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Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Apple
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shares are trading at a 4-month high today following some bullish analyst commentary. Shaw Wu of American Technology Research raised his rating on AAPL from "neutral" to "buy," and set his price target for the stock at $210. Wu noted that...
Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Bullish sentiment has increased as we head into the week, at least according to Ticker Sense's weekly Blogger Sentiment Poll. Heading into the week, 42.86% of the bloggers polled hold bullish feelings. A week ago, 38.1% of the bloggers polled felt bullish about the week. At the same time, beari...
Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
We are nearly two hours into the session and here's what I see...
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The week kicks off with the broad market indices under mild-to-moderate pressure. Commodity corner is popping while most sectors are down. The US Oil Fund (USO) is up 3% and the Oil Servi...
Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
After Microsoft
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pulled its $33-per-share bid for Yahoo!
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, shares of the latter company were hammered in early-morning trading. The stock is now trading at a 16% deficit, or a $4.63 loss, hovering n...
Monday May 5, 2008 — univpitt
This morning I sold all my XL 40 JUNE CALLS @ 1.00
I sold CME 500 Call May @ 10.50
I sold CME 470 PUT May @ 5.00
I bought the following. CME has been working well for me, using 2 to 1 strangle. I again bought
2 CME 510 May Calls @ 6.70
1 CME 480 May PUT @ 6.8
Purchased (1) POT May 195 Ca...
Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...
A look into a possible "shareholder rebellion" at Yahoo (YHOO) as "shareholders are bound to question whether the rejection of Microsoft's sweetened offer was driven more by emotion and ego than sound b...
Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
After the market closed on Friday, Procter & Gamble
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started the weekend off by announcing it filed a lawsuit against fellow blue chip Johnson & Johnson
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. More specifically, PG is suing JNJ, along wi...
Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Companies seeing a skew towards puts in the previous session: Wells Fargo & (WFC), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), FORD MOTOR (F), Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER), RadioShack Corp (RSH), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), CVS Corp. (CVS), Fannie Mae (FNM), Wachovia (WB), Elan, plc (ELN), Lehman Brothers (LEH), Pi...
Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Here are the results for today's unusual stock volume scan. The scan looks at the previous day's volume and compares it to the recent average volume. It then sorts the stocks based on those that showed the biggest increase (the "unusual" part) in volume.
Companies included in today's scan are...
Monday May 5, 2008 — SchaeffersResearch
Good morning everyone - welcome to the beginning of a new trading week. We start today's session with stock futures lower and the headlines dominated by word that Microsoft (MFST) has withdrawn its bid for Yahoo (YHOO). Shares of YHOO are currently showing a bid that is 22% lower than Friday's...
Monday May 5, 2008 — StockWeb
One indicator, PEG, of fundamental analysis measures P/E relative to growth (EPS growth). It is especially helpful to compare stocks, indexes. Low P/E not necessary means under valuated price. It's always needed to compare with potential growth. PEG indicator uses EPS growth as a denominator.I ma...
Monday May 5, 2008 — Stock Market Beat
A while back I complained that several stocks I had been bearish about had gotten boosts from takeout offers. Namely, Diebold (DBD), Delta Airlines (DAL) and Yahoo! (YHOO).
Delta stock finally broke down, and then agreed to a merger at much lower share prices.
Today I look less stupid about Yahoo,...
Monday May 5, 2008 — Stock Market Beat
I have begun a new series of posts at RealMoney focusing on Wallflowers - stocks that have limited analyst coverage. By identifying stocks that fall below Wall Street’s radar screen the hope is to find some undervalued gems.
It may seem odd, on the heels of its deal to acquire Wendy’s ...
Monday May 5, 2008 — StockWeb
This is the latest prediction for GDP growth from International Monetary Fund IMF. You can see world economic outlook for 2008 and 2009. Numbers are released on April. Middle East and Africa seems to be averse to global slowdown. At least in view of IMF.http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Monday May 5, 2008 — Fingad.com
Second grade Indian cities to account for 40 per cent IT jobs by 2018 - by ADDI_JoSecond grade Indian cities are likely to account for about 40 per cent of the total projected IT-BPO jobs by 2018, if the government in tandem with the industry provides a conducive environment.However, big cities su...
Monday May 5, 2008 — Wang's Happy Trading Daily Posts
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Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
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Nasdaq Premarket Heat Map
On The Fly: Periodicals Wrap-Up for Monday, May 5
WALL STREET JOURNAL: United Airlines parent UAL (UAUA) is intensifying merger talks with US Airways (LCC), and a deal could be reach...
Monday May 5, 2008 — TraderBlog.com
CURRENCIES
The June U.S. dollar index is weaker in early trading today. Bulls still have some upside technical momentum on their side after big gains last week. Slow stochastics for the dollar index are bullish early today. The dollar index finds shorter-term technical resistance at last week's h...
Monday May 5, 2008 — TraderBlog.com
Monday, May 5--Jim Wyckoff's Morning Web Log
OVERNIGHT/EARLY MORNING DEVELOPMENTS
The market features in overnight/early morning trading today are higher gold and crude oil prices and a modestly weaker U.S dollar versus the other major currencies.
* JIM'S MARKET THOUGHT OF THE DAY *
I don't w...
Monday May 5, 2008 — Cleantech Blog
by Richard T. StuebiAt a recent symposium on climate change solutions at Oberlin College, I heard a presentation by David Ball, who leads the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus.His presentation was a fascinating collage of facts and...
Monday May 5, 2008 — StockWeb
MondayEconomic ISM Services (49.5)Earnings Goldcorp (GG), Marvel (MVL), Tidewater (TDW), Airgas (ARG), Anadarko (APC), McKesson (MCK), Ternium (TX), Weight Watchers (WTW)TuesdayEconomic NAEarnings Barrick (ABX), Fannie (FNM), Molson (TAP), PGE (PCG), Blue Nile (NILE), J2 Global (JCOM), Ormat (ORA)...
Monday May 5, 2008 — Fingad.com
Indian IT industry to slow down - by ghosh_888Wipro and its peers in the $31-billion (Rs 1,24,000-crore) Indian IT industry has come to the realisation that the fastgrowing sector is about to hit some speed breakers. The reason: the global banking and financial services industry (BFSI), from which...
Monday May 5, 2008 — Fingad.com
Yahoo! Money to be made? - by khananYahoo! vs. Microsoft Chess GameEveryone is looking at the spectacular news of Microsoft walking away from the Yahoo! deal. Some really interesting articles I've encountered are by Marc Andreessen: http://blog.pmarca.com/2008/05/examining-micro.htmlThis talks in ...
Monday May 5, 2008 — Fingad.com
ICICI Securities IPO very soon - by anu_affableAccording to reports in media, ICICI Securities, the investment banking arm of ICICI Bank, will come out with initial public offer very soon. Bank has not decided on the size of the IPO as yet. In the begining of the year, the board of ICICI Securitie...
Monday May 5, 2008 — pencils2
An article today over at Seeking Alpha takes a look into Rep. Paul Kanjorski's idea to take profits from oil companies to reasonably price energy. If we have politicians like this in Washington who don't have the slightest idea of how economics work, in the long run this is not a good thing for t...
Monday May 5, 2008 — Fingad.com
Beware of phishing sites - by INNOcent_99How often have you received an official-looking e-mail ostensibly from a bank asking you to confirm your credit details?In the last week alone, I received six such mails. And it sure smells phishy. For the uninitiated, phishing is an online scam where fraud...