I usually have a lot to say. I just know when to keep it to myself.
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hola elfy!
A little more on that guy.......Global M (the pr firm),
Belmont P (in affiliation with MM I believe),and Pac W (the t/a)
Conflicts of interest in every corner.
Posted by: puppman
In reply to: elfdom who wrote msg# 23791 Date:2/22/2007 11:21:40 PM
Post #of 66346
Prime example is XLPI. Pac-west which is Co-owned by Joe Meuse. They brought in Lebed last year and if you look at the yearly chart it has been nothing but a perfect picture of Dilution. XLPI also had an agreement with Global Media which they gave away a boat load of shares for basically crap. Wouldn't you know that Joe Meuse is a strategic partner of Global Media. Mr. Meuse is also the owner of Belmont partners which currently got the CEO of Xcelplus another shell for its parent company. Talk about a conflicts of interest LOL
Sweet dreams, jimmenknee! :)
He drove him there, didn't he....?
It was the responsible thing to do.
Oh, c'mon now. I just made you this fancy
new siggy:
so very clever........yet you seem to overlook
your future a bit....where could that leave you in
a couple years, jimmenknee? lol
do I need to add a name here...? :
lolol- ibox updated
FAT CATS 2008 NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS (copy and paste if you'd like!)
1) "Fat Cats" as an entity in general - to get people more engaged in discussions or just "chatting" :)
2) lady*b - To pay attention :)
3) jimmenknee - To keep Tiki from getting me to buy R&D Drug stocks :p
...i put it in the ibox! hope the thread stays alive! We have over 500 other resolutions to collect!
regarding the DIA (Diamond Institute of America) : I uncovered an interesting scam recently. On EBAY, there is a company that sells Briolite jewlery. Think "crystals" or "cubic z's" and you know what you're buying.
However Briolite may actually be a little prettier.
OK- So the company sells these pieces at discount (understatment) and issues DIA appraisals for hundreds or thousands more than you'll pay. Low and behold!!! BRIOLITE and
the DIA are owned by the same suspects! Buyer beware......
is either company public? LOL! This is why I'm on here tonight!
(example below...which is 14 bucks at the moment and will top about 35 bucks)
22.5ct Briolite Princess Cut Tennis Bracelet NO RESERVE
Appraised Value $2,200 (Certificate Included from DIA)
Stone Type Briolite Simulated Diamonds
Stone Color D (Perfectly White)
Stone Clarity Flawless
Stone Cut Ideal Precision Cut
LOL, I suppose! Simply something you'd like to change in the new year about yourself................or someone else? hahaha
Care to add to the resolutions? (see previous post)
Hi. Just felt like I should actually post something. I didn't realize I've been gone for a while! lol.
FAT CATS NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS (copy and paste if you'd like!)
lady*b- To pay attention :)
To the family of Rob / Goldman450:
He took the time to get to know people and care for others
on a message board- when so many others come and go and
never notice other kind spirits.
He spoke friendly to and about other people,
a trait so rare and and a sign of a genuine fine man.
Prayers for his family, from mine.
You will be missed.
Bridget
Thank you for posting that Sue. He was indeed a great one
and will be missed.
That's a touching story indeed, clarity. :)
DD - the process by which you convince yourself to buy a bad stock (courtesy of "serfdom").
http://freedomfunds.net/edu/pinkdict.html
Just tuning in? Our Friday/Weekend Stock Jam begins at 4PM ET and run until..??? Monday???
This Friday's Stock/Topic: SERFDOM- A friendly roast
A roast to our friend, Serfdom.
Let's say something nice or funny to see if he stops by.
If not, it will be some posts for him to read one night if he's bored.
Post if you can, even if it is once, or even a repost of his.
We invite all 560+ members of Fat Cats to stop by, even for a second
or a quick "hi serf" post.
Thanks.
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Serfdom,
You are missed around here and I am happy you decided to pop
over tonight.
Cookies!! Did anyone here ever question the quote I had on Infiniti for a while regarding cookies? Did anyone notice your prank?
I never laughed so hard.......
nooooooooooo, gotta save it til tomorrow! lol
LOLOLOL! ( got any chocolate chip? )
i could never do that. He knows they'd never make it to his house. I'm a cookie-aholic.
BTW, what the heck was that? LOL
***FAT CATS FRIDAY NIGHT JAM***
Our Friday Stock Slams begin at 4PM ET and run until..???
