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Benzinga

  • Benzinga's Microcap Movers for Friday May 18, 2012
    Below are highlights from Benzinga's daily coverage of microcap securities making big moves:TeleCommunication Systems Inc.Shares of TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: TSYS), the Annapolis, MD wireless communications company, rose 10.85% Fri…
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:59am -
  • Barron's Recap (5/19/12): Dalio's World and the Einhorn Effect
    This weekend in Barron's online: Hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio's thoughts on the troubles in Europe, the effect of comments made by David Einhorn, and the consequences of the Facebook IPO flop.Cover Story"Ray Dalio's World" by Sandra Ward.…
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:53am -
  • Earnings Expectations for the Week of May 21 (BBY, LOW, DELL, HPQ)
    This earnings season may be starting to wind down, but there are still plenty of quarterly reports on the schedule. This week we will hear from more retailers, including Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) and Tiffany (NYSE: TIF).…
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:34am -
  • Trust in America – Not

    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:59am -
  • Benzinga's M&A Chatter for Friday May 18, 2012
    The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Friday May 18, 2012:El Paso Pipeline Partners Agrees to Acquire Cheyenne Plains Pipeline and Additional Interest in Colorado Interstate Gas Company from El Paso Corp…
    - 14 hours ago, 19 May 12, 11:34pm -
  • We Are In Oversold Territory

    - 19 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:42pm -
  • China Approves Google Acquisition of Motorola Mobility -AP
    According to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), China has approved the search giant's acquisition of Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI). The $12.5 billion deal is expected to close next week.
    - 24 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:05pm -
  • Student Loan Crisis: Why So Many Colleges May Fail?
    “We know the model is not sustainable,” said Lawrence T. Lesick, vice president for enrollment management at Ohio Northern University. “Schools are going to have to show the value proposition. Those that don't aren't going to be around.”
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 8:21am -

24/7 Wall St.

  • Merkel Will Turn Her Back On G8
    It is one thing to agree to something while under duress. It is quite another to do so from necessity Angela Merkel of Germany relented a bit on her stance of radical austerity for the...
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:53am -
  • Alibaba To By $7 Billion Stake From Yahoo!
    Rumors once again that Alibaba, the China e-commerce firm, will buy a $7 billion stake of its own equity from Yahoo! This would be about half of Yahho!’s stake The most recent rumor is from...
    - 6 hours ago, 20 May 12, 7:54am -
  • Sprint Offers AT&T And Verizon Customers $100 iPhone Trade In
    Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) began a new program to gain customers which may be desperate or brilliant. An evaluation of the results may end up being more important than Sprint’s initial intension....
    - 24 hours ago, 19 May 12, 1:53pm -
  • Google’s YouTube: The One Horse Race In Online Video
    The argument that Hulu can become a company which can be valued in the billions of dollars or that portals can completely change, for the positive, the value of ad dollars they receive because of...
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 11:26am -
  • Facebook Ruins Nasdaq
    Blame was passed from Facebook’s bankers to Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) as the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO faltered and opening bids and offers failed to be properly matched and there was some evidence...
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 10:56am -
  • 24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — May 18, 2012
    The three major US stock indexes opened somewhat higher this morning as investors paid little attention to last night’s downgrade of Spain’s banks (more coverage here). With little economic data on...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:05pm -
  • Facebook Flirts With Busted IPO Status (FB)
    Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has been a significant debut, and it has had some surprises even if we are about as sick of hearing this name as one could imagine.  After pricing about 421 million shares...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:31pm -
  • Intelsat Files For IPO
    Intelsat Global Holdings S.A. has just filed for an initial public offering in a form F-1 filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. No financial terms were set but the satellite...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:20pm -

Zero Hedge

  • Presenting The "Kyle Bass" Harvard Business School Case Study
    How does one get a Harvard Business School case study made after them? Why by being constantly ahead of the curve, with the right trade, and being mocked by the same "access journalism and excel free" mainstream media which pushed subprime toxic gre…
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:50am -
  • Trust in America – Not
      I wish I could have been a fly on the wall at the G8 summit at Camp David this weekend. The final communiqué from the global big shots talks about keeping Greece in the Euro and a shift away from austerity and a move towards growth oriented…
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:08am -
  • SPeaRMiNT G-8

    - 12 hours ago, 20 May 12, 1:58am -
  • Alasdair Macleod: All Roads In Europe Lead To Gold
    Submitted by Chris MartensonAlasdair Macleod: All Roads In Europe Lead To GoldThis week we bring back Alasdair Macleod, publisher of Finance and economics.org, because, as he puts it "every horror that we discussed last time we spoke is coming abo…
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 9:58pm -
  • G-8 Caption Contest
    Today, the G8 came, saw, and wrote down a bunch of meaningless promises on paper as it does every several months (spoiler alert: more printing). They also posed for photos, such as this one. We leave it up to readers to provide the context.
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 9:34pm -
  • Will Rogue Fundamentalist Christian Military Leaders Start a Nuclear War in the Middle East?
    Before You Write Off This Threat … Read ThisRussian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that if the U.S. invades the sovereignty of countries like Syria or Iran, it could lead to nuclear war.   And see this.Russia and China have previously sta…
    - 17 hours ago, 19 May 12, 9:04pm -
  • Congressional Threat to Every Investor, Business Owner and Citizen
    Latest comment from David Kotok at Cumberland Advisors deserves your attention.  -- ChrisMay 19, 2012This is an open letter in response to legislation recently passed in the US House of Representatives.  The behavior of Representative Harold Ro…
    - 17 hours ago, 19 May 12, 8:43pm -

DealBook

  • Discord at Key JPMorgan Unit Is Faulted in Loss
    According to current and former traders, the senior banker who has been blamed for the debacle, Ina Drew, began to lose her grip on the chief investment office as early as 2010, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Nelson D. Schwartz reported. Read more »
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 9:16pm -
  • C.F.T.C. Said to Open Inquiry Into JPMorgan Loss
    The federal investigation into JPMorgan Chase's multibillion-dollar trading loss widened Friday as regulators pursued a new line of inquiry.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:27pm -
  • After Buildup, a Modest Start for Facebook
    While disappointing new investors who were betting on fast gains, Facebook had a wide winner's circle, creating huge paper gains for scores of early insiders, hundreds of employees and some stragglers who bought stakes recently.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:01pm -
  • With Lackluster Debut, Facebook Must Prove Itself to Investors
    The lack of a bounce in Facebook's stock price on its first day might mean that investors are not comfortable with the high valuation for the social media site.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:47pm -
  • Facebook's Debut Marred by Trading Flaws
    The Facebook $16 billion offering was the biggest I.P.O. that Nasdaq had ever listed. Now there are growing questions over how its market debut was handled.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:34pm -
  • Business Day Live: Was Facebook Priced Correctly?
    An early investor and a former employee offer insights on the tech sector.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:24pm -
  • DealBook's Week in Review: Stay or Go?
    Facebook ended its first day of trading on Nasdaq with a value of $105 billion while JPMorgan Chase's trading loss surged to at least $3 billion. A look back on our reporting of the past week's highs and lows in finance.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:17pm -
  • MF Global Trustee Gets $168 Million From JPMorgan
    The money is not technically part of the $1.6 billion in customer cash that vanished from the firm in its final days, but the trustee, James W. Giddens, plans to use it to repay the farmers, traders and hedge funds who have waited more than six month…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:34pm -

Briefing.com

Reuters Business

  • Facebook shares could fall below IPO price: Barron's
    (Reuters) - Shares in social media company Facebook Inc could fall below the initial public offering price of $38, Barron's wrote in its May 21 edition.
    - 1 hour ago, 20 May 12, 12:19pm -
  • Insight: China pays high price to spare state firm from bankruptcy
    WEIFANG, China (Reuters) - The Chinese official was adamant the city of Weifang would keep its rayon factory open, noting that local authorities had just stepped in to help the plant's owner repay $60 million in commercial paper.
    - 1 hour ago, 20 May 12, 12:17pm -
  • Euro zone row gets fat pay rise for German workers
    BERLIN (Reuters) - A record-breaking pay deal will give millions of German workers their biggest rise in wages in two decades, boost consumption in Europe's biggest economy and help towards adjusting the regional imbalances that have caused severe te…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:25am -
  • U.S. banking laws unable to stop JPMorgan loss: Republican Boehner
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banking reforms could not have prevented JPMorgan Chase & Co's trading losses, and those involved in the activities that went awry should be held accountable, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said in an i…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:23am -
  • Wall Street Week Ahead: Market is oversold, but major signs say "sell"
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Normally a big decline would set up Wall Street for a technical rebound. But that may not be the case this week, even after the market posted its worst weekly loss for the year and the S&P fell for six straight sessions.
    - 3 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:29am -
  • Apple, Samsung CEOs head to court-ordered play date
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The chiefs of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monda…
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:00am -
  • Weaker euro zone nations need more support from core: UK
    LONDON (Reuters) - The euro zone can protect its currency if its stronger countries provide more support for the weaker to help them deal with their problems, British finance minister George Osborne said in a newspaper on Sunday.
    - 6 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:01am -
  • China's Wen urges more support for growth
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China's premier called for additional efforts to support growth on Sunday, signaling Beijing's willingness to take action after a recent series of economic indicators suggested that the world's second-biggest economy will slow fur…
    - 7 hours ago, 20 May 12, 6:22am -

Barron's Most Viewed

  • Dalio's World
    Ray Dalio, fabled hedge-fund manager, says the U.S. has done a "beautiful" job delevering, but sees a 30% chance Europe will stumble badly.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 12:11pm -
  • More Fizzle Than Sizzle
    Jamie Dimon has a week to forget. Facebook stumbles out of the blocks. Why gold miners look good.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 5:52am -
  • Changing Their Stripes
    With investors willing to pay up for stocks that generate income, more companies—even prison operators—are considering becoming real-estate investment trusts.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 5:52am -
  • Mining the Gold Miners
    Gold-mining stocks are trading at record lows, relative to the price of gold. Newmont Mining, the world's No. 2 gold miner—with a 3.1% yield—would be a big beneficiary if the price disparity narrows. Shares could rise 50%.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 5:52am -
  • The Good News in the Bad News
    Bearishness is up, expectations are down, and Facebook's launch fizzled. Maybe stocks have a chance after all.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 5:52am -
  • The Einhorn Effect
    Top hedge-fund managers brought their best ideas to last week's Ira Sohn Investment Conference. Why they like J.C. Penney and Kohl's. Mixed tastes on Apple.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 5:52am -
  • Best 100 Hedge Funds
    As industry assets pass $2 trillion, mortgage specialists surge to the top.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 5:52am -
  • Facebook Flops: Look Out Below!
    The most anticipated tech IPO of all time fell flat on Friday, finishing up just 0.6%. If underwriters don't support the stock, Facebook could fall below its offering price.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 5:52am -

WSJ-Business

  • Queensland Scales Back Coal Project
    The Queensland government withdrew its support for a $9 billion coal-port expansion in the northern part of the state, in a sign Australia's resources boom is losing steam.
    - 1 hour ago, 20 May 12, 12:23pm -
  • Facebook's IPO Sputters
    Facebook shares struggled to stay above their $38 IPO price, as Wall Street bankers stepped in to prevent the newly minted stock from ending its first day with an embarrassing loss.
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:52am -
  • Chesapeake Cuts Pay, Travel for Board
    Chesapeake Energy said board members will take a 20% pay cut and no longer have personal use of company aircraft, the latest move by the embattled natural-gas company to placate critics.
    - 15 hours ago, 19 May 12, 10:17pm -
  • Launch Aborted Over Faulty Valve
    Space Exploration Technologies said a faulty engine valve was the culprit behind Saturday's aborted launch of the first private spacecraft aiming to dock with the international space station.
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 9:36pm -
  • Seaway Oil Pipeline Starts First Flow
    Enterprise Products Partners and Enbridge said Saturday that the Seaway pipeline has started to accept crude oil at the Cushing, Okla. storage hub for delivery to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 9:32pm -
  • Dewey Closer to Bankruptcy Filing
    Dewey & LeBoeuf is readying a possible bankruptcy-protection filing for sometime in the next several weeks, a move that would initiate official liquidation of the beleaguered New York law firm.
    - 18 hours ago, 19 May 12, 7:14pm -
  • China Clears Google to Buy Motorola Mobility
    Google said Saturday that Chinese antitrust authorities have cleared the Internet giant's purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, pushing the $12.5 billion deal over its last regulatory hurdle.
    - 22 hours ago, 19 May 12, 4:09pm -
  • China: Solar-Panel Tariff May Backfire
    China unleashed a storm of protest criticizing the U.S. decision to impose a 31% antidumping tariff on Chinese solar-panel makers.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:23pm -

