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I don't think any of what either of you said was particularly civilized. personally, i believe our current govt. has caused us to find anyone in opposition an abhorrence - red/blue, you're either with us or against us, the enemy. i find that to be the most uncivilized issue we've had to deal with in the last 7+ yrs. That tone has separated us no end, and a nation that hates and is separate is a closed and dull society.
I've never read a post of Syl's prior to this morning. I usually read Zeev's blog. You said nothing wrong, you just fed into someone else's lack of civility. What was that old song...Let's get together, ya ya ya -
Problem is, will there ever be someone to lead the country to treat each other with respect and fairness? I still don't know if there is anyone to vote for! Look at 'em!
I'm done....sorry for interrupting...
titan
sorry to interrupt michael103332002, but your accusation of bias was pretty biased as well. america has lost it's ability to contain itself in civilized discussion, the reason why i changed from a major political party to "decline to state".
instead of discussion, we accuse and slam. not very neighborly, in my very humble opinion.
Morningstar.com
Wide-Moat Tech Stock with Hefty Expected Returns
Tuesday December 4, 11:30 am ET
By Alex Morozov, CFA
Another New 5-Star Tech Stock
QLogic (NasdaqGS:QLGC - News)
* Price/fair value ratios and expected returns calculated using fair value estimates, closing prices, and cost of equity estimates as of Friday, Nov. 30, 2007.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ms/071204/215269.html?.v=1
Hi Jerry,
What's your outlook for the markets tomorrow? Did we get enough of a meltdown (10%) for it to continue up or are we stalled waiting for news from Bernanke? You had great hope for the end of the year. Still thinking that way? I thought people sold off for tax purposes.
Thanks
just to let you know jerry, i really miss your sunday (or any day) newsletter. does one get that by paying for a service? anyway, it was always helpful.
nancie
SNDK info from stock consultant...
http://www.stockconsultant.com/consultnow/basicplus.cgi?ID=sample>ime=2&symbol=SNDK&4508#ttop
BULLISH Probability - Intermediate trend bullish, Unsustainable downtrend, may turn sideways.
Probability - Extreme Oversold, odds definitely favor long trades.
Probability - Short term extreme pullback, expect pullback to pause/stop.
Probability - Mild bullish 3 day chart pattern.
Probability - Strong Down trend (1 month), not sustainable, occurs only 15% of the time, expect trend to turn sideways or higher.
Confirmation - at support
BEARISH None
SUMMARY
5 bullish probability indicators. 10,
1 bullish confirmation indicators. Very Strong Outperform, short term (1-6 wks)
No bearish indicators. 100%, Bullish
0%, Bearish
i was just joking around with bruce thompson, but thanks for your opinion. good to know.
was there more bad news on SNDK that i missed or are market movers holding this down so mr. bruce thompson can purchase more shares?
SNDK......may turn green??
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/071120/tech01.html?.v=1
Investor's Business Daily
Will Media Players Sing New Tune?
Tuesday November 20, 6:10 pm ET
Patrick Seitz
SanDisk
SanDisk has a broad line of Sansa-brand music players that match up well with Apple's iPod offerings. SanDisk only offers flash memory-based players and does not use hard disk drives in any of its players. Because SanDisk makes its own flash-memory chips, it's able to undercut Apple on price.
SanDisk's portable media players range from the tiny Sansa Shaker -- its cheapest offering at $29 for 512 megabytes of storage -- on up to the Sansa View, which has as much as 16 gigabytes of storage for $199.
Like Apple's iPod Shuffle, San-Disk's Sansa Shaker does not have a display screen.
SanDisk's Sansa Clip has the same clip-to-your-clothes function as the iPod Shuffle, but also has a display for navigating through music and an FM tuner. The Sansa Clip costs $39 for a 1 GB version and $59 for a 2 GB version.
The Sansa View has a 2.4-inch color display to view photos and video. It also comes with a digital FM radio with 20 presets and a voice recorder with built-in microphone.