This Friday's Stock/Topic:
A roast to our friend, Serfdom.
Let's say something nice or funny to see if he stops by.
If not, it will be some posts for him to read one night if he's bored.
Post if you can, even if it is once....or post re-post of his.
We invite all 560+ members of Fat Cats to stop by, even for a second
or a quick "hi serf" post.
Thanks.
better wrap those up before they attract buggies.
LOL! How's my favorite golfer?
I wonder if he'd be around for a Friday jam tomorrow if it was a roast of some sort...............hmmmmmmmm
We could post some of his old posts. lol
Hey Chu- The number of posts posted and boards created used to be on the main page. Now I'm posting to you to see what number we're on. Other than that, where is that info hiding on ihub?
tia
VIP (Very Important Post) Thank you.....
(.......not really, just funny.......)
"Investor Relations - a liar who is unable to hold down a steady job."
"Short - the natural enemy of the Sucker"
"Next Week - the time frame for the release of the Big News. Always Next Week, never This Week."
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Posted by: liable
In reply to: B BALL GUY who wrote msg# 26548 Date:11/24/2007 12:53:17 PM Post #of 26570
http://freedomfunds.net/edu/pinkdict.html
AF's - Audited Financials; documents so rare, so precious, that mere mention of their future appearance can cause spectacular price appreciation (See also: Next Week).
Available Funds - a number inversely proportional to the investment merits of the stock you are considering for purchase.
Average Down - what to do when your stock has dropped far below your Mental Stop.
Basher - the ultimate compliment; a person of considerable wealth, wit and skepticism. Will never critique a bad stock, only good ones. (See also: Paid Basher)
Big News - the cause of much anticipation among Stuckholders; if and when released, causes massive Naked Shorting, which is the only way the Market Makers can prevent the price from rising (to the Moon).
Boca Raton - an island of integrity and sound financial advice in the Florida swamps.
Boiler Room - an old documentary about the lost art of reeling in a Sucker by telephone.
Cellar Boxing - a game played by Market Makers when they get bored with pulling the wings off flies.
Cert - an official-looking document that proves you lost money.
Cert Pull - a reliable way to insure that Stuckholders remain so.
Credit Card - an excellent source of funds for non-marginable Emerging Growth Stocks
DD - the process by which you convince yourself to buy a bad stock (courtesy of "serfdom").
Economic Darwinism - the process by which Pink Sheet Stuckholders are relieved of their money and removed from the financial ecosystem, thus insuring that they will never become wealthy enough to cause real damage.
Emerging Growth Company - an implausible story about a hypothetical business.
Emerging Growth Stock - a scam.
Ex-clearing - the red button on the trading terminals of all Hedge Funds that allows a trader to manipulate a single stock, or the entire market, yet avoid detection by any compliance, audit, regulatory or taxation authority.
God Bless (when used at the end of a letter to shareholders, subscribers, etc.) - proof that the author is sincere about wanting to take your money, reluctant to serve a prison sentence, or both.
Greenwich, CT - Hedge Fund capital of the world, home to many Naked Short Sellers; the only portal into Hades with regular train service from mid-town Manhattan.
Gullibler - see Sucker
Gut Feeling - (before you buy an Emerging Growth Stock): a hunch that this will finally be the multi-bagger you have been searching for; (after you buy an Emerging Growth Stock): the urge to vomit.
Hedge Fund - any group of two or more people with more money and brains than you.
Investor Relations - a liar who is unable to hold down a steady job.
JV - an arrangement between the promoters of two or more Emerging Growth Stocks, with the sole intention of inducing Suckers to buy, and shorts to cover; a meaningless document.
Janet Shell - part cyber-sleuth, part vampire, she clones rats in a secret underground lair and can destroy an Emerging Growth Stock by simply moving her fingers. Sued by the SEC, Amazon and Business Week, she fled her Texas trailer park and is now living in exile in the former Soviet republic of Italy.
Letter of Intent - a letter sent by one party to a second party, usually made public with the sole intention of inducing many third parties to purchase an Emerging Growth Stock. (See also: MOU, JV, Big News, Next Week)
Level II - an electronic stream of data that will enable you to lose more money, faster than ever before.