NYTimes-Business

MarketWatch-Top Stories

  • Chuck Jaffe: When to let headlines lead your investments
    Between corporate mishaps, overpriced initial public offerings and the troubled global economy, investors are facing tough issues that have raised some timely questions, writes Chuck Jaffe.
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 12:01pm -
  • NewsWatch: Economy, housing market grind forward
    The U.S. economy is going through a bumpy patch, but signs still point to steady if unspectacular growth in the months ahead.
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 12:00pm -
  • Economic Preview: Economy, housing market grind forward
    The U.S. economy is going through a bumpy patch, but signs still point to steady if unspectacular growth in the months ahead.
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:00am -
  • NewsWatch: U.S. investors hang on Europe after bruising week
    After the worst week of the year for U.S. stocks, investors will be looking for signs of whether the U.S. economy can continue to recover in the face of ongoing uncertainty about Greece, Spain and global growth prospects.
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:00am -
  • North Italy quake kills 7, injures 50: reports
    An earthquake measuring around 6 hit northern Italy, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 50, media reports say.
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:44am -
  • Argentines eye black market for dollars: report
    Argentines are increasingly turning to the black market to buy dollars in the wake of currency restrictions imposed by the administration of President Cristina Fernandez, the Associated Press reported on Saturday.
    - 7 hours ago, 20 May 12, 7:08am -
  • Chinese dissident arrives in U.S.: reports
    Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese dissident whose escape from 19 months of house arrest has tested Chinese-U.S. relations, has arrived in the U.S., ending a month-long diplomatic dispute, according to media reports.
    - 11 hours ago, 20 May 12, 2:57am -
  • NewsWatch: U.S. investors hang on Europe after bruising week
    After the worst week of the year for U.S. stocks, investors will be looking for signs of whether the U.S. economy can continue to recover in the face of ongoing uncertainty about Greece, Spain and global growth prospects.
    - 21 hours ago, 19 May 12, 5:00pm -

CNN Money

  • GUPTA HEADS TO COURT
    Rajat Gupta was once a board member at Goldman Sachs and managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co. Now, he's the biggest target yet in the government's sprawling insider trading crackdown.
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:51am -
  • 10 baby boomer entrepreneurs

    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:40am -
  • What's your next stock market move?
    Stocks have more than doubled over the past three years. What's your next move?
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:27am -
  • Stocks: Storm clouds still gathering over Greece
    Facebook is finally public, but that won't solve Greece's problems.
    - 6 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:04am -
  • Zuckerberg gets married one day after IPO
    A day after his social media company went public, Facebook co-founder and chief executive married his longtime girlfriend Patricia Chan.
    - 6 hours ago, 20 May 12, 7:31am -
  • What Zuckerberg & Co. are worth
    Facebook's IPO has minted at least a half-dozen new billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 1:18pm -
  • New York penthouse sells for a record $90 million
    An unnamed buyer paid more than $90 million for a Midtown Manhattan penthouse, the highest price ever paid for a New York apartment, according to the building's developer.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 8:12am -
  • Facebook's modest debut
    Facebook's stock market debut is finally here -- and investors jumped on the breathlessly hyped IPO, sending shares up almost 11% at the start of trade.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 8:04am -

CNBC Top Stories

The Economist

  • Airlines in ex-Yugoslavia: Balkan unity?
    EASTERN EUROPEAN airlines are sick. Fuel is dear, their markets are small and budget airlines are poaching their passengers. Most eastern European airlines lose money. Malev, Hungary’s flag carrier, went bankrupt in February. To avoid a similar fat…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05am -
  • Love, Korean-style: Two’s company
    Let’s swap emoticons SOUTH KOREANS take romance seriously. Lovers are expected to swap sweet nothings many times a day and woe betide the clod who forgets a “100-day anniversary”. Some pairs dress in “couple style”, in th…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05am -
  • Selling clothes online in Russia: Fabric of society
    ONLINE as well as offline, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Vente-Privée, a firm founded on the strange notion that French women might like fashionable clothes at deep discounts, has been paid this compliment more tha…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05am -
  • Commercial aircraft: Duelling the duopolies
    The troubled Superjet IT MAY well turn out that pilot error, or something other than a fault in the aircraft, made a Russian-built Sukhoi Superjet crash into a mountain in Indonesia on May 9th, killing all on board. But the disaste…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05am -
  • The internet business in Russia: Europe’s great exception
    ON THE roof, where staff can smoke as well as work, is a big chess set. The names of meeting rooms are in the Cyrillic alphabet. Two sides of the courtyard are a building site of five hollow storeys. You could say that the headqua…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05am -
  • Mediaset: End of an era
    BABEL TV, a niche channel on Sky Italia, a pay-TV platform owned by Rupert Murdoch, airs worthy programming for immigrants. Recent shows include “Invitation to Dinner”, a reality show where an immigrant cooks for a native Italian. Such serious fa…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05am -
  • Foreign firms in India: Travellers checked
    BEFORE foreign investors came to India, its finance minister remarked recently, “we did not eat lizards.” For all the grumbles one hears about India’s economy, there is hardly a sense of desperation. Those foreign investors keep coming: on May…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05am -
  • Schumpeter: Good business; nice beaches
    ON JUNE 17th a hubbub of activists will gather in Rio de Janeiro for a conference on “good business for a sustainable future”, sponsored by something called the Ethical Fashion Initiative. They will listen to a farmer talking…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05am -

Financial Times

  • Amazon noses into industrial supply chain
    Shares in the established US groups have suffered since the launch of the online retailer’s latest venture but there are doubts that it can dominate
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:57am -
  • AstraZeneca looks to revive experimental drugs
    Pharmaceutical group plans to seal several deals this year to fill its flagging pipeline which could include partnerships with other companies
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:50am -
  • Apple and Samsung begin settlement talks
    In two days of judge-ordered talks, groups will attempt to find a resolution to their rival patent claims before a full jury trial gets under way
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:42am -
  • Italian bomb attack ‘not mafia’
    Speculation that schoolgirl’s death before anti-mafia rally in Brindisi could signal start of violent campaign at time of political instability
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:31am -
  • Fear drives Irish towards Yes vote
    With just over a week to go until people vote, polls show support for the treaty remains steady at 37 per cent
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:24am -
  • Heathrow ‘free to lobby on third runway’
    ‘The commercial interest of BAA is one thing, says Theresa Villiers, it’s not necessarily the same as the economic needs of the overall economy
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:03am -
  • China activists fear ‘reckoning’
    Human rights activists are most worried about Mr Chen’s nephew, who was detained on charges of intentional homicide after his uncle’s escape
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:15am -
  • UK special forces Afghan role after 2014
    Up to 200 SAS troops may be stationed to fight terrorism alongside British soldiers in a training and mentoring role
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:38am -

Mad Money Recap

Economix

  • At-Home vs. Employed Mothers: Who's Happier
    At-home mothers are more likely than employed mothers to report feeling sad or angry and being diagnosed with depression, according to a new report by Gallup.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:10pm -
  • The Great Gatsby Curve, for the States
    A back-of-the-envelope attempt to look at the relationship between income inequality and economic mobility in the 50 states.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:00am -
  • A Modestly Strong Batch of New Data
    The Times's weekly tracker suggests that job growth this month may be slightly stronger than forecast a week ago.
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 12:29pm -
  • Investigating JPMorgan Chase
    Since the company operates with implicit government backing, its recent trading losses demand an independent inquiry on five specific questions, an economist writes.
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:00am -
  • 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.
    - 4 days 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.
    - 4 days 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.
    - 5 days 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.
    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 6:00am -

Insider Monkey

  • Philippe Laffont Video
    Philippe Laffont was on Bloomberg Television today. Philippe Laffont is the founder of Coatue Management, he presented at the Ira Sohn Conference yesterday. In his Bloomberg...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, oth…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 1:15pm -
  • Bill Ackman’s New Favorite Long Idea (Ira Sohn)
    Bill Ackman lost nearly $300 million today because of a 20% decline in JC Penney (JCP). According to Ackman’s latest 13F filing Pershing Square had nearly $1.4 billion...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other c…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 6:10pm -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 4 days 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,…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 4:01pm -

Fly on the Wall

  • Chinese premier call for more growth support, Reuters says
    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 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:41am -
  • Repsol says exploratory well off Cuba not successful, WSJ says
    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 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:35am -
  • JPMorgan's losing trades could get more troublesome, WSJ says
    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 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:23am -
  • FX Energy selects two new exploratory wells for 2012
    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 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:11am -
  • Hess Corp.'s challenging problems are ultimately solvable, Barron's contends
    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 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:09am -
  • Newmont Mining's shares could rise 50%, Barron's says
    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 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:08am -
  • Investors are voting down Tenet Healthcare's efforts, Barron's reports
    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 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:08am -
  • Coach believes "accessories make the outfit" and portfolio, Barron's reports
    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 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:06am -

Systematic Relative Strength

  • 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…
    - 14 hours ago, 20 May 12, 12:01am -
  • People First
    Financial advisors often become enamored with new whiz-bang products and new and improved methodologies.  Sometimes they really are new and improved, so we always need to check them out.  But the bedrock of the business is really the relationship w…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:22pm -
  • Sector and Capitalization Performance
    The chart below shows performance of US sectors and capitalizations over the trailing 12, 6, and 1 month(s).  Performance updated through 5/17/2012.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:36am -
  • Beanbag Economics and Relative Strength
    By now, it’s pretty apparent that the Euro is eventually going to be toast, just like the ERM imploded before it.  (Perhaps it was never logical to assume that one currency and one central bank would be able to satisfy many different cultures an…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:44pm -
  • Fund Flows
    The Investment Company Institute is the national association of U.S. investment companies, including mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and unit investment trusts (UITs).  Members of ICI manage total assets of $11.82 trill…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:10am -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 3:36pm -

Dividend Growth Investor

  • Clorox (CLX) Dividend Stock Analysis
    The Clorox Company (CLX) manufactures and markets consumer and institutional products worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Cleaning, Lifestyle, Household, and International. This dividend champion has paid uninterrupted dividends…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:38am -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 6 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…
    - 9 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…
    - 11 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 16 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…
    - 18 days ago, 2 May 12, 4:00am -

footnoted

  • Facebook in the filings…
    You may have heard (or, perhaps read) about a company called Facebook (FB), which is going public today. For weeks now, there’s been a steady drumbeat of stories, and an even steadier drumbeat of filings. The most recent S-1, with the pricing detai…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:45am -
  • Everyday mediocre disclosure at Wal-Mart Stores…
    This morning, Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) filed its most extensive disclosure yet about questions of corruption and bribery in its Mexico operations, but sadly, that isn’t saying much. What’s most striking about the new disclosure is that it was buried…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:21am -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 6 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…
    - 9 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…
    - 10 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…
    - 11 days ago, 9 May 12, 10:54am -

Abnormal Returns

  • Sunday links: unwanted allocations
    Quote of the day Invictus, “Retail investors should be circumspect (to put it politely) of any offering they’re able to get their hands on. If [...]
    - 7 hours ago, 20 May 12, 7:07am -
  • Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
    Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, [...]
    - 7 hours ago, 20 May 12, 6:27am -
  • Saturday links: marshmallow thinking
    The weekend is a great time to catch up on some long-form links you missed during the week. We think this should also include our [...]
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 7:07am -
  • Friday links: unhelpful at best
    Quote of the day Nicholas Carlson, “The Facebook IPO is Kate & William’s wedding for business nerds.”  (SAI) Chart of the day How did private investor do [...]
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:14am -
  • Friday 7atSeven: Facebook frenzy
    Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  We will see you later with the daily linkfest.  Good luck out there. Facebook prices at [...]
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:59am -
  • Thursday links: algorithmic opposition
    Chart of the day How does policy uncertainty affect the stock market?  (Capital Spectator) Markets It’s been a while since S&P 500 stocks have been [...]
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:09am -
  • The ultimate Facebook IPO linkfest: day two
    Another day another batch of Facebook related material. That is not altogether surprising. We ran a series of posts (part one, part wo, part three, [...]
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:01am -
  • Thursday 7atSeven: two bites from the apple
    Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  We will see you later with the daily linkfest.  Good luck out there. Possible endings for [...]
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:12am -

MarketWatch Newsletters

Economic Populist

  • Saturday Reads Around the Internets - Swear Words Are Now Appropriate
    Welcome to the weekly roundup of great articles, facts and figures. These are the weekly finds that made our eyes pop. Corporations Park Over 60% of Their Cash OffshoreLarge multinationals literally park 60% of their cash offshore. Don't let t…
    - 23 hours ago, 19 May 12, 3:06pm -
  • April 2012 State Employment Statistics Show Little Real Improvement on Jobs
    If you're looking for a job, it plain sucks to live on the West coast. The April 2012 State Employment statistics show the average unemployment rate for the entire Pacific region is 10.1%. read more
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:22pm -
  • Too Interconnected To Fail
    The below Bloomberg Law interview, or shall we say cage match, is just amusing. First, Chris Whalen tries to claim the reason JPMorgan Chase placed a bet that will lose $2 billion or greater is due to JPMorgan Chase being distracted by those pesky r…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:29pm -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 6:24am -

Calculated Risk

  • The Real Estate Agent Bust
    Way back in 2005, I posted a graph of "the Real Estate Agent Boom". I saw the following article, and decided to update the graph of the number of real estate licensees in California.Eric Wolff at the NC Times writes: Real estate agents bailing out…
    - 3 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:48am -
  • Unofficial Problem Bank list increases to 928 Institutions
    This is an unofficial list of Problem Banks compiled only from public sources. Here is the unofficial problem bank list for May 18, 2012. (table is sortable by assets, state, etc.)Changes and comments from surferdude808: The OCC released its act…
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 9:53pm -
  • Quarterly Housing Starts by Intent compared to New Home Sales
    We can't directly compare single family housing starts to new home sales. For starts of single family structures, the Census Bureau includes owner built units and units built for rent that are not included in the new home sales report. For an explan…
    - 20 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:00pm -
  • Schedule for Week of May 20th
    Earlier:• Summary for Week Ending May 18thThere are two key housing reports to be released this week: April existing home sales on Tuesday, and April new home sales on Wednesday.Other key reports include durable goods on Thursday, and two regi…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 1:31pm -
  • Summary for Week of May 18th
    The headlines last week were once again mostly about Europe and Greece, especially the possibility of Greece exiting the euro (aka "Grexit") after the next election on June 17th. The outcome of the election is uncertain, although most Greeks and Eu…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 8:27am -
  • Van Rompuy Statement: "Stay the course" in Europe, "Pro-growth agenda" in June
    Remarks from Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council prior to the G8 summit: This G8 summit comes at a time of significant challenges to the world economy, and for Europe in particular. As far as Europe is concerned, my message is stra…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:13pm -
  • Bank Failure #24 in 2012: Alabama Trust Bank
    Alabama bankTorpedoed in sea of debtSunk by crimson tideby Soylent Green is PeopleFrom the FDIC: Southern States Bank, Anniston, Alabama, Assumes All of the Deposits of Alabama Trust Bank, National Association, Sylacauga, AlabamaAs of March 31, 2…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:26pm -
  • Grexit Update
    The Greek election is still a month away ...From the WSJ: EU Official: Greek Exit Plans DiscussedThe European Commission and the European Central Bank are drawing up plans should Greece abandon the euro, Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said in an…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:46pm -

