:01am -

Interloping

  • The NFL, the Internet and Economic Inequality
    [Note: There is an obvious response to comparing NFL players and the average laborer - the multiples of minimum wage made by professional athletes. Hold that thought - I will deal with it tomorrow] The NFL concussion issue is bothering me more than I…
    - 9 days ago, 7 May 12, 1:59pm -
  • Bull/Bear = GOP/Dem and Why Being a Good Teammate is a Bad Investing Strategy
    Framing market behaviour as a battle between bulls and bears has always made me cringe, appealing as it does to some of our least productive psychological tendencies. Our first, automatic response to finding out that a confrontation is underway is to…
    - 16 days ago, 30 Apr 12, 12:16pm -
  • Askers vs Guessers in Finance: Askers are Annoying, Rich
    Any follower of @Real_Interloper is aware of my fixation on the issue of Extroverted versus Introverted personality types and the possibility that Introverts will be devalued in a service-based, technology-heavy economy. * There is a subset of this d…
    - 22 days ago, 24 Apr 12, 11:18am -
  • Higher Education as The Big Marshmallow Test
    This is not going to be an easy post for me to write but I will commit off the top to avoid wallowing in personal travail. The issue however, the signaling component of higher education, is for a dropout like myself fraught with highly defensive emot…
    - 30 days ago, 16 Apr 12, 10:21am -
  • Standing By for the China Growth Hiccough
    One of the favorite tactics of the more Gricean, scaremongery strategists in the early 2000s was a chart comparing the post-peak performance of the Nikkei and the S&P 500. There was never a lot of effort spent on the “why” of the seemingly inexpl…
    - 37 days ago, 9 Apr 12, 11:12am -
  • Defending Analysts: The Mouth of Sauron, Not the Dark Lord Himself
    One of the few consistent themes of this blog is that bad things, including client-screwing ethical lapses, happen not because of the rise of individual evil people but as the end result of a steady erosion of principles caused by the temptation of h…
    - 48 days ago, 29 Mar 12, 10:00am -
  • Beware the Prince
    I’m about as well sorted psychologically as I’m ever going to be but I get to use a shrink as consultant for niggling issues, an arrangement that suits us both. During a recent conversation, we were discussing some completely impersonal topic and…
    - 50 days ago, 27 Mar 12, 10:58am -
  • Following Bunk Moreland on Gold, Monetary Policy
    There is something about monetary policy that drives significant portions of the investing populace insane. As a guess, it’s possible that the physical act of printing dollar bills, and the virtual act of money creation in the banking sector, is en…
    - 51 days ago, 26 Mar 12, 11:03am -

Investing Daily

  • Australia: A Bad Two Weeks Gets Worse
    It's hard to spin a day like Wednesday, May 16, was on the Australian Securities Exchange. So here's a one-word response: "Outperformance."
    - 3 hours ago, 16 May 12, 3:22pm -
  • Facebook Unfriends the Individual Investor
    Although the Facebook IPO involves the sale of more than 420 million shares of the social media company’s stock, institutional investors will likely absorb most of the offering. That leaves the average retail investor waiting for Facebook’s share…
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:14pm -
  • Emerging Market Stocks: The BRIC Is Just the Beginning
    Fund manager Andrew Foster of the Seafarer Funds is bullish on emerging markets, but not the ones you may think of first.
    - 4 hours ago, 16 May 12, 2:04pm -
  • JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Has Fallen and Can't Get Up
    If there was any doubt that regulation of investment banks through the Volcker Rule is needed, JP Morgan's loss of $2.3 billion on a risky bet ends the debate.
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 1:12pm -
  • Confusion Reigns at Yahoo! Inc.--Again
    What you need to know about last weekend’s boardroom shuffle at the struggling Internet giant
    - 1 day ago, 15 May 12, 9:47am -
  • Maximizing Lifetime Guaranteed Income
    You have a once-in-a-lifetime decision to maximize guaranteed, inflation-adjusted lifetime income. Many people miss significant opportunities to increase their financial security. The problem is especially acute among married couples.
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 9:54am -
  • Closed-End Funds: Buy at Discounts and Sell at Premiums
    Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have taken the investing world by storm, but investment opportunities also exist in a much older type of fund known as closed-end funds (CEFs).
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 9:54am -
  • Seven Rules for Dealing with Crack-Ups
    "The surest way to turn a small loss into a big one is to become obsessed with a falling stock."
    - 5 days ago, 11 May 12, 6:22pm -