Locked and Loaded - "I have doubled down more than once on this pig, and if it doesn't go back up very soon, I am in deep, deep trouble…"
Long and Strong - "My irrational belief in this dishonest promotion will not be shaken by assertions of fact."
MM - Market Maker; the Ferrari-driving 24 year-old who emptied your account, one trade at a time.
MOASS - the Mother of All Short Squeezes; when predicted as imminent, a guarantee that your stock will drift lower for the rest of time.
MOU - a letter sent by one liar to another.
Margin - a quicker way to send your entire portfolio to Money Heaven.
Margin Call - the market's way of telling you to stop trading and buy no-load mutual funds.
Melchizidek - a business-friendly domicile for Emerging Growth Companies (see also: Utah)
Mental Stop - an arbitrary point below your purchase price, and always adjusted down to be below the current quote. (See also: Stop Loss)
Mine - a hole in the ground with a liar at the top (Mark Twain).
Mining Company - a group of liars.
Mining Company (Exploration Stage) - a group of liars who have not yet agreed what to lie about.
Mining Company Stock - expensive toilet paper.
Money Heaven: the final resting place for the capital of retail Spec-o-lators. (See also Greenwich, CT.)
Money TV - a platform for fraudulent stock promotion, hosted by paid shill and convicted goat-fucker, Donald Baillargeon.
Moon - frequently-promised price-point for Emerging Growth Stocks; a mineral-rich celestial body, ripe for exploration by Mining Companies.
NSS (Naked Short Selling) - a helpful service provided by Market Makers to lower the price of your stock, so you can buy more at bargain levels (in time for the MOASS).
Next Week - the time frame for the release of the Big News. Always Next Week, never This Week.
NITE - Knight Trading, the largest Market Maker of Emerging Growth Stocks, and the party responsible for your lack of investment acumen and poor trading skills.
OS - Outstanding Shares, like the National Debt, a large and ever-increasing number, but with more immediate negative effect on Stuckholders' wealth.
Optomistic - this mis-spelling of the word optimistic reliably indicates the victim has not yet realized the extent of his losses, or the depths to which the company's management or IR person will go to deceive him.
Paid Basher - one already rich from not wasting their capital on Emerging Growth Stocks, and able to pull down many additional billions by criticizing YOUR stock.
Penny Stock - a business so unprofitable, so mis-managed, so dishonest, that no bank or VC would lend them a cent (see also: Emerging Growth Stock, Mining Company).
Penny Stockholm Syndrome - the love that dare not show a spouse the brokerage statement (see also: True Long).
Pink Sheets - an electronic stock exhange whose secret objective is the transfer of wealth from Suckers to Hedge Funds and executives of Emerging Growth Companies.
Positive DD - what the CEO/promoter/IR person tells you on the phone (but is unable to put in writing); frequently involves Big News, which may arrive as early as Next Week.
Press Release - (when issued by a Real Company) an announcement of material interest to the financial community, intended to goose the stock price; (when issued by an Emerging Growth Company) a collection of exaggerations, lies and errors of omission, intended to goose the stock price.
Reverse Split - the market's way of letting you know your stock is a loser.
SEC - huge, lavishly-funded regulatory agency, whose secret objective is the transfer of wealth from Suckers to Hedge Funds.
Short - the natural enemy of the Sucker;
Short, Naked - see NSS
Spec-o-late - to throw one's capital down the Stinky Pinky Toilet; to engage in wild financial fantasies that will never be realized.
Steve Cohen - (pronounced: Cth'ul'hu) Hedge Fund manager and notorious Short; very camera-shy, due to the fact that he has actual horns growing from his head.
Stinky Pinky - see Emerging Growth Stock
Stinky Pinky Toilet: the place your money goes. (See also: Money Heaven)
Stop Loss - an invitation to a Market Maker to take your money.
Stuckholder - holder of a position in a Stinky Pinky where the proceeds from selling would be less than the commission.
Sucker - anyone long a Penny Stock for longer than it takes to go to the bathroom.
Things that make you go HMMMMMM - prelude or finale to a message-board post consisting of well-researched links that clearly prove the price weakness in a particular Stinky Pinky is due to a vast conspiracy by a secret alliance of Hedge Funds, Market Makers, central banks, the supreme court, Raging Bull, Paid Bashers, the Vatican, the SEC and DTCC, the House of Saud, George Soros, the Smoking Man, etc.
