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BEAT has a pulse finally 6.67 nhod
IDCC 22.55 slowly moving up over past 7 minutes
Jump for joy! TGT & HD say everything is grand! Yesterday was just a wet dream for shorts, because the whole economy rests on the shoulders of these stalworth megaliths: TGT & HD who say to us all 'There, there now, yesterday's sell off was unwarranted because cost cutting measures show that we can still top analysts lowered bar of expectations !'
my hazy crystal ball says this is a set up for another sell off either today or tomorrow
caveat emptor
NVAX & GERN news possibly related:
NVAX has a 'cure' vaccine but regulators will not make it available 'for years' "It demonstrates what might be possible in the next pandemic"
Some warn against the potions in the current batch of vaccines made by mega pharmas, both in terms of efficacy and/or safety.
GERN may have a cure for paralysis, cancer, & variety of other illnesses but their studies have been placed on hold indefinitely.
According to some conspiracy theories, there is great fear by the elite that world population is out of control and the preservation of 'the weak' would undermine global objectives.
see, i'm still waking up this morning from my hallucinations.
HURN is gern-e-ing higher & GERN has a hurn-ia. Man is that bad, but hey it's morning & i didn't get enough sleep last night
Swollen head; not a good thing; requires medical attention.
Anybody in HURN in AH ? up some more on earnings report
AFN in AH 1.02+.30 reports Net Inc $6.21/sh !:
prnewswire
Alesco Financial Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results
* Press Release
* Source: Alesco Financial Inc.
* On Monday August 17, 2009, 4:34 pm EDT
Companies:
o Alesco Financial Inc.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alesco Financial Inc. (NYSE: AFN - News; "AFN" or the "Company"), a specialty finance real estate investment trust, today announced financial results for the three-months and six-months ended June 30, 2009.
AFN reported GAAP net income attributable to common stockholders for the three-months ended June 30, 2009 of $373.7 million, or $6.21 per diluted common share, as compared to net loss attributable to common stockholders of ($81.2) million, or ($1.36) per diluted common share for the three-months ended June 30, 2008.
Even Retail down: ANF, CROX, TJX, ZLC :Shocking! But KO is up a smidge. When fear is on the street, just grab a Coke, i guess
glta
Is this ruling worth a 28% drop in market cap? Anyone ?
Last time i followed IDCC was in 1999-Y2k remember it rocketing up to about $78/sh
Hard to believe these patent lawsuits are still ongoing
A huge entourage of Chinese OTC stocks reporting earnings in AH
Some are good reports; some are terrific.
Wouldn't they realize that investors will probably never see or forget these reports come Monday ?
Please don't remind me I'm still in withdrawl re:LOL...GY
Stock-aholic anonymous confession: GY i sold it on 7/17:
i've been waiting for a pullback but it has rallied consistently like no other stock for the entire period & gaps higher as i type this.
aliangel: Thanks for your insight.
I think they make big bucks on hedges too. LUV beat the industry when they hedged their fuel costs way beyond any other carrier.
It all seems counter-intuitive but i think the stock rally is totally bogus (ie not based on fundamental improvement in the economy)
glty
MESA had a mesa fr 13:10-13.55 now riding up the cliff
only airline besides RJET (which got Frontier) got up today
GRH made profit on $9m insurance pmt NOT revs!
Fuel costs fall therefore Airlines FALL! Yep, Airlines rocketing on HIGHER fuel costs!
Yep, Airlines rocketing on HIGHER fuel costs!
You see they probably are all making money hedging their fuel costs in the derivs mkt so they just as soon see it be too expensive to fly people & cargo as long as they can make $$$ on higher fuel costs
This is why any economic system based on greed rather than good of the people is doomed to fail
http://macroworld.net/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=375583301
Ever notice how volume thins out around this time?Lunch crowd are away from their trading desks; got them on auto pilot while they head to the local bistro or deli
Then they come back and decide whether to run the market & individual plays up or down. News trails off around this time too, apparently for the same reason.
Are the 'markets' rigged ? markets = rigged
look at vol & obv on hot plays: bbt gfg, etc as examples
looking for bounce on BEXP very hot, very oily now
That's not news, that's an excuse for rabid monkey's to jump all over CORS like it's solvent
on the other hand 'hope you can get a scalp off of it...lol
NCS:From gap up to massive plunge in 10mins
FAZ-inating:Fitch has released a comprehensive study on derivatives held by various corporations and has come out with some disturbing results: as Zero Hedge's recent disclosure of data from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency confirmed, the bulk of the derivative risk is concentrated not merely in the "financial company" category (99.7%) but in a subset of just five companies, which account for an "overwhelming majority" of derivative assets and liabilities.