Business Insider

Naked Capitalism

Crossing Wall Street

  • No Doubt In the Studio

    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:25pm -
  • CWS Market Review – May 18, 2012
    Wall Street’s spring slide got even uglier this past week. The S&P 500 has now dropped for five days in a row and for ten [...]
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:20am -
  • Morning News: May 18, 2012
    Moody’s Downgrades 16 Spanish Banks Euro Zone Market Turmoil to Last 12-24 Months: German Finance Minister U.S. Sets New Tariffs on Chinese Solar Imports China [...]
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:31am -
  • No Comment

    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:19pm -
  • Losses at JPMorgan Grow
    Jamie Dimon said that the trading losses at JPMorgan Chase ($JPM) totalled $2 billion and that there might be another $1 billion to add over [...]
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 9:38am -
  • Morning News: May 17, 2012
    Spanish Bond Yields Nudge Higher Ahead Of Auction Bund Yield Approaches Record Low as Spanish Borrowing Costs Rise Japanese Consumers Lead Economic Rebound in First [...]
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:04am -
  • The Einhorn Effect
    David Einhorn, the famous hedge fund manager who foresaw the disaster that was Lehman Brothers, spoke at an investment conference today. When Einhorn talks, traders [...]
    - 4 days 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 [...]
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 2:49pm -

The Big Picture

  • Nassim Taleb: Bad Risk Management & Poor Models Creates Systemic Risk
    BBC Interview with Nassim Taleb on JPMorgan Hat tip Jesse’s Cafe Americain
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:28am -
  • Four Years After AIG, Wall Street Back to its Old Tricks
    > My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This morning, we look at the JPM debacle: Has the Economy been made safe from Wall Street? The short answer is not very. The print version had the full headline Four short years after AIG,…
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:00am -
  • More On J.P. Morgan’s Losses
    The Financial Times - JPMorgan unit has $100bn of risky bonds The unit at the centre of JPMorgan Chase’s $2bn trading loss has built up positions totalling more than $100bn in asset-backed securities and structured products – the complex, risky…
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:30am -
  • 10 Of The Fastest Super Cars In The World
    Bugatti Veyron Super Sport ˜˜˜ Gumpert Apollo ˜˜˜ Hennessey Venom GT ˜˜˜ More after jump Koenigsegg CCX ˜˜˜ Koenigsegg Agera R ˜˜˜ Saleen S7 Twin Turbo ˜˜˜ SSC Ultimate Aero ˜˜˜ McLaren F1 ˜˜˜ Zenvo ST1 ˜˜˜ Noble M600 Sourc…
    - 6 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:00am -
  • 10 Sunday Reads
    Good morning. Its time for some reads to start your Sunday: • The Market Is Starting To Recognize Reality (Comstock Partners, Inc) • Greece’s predicament: Lessons from Argentina (VOX EU) • What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (…
    - 6 hours ago, 20 May 12, 7:30am -
  • Another difficult week for markets
    Indian consumer prices rose by +10.36% in April YoY, as food prices increased, and higher than the +9.38% in March. Headline WPI rose to 7.2% in April, up from 6.9% in March. However, lower oil prices (particularly if sustained) will help materially…
    - 9 hours ago, 20 May 12, 5:00am -
  • Syndicate: If You Can Get It, Run The Other Way
    Given the insane hype surrounding the Facebook IPO, it should really have come as no surprise to anyone that it’s being perceived as a massive flop. (A search at the NY Times website turns up no articles about Cisco Systems 1990 Initial Public Offe…
    - 22 hours ago, 19 May 12, 4:05pm -
  • Dr. Frankenstein’s Europe
    Dr. Frankenstein’s Europe By John Mauldin May 19, 2012           There Is No Easy Grexit A Rational Bank Run Greek Fatigue The Alligator of Bank Runs Who Gets the Old Maid? Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Italy, and Singapore “Had I right,…
    - 22 hours ago, 19 May 12, 3:56pm -

Market Folly

  • Coatue Management's Philippe Laffont on Facebook, Apple, Equinix, Virgin Media & His Portfolio
    Coatue Management's hedge fund founder Philippe Laffont gave his first-ever interview to Bloomberg Television yesterday and talked about Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Equinix (EQIX), Virgin Media (VMED) and his portfolio in general. On Facebook's I…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:18pm -
  • Howard Marks on Oaktree's IPO
    Oaktree Capital's Chairman and founder Howard Marks was recently on Bloomberg TV talking about his company's recent initial public offering (IPO).On pricing an IPO and investing in general: "You can't ignore your environment when you take investme…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:54pm -
  • What We're Reading ~ 5/18/12
    Since we're busy writing the brand new issue of our Hedge Fund Wisdom newsletter that is due out early next week, here are some links for the mean time:If you missed it, notes from the Ira Sohn Conference [Market Folly]Putting lipstick on the pi…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:00am -
  • Kenneth Rogoff: This Time is Different (Ira Sohn Presentation)
    We're posting up notes from the Ira Sohn Conference.  Harvard Professor (and chess grandmaster) Kenneth Rogoff gave a presentation entitled, "This Time is Different" which is also the title of his book (linked above).Record levels of public and pr…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:18pm -
  • Bluescape Resources' John Wilder on Natural Gas: Ira Sohn Presentation
    We're posting up notes from the Ira Sohn Conference.  Bluescape Resources' John Wilder gave a presentation on energy and natural gas.Energy investor, TXU, Entergy turnarounds. Natural gas outlook. "Be careful what you wish for!"Supply and demand…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:18pm -
  • Dan Ariely's Ira Sohn Presentation on Psychology
    We're posting up notes from the Ira Sohn Conference.  Dan Ariely, Professor of Psychology at Duke University gave a presentation on loss aversion, regret, and various psychological topics.Had extreme burn injuries in college. Researched pain, and…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:17pm -
  • Jonathan Kolatch: Long Argentina Sovereign Debt (Ira Sohn Presentation)
    We're posting up notes from the Ira Sohn Conference.  Redwood Capital's Jonathan Kolatch gave a presentation on going long Argentina sovereign debt.  He manages $4 billion, mainly distressed and high yield.Argentina Sovereign Debt: Debt/GDP 44.5%…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:17pm -
  • Meryl Witmer's Presentation on Viacom & Gildan: Ira Sohn
    We're posting up notes from the Ira Sohn Conference.  Eagle Capital Partners' Meryl Witmer gave a presentation on going long Viacom (VIA.B) and Gildan (GIL).She started with Michael Price and is a Barron's Roundtable member.  She seeks out excell…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:17pm -

briefing.com up/down

Notable Calls

Seeking Alpha

  • To QE Or Not To QE, That Is The Question
    By Elliott Orsillo: Global Central Bank Policy I suspect that businesses and investment committees around the world are spending an unusual amount of time discussing what central banks are likely to do next. In too many cases this discussion m…
    - 1 hour ago, 20 May 12, 12:39pm -
  • Weighing The Week Ahead: Any Help From The European Summit?
    By Jeff Miller: The turmoil in Greece and the potential contagion have once again taken center stage.While the economic and debt problems are well-known, the question for many is why should Greece be so important? The answer lies in whether there is…
    - 1 hour ago, 20 May 12, 12:23pm -
  • Industrial Production Not A Useful Indicator For Market Timing
    By On Second Look:The monthly Industrial Production (IP) report comes out in the middle of each month. A summary from the Federal Reserve's website is here: The Federal Reserve's monthly index of industrial production and the related capacity index…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 12:07pm -
  • Textainer Group Holdings: A Safer Way To Invest In World Trade
    By Patience\Virtue:Once upon a time I was instructed that the purpose of a business is to make a profit and generate cash. I rate potential investments on these two facets. It is how companies go about meeting these twin goals that can make things in…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:53am -
  • Van Eck Debuts Proprietary Index While Barclays Drops 'Capital'
    By Stoyan Bojinov:Volatility has returned to Wall Street as the political gridlock in Greece has re-focused investors' attention on the looming debt crisis overseas. With economic uncertainties spilling over on the home front, investors have also…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:51am -
  • Ameresco Misses By 7 Cents- Look To Buy On Any Sell-Off
    By Tom Konrad (AltEnergyStocks): Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC) reported first quarter (Q1) earnings Friday, missing analysts' earnings expectations by two-thirds. While Q1 earnings were only 3 cents compared to the 10 cents expected by analysts, the c…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:43am -
  • U.S. Inflation Data: Seasonally Adjusted CPI Shows Zero Change For April
    By Ed Dolan: The headline number in the latest inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, seasonally adjusted, showed zero change for April 2012. Unrounded data for the month, restated at a…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:35am -
  • Are JPMorgan Chase ETNs Safe?
    By Ron Rowland:I don't know about you, but here in Texas I can barely drive a mile without passing a JPMorgan Chase (JPM) branch. They're even inside the grocery stores. Simply being everywhere doesn't make a bank safe, of course. As we learned la…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:32am -

Forbes

Slope of Hope

  • Canada's Business News Network
    A reader asked if I would do a post recommending Canadian on-line links to the world's financial markets. Here's my take (as a Canadian)... During my trading day I have my TV tuned to BNN (Business News Network). It's Canada's only television service…
    - 3 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:27am -
  • Money Flow for May Week Three
    Further to my last weekly market update, here is a summary of where money flow ended for Week 3 of May 2012. The Weekly charts below of YM, ES, NQ & TF show that they all closed much lower than the prior week on higher volumes. They have now broken o…
    - 18 hours ago, 19 May 12, 7:34pm -
  • Someone Is Lying (by BBFinance)
    The correlation between Euro and SPX has been strong. And yet, something funny happened today. Around noon, Euro surged and SPX dropped. You can see the divergence in the following chart. One of these two is lying. I guess it is SPX. For one, it is m…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 10:17am -
  • Iggy's Favorite Web Ad
    Oh, and on a wholly unrelated note, here's what took place this morning about a mile from where I'm sitting.
    - 2 days ago, 19 May 12, 12:56am -
  • My Assessment of Facebook's Flaccid IPO

    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:08pm -
  • A Flesh & Blood Bar
    Herewith I present to you a couple of pictures that Vittorio was kind of enough to send me from the pre-Slopefest activities. The big event is tomorrow, and I'll be popping by for dinner (my affection for Vegas is well known, so set your kitchen time…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:01pm -
  • It's Time to Short Natural Gas Again

    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 2:23pm -
  • Going Long the Euro
    Well, given my disposition, this is a "man bites dog" kind of post, but I've put together a large long position on the Euro via FXE, and I've also got a long position on crude oil (USO) for the ride. These items are, errrr, not much affected by Inter…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:38pm -

Cheat Sheet

Globe and Mail

DEALBREAKER

  • Write-Offs: 05.18.12
    $$$ G8 leaders urged to focus talks on growth [FT]$$$ JPMorgan Returned $168M To MF Global, Trustee Says [Bloomberg]$$$ Chesapeake Cuts Board Compensation [WSJ]$$$ Ben Horowitz: MBAs aren’t as bad as everyone thinks [PandoDaily]$$$ Bloomberg TV’s…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:06pm -
  • Facebook IPO Goes Nowhere In Exciting Fashion
    What does this tell you? The key facts are that 43mm shares of Facebook changed hands at $38.00, almost all of them at the bid, and another 28.5mm traded at $38.01, largely at the ask.* I am not really smart enough to interpret – humans and algorit…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:25pm -
  • Dads, “Love” Screwed Would-Be Facebook Shareholders Out Of Millions, Billions
    For every Facebook millionaire, there is someone who missed out. Ali Fedotowsky gave it up for love. She left her job in Facebook’s ad-sales department in 2010 to star in her own reality TV show, “The Bachelorette.” Ms. Fedotowsky left behind h…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:54pm -
  • Serious Business Network Brings In Big Guns For Facebook IPO
    When you’ve made the executive decision to turn your business channel into the Facebook IPO Show, it can get difficult figuring out how to fill every second of airtime. Obviously there will be breathless coverage from every conceivable angle, a cou…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:48pm -
  • Formula 1 Heiresses Recommend Real Estate, Dog Facials
    Last year, Petra Ecclestone, daughter of Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, gave the California housing market a boost when she bought 90210 widow Candy Spelling’s 57,000 square foot mansion for $85 million, as a crash pad for when she’s in Los An…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 2:42pm -
  • Call The (Facebook) Close (Update)
    Standard Price Is Right rules, closest without going over, guesses in by 3:45PMWinner gets your choice of an ‘I violently heart Dealbreaker’ embroidered hoodie, a visit from the Sandwich Fairy on Monday, or our Facebook friendships.Continue readi…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:11am -
  • Opening Bell: 05.18.12
    Facebook Employees Spend All Night Programming (DJ) Tech geeks across the Facebook empire — including the New York office — celebrated the company’s IPO and their newfound millions by slugging back energy drinks at all-night code-writing partie…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:03am -
  • Write-Offs: 05.17.12