Time Travel - a technology found only in the business plans of Emerging Growth Companies.
Trailing Stop - a trading technique designed to protect profits, seldom needed by investors in Emerging Growth Stocks.
True Long - the con man's best friend.
Utah - a business-friendly domicile for Emerging Growth Stocks.
Vancouver - a street in Canada where your broker worked before he moved to Boca Raton
Wall St - a really old movie with Michael Douglas that portrays the softer, more sentimental side of finance (see also: Boiler Room).
Zero Bid - the market's way of letting you know your stock is a loser.
This is an Educational Service of Freedom Funds LLC. All rights reserved © 2007
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=24772833
Thank you for the fantastic response to my query, Ken.
I took notice after reviewing some news from them on this date last year. It was over 4 dollars at the time,
and today is over 8 dollars.
I agree on this one....timing can be good, and profits can be had with a delicate entry and exit.
Thank you!
PHTW.OB (.26)- congrats to anyone in it......American Greetings to Acquire PhotoWorks, Inc.
Wednesday November 28, 4:53 pm ET
CLEVELAND and SEATTLE, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM - News) and PhotoWorks, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: PHTW - News) today announced they have entered into an agreement whereby American Greetings, through a wholly owned subsidiary, will acquire PhotoWorks for approximately $26.5 million. Under the terms of the agreement, American Greetings will make a cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding common shares of PhotoWorks at a price of 59.5 cents per share. The tender offer will be followed by a merger in which the holders of the outstanding common shares of PhotoWorks not purchased in the tender offer will receive the same per share price paid in the tender offer, in cash, without interest. American Greetings is expected to launch the tender offer shortly, and the merger is expected to close in late January 2008.
The Board of Directors of PhotoWorks has unanimously recommended that shareholders of PhotoWorks accept the offer. Certain shareholders of PhotoWorks have already signed agreements by which they agreed to tender all of their shares in the tender offer. The shares held by such shareholders represent 44.5% of the total shares of PhotoWorks currently outstanding.
PhotoWorks is a leading online photo sharing and personal publishing company that allows consumers to use their digital images to create quality photo-personalized products like greeting cards, calendars, online photo albums and photo books. PhotoWorks offers consumers new, creative, and refreshing ways to connect and express themselves privately with friends and family, and publicly within communities of similar interest.
Zev Weiss, Chief Executive Officer of American Greetings said, "The acquisition of PhotoWorks positions us for a comprehensive photo strategy, bringing together both digital and physical products. We are taking advantage of the opportunity to establish a leadership position in this growing channel of the social expression industry."
Josef Mandelbaum, Chief Executive Officer of AG Interactive, one of American Greetings' segments, stated, "Our previous acquisition of Webshots provided a strong entree into the online photo sharing space, a significant number of unique visitors, and a scalable platform. Now, PhotoWorks provides a strong integrated supply chain platform to provide customers the ability to create unique, high quality physical products with their own photos. This further positions us to provide a full social expression photo solution to our consumers."
Andy Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer of PhotoWorks said, "PhotoWorks is thrilled to be a part of this important step forward for American Greetings. We are excited to build and provide a compelling online experience for consumers in cooperation with one of the world's leading greeting card and social expression companies. I am confident that combining these companies' content and relationships will result in a more appealing site with truly unique products for all of our consumers."
Weiss added, "At this time, the transaction is expected to have a minimal impact to fiscal 2008 earnings."
About American Greetings Corporation
American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM - News) is one of the world's largest manufacturers of social expression products. Along with greeting cards, its product lines include gift wrap, party goods, stationery, calendars, ornaments and electronic greetings. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, American Greetings generates annual revenue of approximately $1.7 billion. For more information on the Company, visit http://corporate.americangreetings.com.
About PhotoWorks
PhotoWorks®, Inc. is an Internet-based personal publishing company and photography community. The company's web-based services allow PC and Mac users to share and store their digital photos, host personalized My Share Web pages, sell one-of-a-kind products through My Storefront, join photo communities, and create hardbound photo books, customized greeting cards, calendars, prints and other photography-sourced products. Formerly known as Seattle Film Works, PhotoWorks has a 30-year national heritage of helping photographers share and preserve their memories with innovative and inspiring products and services. More information on the Company is available at http://www.photoworks.com.