SanDisk is poised to make market share gains in the U.S., Crotty says.
"They're particularly well-positioned to do as well as anyone can do against the iPod juggernaut," Crotty said. "They've got a nice lineup of players now that appeal to different parts of the market."
Another board is announcing $15. on SNDK. It does seem to have no end to the decline...but you and others keep buying. Are you thinking there will be a miraculous turn?
Someone else on the thread suggested it was tanks-giving. Silly....but true!
SNDK going positive....
QLogic Board OK's New $200M Stock Repurchase Program
By Colin M. Kellaher
Last Update: 7:46 AM ET Nov 6, 2007
QLogic Corp. (QLGC:
15.27, -0.11, -0.7%) Tuesday said its board authorized a new program to repurchase up to $200 million of the company's common stock over the next two years. The Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based maker of storage network infrastructure components said the action follows its most recent $300 million repurchase program, adopted in April. Nasdq-listed shares of QLogic closed Monday at $15.27, down 11 cents, or 0.72%
I'm hoping for good things from SNDK.....kept buying all the way down to 40. something. I miss Zeev's comments and positive outlook on it!
AP
SanDisk Director Buys Shares
Monday October 29, 4:39 pm ET
SanDisk Director Michael E. Marks Buys 50,000 Shares
NEW YORK (AP) -- A director of flash memory maker SanDisk Corp. bought 50,000 shares of common stock, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings Friday.
In Form 4s filed with the SEC, Michael E. Marks reported he bought the shares Friday for $40.27 to $41.19 apiece.
Insiders file Form 4s with the SEC to report transactions in their companies' shares. Open market purchases and sales must be reported within two business days of the transaction.
QLGC might have looked even prettier had the market been in green mode today. Hope it heads back up to 15+.
QLGC holding up nicely today...good sign before earnings.
December 12, 12:22 pm
Titan
December 12, 12:22 pm
Titan
Investor's Business Daily
Suddenly, A Chipper Outlook
Friday October 12, 7:00 pm ET
James Detar
"Flash is the hottest segment of the chip market," In-Stat analyst Jim McGregor said. "With the growth of consumer devices and mobile computing, you can't say enough about flash." That could mean stronger sales for flash maker Sandisk (NasdaqGS:SNDK - News) and Micron Technology (NYSE:MU - News), the biggest U.S. memory maker.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/071012/industry.html?.v=1
i own it so i hope it doesn't go too much lower. it's up (48.08 right now) after hours...for what it's worth.
SanDisk upside calls heat up ahead of earnings
By Doris Frankel
CHICAGO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - SanDisk Corp (SNDK.O: Quote, Profile, Research) options were a hot item on Friday as many traders turned to calls, betting on a sharp upside move in its shares through November or to cover their short positions in the stock.
Part of that bullish activity was fueled by optimism about the prospects for strong earnings from the flash memory maker.
SanDisk, the No. 1 maker of flash storage cards, will report results from its third quarter on Oct. 18. Currently Wall Street is looking for earnings per share of 31 cents, before items, according to Reuters Estimates.
"Some major technology companies that are due to release earnings next week are seeing a lot of option activity," said William Lefkowitz, options strategist at brokerage firm vFinance Investments in New York.
"One of those is SanDisk and its calls are being actively traded as investors position for possible upside movement after their earnings release," Lefkowitz said.
In all, 104,885 calls compared to 29,141 puts changed hands in SanDisk, more than four times normal volume, according to market research firm Track Data.
SanDisk makes NAND flash, a kind of memory chip found in electronics such as digital cameras, music players and mobile telephones.
Its shares dropped $1.30, or 2.7 percent, to finish at $47.40 on the Nasdaq after Needham & Co Research downgraded the stock to a hold from a buy.
This year, NAND prices have fallen, which historically stimulates demand but also reflects declining costs of manufacturing in the industry, analysts said.