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The Street

  • Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
    NEW YORK -- Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week. But Chinese regulators attached a big condition: that Google's Android operat…
    - 20 hours ago, 19 May 12, 5:55pm -
  • The Big Lie of the Facebook IPO: Opinion
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- On Friday, like most of you, I watched the nation's media help to perpetrate one of the great frauds in American history. Consider. If I can barely sell 15% of something at $38 a share, if I have to lay out millions-upon-milli…
    - 24 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:07pm -
  • Jim Cramer's Best Blogs
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Jim Cramer fills his blog on RealMoney every day with his up-to-the-minute reactions to what's happening in the market and his legendary ahead-of-the-crowd ideas. This week he blogged on: The relationship between trading in Fa…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 12:49pm -
  • Chrysler Recalls Nearly 87,000 Jeeps
    DETROIT -- Chrysler is recalling nearly 87,000 Jeep Wranglers in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere due to a risk of fires. The recall affects only Wranglers from the 2010 model year that have automatic transmissions and were built before July 14, 2010,…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 11:47am -
  • G8 Leaders Put Focus on Europe
    By Jim Kuhnhenn CAMP DAVID, Md. -- Leaders of the world's economic powers say Germany should balance its push for European fiscal austerity with doses of stimulus spending to avoid a financial calamity with global repercussions. The Group of Eight le…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 10:31am -
  • Facebook IPO Steals Show: Tech Weekly
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Facebook's IPO came and went on Friday, amid mixed reviews. Many were hoping for a massive pop, but shares opened trading at $42.05, after pricing at $38 per share. The offering raised more than $16 billion in the largest tech…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 9:30am -
  • Greek Tensions to Persist in Coming Week
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Market anxiety is expected to stay at elevated levels in the coming week as the political turmoil in Greece goes unresolved. The week is a very light on the economic and earnings fronts, and it comes right before the Memorial…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 9:00am -
  • Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Game Plan for Next Week
    Search Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" trading recommendations using our exclusive "Mad Money" Stock Screener. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The game plan remains the same, Jim Cramer told his "Mad Money" TV show viewers on Friday. He said that U.S. markets are…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:13pm -

Pragmatic Capitalism

  • DALIO’S WORLD….
    Barrons has a really good piece on Ray Dalio this weekend.  The piece does a deep dive into his macro view of the world.  We see things very similarly at ...
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 11:49am -
  • RISK RATIO INDICATES MORE CORRECTION TO COME
    The current market correction should not come as a surprise to any one. There has been consistent and substantial evidence that the rally that began last October was unsustainable. We discussed the coming correction beginning in March (see here, here…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:20pm -
  • CHINA’S PROPERTY MARKET CORRECTION IS IN FULL SWING
    Once again we would like to commend the ISI Group for their extensive work on China. Their latest analysis is showing a correction in the residential housing sector (based on ISI's proprietary index).
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:07pm -
  • THE LONG VIEW ON BOND YIELDS
    Here's some good perspective on the long-term trend in US government bond yields via Chart of the Day:
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:46pm -
  • CHINA’S INCONSISTENT DATA….
    I’ve often discussed inconsistencies in China’s economic stats.   When I think about an economic black box China is the economy that comes to mind. This video from Reuters ...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:22am -
  • SOME NOT SO DEEP THOUGHTS….
    Here we go again.  It’s all about Europe.  And now we’re all in wait and see mode on Greece and whether they’ll default and defect and possibly trigger the Lehman ...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:18am -
  • 6 MACRO OBSERVATIONS AS THE WEEK WINDS DOWN
    Often it seems that market sentiment tends to overshoot in one direction and then the other. Sentiment is clearly in one direction. It remains to be seen if it is overshooting. There are six observations that we'd like to share as you think about not…
    - 3 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:03am -
  • THE MARKET IS STARTING TO RECOGNIZE THE ECONOMIC REALITY
    As we have long expected, the economy is tracing out a trajectory typical of the weak recoveries that follow balance-sheet induced recessions and credit crises caused by highly excessive debt. This is significantly different from the garden-variety…
    - 3 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:01am -

The Reformed Broker

  • Married Men and Money Management
    I've been watching this same exact excitement-daring-defeat-hopelessness cycle play out for years and years, I once branch-managed a room full of these guys (you have no idea).
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 10:00am -
  • Lazy Sunday 2
    Video.
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:29am -
  • The Social Media Vortex
    "If I have a choice of investing in a blockbuster cancer drug that will pay me nothing for ten years, at best, whereas social media will go big in two years, what do you think I'm going to pick?"
    - 7 hours ago, 20 May 12, 6:28am -
  • Saturday Night Video: The D is Back!
    Video.
    - 20 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:00pm -
  • Ray Dalio: Live at Budokan
    The Westport, Conn.-based company is the world's largest hedge-fund firm and one of just a handful of players to place more than one fund on Barron's annual Top 100 Hedge Funds ranking.
    - 22 hours ago, 19 May 12, 3:33pm -
  • Gilbert Gottfried Erotically Narrates Fifty Shades of Grey
    Video.
    - 22 hours ago, 19 May 12, 3:22pm -
  • The Muppets are Pissed
    “I’m very psychic when it comes to stocks, I really am,”
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 11:00am -
  • An All-Time Low
    It's not going well.
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 8:00am -

MISH'S Global

Daily Finance

  • Your 7-Step Midyear Money Checkup
    Filed under: Power of PlanningYou always remember to change the oil in your car ... when the red warning light comes on. You get diligent about flossing ... when the dentist mails the reminder postcard to make an appointment for your six-month checku…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 5:00am -
  • Elon Musk Boldly Goes Where No Entrepreneur Could Afford to Go Before
    Filed under: TechnologyOn Saturday, Elon Musk will make history. Again. This is the man who: Invented PayPal (and sold it to eBay (EBAY) for $1.5 billion). Looked under the hood of the electric car that General Motors (GM) had just killed, a…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:20pm -
  • The Real Facebook Investing Story: How Advisers and Investors Are Using Social Media
    Filed under: Facebook, Market NewsInvestment adviser Mark Matson's firm manages more than $3 billion for thousands of investors, and he's a big believer in coaching those clients in the art of prudent financial planning.But the CEO of Matson Money…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:56pm -
  • Facebook Real-Time Wealth Tracker: What Are the Big Investors' Stakes Worth?
    Filed under: Facebook, Market NewsThe Facebook IPO will make dozens of people rich -- some of them phenomenally so. How big a payday will major Facebook shareholders see? CNBC perused regulatory filings and media sources to determine the major shareh…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:10pm -
  • 28 Crazy Facts You Didn't Know About Facebook
    Filed under: Facebook, Market NewsBy Matt Lynley Facebook has finally gone public.It priced its IPO shares at $38, which means the company is worth more than $104 billion. It's already worth more than most of the tech companies publ…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:45pm -
  • How I Paid Off $27,000 in Credit Card Debt in Two Years
    Filed under: Power of PlanningBy Dana Burgess, as told to Gabrielle KarolI live in Graham, Texas, with my husband and three children, who are 17, 14 and 9 years old. I work full-time at a public school as an "intervention" teacher, helping kids wh…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:25pm -
  • Are ETFs Really Necessary? Pros and Cons of the Investment Craze
    Filed under: Investing, ETFsEverywhere you look, new exchange-traded funds are popping up. Many people think they're a must-have for a successful portfolio. But even though investors have poured more than $1 trillion into ETFs, the question remains:…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:00pm -
  • Despite One Bad Quarter, Don't Discount J.C. Penney's Chances
    Filed under: JC Penney, Apple, Target Corp, Retail, Secret ShopperNancy Pietschnig wasn't at all excited when she first heard about J.C. Penney's (JCP) plan to ditch most of their hundreds of annual sale events, dump their coupons, and just offer low…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:35am -

Oil Price

  • The UK can Protect itself from High Oil Prices by Investing in Renewables
    National energy sectors and are still heavily dependent on the global oil market, and the global oil market is so finely balanced that any disruption ripples out to affect most of the world. This means that domestic energy prices can be heavily influ…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:06pm -
  • The Ocean Prospector will Return to Operation after 14 years on the Dock
    Back in 1971 ODECO designed and built The Ocean Prospector, the first ever semisubmersible drilling rig that was self-propelled, a standard feature with today’s rigs. It operated in warm waters around the world for ODECO and later Diamond Offshore,…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:04pm -
  • Kiev Stands to Lose EU-Russia Natural Gas Game
    European lawmakers this week said they had indications that Kiev was ready to take a closer look at updating its gas transit system. A substantial portion of the Russian natural gas bound for Europe runs through the Soviet-era pipeline system in Ukra…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:49pm -
  • How Falling Energy Costs will Shape the World
    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 we…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:46pm -
  • How the Export of Coal and Natural Gas in the U.S. has Developed over time
    The beaten and bruised US coal industry got up off the floor from the body blows of US EPA’s regulations and got back in the race as an export champion serving energy hungry Asian markets. Fourth quarter 2011 US coal exports increased 6.6 percent f…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:37pm -
  • US States start to Battle it out to Win the Eye of the Algae Industry
    Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a pair of bills recognizing so-called “algaculture” following passage in the Arizona state legislature that will see the Grand Canyon State encourage and support the algae industry. Arizona is the second American s…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:31pm -
  • The Effects of Global Warming being Felt in the US
    In a recent PBS documentary, the mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, Paul Fraim, talks about how flooding has become a monthly occurrence in his town, and how global warming and sea level rise are as much a daily issue for him as education and fighting crime…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:28pm -
  • Saudi Arabian Hackers Attack Iranian Oil Companies
    According to PANA News several state-backed Iranian oil firms have recently been targeted by a group of hackers from Saudi Arabia.The websites of the Iranol, the Iranian Oil Ministry, and the National Iranian Oil Company were all targeted by a worm (…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:19pm -

Kid Dynamite

Bespoke

  • This Market Needs a 'Like' Button
    Each Friday, members of our Bespoke subscription services receive our Week in Review newsletter.  This report provides Bespoke's current market thoughts through commentary and the unique graphs and charts that our clients have come to love.  …
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 7:59am -
  • Earnings Day Gains Wiped Out and Then Some
    Over at Bespoke Premium, we have just published our multi-page earnings season wrap-up report.  In the report we highlighted that the average stock declined 0.47% on its report day this past earnings season, which is a pretty negative reading.  Eve…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:39pm -
  • S&P 500 Higher or Lower From Here?
    Another day, another down market.  May has been ugly so far, and that's an understatement.  The Dow has been down 12 of the last 13 trading days, and it has only been up twice so far this month.  Even Europe has had four up days this month.  So w…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:06pm -
  • First Quarter Earnings Season Final Stats
    Earnings season looked like it might be a memorable earnings season early on, but it ended up being one to forget.  On the following pages we take a look at final first quarter earnings season stats.  In the first chart below, we highlight the pe…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:36pm -
  • Out of the Gate at $42.05
    Shares of Facebook (FB) came out of the gate today at a price of $42.05, making it the 22nd most valuable company in the United States.  At that price, FB is bigger than PEP, AMZN, and MCD but still smaller than KO, JPM, and MRK.Subscribe to Besp…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:07am -
  • Dow 12,000 or 13,000? Which Comes First?
    Earlier today when the Dow was trading at 12,500 (it's now at 12,442), we asked Bespoke readers which level they thought the index would reach first -- 12,000 or 13,000.  As shown below, bears were in the majority, but by a very small margin.  As s…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:48pm -
  • S&P 500 vs. Obama Re-Election Odds
    Business Insider has pointed out this relationship before, but it's worth pointing out again now that the market has been trading lower.  Intrade.com has 2012 Presidential election odds for both President Obama and Mitt Romney.  Currently, Presiden…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:28pm -
  • Bespoke's Sector Snapshot
    Each Thursday over at Bespoke Premium, we publish our Sector Snapshot, which highlights multiple technical and fundamental indicators for each of the ten S&P 500 sectors.  In this week's report, we take a look at where the market currently stands an…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:00pm -

Investopedia

ibankcoin

  • Pretending is Over, For The Moment…
    Well, well, well. So we dribbed and drabbed to get back to the halfway mark of the ”Europe is Saved” rally. It took six weeks to give back about 100 SPX points. Then we lost another 25 points in a day and a half. There is plenty of blame for th…
    - 15 hours ago, 19 May 12, 11:05pm -
  • Earnings On Deck
            Monday: Lowe’s Companies Inc    LOW Rediff Com India Ltd    REDF Urban Outfitters Inc    URBN Tuesday: Autozone Inc    AZO Avago Technologies Ltd    AVGO Best Buy Co Inc    BBY Dell Inc    DELL GUESS? Inc    GES…
    - 15 hours ago, 19 May 12, 10:52pm -
  • Saturday Night at Chess Cinemas
    You want to talk about foreshadowing the way Wall Street has become? How about a mathematical genius who believes he can boil the stock market down to a basic code found in ancient holy scriptures? I was lucky enough to catch Pi (1998) on the big scr…
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 10:01pm -
  • Weekly Stock #Market Recap 05/19/12
    Direct Vimeo Link Click Here
    - 22 hours ago, 19 May 12, 3:19pm -
  • Saturday Afternoon Cinemas, Hosted by Le Fly
    In this scene, the fucker with the odd facial hair, eating the steak, is opting to have his body placed in a giant pod to be used as a battery and later liquidated when his body runs low on “energy”– by his robot overlords–just so that he doe…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 12:25pm -
  • SOCIALLY CLOWN RAPED
    I’ve been hysterically laughing to myself for the past hour. My wife was scornfully growling at me, as tears of hysteria rolled down my cheek. First, do not misconstrue my feelings about today as being insensitive to those of you who incurred losse…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:13pm -
  • Enough To Scare Me
    Fly mentioned on twitter that $TLT is screaming crash, and I couldn’t agree more. Take a look at the 5yr chart of $TLT: ______________     That’s one bullish chart that is screaming risk off. I went ahead and took all my risk off the table and…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 2:57pm -
  • Okay, Can We Get Back to Financial Armageddon Again?
    Who would have known the vampire that is Facebook would have sucked my YELP position dry, fucking the entirety of the social media sector? TELL ME, WHO WOULD FUCKING KNOW THIS INFORMATION (ask Chuck Bennett for the answer)? Back in the old days, when…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:06pm -