Important Information
This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell securities. The tender offer for the outstanding common shares of PhotoWorks, Inc. ("PhotoWorks") described in this press release has not commenced. At the time the expected tender offer is commenced, American Greetings Corporation ("American Greetings"), or a wholly owned subsidiary of American Greetings will file a tender offer statement on Schedule TO with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), and PhotoWorks will file a solicitation/recommendation statement with respect to the tender offer. Investors and PhotoWorks' shareholders are strongly advised to read the tender offer statement (including the offer to purchase, letter of transmittal and other offer documents) and the related solicitation/recommendation statement because they will contain important information. When available, the offer to purchase, the related letter of transmittal and certain other offer documents, as well as the solicitation/recommendation statement, will be made available to all shareholders of PhotoWorks at no expense to them. These documents will also be available at no charge at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov.
Certain statements in this release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal securities laws. These statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historic or current facts. They use such words as "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of the proposed acquisition and future operating or financial performance of American Greetings. By their nature forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from those anticipated in the statements. With respect to the proposed acquisition, these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:
-- the ability to successfully complete the proposed acquisition on a
timely basis;
-- the ability to achieve the desired benefits associated with the
proposed acquisition.
With respect to future operating and financial performance of American Greetings, these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:
-- retail consolidations, acquisitions and bankruptcies, including the
possibility of resulting adverse changes to retail contract terms;
-- the ability of American Greetings to successfully implement its
strategy to invest in its core greeting card business;
-- the timing and impact of investments in new retail or product
strategies as well as new product introductions and achieving the
desired benefits from those investments;
-- the timing and impact of converting customers to a scan-based trading
model;
-- the ability to execute share repurchase programs or the ability to
achieve the desired accretive effect from such repurchases;
-- the ability of American Greetings to successfully complete, or achieve
the desired benefits associated with, dispositions;
-- a weak retail environment;
-- consumer acceptance of products as priced and marketed;
-- the impact of technology on core product sales;
-- competitive terms of sale offered to customers;
-- successful implementation of supply chain improvements and achievement
of projected cost savings from those improvements;
-- increases in the cost of material, energy, freight, and other
production costs;
-- the ability of American Greetings to comply with its debt covenants;
-- fluctuations in the value of currencies in major areas where the
American Greetings operates, including the U.S. Dollar, Euro, U.K.
Pound Sterling, and Canadian Dollar;
-- escalation in the cost of providing employee health care;
-- successful integration of acquisitions; and
-- the outcome of any legal claims known or unknown.
Risks pertaining specifically to AG Interactive include the viability of online advertising, subscriptions as revenue generators and the public's acceptance of online greetings and other social expression products.
In addition, this release contains time-sensitive information that reflects management's best analysis as of the date of this release. American Greetings does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, information or circumstances that arise after the date of this release. Further information concerning issues that could materially affect financial performance related to forward-looking statements can be found in American Greetings' and PhotoWorks' periodic filings with the SEC, including the "Risk Factors" section of American Greetings' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2007 and the "Risk Factors" section of PhotoWorks' Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006.
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Source: American Greetings Corporation
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071128/clw112.html?.v=31
Stocks Soar Along With Hope for Rate Cut
Wednesday November 28, 4:51 pm ET
By Madlen Read, AP Business Writer
Stocks Soar, Dow Gets Biggest 2-Day Gain in 5 Years As Investors' Hopes Grow for a Rate Cut
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street barreled higher Wednesday for the second day in a row, giving the Dow Jones industrial average its biggest two-day point gain in five years after a Federal Reserve official hinted that the central bank may lower interest rates again.
Investors' renewed hopes for a rate cut added to their relief that companies that made losing bets on subprime mortgages, such as Citigroup Inc. and Freddie Mac, are coming up with ways to raise cash. The market was clearly optimistic that at least some of the damage from the months-long credit crisis was finally being mitigated.
However, Wall Street has been fickle in recent months, and no one is betting that the mortgage crisis that tripped up the nation's financial industry this year is over, or that the market's huge gains so far this week will stick. Despite its spectacular advance this week, the Dow remains more than 6 percent below its Oct. 9 record close over 14,000, having plunged due to worries that the housing market's slump will lead to further losses for banks, and that the Fed can't keep slashing rates.
"The market's perception of whether the Fed cuts or not really changes by the day," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at Spencer Clarke LLC. "We still have more data to come."