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's top memory chip maker, on Friday said average prices for NAND flash memory chips could drop by around 15 percent in the fourth quarter.
Samsung beat expectations with a 12 percent rise in third-quarter operating profit helped by strong demand for its flat screens and phones, but warned that weak memory chip prices would fall further.
Some viewed Samsung's improving semiconductor margins as a positive indicator for SanDisk.
JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster said he believes Samsung's third-quarter results and its fourth-quarter forecast point to a strong 2007 second half for SanDisk.
"We remain aggressive buyers of SanDisk ahead of earnings," Coster said in a research note.
Samsung expects NAND bit shipment growth of over 35 percent sequentially in the fourth quarter, which seems modest and could set the stage for SanDisk to win significant market share, Coster said.
On Friday, SanDisk options traded heavily with a lot of the traffic in the October calls ahead of the earnings report next week, said Rebecca Engmann Darst, equity options analyst at Interactive Brokers Group.
Investors often use equity calls hoping to profit from a share price rise and puts to speculate on potential price weakness.
Particularly notable is the "frenzied level of call buying" in the November contract, she said, where investors bought calls giving them the right to buy SanDisk shares at $55 and $57.50 a piece.
"A purchase of these calls implies an upside move in SanDisk to nearly within a dollar of July highs when they peaked at $59.75," she said.
SanDisk upside calls heat up ahead of earnings
By Doris Frankel
CHICAGO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - SanDisk Corp (SNDK.O: Quote, Profile, Research) options were a hot item on Friday as many traders turned to calls, betting on a sharp upside move in its shares through November or to cover their short positions in the stock.
Part of that bullish activity was fueled by optimism about the prospects for strong earnings from the flash memory maker.
SanDisk, the No. 1 maker of flash storage cards, will report results from its third quarter on Oct. 18. Currently Wall Street is looking for earnings per share of 31 cents, before items, according to Reuters Estimates.
"Some major technology companies that are due to release earnings next week are seeing a lot of option activity," said William Lefkowitz, options strategist at brokerage firm vFinance Investments in New York.
"One of those is SanDisk and its calls are being actively traded as investors position for possible upside movement after their earnings release," Lefkowitz said.
In all, 104,885 calls compared to 29,141 puts changed hands in SanDisk, more than four times normal volume, according to market research firm Track Data.
SanDisk makes NAND flash, a kind of memory chip found in electronics such as digital cameras, music players and mobile telephones.
Its shares dropped $1.30, or 2.7 percent, to finish at $47.40 on the Nasdaq after Needham & Co Research downgraded the stock to a hold from a buy.
This year, NAND prices have fallen, which historically stimulates demand but also reflects declining costs of manufacturing in the industry, analysts said.
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's top memory chip maker, on Friday said average prices for NAND flash memory chips could drop by around 15 percent in the fourth quarter.
Samsung beat expectations with a 12 percent rise in third-quarter operating profit helped by strong demand for its flat screens and phones, but warned that weak memory chip prices would fall further.
Some viewed Samsung's improving semiconductor margins as a positive indicator for SanDisk.
JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster said he believes Samsung's third-quarter results and its fourth-quarter forecast point to a strong 2007 second half for SanDisk.
"We remain aggressive buyers of SanDisk ahead of earnings," Coster said in a research note.
Samsung expects NAND bit shipment growth of over 35 percent sequentially in the fourth quarter, which seems modest and could set the stage for SanDisk to win significant market share, Coster said.
On Friday, SanDisk options traded heavily with a lot of the traffic in the October calls ahead of the earnings report next week, said Rebecca Engmann Darst, equity options analyst at Interactive Brokers Group.
Investors often use equity calls hoping to profit from a share price rise and puts to speculate on potential price weakness.
Particularly notable is the "frenzied level of call buying" in the November contract, she said, where investors bought calls giving them the right to buy SanDisk shares at $55 and $57.50 a piece.