Aleph

  • Post 1800
    So, what do I write about at the Aleph Blog?  I write about a lot of things.  That’s a strength, and a weakness.  A weakness, because not everyone cares about a lot of things and if I shift to cover an area that is unusual, readers may not care.…
    - 13 hours ago, 20 May 12, 12:38am -
  • Sorted Weekly Tweets
    Eurozone   If Greece Quits Euro, Its Ruin Will Be Pointless http://t.co/2DotggME Suggests Greece will face more pain if leaves E-zone than stays $$ May 17, 2012 Experts Try to Chart Path for Exit From Currency http://t.co/dtIAoo3g Let’s see, where…
    - 15 hours ago, 19 May 12, 10:24pm -
  • In Defense of Nothing
    Two years ago, I was at a board meeting for a nonprofit that I serve, and during a break, one of the older gentlemen made a statement that the big problem with America is that we don’t make anything anymore.  I suggested to him that many services…
    - 2 days ago, 19 May 12, 1:24am -
  • Don’t Become the Market
    It was late 1993, and I knew that we could make a lot of money if I sold floating-rate Guaranteed Investment Contracts.  Let me quote an earlier piece: My goal as an actuarial businessman was to make profits with modest risk for my ultimate owners,…
    - 3 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:38am -
  • Elderly Poor?
    There will be elderly poor.  Look at page 26 of this PDF.  I interpret those that don’t know or declined as being well below $50K in assets.  That means 60% of those reaching “retirement age” will have less than two years income stored up. T…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 12:26pm -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 6 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…
    - 8 days ago, 13 May 12, 12:08am -

Yahoo Finance

  • Wall Street Week Ahead: Market is oversold, but major signs say "sell"
    Normally a big decline would set up Wall Street for a technical rebound. But that may not be the case this week, even after the market posted its worst weekly loss for the year and the S&P fell for six ...
    - 44 mins ago, 20 May 12, 1:00pm -
  • Apple, Samsung CEOs head to court-ordered play date
    The chiefs of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal ...
    - 44 mins ago, 20 May 12, 1:00pm -
  • Euro zone row gets fat pay rise for German workers
    A record-breaking pay deal will give millions of German workers their biggest rise in wages in two decades, boost consumption in Europe's biggest economy and help towards adjusting the regional imbalances ...
    - 44 mins ago, 20 May 12, 1:00pm -
  • U.S. banking laws unable to stop JPMorgan loss: Republican Boehner
    U.S. banking reforms could not have prevented JPMorgan Chase & Co's trading losses, and those involved in the activities that went awry should be held accountable, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker ...
    - 44 mins ago, 20 May 12, 1:00pm -
  • Weaker euro zone nations need more support from core: UK
    The euro zone can protect its currency if its stronger countries provide more support for the weaker to help them deal with their problems, British finance minister George Osborne said in a newspaper on ...
    - 44 mins ago, 20 May 12, 1:00pm -
  • Insight: China pays high price to spare state firm from bankruptcy
    The Chinese official was adamant the city of Weifang would keep its rayon factory open, noting that local authorities had just stepped in to help the plant's owner repay $60 million in commercial paper. ...
    - 44 mins ago, 20 May 12, 1:00pm -
  • Status update: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg gets married
    Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update on the social networking site. The 28-year-old billionaire's ...
    - 44 mins ago, 20 May 12, 1:00pm -
  • China state-run businesses to invest 350 billion yuan in Chongqing
    Thirty of China's biggest state-owned businesses have signed contracts worth about 350 billion yuan with the southwestern municipality Chongqing, Chinese media reported on Sunday, in a sign of Beijing's ...
    - 44 mins ago, 20 May 12, 1:00pm -

The Atlantic

Random Roger

  • Sunday Morning Coffee
    Some of you may know about a fire near Prescott called the Gladiator Fire. It started last Sunday as a structure fire that got into the forest. This fire is now close enough to Walker that we need start preparing to evacuate and as fire chief I am ob…
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:20am -
  • The Big Picture for the Week of May 20, 2012
    A reader asks;What percentage of your client's equities do you sell if the 200-day is breached?There is no specific answer. Part of the process as mentioned in past posts is having an understanding of market history and combining that with what appea…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 8:19am -
  • Check Yourself
    Yesterday I was asked a question about preemptively taking defensive action before a breach of the 200 DMA in what has obviously been a poor tape for the last couple of weeks or so. Weeks like this is exactly what all those posts about discipline and…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:18am -
  • Trade Executed
    If you watch any of the shows on stock market television with real traders then you have heard them say on more than one occasion something like "we bought at the low in the after hours yesterday" or "we sold at the high two days ago." Well this isn'…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:17am -
  • 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 7 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…
    - 8 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…
    - 9 days ago, 11 May 12, 8:11am -

World Beta

  • Long Way Down
    Here is the graphic from the last post of 30 country ETFs we track, and you can see the US is holding up much better than the rest of the world (note that the all-time high will only date back to when the ETF existed, so will understate some like Jap…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:04pm -
  • 2 Out Of 3 Countries Are In A Bear Market
    I took at look at the top 30 country ETFs we track, and thought it interesting that two out of three were in bear market territory (down 20% or more from 52 week highs). The best performer?  The US stock market. Spain, Italy, Russian, and Austrian E…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 2:46pm -
  • 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
    - 5 days 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 6 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…
    - 9 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…
    - 11 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.
    - 11 days ago, 9 May 12, 1:12pm -

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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 17 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…
    - 20 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…
    - 28 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…
    - 34 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…
    - 34 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…
    - 38 days ago, 12 Apr 12, 6:18am -

Angry Bear

Telegraph Finance

Businessweek

FT Alphaville

  • The Weekender
    This week on FT Alphaville,- Remember the Chinese RRR cut? It was only Monday. But it wasn’t ‘easing’.- Some mystery liquidity providers popped up in the oil market....
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  • It’s gotta close greenshoe!
    Update after the close: It closed green(shoe) at $38.23 according to Bloomberg data. But not until after a few moments close to $38.00, as seen below earlier…Facebook shares at pixel time,...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:51pm -
  • [JPM Whale-Watching Tour] Tracking trades down
    The last twenty-four hours have brought us some interesting insights into the JPMorgan chief investment office’s $2bn loss story. The FT revealed that the CIO has been a...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 2:14pm -
  • BoE goes ex-Posen
    This is careless. The Bank of England has managed to lose Adam Posen, the outspoken American dove on the Monetary Policy Committee. He’s off to the Peterson Institute in Washington,...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:15pm -
  • Another day, another SNB rumour
    Swiss franc traders have been pretty bored of late, with the euro/Swiss franc flatlining for months. But it seems they’ve had some rare excitement this week: someone out...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:46pm -
  • With Facebook, give thanks for greenshoes
    After an open of $42.05, against the $38 IPO price, Facebook stock quickly reverted to the sale price on Friday — at which level we presume those banks with the over-allotment mandate (MOST,...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:27pm -
  • Caption this, Zuckerberg edition
    Via the FT Tech liveblog. Winner possibly gets this…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:13am -
  • 18/05/2012 (Before-FB)
    Is life as we know it gonna change after 11am New York time on Friday?Will Mark Zuckerberg be crowned emperor of the dweebs (just as Napoleon was crowned emperor of the French...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:57am -

Traders Anonymous

  • AmenRa's Corner 5.18.12
    Bear Black Ops Mission: Codename "FB" Creditcane™: Was it as good for you as it was for me?SPXBearish short day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Still failing SMA(144). Tested and failed the 38.2% retrace (1296.82). New low on daily 3LB (reversal is 1330.…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:13pm -
  • AmenRa's Corner 5.17.12
    Creditcane™: FB can not, will not, never will save you from my wrath.SPXBearish long day. Midpoint below EMA(10). Tested and failed SMA(144). Failing the 61.8% minor retrace (1343.55). New low on daily 3LB (reversal is 1338.35). QE2infinity. DXYS…
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  • AmenRa's Corner 5.16.12
    "I'm still HUNGRY!!!" Creditcane™: These are only the ads at the start of the movie. The main feature has yet to begin.SPXInverted hammer day (prefer a higher close though). Midpoint below EMA(10). Failing SMA(89). Tested and failed the 61.8% minor…
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  • 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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Fox Business

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…
    - 83 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…
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  • 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: 5-18-12
    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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    - 11 days ago, 9 May 12, 8:52am -

Carl Futia

  • Guesstimates on May 18, 2012
    June S&P E-mini Futures: Today's range estimate is 1301-1316. I think the end of the drop from 1419.75 is imminent. QQQ:  Downside target is 62.50.          TNX (ten year note yield):  The 10 year yield is back to the low of its recent mul…
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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…
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  • Guesstimates on May 17, 2012
    June S&P E-mini Futures: Today's range estimate is 1314-1330. The ES has reached the 1310-20 target zone. I think the end of the drop from 1419.75 is imminent. QQQ:  Downside target is 62.50.          TNX (ten year note yield):  The 10 yea…
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  • 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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Zen Trader

  • We Are In Oversold Territory
    With that said we are also entering crash territory. We are getting in a grey area where a crash could happen, but those always have a small odd percentage. I’d say 85% we bounce and 15% we crash. Every day we’re down I would say subtract 5% fro…
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  • Short Trade Is Getting Crowded
    We are seeing some extreme readings on the put call ratio and we need some time to work off these oversold readings. Remember that the crowd is mostly wrong. Given the the Facebook IPO was a flop and expectations so high we may see more follow throug…
    - 2 days ago, 19 May 12, 1:39am -
  • Option Trader’s Emotions Are Shifting
    By Chris Ebert All three option indices experienced changes this week, signaling a shift in the emotions of traders. When emotions change, trading patterns tend to do so as well. The most notable difference this week was in the Long Call/Married Put…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:45am -
  • Market Astrology:Can Facebook Bailout California?
    By Karen Starich I wrote to my subscribers beginning on April 8, 2012 to be very mindful of three very critical dates: 4/19, 5/3, and 5/18, and to watch for a setback in the financials.  I also warned that there could be default worries regarding C…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:21pm -
  • Pre Facebook IPO Jitters
    Market Timing Signal chart. This update took forever to load and should have been posted 30 minutes ago. Pro currency trader trades live every day using his unique methods to swing trade with counter trend lines in the direction of the Fibonacci’s.…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:05pm -
  • No Rush To Buy Precious Metals
    There are 2 major views on the metals right now. the bull is dead the bull is hibernating I’m in the 3rd group.  The bull is still alive, but I would not be in any rush to buy any miners until there is a significant flush out. Let these two groups…
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  • 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…
    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 6:14pm -

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…
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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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  • [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…
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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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  • 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…
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  • 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

  • World Markets Weekend Review: The Rout Continues
    May 20, 2012 Doug Short  For the second week in a row, all eight indexes on my world watch list posted significant declines, with an average loss of 3.81%. The FTSE 100, which comprises over 80% of the London Stock Exchange, was the worst perform…
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  • Best Stock Market Indicator Update: OEXA200R Is Now at 55%
    May 19, 2012 John F. Carlucci  As we all know, the key to successful investing is very simple: "Buy low, sell high." However, you enter a chaotic, fun-house world of uncertainty once you ponder the logical follow-up question: "When?" The $OEXA2…
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  • Getting Technical: Weekend Update
    May 18, 2012 Serge Perreault  Here's the latest weekend update from Serge Perreault, a Chartered Accountant and market technician located near Montreal, Canada. Serge has been following the U.S. market in a series of weekly charts. Here is his up…
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  • Risk Ratio Indicates More Correction Coming
    May 18, 2012 Lance Roberts  The current market correction should not come as a surprise to any one. There has been consistent and substantial evidence that the rally that began last October was unsustainable. The question now is whether the curre…
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  • S&P 500 Snapshot: Friday Selloff Ends the Worst Week of 2012
    May 18, 2012 Doug Short  Facebook mania notwithstanding, the S&P 500 posted its sixth consecutive decline, the longest losing streak of 2012, to close the day below 1,300 -- a loss of 0.74% for the day and 4.30% for the week, which is its worst w…
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  • ECRI Recession Call Update: WLI Declines, But Growth Improves Slightly
    May 18, 2012 Doug Short  The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) growth indicator of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) is now at 0.4 as reported in today's public release of the data through May 11, up from the previous week's revised 0.0. Howe…
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  • Is This the Start of 'The Big One'?
    May 18, 2012 John F. Carlucci  As regular readers of my weekly update know, the OEXA200R (the percentage of S&P 100 stocks above their 200 DMA) is a valuable metric for accurately assessing the state of the market in order to make profitable trad…
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  • Fed Intervention and the Market: Looking Good, Ben!
    May 17, 2012 Doug Short  Note from dshort: I've updated the charts below in commemoration of today's historic closing low for the 10-year Treasury yield and the all-time 30-year fixed rate mortgage low. We still have about six weeks of "Twist" le…
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Contrarian Advisor