Trade Streaming

  • List of winners of top fintech conference, Finovate
    Finovate has really become the go-to tech conference for fintech startups to launch themselves and new products. There really isn’t another conference dedicated to financial startups that competes with Finovate. The show has grown from 250 attendee…
    - 9 hours ago, 16 May 12, 8:45am -
  • Creating valuable mashups of investment research – with James Berman
    Professor James Berman has taken a new investing research platform (Trefis) and made it even more valuable. His new investment advisory newsletter, the Berman Value Folio, integrates interactive modeling tools to create what I think is one of the fir…
    - 2 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:49am -
  • Who are the top product developers in online finance?
    I know a few of these guys but I have to tell you — most firms in the online space either are on the prowl for top talent or extremely guarded of their own product devs. It’s a hard skill product development — combining financial technologies a…
    - 23 days ago, 23 Apr 12, 1:04pm -
  • Winning investment strategies from the frontlines of the blogosphere – with Tadas Viskanta
    Tadas Viskanta has been at the forefront of the next generation of financial content for years. His Abnormal Returns blog is the place investors —  ravenous for the day’s most impactful news and analysis — start every trading day. Tadas is out…
    - 23 days ago, 23 Apr 12, 8:55am -
  • What happens to the value of online assets after death?
    The Economist looks into what happens to our online assets after a user dies. Photos and music files sit in a sort of nebulous limbo for the living and studies show the value of our digital property is rising quickly. New business models and services…
    - 24 days ago, 22 Apr 12, 11:54am -
  • 12 most mindblowing acquisitions in recent history
    Interesting discussion going on at 12Most regarding the most mindblowing acquisitions in history. Obviously, the fervor around Facebook’s intention to buy photo app, Instagram for $1B prompted this list but I thought it would be a good time to get…
    - 25 days ago, 21 Apr 12, 1:10pm -
  • Do Morningstar’s ratings work or not? (revisited)
    Last week in the WSJ, Joe Light shined some light on a study that took issue with Morningstar’s ability to forecast winning mutual funds. The paper looks at Morningstar’s overweighting of “corporate culture” as the major input into what the r…
    - 30 days ago, 16 Apr 12, 8:51am -
  • Will the future of wealth management really be “virtual”?
    I’ve been chatting with a few friends over the past couple of days about which model will prevail for wealth management in years to come. 2 sides to the argument Essentially, there are 2 sides to the argument: virtualists: The virutalists are banki…
    - 35 days ago, 11 Apr 12, 10:07am -

Investing Caffeine

  • The Pleasure/Pain Principle
    The financial crisis of 2008-2009 was painful, not to mention the Flash Crash of 2010; the Debt Ceiling / Credit Downgrade of 2011; and the never-ending European saga. Needless to say, these and other events have caused pain akin to burning one’s h…
    - 4 days ago, 12 May 12, 9:13pm -
  • Dividend Floodgates Widen
    The recently reported lackluster, monthly employment report made stockholders grumpy (as measured by the recent -168 point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial index) and bondholders ecstatic (as measured by the surge in the 10-year Treasury note pr…
    - 10 days ago, 6 May 12, 6:33pm -
  • Investing with the Sentiment Pendulum
    Article is an excerpt from Sidoxia Capital Management’s complementary May 2012 newsletter. Subscribe on right side of page. The last five years have been historic in many respects. Not only have governments and central banks around the world unde…
    - 16 days ago, 1 May 12, 3:08am -
  • Stay Tuned…
    As I sift through the flood of quarterly corporate profit reports and finish up my quarterly client responsibilities, I’ve now carved out some to time to focus on writing. For anyone waiting in line for the next Investing Caffeine piece, please c…
    - 17 days ago, 30 Apr 12, 1:35am -
  • The Fund Flows Paradox
    How is it that the stock market has more than doubled over the last three years, when investors have been dumping stocks like they are going out of style? If you don’t believe me, and you think jovial investors are jacking stocks higher, then pleas…
    - 25 days ago, 22 Apr 12, 2:26am -
  • Sidoxia’s Investor Hall of Fame
    Investing Caffeine has profiled many great investors over the months and years, so I thought now would be a great time to compile a “Hall of Fame” summarizing some of the greatest of all-time. Nothing can replace experience, but learning from the…
    - 30 days ago, 16 Apr 12, 2:12pm -
  • Lent: Giving Up the Gold Vice

    - 39 days ago, 8 Apr 12, 1:32am -
  • Cash Security Blanket Turns Into Tourniquet
    Article is an excerpt from Sidoxia Capital Management’s April 2012 newsletter. Subscribe on right side of page. That warm safety blanket of cash that millions of Americans have clutched on to during the 2008-09 financial crisis; the 2010 “Flash…
    - 45 days ago, 2 Apr 12, 4:04am -
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