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Followed so closely was as if having yak hands on the laser!
it's not safe (for other motorists) for me to do that.
brb someone is "weeeeeeeeee'ng in my IMs"
[15:03] yak: I TOLD YOU STOP TWEETING AND PAY ATTENTION!
[15:03] yak: WE GO HIGHER
[15:03] yak: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'm sure most have no clue wtf I'm talking about
but hey, it's free therapy lol
do you have the phone # to some of those people?
I want to know where they hang out
I mad
all the hysteria about SLV so I was waiting for the panic sell down to below $32
and guess what? it goes back up to $33 (again)
we've been thru how many years of this?
day after day.
oh no the market is red
yes, bull rally
oh no, the world is going to end
weeeee time to celebrate bulls are in the house
ut oh market is in for disaster sell the house.
yada yada yada
of course it's special
you're still breathing aren't you?
weeeeee @ pensions
We have a special day coming up!
five years and well not saying how many "other" years!
I have this post saved:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=15614627
NONONO!
we like blood red remember?
buy short buy short buy short
nibble spit nibble spit
I just wouldn't go in large on anything unless it's just so beaten up that you want it for long term investment
did I say investment? bwahahahahahaaha
CNNMoney Stocks are taking a beating, led by a 9% drop in HP shares . Oil, gold and silver are also under selling off… (http://deck.ly/~Mwkwm
WTH the market is red and you're no where around
MarketWatch 15 ways both bulls and bears can stay happy http://on.mktw.net/mI5unM
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FortuneMagazine When companies ignore the risks under their noses: http://bit.ly/mq2A5m
WSJ After Google and TI yesterday, more big names issuing bonds today: J&J, McDonald's, Aetna, Caterpillar http://on.wsj.com/jctPnY
BloombergNow Death Derivatives Emerge From Longevity Risks http://bloom.bg/k1UFQC $GS $JPM $MS
RIMM +2.76%
You do very good
but we know that already :)
US STOCKS-Futures pare gains after HP results
* HP cuts full-year outlook on Japan woes
* Housing, industrial production data on tap
* Futures: S&P up 0.4 pt, Dow 5 pts, Nasdaq down 1.5 pt
* For up-to-the-minute market news see [STXNEWS/US] (Updates with Hewlett-Packard, Dell results)
By Angela Moon
NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and Dow index futures rose slightly on Tuesday, but gains were capped after disappointing results from Hewlett-Packard.
The Nasdaq index futures turned negative after the tech company reported a negative outlook, sending its shares down 4.4 percent in premarket trading to $39.07.
HP's rival, computer maker Dell (DELL.O), is due to report quarterly earnings after the bell.
"Investors will now be closely looking at other big names like Dell to see if this (the weak results) is a trend (in the industry) or if this is just isolated to certain companies," said Sal Arnuk, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) shares fell 0.1 percent to $56.00 in premarket trade. Sales at its U.S. discount stores open at least a year fell 1.1 percent during its first quarter, marking its eighth straight quarterly decline as it works to lure shoppers back to the biggest chain. [ID:nN17234724]
Home Depot Inc (HD.N) shares fell 0.2 percent to $36.90 before the bell after the home improvement company reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales as inclement weather hurt demand for seasonal goods at the start of the spring selling season. [ID:nN17125637]
The results came the day after Home Depot's smaller rival, Lowe's Cos (LOW.N), reported weaker-than-expected quarterly sales and earnings and cut its forecast for the year after a slow start to the key selling season. [ID:nN16263003]
Such retailers have found it harder to sell to homeowners in an uneven U.S. economy. Many shoppers have stayed away from expensive renovations amid falling housing prices.
Housing starts data is scheduled for release at 8:30 a.m. (1230 GMT), with economists predicting a rise to around 568,000 in April compared with 549,000 a month earlier.
Other data set for release includes April's industrial output figures at 9:15 a.m (1315 GMT).
S&P 500 futures SPc1 rose 0.4 point and were about even with fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration of the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures DJc1 gained 5 points while Nasdaq 100 futures NDc1 fell 1.5 point.
The Nasdaq .IXIC fell on Monday as investors worried about the U.S. economic outlook. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI and the S&P 500 .SPX were also off after a regional report on manufacturing added to worries about the outlook.
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CHART: How long did it take U.S. healthcare costs to double? http://huff.to/klcy0A
U.S. healthcare is so expensive that records are broken even when cost increases slow.
According to a new report by Milliman, a global consulting and actuarial firm, the total cost of healthcare for the average family of four, if covered by a preferred provider organization, is now a record $19,393.
That might be only 7.3 percent higher than last year's average cost of $18.074, which is the smallest year-over-year increase in almost a decade. But it's also the highest year-over-year increase in total dollars spent per family at $1,319.
Trends over the last decade more completely illustrate the toll taken on the average American by rising healthcare costs.
"In 2002, American families had healthcare costs of $9,235, and those costs have now doubled in fewer than nine years," said Lorraine Mayne, Milliman principal and consulting actuary, in a press release. "As costs continue to grow -- and even as the cost trend decelerates -- the total cost of care for American families constitutes a larger and larger portion of the household budget."
Of that $1,319 increase, employers were paid for 48.6 percent of the increase, while the additional 51.6 percent was the responsibility of employees.
That's only slightly different from trends of the last five years. Over that period, employers have absorbed $3,023 in additional healthcare costs, employees themselves absorbing only slightly less, at $2,988.
MarketWatch U.S. housing starts fall 10.6% in April http://on.mktw.net/kIVlbW
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Apple 2.0: The iPhone in Q1:
5% of unit sales, 55% of global profits http://bit.ly/m1MCBG $AAPL 2 minutes ago via twitterfeed
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'you make a lot of crap' http://bit.ly/iw5i6Y $AAPL
Airlines' fare hikes stick as fuel costs surge
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Airfares have risen this year at their fastest pace in years as airlines have had more success in passing on the higher cost of fuel to passengers.