  • PHILLY FED WEIGHS IN ON ECONOMY
    http://www.briefing.com/Investor/Calendars/Economic/Releases/phil.htm
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:41am -
  • AAPL TAKES A FACE PLANT
    An oversold market that doesn't rally is a market in trouble.D
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:59pm -
  • A FEW HEADLINES
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/banks-must-raise-566-billion-112603628.htmlhttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/india-q1-gold-consumer-demand-051133765.htmlhttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/foreclosures-plunge-five-low-u-040100918.html
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:55am -
  • HOW TO COVER UP DEBT WITH A KEYSTROKE
    Brought to you by a 12 yr old.
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 7:46pm -
  • 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…
    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 6:15am -
  • BREAKDOWN FROM CONSOLIDATION

    - 6 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
    - 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:59am -

IBTimes

Daneric's Elliott Waves

  • Elliott Wave Update ~ 18 May 2012
    Monthly candle already looks horrible and there is still a lot of trading left.  But what I wanted to show with this is that the simple RSI divergence is being confirmed. Weekly:SPX Daily. Tight acceleration channel. Ended today at support,…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:15pm -
  • E-minis

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  • Elliott Wave Update ~ 17 May 2012 [Update 8:21PM]
    Update 8:21PM: Top short term bullish alternate is that the market requires a severe short covering rally to the 1345-1350 range to relieve extreme oversold.  This price range is derived from the wave (i) low.  A subwave ii should therefore overlap…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:55pm -
  • E-minis

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  • Elliott Wave Update ~ 16 May 2012 [Update 7:10PM]
    Update 7:10PM: Here is today's Investor's Intelligence Sentiment Survey via Sentiment Trader. Still at 63% Bull ratio, this shows just how complacent the market still is.   Yes Bulls have fallen off but Bears are still only an incredibly low 22.…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 4:45pm -

Front-Run The Delta

  • An Update on Euro Zone's Yield Curves
    The greatest experiment in multi-national currency reform continues to unfold.  I don't expect the Euro to dissolve in the complete sense, however I expect one or several member-states to remove themselves from the system and reissue an IMF-backed c…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:16am -
  • 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 12 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…
    - 39 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…
    - 46 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…
    - 46 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…
    - 88 days ago, 22 Feb 12, 3:25pm -

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…
    - 12 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…
    - 12 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…
    - 16 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…
    - 17 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…
    - 18 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…
    - 19 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…
    - 20 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…
    - 26 days ago, 24 Apr 12, 12:19pm -

Goldman Sachs - Viewpoints

Pictet

BNY Mellon

  • 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...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:45am -
  • Don’t leave me now
    Banking sector fragility is the topic de jour in Europe right now, and another burden for beleaguered Greeks
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:01am -
  • Down to earth
    There are growing, and justifiable concerns about the Chinese property sector and its implications for growth
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:24pm -
  • Down to earth
    There are growing, and justifiable concerns about the Chinese property sector and its implications for growth
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:18am -
  • 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
    - 4 days 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
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 4:59am -
  • Blowout
    Currency options volatility prices continue to evoke calm
    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 5:04pm -
  • Blowout
    Currency options volatility prices continue to evoke calm
    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 4:22am -

My Investing Notebook

  • Buffett, Munger, And Gates on Fox
    9 videos (embedded below.) Shop at Amazon.com and support My Investing Notebook
    - 10 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
    - 12 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.…
    - 16 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
    - 19 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
    - 19 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…
    - 21 days ago, 29 Apr 12, 7:12pm -
  • Bill Ackman on Canadian Pacific
    videoShop at Amazon.com and support My Investing Notebook
    - 27 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…
    - 30 days ago, 20 Apr 12, 6:09pm -

Spiegel

FINalternatives

  • Magnetar Probed Over NIR-Linked CDO
    Magnetar Capital's name has been bandied about in several collateralized debt obligation investigations in recent years. Now, the Securities and Exchange Commission is probing the Evanston, Ill.-based firm's role in building some of the $30 billion i…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:15am -
  • QVT Pair Prepares $100 Million Hedge Fund Launch
    Two QVT Financial founders are preparing the delayed launch of their hedge fund, some two years in the works.read more
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:13am -
  • Wiretaps OKed For Gupta Trial As Sides Offer Witness Lists
    The shape of former McKinsey & Co. chief Rajat Gupta's trial on charges that he passed confidential information to Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam has come into closer focus with just days to go before its start.read more
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:12am -
  • Pershing Square Wins Proxy Fight With Canadian Railroad
    Pershing Square Capital Management has won a resounding victory in its high-profile proxy battle with Canadian Pacific Railways.read more
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:11am -
  • Hedge Funds Lose Ground In Early May
    After posting very modest gains in April, hedge funds returned to their losing ways in the first two weeks of May.read more
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:10am -
  • Hedge Fund Vet Sought To Buy Mortgage Lender For Berkshire
    Prior to its bankruptcy filing and a deal to sell its assets to Fortress Investment Group, Ally Financial's Residential Capital unit was approached by Berkshire Hathaway—led by one of Warren Buffett's new hedge fund protégés.read more
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:09am -
  • SAC Healthcare Manager Evans Out
    A SAC Capital Advisors healthcare hedge fund manager has left the firm, possibly to launch his own hedge fund.read more
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:08am -
  • Conn. Hedge Fund Manager Stole $700K, Regulator Says
    Connecticut authorities have accused a Norwalk hedge fund manager of stealing some $845,000 from his hedge fund.read more
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:07am -

Market Ticker

All About Alpha

  • The Bigger They Are, The Harder They (Should) Fail
    Ron Resnick, a co-founder of the financial consulting firm CounselWorks, offers this view of the JPMorgan trading loss:
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Quick Course: 140 Years of Panics and Policy
    Should a lender of last resort lower interest rates to near zero in the hope that liquidity will drown systemic sorrows? Bagehot argues for a contrary approach. The interest rates for loans made to desperate borrowers should be high. “This will ope…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 6 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.
    - 7 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 (“…
    - 10 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…
    - 11 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…
    - 12 days ago, 8 May 12, 8:00pm -

Investment News

IBD

  • Stock Indexes Showing Consistently Bad Action
    Stocks racked up a complete week of daily losses, the first time that has happened since the holiday-shortened Thanksgiving week. The Nasdaq and the IBD 50 each dropped 1.2% Friday, while the S&P 500 and the NYSE composite each shaved 0.7%.Volume ros…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:11pm -
  • Sector Leaders' List Shrinks After Many Fall Again
    The Sector Leaders' list shrank again on Friday after many top stocks again suffered widespread losses, with many falling in high volume. The list shrank for a third day, to 15, after Apple (AAPL) and Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) dropped out, replaced b…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:00pm -
  • How To Reduce Taxes On Your Social Security Benefits
    Social Security benefits -- yours, your parents or an elderly relative's, let's say -- can be subject to income tax. But you can take steps to minimize or avoid the hit, which can save thousands of dollars. The key is to trim your non-Social Security…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:49pm -
  • Medical Stocks Forming Bases Amid Market Sell-Off
    Medical stocks have held up relatively well during the current correction, with many forming bases at a time when other leaders are breaking down. The medical sector contributed seven stocks to this week's IBD 50, including three in the top 15. It's…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:43pm -
  • New Highs Analysis: Wal-Mart Touches Multiyear Peak
    Wal-Mart (WMT) scored a place on the new highs list Friday, as the retail king touched a multiyear high of 62.63. That actually wasn't a completely brand-new peak, but rather the stock matched a prior high. Wal-Mart previously climbed to the 62.63 le…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:38pm -
  • Vitamin Shoppe Tests Traders' Resolve At Buy Point
    In a hostile market environment, breakouts often turn into a test of institutional demand. What exactly is such a test? Imagine a stock that breaks out past a proper buy point of 46.24. It has all of the characteristics of a CAN SLIM leader. Sure eno…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:07pm -
  • Guggenheim Defensive Equity Faring Better Than Market
    Some stocks will tend to hold up in tough market conditions. These defensive issues generally come from the food, utility, telecom or tobacco spaces. Even though they tend to take less heat when the market gets rough, they can still get hit hard on o…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:07pm -
  • Wheat Notches Biggest Weekly Gain In 16 Years
    Wheat headed for its biggest weekly gain in 16 years on Friday, adding about 16% to prices as hot and dry weather kept fears simmering about production losses in the U.S. Plains and Russia. Soybeans slipped after three straight sessions of gains, whi…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:07pm -

Between The Hedges

  • Market Week in Review
    S&P 500 1,295.22 -4.30%*The Weekly Wrap by Briefing.com.*5-Day Change
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:31pm -
  • Weekly Scoreboard*
    IndicesS&P 500 1,295.22 -4.30%DJIA 12,369.30 -3.52%NASDAQ 2,778.79 -5.28%Russell 2000 747.21 -5.42%Value Line Geometric(broad market) 329.66 -5.63%Russell 1000 Growth 606.62 -4.74%Russell 1000 Value 634.26 -4.34%Morgan Stanley Consumer 766.19 -3.11%M…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:23pm -
  • Stocks Falling into Final Hour on Rising Eurozone Debt Angst, Rising Global Growth Fears, Disappointing FB IPO, Technical Selling
    Broad Market Tone: Advance/Decline Line: LowerSector Performance: Almost Every Sector DecliningVolume: Above AverageMarket Leading Stocks: UnderperformingEquity Investor Angst: VIX 24.69 +.82%ISE Sentiment Index 100.0 +12.36%To…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:21pm -
  • Today's Headlines
    Bloomberg: Spanish Banks Bad Loans Worsen as Recession Bites: Economy. More Spanish loans soured in March, fueling concern that the government's focus on making banks clean up real estate was too narrow as the country's economy entered a recessio…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:08pm -
  • Bear Radar
    Style Underperformer:Mid-Cap Growth -.90%Sector Underperformers:1) Coal -3.80% 2) Disk Drives -2.0% 3) Alternative Energy-2.0%Stocks Falling on Unusual Volume:ZNGA, ADSK, IMOS, SPWR, MCP, ARQL, CLMT, ATPG, KEP, EFII, ELP, SVVC, GSVC, ZUMZ, HIBB, ARUN…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:49pm -
  • Bull Radar
    Style Outperformer:Large-Cap Value -.20%Sector Outperformers: 1) Gold & Silver +1.29% 2) Utilities +.40% 3) Tobacco +.36%Stocks Rising on Unusual Volume:CRM, VELT, SGEN, YHOO, FINL, INTU, WYNN, MPEL, BWS, FL, BAS and AROStocks With Unu…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:55am -
  • Friday Watch
    Evening HeadlinesBloomberg: Santander, BBVA Among Spanish Banks Downgraded by Moody’s. Banco Santander (SAN) SA and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, Spain’s biggest lenders, were cut three levels by Moody’s Investors Service, which cited a r…
    - 3 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:34am -
  • Stocks Falling into Final Hour on Rising Eurozone Debt Angst, Rising Global Growth Fears, Less Financial/Tech Sector Optimism, Technical Selling
    Broad Market Tone: Advance/Decline Line: Sharply LowerSector Performance: Almost Every Sector DecliningVolume: Slightly Below AverageMarket Leading Stocks: UnderperformingEquity Investor Angst: VIX 23.33 +4.76%ISE Sentiment Ind…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 3:27pm -

Crain's

  • Five tough years for top publicly traded companies
    The Great Recession leaves a lasting mark on most of them and overcomes a few.
    - 7 hours ago, 20 May 12, 6:59am -
  • IBM takes starring role as a tech hero
    101-year-old giant's results put many youngsters to shame.
    - 7 hours ago, 20 May 12, 6:59am -
  • Economists skeptical of city's record job gains
    While the city economy is certainly gathering momentum, economists are skeptical that it's growing faster than at any time since the 1950s, as data released Thursday showed.An analysis of state Department of Labor data revealed that the city added 60…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:36pm -
  • In the Markets: Facebook winners and losers
    A clear list of victors emerged just hours after Facebook Inc. went public.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:22pm -
  • Facebook makes its public debut
    Facebook is updating its status to "public company" as its stock makes its debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market.The stock opened at $42.05 on Friday morning. It later touched its offering price of $38 before rising again. Toward the end of the day, the…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:15pm -
  • Loft sales lift Ann Inc.'s 1Q earnings
    Ann Inc.'s fiscal first-quarter net income rose 5%, buoyed by growing sales at Loft, the retailer's more casual, less expensive chain, and lower discounting.The women's clothing company, which runs pricier Ann Taylor stores as well as outlets of bot…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:18am -
  • Facebook set to price initial public offering
    Facebook's initial public offering is shaping up to be one of the largest in history. It's expected to be a big payoff for a company that started out eight years ago with no way to make money.Facebook Inc. will likely price its IPO late Thursday, mea…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:56pm -
  • JPMorgan's loss prompts Fed review
    JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s $2 billion trading loss has prompted the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to examine how banks in its district are managing a wave of deposits that has flooded the financial system since the credit crisis, according to a person…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:36pm -

stockcharts.com

  • PUBLIC CHARTLIST OF THE WEEK, PINTEREST.COM CHARTING CONTEST
    BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE PUBLIC CHARTLIST OF THE WEEK - Each week, Chip is singling out one of the Public ChartLists for recognition as the "Public ChartList of the Week." Two weeks ago it was Gary Berkley's "Simple Systems" list. This week it is Dir…
    - 17 hours ago, 19 May 12, 8:32pm -
  • FOREIGN HEAD AND SHOULDER TOPS?
    What really worries me about the direction of stocks is the possibility that foreign stock indexes could be tracing out two-year "head and shoulder" tops. That's true of both developed and emerging markets. Chart 1 shows EAFE iShares tracing out a te…
    - 19 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:28pm -
  • TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RISK IN $INDU
    An important tops looks to be in place in the Dow Industrials ($INDU) by month's end if the current pattern holds true to form. Quite simply, the $INDU is forming a bearish wedge pattern, of which rising trendline support looks to be violated in the…
    - 19 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:23pm -
  • MOMENTUM IS CREATING OPPORTUNITIES - ON THE BEARISH SIDE
    The long-term negative divergences that printed in February and March provided us clues that we'd at least see some near-term trepidation and possibly something much worse. Well, the "much worse" has arrived. There is no technical sign - bullish or b…
    - 19 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:17pm -
  • BULLISH PERCENT INDEX LED MARKETS LOWER
    Hello Fellow ChartWatchers! Did you follow the Facebook mania yesterday? Even if you didn't have a stake in the stock, it was still fascinating to watch the chart over the course of the day as the underwriters had to step in to prop it up. I've added…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 11:46am -
  • DOW THEORY SELL SIGNAL NOW IN FORCE
    With big declines this past week, the Dow Industrials and Dow Transports both broke support levels and forged lower lows. Confirmed lower lows amount to a Dow Theory sell signal. The first chart shows the Dow Industrials forming a double top and brea…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 8:27am -
  • CORRECTION LOW MAY BE WEEKS AWAY
    The current correction is creating very oversold conditions on intermediate-term indicators, like the ITBM (breadth) and ITVM (volume). While oversold indicators often signal final price lows for a correction, extremely oversold readings are a sign t…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:01pm -
  • SEATTLE SCU SEMINAR HAS FIVE SPOTS LEFT
    OUR JUNE SCU SEMINAR IN SEATTLE IS ALMOST FULL - Our LA seminar was a huge success. Don't miss out on a full day of StockCharts training and advice. Our next event is in Seattle on June 16 and there are just five slots still open. If you are in the S…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:07pm -