Early Wednesday, Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn told the Council on Foreign Relations that recent financial turbulence has reversed some of the improvement seen in markets in previous weeks, and could squeeze credit for households and businesses. He said tight financial conditions may merit "offsetting" policy from the central bank.
The possibility for lower rates seemed more compelling to investors than persistent concerns about a slowdown in economic growth. The Fed has already reduced rates at its last two meetings, and continues to inject billions of dollars into the financial system through repurchase agreements to help calm the shaky markets. The central bank will hold its final rate-setting meeting of the year Dec. 11.
Plunging oil and gold prices also lifted investors' hopes for a rate cut -- if inflation is in control, policy makers have less reason to keep rates high. The Fed's Beige Book of economic activity around the country said with the economy expanding at a reduced pace, most core prices are stable or down slightly.
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow soared 331.01, or 2.55 percent, to 13,289.45, adding to the blue chip index's 215 point gain on Tuesday and giving the market's best known indicator its largest two-day point gain since Oct. 11, 2002.
The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index jumped 40.79, or 2.86 percent, to 1,469.02, while the Nasdaq composite index shot up 82.11, or 3.18 percent, to 2,662.91.
Government bonds slipped as stocks rallied. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 4.04 percent from 3.95 percent late Tuesday.
Crude oil posted its own two-day milestone Wednesday, falling $3.80 to settle at $90.62 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after dropping $3.28 Tuesday. The $7 two-day plunge was the second-largest since the Nymex introduced a futures contract 24 years ago.
The dollar fell against the euro and pound, but rose against the yen.
"Everything we're seeing in the market is revolving about credit and encouragement that the Fed is going to bail us out again," said Alexander Paris, economist and market analyst for Chicago-based Barrington Research. "Investors are kind of ignoring the economic news like housing and durable orders that were all weaker than expected."
Indeed, signs that the Fed will reduce rates to keep cash flowing freely helped overshadow reports that in October, sales of existing homes fell for the eighth consecutive month and orders for big-ticket manufactured goods fell for the third straight month.
Wall Street has had a volatile week so far. Economic and credit market concerns sent the Dow plunging 240 points on Monday, pushing the index to the level of a 10 percent market correction.
On Tuesday, the market rebounded, finding some consolation after the investment arm of Arab city state Abu Dhabi invested $7.5 billion in Citigroup. Then, late Tuesday, government-sponsored mortgage investor Freddie Mac halved its dividend and said it would sell $6 billion of preferred stock, bolstering investors' sentiment that financial companies have some recourse.
On Wednesday, Freddie Mac rose $3.69, or 14.3 percent, to $29.42 on Wednesday, while its larger counterpart, Fannie Mae, rose $2.90, or 9.9 percent, to $32.30.
Citigroup rose $1.97, or 6.5 percent, to $32.29.
But the stock market still has quite a ways to go before breathing easy after this year's crisis in mortgages and the global financial industry's tens of billions of dollars in debt-related losses. Unless the Dow makes further gains this week, November will be the index's worst month since September 2002. And as recently as Monday, the S&P 500 index was in negative territory for the year.
Advancing issues led decliners by about 7 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.76 billion shares.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 26.77, or 3.60 percent, to 770.04.
Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 0.45 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 2.70 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 2.55 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 2.34 percent.
New York Stock Exchange: http://www.nyse.com
Nasdaq Stock Market: http://www.nasdaq.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071128/wall_street.html
Hello Ken- I'm noticing some possible seasonal trends with EMKR beginning in mid November through the turn of the year. I went back three years. Would this be a legit seasonal play, in your respected opinion?
Thank you.
EMKR (8.43) up 4 bucks in exactly one year........link back for one year old news. lol (yet not joking).....
Was browsing a search on this board from one year ago today to analyse tickers.
Notably - EMKR has not only kicked tush in the past year, it had a great day as well. Cheers.
1 year chart and 2 month chart EMKR:
Looks like a tie between the Lemon and the Lebed.
One tequila
Two tequila
Three tequila
- FLOOR..........and Up for round TWO.......
One tequila
Two tequila
Three tequila
- FLOOR..........and Up for round THREE.......
..........and a fifth of somethin' to wash it all down.....
Oh gosh, who knows. I'm sure they're working together on this somehow, lol. One buys and lets it go up, the other sells/shorts at the top when the first guys site bashes it down.
Isn't that how it works? LOL