The companies in question (Total Notional Derivatives: Assets & Liabilities, $ in Trillions)
* JP Morgan:$81.7;
* Bank of America:$80.0;
* Citigroup:$31.5;
* Morgan Stanley:$39.3, and of course
* Goldman Sachs: $47.8 (this is an OCC estimate: Goldman has not disclosed notional amounts in their derivative book, only # of contracts);
If you want a preview of what the Basel III definition of "Too Big To Fail" will look like, the above five companies is a great place to start.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fitch-financial-companies-hold-997-all-derivative-contracts
Good morning: you left GFG off your gapper list
GFG: possible huge mover here. i could be way off but this is a major financial institution that was left for dead by investors. Now suddenly big firms are scrambling to acquire their assets. See news releases. I'm wondering if we might see a buyout instead, in which case this could pop like Bear Stearns
no hype here, 'cause it's anybody's guess which way this goes
i'm taking a small position in it.
all imo
glta
SIRI pullback could be an opportunity here .53/sh
GFG: got quiet like this @11:10am just before gap up
Every day trader is focused on reports claiming BK is near or assets will be sold off, but the stock is behaving like the company is going to stay intact.
The buys are way way too big to be little players imo
but if a deal collapses it could crash too !
Yep, Airlines rocketing on HIGHER fuel costs!
You see they probably are all making money hedging their fuel costs in the derivs mkt so they just as soon see it be too expensive to fly people & cargo as long as they can make $$$ on higher fuel costs
This is why any economic system based on greed rather than good of the people is doomed to fail
HLCS: what a dog s/b like $5/sh but volume is amazingly thin considering revolutionary tech with high price tag. Street.com review gave it a bump but s/b really running imo
Sold GFG at .71/sh wont' rebuy unless it pulls back more; great trade in a lousy market.
early CIT was nice too.
Retail stocks leaping for joy at poor data:WMT,CROX,JCP,HD,all up PM
This is the institutions piling peoples pension allocations into crappy sectors to prop up the market.
CIT inching higher in AH to 1.34 fr 1.28 close Can't take an eye off that one. At anytime news could take it way up or down
GFG hasta la vista baby ! .45+100% going to ....
The Houses can make up whatever story they want to disseminate via the controlled mainstream media (msm).
Pandemic Euphoria striking MSO spike up after 12 up days in a row
It's a spending frenzy ! Buy all the merchandise you can, max out those cc's again & again
In the words of the great philosopher: Alfred E. Neuman : What me worry ?
Bubble-Mania recharging:A contagion of euphoria homebuilders: BZH, TOL etc
FOMC was a yawner:Retailers still holding up: spend away no pullback
FAZ/FAS still the indicator of which way things go:
Posted by: listener Date: Monday, August 10, 2009 1:17:51 PM
In reply to: listener who wrote msg# 217480 Post # of 217986 [Send a link via email]
re:FAZ 25.44/sh on eye on it for a mkt pull back
Posted by: listener Date: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:22:17 AM
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FAZ 25.44/sh on eye on it for a mkt pull back
Anybody in CTIC? mega volume enter @1.61 a bit late
Well we'll see but if you look at MSO nonstop UP for 12 days you kind of get a hint. Certainly no individual traders that i know would be holding MSO, LULU, CWTR, etc. 'it's just crazy how these stocks rise on sickening fundamentals.
I have an impression that funds need to sock pension allocations into these retail & housebuilding sectors to offset the dilution created by shelf registrations. The payroll employees suffer because ALL their 'gains' in these stocks will be lost in the inevitable downturn. But hey, that's what the working class is for anyways, right ?
The 'banksters' win by changing the rules even when they lost within the rules.
The poor have no money of their own to loose. They can only loose OPM.
So in summary: it is up to the working class to pay for the whole game.
Consequently, sectors that are rising, are doing so not on fundamentals but on the need for fund mgrs to pump payroll pensions into loosing companies to finance their debts.
The answer to FOMC meeting found in:JAS, TLB, CROX, M, SHLD etc etc
All those retailers complaining of lower sales, firing people & raising $ are making breakneck highs of the day.
btw these are the hottest stocks you will find anywhere !
Look at the charts of TLB, CWTR, ZLC, CROX etc
No small fry traders are buying that crap. It's the institutions and I doubt they would on the heels of a FOMC meeting that turns out to be a bummer for them.
jmho