Dash of Insight

  • Weighing the Week Ahead: Any Help from the European Summit?
    The turmoil in Greece and the potential contagion have once again taken center stage. While the economic and debt problems are well-known, the question for many is why should Greece be so important? The answer lies in whether there is...
    - 12 hours ago, 20 May 12, 2:05am -
  • Possible Endings for the Greek Drama
    I did not set out to write a trilogy about Europe, but the market is telling us that nothing else matters right now. My long-standing position is that Europe is engaged in a normal democratic political process with a very...
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 10:19pm -
  • 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...
    - 5 days 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..…
    - 8 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...
    - 10 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...
    - 12 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...
    - 15 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…
    - 18 days ago, 3 May 12, 12:11am -

Guru Focus

Seeking Alpha - Long Ideas

  • Ameresco Misses By 7 Cents- Look To Buy On Any Sell-Off
    By Tom Konrad (AltEnergyStocks): Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC) reported first quarter (Q1) earnings Friday, missing analysts' earnings expectations by two-thirds. While Q1 earnings were only 3 cents compared to the 10 cents expected by analysts, the c…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:43am -
  • A Quality Value Play: J2 Global Communications
    By Jin She:J2 Global Communications (JCOM) is a ~$1.1B market cap company that provides cloud-based communication services to business customers. The company helps corporations digitize various business communications (fax, phone, and online voice me…
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:57am -
  • Applied Materials Ready To Bounce On Book To Bill Improvement
    By Arie Goren:On May 17, 2012, Applied Materials (AMAT), the global leader in providing manufacturing solutions for the semiconductor, display and solar industries, reported results for its second quarter of fiscal 2012 (ended April 29, 2012) which…
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:21am -
  • Velti: A Small, Undervalued Company With High Growth Potential
    By David Zanoni:Velti (VELT) is a $424 million small-cap Ireland based company with a leading global marketing platform that connects brands with consumers. The company is the largest mobile marketing provider listed on the Nasdaq. It is reinventing…
    - 6 hours ago, 20 May 12, 7:27am -
  • Valuing Facebook Against Its Peers: Can A Case Be Made For The Stock?
    By Helix Investment Management:The hype surrounding the Facebook (FB) IPO resembled something seen in the heyday of the dot-com era, with the fervor reaching a fever pitch on Thursday, May 17, the day before Facebook started trading on the NASDAQ. Th…
    - 7 hours ago, 20 May 12, 6:50am -
  • The Final Nails In The Dot-Com Coffin: Facebook And Apple
    By Stanley Barton:The beauty of being a long-term, value investor is that you get vindication every 20 years or so. Unfortunately, that is small compensation for all those luncheons with colleagues bragging about their stock picks doubling, when the…
    - 8 hours ago, 20 May 12, 6:02am -
  • Hewlett Packard: 75% Profit Likely By Mid 2014
    By Stock Croc:Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) has not had a good going of late. Its stock is down over 14% in 2012 and most analysts are lukewarm to its prospects. When HP reports its first quarter earnings next week, it's expected to report earnings of 91 cen…
    - 8 hours ago, 20 May 12, 6:02am -
  • Has Research In Motion Become A Bargain?
    By Maple Markets:It is no secret that Research In Motion (RIMM) is not the favorite technology firm of Wall Street any longer. The Blackberry developer and manufacturer has struggled, failing to meet product launch deadlines, missing sales targets wi…
    - 8 hours ago, 20 May 12, 5:57am -

Euro Pacific

Afraid to Trade

  • 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…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:27pm -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:42am -
  • 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…
    - 9 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…
    - 12 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…
    - 16 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…
    - 20 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,…
    - 25 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 10:16pm -

Economic Data

  • Leading Economic Indicators Turn Negative
    Source: Conference BoardEconomPic Data: Darn Nice Economic Eye Candy
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:21am -
  • (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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 5 days 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…
    - 9 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…
    - 10 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…
    - 11 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 16 days ago, 4 May 12, 10:51am -

Mad Hedge Fund

  • Don’t Miss the May 23 Global Strategy Webinar
    My next global strategy webinar will be held on Wednesday, May 23 at 12:00 noon EST. I’ll be giving you my updated outlook on stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, precious metal, and real estate. The goal is to find the cheapest assets in the wo…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:05pm -
  • The Long View on Emerging Markets
    I managed to catch a few comments in the distinct northern accent of Jim O’Neil, the fabled analyst who invented the ‘BRIC’ term, and who has been kicked upstairs to the chairman’s seat at Goldman Sachs International (GS) in London. Jim think…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:04pm -
  • The ‘Friday-Monday Effect’ Exposed
    Dennis Gartman, of the ever interesting The Gartman Letter, published an interesting analysis on the ‘Monday-Friday’ effect. If you bought every Friday close last year and sold the Monday close, your return would have been 14.20%, versus a 0.42%…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:03pm -
  • A Chat With Bill Clinton
    I opened the e-mail at my usual wake up time of 4:00 am. President Bill Clinton was playing with Tiger Woods at the Presidents’ Cup PGA tournament at the Harding Park Golf Course in San Francisco today. Would I have time for a chat about US economi…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:02pm -
  • May 18, 2012 – Quote of the Day
    “The one thing that is not safe is the dollar in your pocket. That is certainly going to be worth a lot less over time. The greatest asset to own is your own ability,” said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, about the European debt crisis.
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:01pm -
  • Testimonial
    I took advantage of an offer to subscribe to your service in early April and in Mid April of this year, received and executed on the Trade Alerts to buy puts on Boeing, IWM, FXE and GLD. Today, May 16th, I followed up on the trade alert and closed th…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:21am -
  • Risk Reduction Alert
    For those who wisely ignored my advice to sell the SPDR Gold Trust Shares ETF (GLD) June $160 Puts on May 3, good for you. The options are now trading at $10.50 and you have a profit of 147%, adding 14.7% to your annual return. This will no doubt be…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 11:03pm -
  • May 17, 2012 – Quote of the Day
    “For every one book written about deflation there are 25 written about inflation. We are starting to look more like Japan every day,” said Scott Shellady at Bradford Capital Management.
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 11:01pm -

Sea of Opportunity

Cobras Market View

  • 05/18/2012 Market Outlook (Oversold)
    Two cents:No doubt the market is oversold now so a rebound is due which may not be small. The question is when? [Read the Rest]
    - 22 hours ago, 19 May 12, 3:42pm -
  • 05/18/2012 Portfolio Update
    SDS buy order was filled today.The system will try to short gold the next Monday, so set DZZ buy stop at $5.09, stop loss around $4.74, for about 1430 shares. [Read the Rest]
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:23pm -
  • 05/18/2012 Featured Stock: AAPL and GOOG
    For AAPL, all the targets I think are reasonable have been met. Now with black bar and volume surge and very low ChiOsc, so a rebound of some kind is due, but NORMALLY the rebound would fail, we shall see another new low. [Read the Rest]
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:05pm -
  • 05/18/2012 Trading Signals
    Sorry for the delay. I waited in the doctor office for 3 hours before being checked for 10 minutes which kind of is very common in the country where the health care is free, so no complains my dear fellow Americans, expensive maybe, but at least you…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:46pm -
  • The 05/18/2012 Trading Signals report maybe delayed
    The 05/18/2012 Trading Signals report maybe delayed, I have an appointment with eye-doctor at 4:10pm ET, the treatment may or may not need about 2 to 3 hours recovery. [Read the Rest]
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:29pm -

Motley Fool

Preqin

  • Asian Private Equity – Rolling One-Year Horizon IRRs
    The private equity industry in Asia has attracted a lot of attention from both LPs and fund managers alike in recent years and has developed into an important regional focus for private equity profess...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:23am -
  • Breakdown of Asia-Focused Private Equity Funds Investing in the ASEAN Region
    From 2003 to present, 103 Asia-focused private equity funds that invested in the ASEAN region have closed. These funds have garnered an aggregate $20.9bn.Half of these funds are venture capital vehi...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:56am -
  • Global Venture Capital Activity, 2010-2012
    Since the beginning of 2010, there have been more than 9000 PE-backed venture deals announced globally, valued at over $95bn. Of these, around 3700 deals were completed in 2010, with an aggregate valu...
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 12:52pm -
  • Secondary Market Players in Asia & Rest of World
    While North America and Europe-based investors typically dominate the private equity secondary market in terms of deal flow, investors in Asia and the Rest of World have become increasingly aware of t...
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:23am -
  • 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...
    - 4 days 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...
    - 4 days 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...
    - 5 days 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 ...
    - 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 1:25pm -

Venture Beat

  • Pakistan blocks Twitter over ‘blasphemous’ Muhammad drawings
    Social networking service Twitter has been blocked in Pakistan after the site refused to remove tweets concerning “blasphemous” Muhammad cartoons, according to Pakistan’s Express Tribune.Twitter was targeted by the Pakistani government after…
    - 2 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:36am -
  • Ever-busy Zuckerberg marries sweetheart the day after Facebook IPO
    As if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t busy enough readying his company to go public this past week, he also somehow found time to marry long-time sweetheart Priscilla Chan yesterday.Social networking titan Facebook went public Friday in the l…
    - 4 hours ago, 20 May 12, 9:49am -
  • Would Facebook’s IPO have been bigger if it went with New York Stock Exchange?
    The all-computer run NASDAQ could be to blame for a lack of a Facebook stock pop Friday, when the social network started its first day of trading. Orders flooded in for the stock, but overwhelmed computers and glitches slowed trading …
    - 19 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:45pm -
  • Google’s acquisition of Motorola gets the go-ahead from Chinese government
    Chinese antitrust and competition authorities have approved Google’s deal to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The merger, which was announced nine months ago in August 2011, will l…
    - 23 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:43pm -
  • Pets.com and Midwestern moms: Another look at what happened to Facebook
    Hoo boy, anything tech-related that happened over this past week was dwarfed into oblivion by Facebook’s IPO.Many of us were expecting a glorious event with massive profits for early shareholders, but the day’s events ended in disappointment.Th…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 1:36pm -
  • Silicon Valley needs humanities students
    Quit your technology job. Get a Ph.D in the humanities. That’s the way to get ahead in the technology sector. That, at least, is what philosopher Damon Horowitz told a crowd of attendees at the BiblioTech Conference at Stanford University …
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 1:30pm -
  • No liftoff for SpaceX: Launch aborted early Saturday
    The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket came to an abrupt halt early Saturday. The rocket’s computer detected too-high levels of pressure in engine number five, causing the launch to stop a half-second before liftoff.The Falcon 9 rocket …
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 12:45pm -
  • How were these Silicon Valley VCs so wrong about Facebook’s IPO?
    Before Friday, almost every Silicon Valley insider was saying Facebook stock would finish its first day between $50 and $60 per share.In reality, the share price at the closing bell was a pathetic $38.37.How were these masters of …
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 12:35pm -

Stock on Wall Street

MACRONOMICS

  • Credit - The Raft of the European Medusa
    "The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea." Ovid "The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse) is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824).…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:37am -
  • 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…
    - 8 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…
    - 12 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…
    - 12 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…
    - 14 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…
    - 14 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…
    - 18 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…
    - 19 days ago, 1 May 12, 7:06am -

Bronte Capital

  • That is not a bubble. This is a bubble...
    I have just returned from visiting relatives in Vancouver. I mostly stayed in West Vancouver with my retired aunt and uncle but also stayed in outer-suburban areas with my police-officer cousin.I was looking for a bubble - after all Vancouver is a…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:08pm -
  • Gulfport Energy and Wexford Capital: Part 2
    The very long set of transactions entered into by Gulfport Energy with Wexford Capital was surprising to me as well as to a couple of readers.One question though was (and I am paraphrasing): are these transactions large with respect to Gulfport Ene…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:30pm -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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.,…
    - 12 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…
    - 13 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…
    - 15 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…
    - 25 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.
    - 33 days ago, 17 Apr 12, 10:21am -