The average price of a ticket on a U.S. airline, including baggage and other fees, was 14 percent higher in March than a year earlier. That's the biggest 12-month increase and March's highest average price in at least a decade.
That's also a much larger increase than the 5.2 percent rise in the fourth quarter of 2010 from a year earlier, reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation this month. The department reports only average base fares, excluding added fees, which could account for much of the difference.
Port Columbus has long had lower-than-average fares, although its year-over-year increase of 5.1percent in the fourth quarter was in line with the U.S. average.
The five biggest U.S. airlines lost a total of a little more than $1billion in the first quarter, but they appear determined to avoid a repeat of the multibillion-dollar losses in 2008, when they couldn't recover rising fuel costs. They appear to be making progress: Fuel prices in March were just 1.5 percent higher than three years ago, while fares were up 10 percent.
"In 2008, airline CEOs were on the floor in the fetal position," said Michael Boyd, an aviation expert and president of the Boyd Group. "This time, they're prepared."
Unlike in 2008, this year's fare increases have largely stuck. One big difference is that Southwest Airlines, which in 2008 typically balked at the increases (and does not charge fees for a first or second bag), has been raising its fares, too. Southwest has bumped prices up seven times since mid-December and, in a recent conference call with analysts, signaled that more increases are likely.
"I don't like fare increases for our customers, but they're certainly necessary in this soaring fuel-cost environment," said Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly.
Southwest was the lone big U.S. carrier to squeeze out a profit in the first quarter, although losses for Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, US Airways and United Continental Holdings were less than expected.
Many people expect further airfare increases because airlines still need to recover more of their fuel costs, and the current increases haven't scared away many passengers.
However, Tom Parsons of BestFares.com said yesterday that in the past six weeks, he's seen summer airfare sales break out, and he thinks that more could be coming for routes and flights that have empty seats. He recommends buying on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, when fare sales often take place, and not buying on the weekend.
He also thinks that Southwest might have particularly low fares planned around its 40th anniversary in mid-June.
An annual rise of a penny in the price of a gallon of jet fuel costs U.S. airlines $175million, and if jet fuel averaged $3 a gallon in 2011, that would add $15billion in fuel costs compared with 2010. The industry last year had a $3billion profit.
Jet-fuel prices passed $3 a gallon in late February, up 50 cents in 2011, the Energy Information Administration said. Fuel prices have since jumped to $3.30.
In 2008, jet fuel peaked at $4.16 per gallon, the agency said.
United Continental Holdings, the parent of United and Continental airlines, paid 35 percent more for fuel in the first three months of the year than it did a year earlier.
Southwest is projecting a $1.5billion "fuel headwind" this year, and American Airlines expects its fuel bill to rise $2.1billion.
O/T News Posada refused to catch in spring training?
New York Yankees DH Jorge Posada(notes) has enjoyed the good side of being famous in New York for more than a few years. Now he's getting to "enjoy" the downside.
In what is now a well-documented flipout, Posada reacted strongly when asked to bat ninth in the order Saturday. Sources tell the New York Daily News that Posada didn't just tell GM Brian Cashman and Manager Joe Girardi that he wanted out of the lineup that night but that he wanted off the team in general.
"It was just something said in the heat of anger and frustration," a close friend of Posada's told the paper. "What happened had nothing to do with being dropped to ninth in the batting order. It was just the combination of everything building up in him - his frustration at not helping the team and the feeling that, right now, he sucks, and that everything in his world is pretty (expletive)."
Everybody has supposedly made up and apologized and all of that but the Daily News reports a new supposed disagreement between Posada and the team: He supposedly wouldn't catch during spring training. "According to Yankee sources, Posada was told by the team that in addition to his fulltime DH duties, he should also be prepared to catch an occasional game or in emergency situations," the paper reports. "But sources claim that when Posada was asked to catch in a game in the spring, he declined, citing headaches and concern over the concussion syndrome he suffered after taking a foul ball off the mask the previous September."
However, Posada denied to the Daily News that the team ever asked him to catch at all during spring training.
Bill would let parents control kids' Facebook pages
Posted on May 17th 2011 by Emma Woollacott
A new bill under consideration in California would force Facebook and other social networking sites to remove personal information on childrens' accounts at their parents' request.
There's increasing concern about the number of children using sites such as Facebook. While children under 13 are prohibited from joining, many simply lie about their date of birth, often with the full consent of their parents. Indeed, a recent survey by Consumer Reports found that as many as 7.5 million kids were doing so.
But the proposed Social Networking Privacy Act would also allow parents to take down their child's page altogether, with fines as high as $10,000 for companies that failed to comply within 48 hours - rather a tall order for the websites.
And it would mean that users would have to set privacy settings as soon as they join, rather than allowing them to do that at a later date. This provision, however, may not be as sensible as it sounds - it would mean that users would be making detailed decisions about a service before they'd even used it for the first time.
And the bill wouldn't just apply to Facebook. As it covers any website where a public or semi-public profile is created, it would also apply to dating and employment websites, for example.
Unsurprisingly, a number of internet companies including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Match.com have submitted a formal letter of opposition to the plans.
They say that introducing privacy controls at the sign-up stage could confuse users and actually decrease privacy.
"Known as 'privacy shrink wrap', this practice results in users clicking quickly through the available options without contextual understanding ofor serious thought to the case-by-case implications of the choices being made," they say in a letter to the bill's sponsor, Ellen Corbett.
"A common just-in-time, contextual privacy notice on a popular social networking site has fewer than forty words, describes exactly the information to be shared and with whom, and is easily understood by a layperson."