Vox

  • Trade and inequality: New insights from Brazil
    Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc Muendler, Stephen Redding, 20 May 2012What effect trade on inequality? This column presents a unique study examining wage inequality in Brazil after liberalisation. Starting from a closed economy, the column finds…
    - 18 hours ago, 19 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Germany should follow in the footsteps of China
    Kamil Yilmaz, 19 May 2012Germany’s fiscal response to the crisis was timid compared with those of China and the US. This column uses business-cycle connectedness indices to show that Germany should follow in the footsteps of China and increase its…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Developing country and emerging market vulnerability to the Eurozone crisis
    Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak, Minsoo Lee, Donghyun Park, 19 May 2012The Eurozone debt crisis has emerged as the single biggest threat to the global outlook. Applying event study methodology, this column estimates the responsiveness of equity and…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Still standing: Global crisis and European firms
    Gábor Békés, László Halpern, Miklós Koren, Balázs Muraközy, 18 May 2012One of the key problems in Europe is the lack of competitiveness. With this in mind, this column presents a report looking at how European firms responded to the global fi…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Divorce rates help explain why Americans work more than Europeans
    Indraneel Chakraborty, Hans Holter, Serhiy Stepanchuk, 18 May 2012It is no secret that Americans work more than Europeans – 30% more according to recent studies. Many economists point to higher taxes in Europe as a major cause. This column suggests…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Fiscal spending and growth: New evidence
    Céline Carrère, Jaime de Melo, 17 May 2012It is not just the OECD countries where fiscal policy is the subject of fierce debate. This column presents results from an “event analysis” carried out on a database of 140 countries over the period 19…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Hume on hold? Consequences of not abolishing Eurozone national central banks
    Michael Burda, 17 May 2012The EZ crisis reveals critical flaws in the Eurozone’s design. This column argues that failing to abolish national central banks left the door open for national interests to interfere with the natural workings of the finan…
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:00pm -
  • Greece’s predicament: Lessons from Argentina

    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 8:00pm -

Bloomberg

  • Obama, Romney Both Want to Play Down Gay Marriage
    Mitt Romney and Barack Obama concuron how to deal with the politics of gay marriage: Keep it belowthe radar.
    - 3 hours ago, 20 May 12, 11:01am -
  • Clearing the Path to Better Relations With Pakistan
    Going into the NATO Summit this weekend, the U.S. can celebrate some good news: Pakistan has reopened a route for the first time in six months that allowed containers of  supplies for the U.S. embassy in Kabul to pass through to Afghanistan. Paki…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:32pm -
  • Lady Gaga's Belly Button Is the Least of Indonesia's Worries
    Too Sexy for Indonesia. Lady Gaga can add this bit of infamy to her resume as the nation with the largest Muslim population bars her from performing. It seems she is too vulgar to fit Jakarta's conservative culture.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:31pm -
  • Brazil's Truth Commission May Find Inconvenient Answers
    Unlike countries such as Argentina and Uruguay, Brazil has never prosecuted anyone for human-rights offenses carried out during its military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:24pm -
  • Weekly Links
    Barcelona Graduate School of Economics on debt and default in the age of Philip IIThe Big Picture on how we ended Glass SteagallMarginal Revolution on structural employment during the Great DepressionPaul Krugman on the historic reasoning for ban…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:47pm -
  • The Lesson of the Ricketts Fiasco: Politics Is Business
    Mitt Romney has already "repudiated" a proposed independent ad campaign that would have used President Barack Obama's former relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright to attack the president. It wasn't a hard call for Romney.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 10:00am -
  • Note to Parents: Believe It or Not, You're Happy
    It may come as cold comfort to any mother awake for a 3 a.m. feeding -- or trying to get up at 7 a.m. after a 3 a.m. feeding -- but new research shows that being a parent does, in fact, make you happier.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:02am -
  • U.S. Can Create Jobs by Energizing Its Startups
    The U.S. doesn’t need a new economicengine. It already has one: entrepreneurship. It’s just that wearen’t getting the mileage out of it that we could.
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:00pm -

Value Walk

  • PAST GROWTH INDICATOR OF FUTURE VALUE?
     Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.- Epigraph by Horace in Security Analysis (1934) by Graham & Dodd-Introduction…In our May contribution we discussed the danger related
    - 50 mins ago, 20 May 12, 12:54pm -
  • Twitter Blocked in Pakistan Over Blasphemous Material
    Pakistan has blocked the popular social networking website Twitter on Sunday in a bid to contain blasphemous material.…The blockade came hours after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directed Internet service providers to stop access…
    - 5 hours ago, 20 May 12, 8:44am -
  • Facebook Inc (FB) IPO, and The Reality about ‘New Economy’
    … Two years ago, I was at a board meeting for a nonprofit that I serve, and during a break, one of the older gentlemen made a statement that the big problem with America is that we don’t make anythingRelated posts:Letter from Mark Zuckerberg…
    - 15 hours ago, 19 May 12, 10:59pm -
  • Mobile Devices, A Growing Addiction [Infograph]
    …  PC Housing, a short term housing provider based in San Diego, has released an infographic showing how travelers are becoming increasingly dependent on their smartphones and other mobile devices to the point of addiction. Part of a growingR…
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 10:11pm -
  • Housing Bubble in China and Phantom Government Statistics
    For those interested in China there is an excellent blog by Patrick Chovanec…:Patrick Chovanec has an approach to economics much like my own – some may distrust and dislike it, but that’s your money and your choice.In:Related posts:Marc Fa…
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 10:04pm -
  • Moody’s Corporation (MCO) Danske and Bankia
    …The Moody’s Corporation (NYSE:MCO) downgrade.Downgrades by rating agencies are a symptom rather than a cause. References from your mother are generally not conclusive in a job application; but when can’t even pay people to say something nic…
    - 16 hours ago, 19 May 12, 9:56pm -
  • How To View Full URL In Shortened Link, Without Actually Opening It
    Short URLs have become popular because of Twitter and other sites where there is a limitation on how much text you can enter. But the problem with short URLs is that there is a hidden risk in opening that URL,…
    - 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 9:50am -
  • Apple (AAPL) Subsidies Are Not A Concern – BMO
    Two reports were released today on the medium to long term prospects of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) as the firm’s stock languishes at lows that have worries many investors. The two reports, one from Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) and another from BMO…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:45pm -

Value Investing World

  • Kelpie Capital write-up on Zicom Group
    Great overview of a stock that is currently one of ourfavorite ideas at Chanticleer. The stock closed today at $0.17 AUD, which isabout 70% of tangible book value. We think the management team is very familiarwith value investing and Warren Buffe…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:35am -
  • Cat On Boat Plays With Dolphins
    Found via the Naked Capitalism blog.A dolphin comes out of the water near a boat, and the cat on the boat starts playing with the dolphin by patting it and nuzzling its face against the dolphin
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:11am -
  • Kedrosky: Could Be Messy Ride to Facebook Valuation (video)
    May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg contributing editor Paul Kedrosky discusses the outlook for Facebook’s growth. He speaks on Bloomberg Television’s “StreetSmart.”
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:25pm -
  • Steven Romick on Bloomberg (video)
    May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Steven Romick, managing partner at Pacific Advisors LLC, talks about the investment environment and strategy.Romick speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance Midday." Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive office…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:33pm -
  • Bill Gates: An Energy Briefing with Daniel Yergin: Understanding Energy Solutions
    Link...................Related link: Bill Gates' book review of The Quest
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:30pm -
  • Jeffrey Gundlach on Bloomberg (video)
    May 17(Bloomberg) -- Jeffrey Gundlach, founder and chief executive officer ofDoubleLine Capital LP, discusses bond markets, the impact of Europe's debtcrisis on mortgages and the ways his family shaped his interest in mathematics.Gundlach, speak…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 2:42pm -
  • Notes from the Ira Sohn Conference
    Via Market Folly:Link to: Notesfrom the Ira Sohn Conference
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 2:04pm -
  • Angel No More: Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet
    KevinHartz is sitting this one out.Sure,Hartz is busy with his day-job as CEO of online ticketing startup Eventbrite,but it’s not a time management thing that keeps him from his usualangel-investing habit. It’s more a money management…
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 1:52pm -

Street of Walls

  • Sign-up For FREE 60+ Page Hedge Fund Report
    Next week the StreetofWalls team will be releasing the 1Q 2012 Hedge Fund Intelligence Report.  Our 4Q 2011 highlights can...
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 2:00am -
  • Ira Sohn Conference Notes
    Yesterday was the Ira Sohn Investment Conference held annually in NYC.  This is the premier “Ideas” conference with the top...
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 9:13am -
  • 13D: Anchorage Capital Buys DHT Holdings Stake
    Hedge fund Anchorage Capital has disclosed a 38.2% stake in the total outstanding common shares of DHT Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DHT)....
    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 10:30am -
  • Investment Banking M&A Down 5% [Weekly M&A Volumes]
    Announced M&A volumes of $34 billion declined by 5% from last week’s relatively strong level. Sandler O’Neill’s Weekly M&A Trends:...
    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 10:00am -
  • 13G: Coatue Mgmt Buys Virgin Media Stake
    Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management disclosed a 5.21% stake in the total outstanding common shares of Virgin Media (Nasdaq:VMED). VMED provides...
    - 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 12:10pm -
  • Stifel Had Best IB Quarter In Over A Year
    Investment banking firm Stifel Financial Corp announced 1Q 2012 earnings.  Overall results were inline with expectations but Stifel did have...
    - 10 days ago, 10 May 12, 5:11pm -
  • 13G: SAC Capital Keeps Up The Buying Spree
    Steve Cohen’s hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, has disclosed a 5.8% ownership stake in Dillard’s (NYSE: DDS). Dillard’s ranks among...
    - 10 days ago, 10 May 12, 9:47am -
  • 13G: SAC Capital’s Latest Moves
    Steve Cohen’s hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, disclosed a 5.0% stake in the total outstanding common shares of Zillow (Nasdaq:Z)....
    - 11 days ago, 9 May 12, 9:24am -

Crackerjack Finance

Total Return WSJ

  • Mocking the Facebook IPO
    As Facebook begins trading shares today, the web mockers are out in full force. Here's a sampling, ranked, as we see it, from most to least funny.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:08am -
  • Why Facebook Is Not Google
    Google was widely lambasted before its IPO, and its stock price went on to soar. Will Facebook follow suit?
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 12:30pm -
  • The JOBS Act Goes Global
    Another odd wrinkle of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act: It enables foreign companies to sell securities to U.S. investors under the newly loosened rules.
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:30am -
  • More on Facebook Insiders’ Estate-Tax Strategy
    Digging into the "cost basis" value of the shares of Facebook's co-founder, and other questions.
    - 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 11:59am -
  • 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.
    - 5 days 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.
    - 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 11:13am -
  • 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.
    - 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 2:50pm -
  • 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.
    - 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 11:24am -

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…
    - 13 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…
    - 20 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…
    - 26 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…
    - 34 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…
    - 41 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…
    - 52 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…
    - 54 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…
    - 55 days ago, 26 Mar 12, 11:03am -

Investing Daily

  • The Natural Gas Fire Sale
    Well-capitalized operators are scooping up gas-focused acreage at bargain prices that guarantee solid returns even in the current environment. These canny investments should generate even more compelling returns once natural gas prices recover.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:54pm -
  • How to Tell if a Company Is Prepared for a Downturn
    Like investors, companies also pursue measures to bolster their defenses in the event of a downturn. There are four key metrics that investors should examine to determine whether a company is adequately prepared for sector or market turmoil.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:57pm -
  • China and India Go for Gold
    While gold prices are often a function of central bank monetary policy, jewelry is still the single largest component of global gold demand, particularly in the emerging markets.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 2:34pm -
  • Romney's Challenge to Obama: I'll OK Keystone XL on Day One
    Environmental issues are beside the point, though the threat isn’t as real as anti-oil fanatics suggest. Today it’s all about jobs and infrastructure.
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:54pm -
  • Will Depressed Natural Gas Prices Force Old King Coal to Abdicate the Throne?
    Investors with a longer time horizon shouldn’t assume that the recent bout of fuel-switching marks the end for king coal.
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:06pm -
  • LG Display: On the Ropes But Still Slugging
    Despite its current woes, LG Display enjoys many long-term advantages. Now trading at bargain levels, this battered stock is poised for a comeback and remains a good long-term play on the booming display market.
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 1:19pm -
  • Hotel Stocks are Warming Up to Vacation Season
    The sun continues to shine on travel/tourism, and hotel stocks are basking in the glow. Here are three ways to get global exposure—and income, to boot.
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 11:16am -
  • Unfriending Facebook
    What’s the social networking behemoth really worth? Try $30 billion on for size. 
    - 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 9:41am -

Trade Streaming

  • The biggest problem with investment strategies
    We all know how poorly individual investors do in the markets. Just look at any Dalbar study and you’ll see just how most investors don’t come close to achieving market returns. One reason (but not the real one) why investors perform so poorly M…
    - 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:45am -
  • 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…
    - 4 days 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…
    - 6 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…
    - 27 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…
    - 27 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…
    - 28 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…
    - 29 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…
    - 34 days ago, 16 Apr 12, 8:51am -

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…
    - 8 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…
    - 14 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…
    - 19 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…
    - 21 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…
    - 28 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…
    - 34 days ago, 16 Apr 12, 2:12pm -
  • Lent: Giving Up the Gold Vice

    - 43 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…
    - 48 days ago, 2 Apr 12, 4:04am -
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