"A purchase of these calls implies an upside move in SanDisk to nearly within a dollar of July highs when they peaked at $59.75," she said.
sure hope you're right zeev! bought SNDK 48.20, sold VPRT 43.73 (from 38.) -
that SNDK hasn't been looking to happy as of late...
what's your thinking on SNDK....are you holding what you bought during the week? i own it so i watch your posts.
titan
about to pop through 17?
QLGC-a-poppin'
I don't know if you still have any PEIX but....
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The New Vision barge at Tidewater's new petroleum terminal at the Port of Morrow. Contributed photo courtesy of Tidewater Barge Lines
Pacific Ethanol ships first million
By Dean Brickey
of the East Oregonian
BOARDMAN - Tidewater Barge Lines will call at the Port of Morrow again next week to begin loading a second tanker with ethanol.
Pacific Ethanol Columbia, which began production in late August, loaded and shipped its first barge full of ethanol last week, said Dennis McVicker, Tidewater's president and chief executive officer. The barge was loaded Thursday at the Port of Morrow and delivered to Portland Friday. It was the first time Tidewater used its newest petroleum dock.
McVicker said the new dock is not just for Pacific Ethanol, but for other biofuel producers.
"Anyone who builds there, we plant on developing a relationship with them," he said.
In addition to the new petroleum dock, Tidewater also has container and wood chip docks at the Port of Morrow and a petroleum dock at the Port of Umatilla.
Meanwhile, Tidewater christened the New Vision, its new double-hulled petroleum barge as part of the company's 75th anniversary last week. Tidewater Barge Lines is one of three companies owned by Tidewater Holdings Inc.
McVicker said the New Vision is a former grain barge that workers at Sundial Marine Construction & Repair, a Tidewater subsidiary in Troutdale, double hulled to accommodate 25,000 barrels of petroleum. That's 1,050,000 gallons at 42 gallons per barrel.
The New Vision is one of 11 Tidewater barges that transport petroleum on Columbia and Snake rivers. Altogether, Tidewater has 15 boats and more than 140 barges.
Tidewater distributes petroleum from Portland to Eastern Oregon and Washington as far east as Clarkston, Wash., he said. Barges that haul gasoline upriver can return to Portland loaded with ethanol.
Tidewater's third major project this year was upgrading The Chief, a tugboat. Workers at Sundial Marine Construction & Repair installed new, more efficient engines, that will burn 132,000 fewer gallons of fuel annually and reduce emissions, McVicker said.
"We plan to repower more boats in the coming years, he added. "The new double-hulled barges, the new Chief and the barge dock project are helping ethanol become a viable option in the Pacific Northwest."
McVicker said the company plans to build on its legacy of transporting grain downriver and petroleum upriver because both jobs help farmers in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington.
"Our business, really, is connecting upriver farmers, upriver businesses with world markets," McVicker said. "We're really committed to the long-term future of this river system and committed to protecting the environment."
http://www.eastoregonian.info/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=67267&TM=5...
I thought it was cher or meryl streep
SNDK has hit a pothole. What'samatta?
Will Stocks Sink Or Swim After Jobs Data?
<<"The pendulum is going to swing between the euphoria -- we're going to get a rate cut, things are not that bad -- to the world is going to end, we're going into a recession," said John Praveen, chief investment strategist at Prudential International Investments Advisers LLC in Newark, New Jersey.>>
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/business-column-stocks-outlook.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
for those interested in the eclipse:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2007Aug28/TLE2007Aug28.html
I did better on my QCOM buy at 38 this morning!
long SNDK right at the low...hope i'm right!
in SNDK right about here...
http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/20/fed-discount-cut-pf-ii-in_jd_0817newsletterwatch_inl_slide_6.html?t...
hey op, forbes likes qlgc
it's time to go back to school.....should i buy more q? maybe under 12?
my green stock today: vprt
yes. schwab is on the blink.
and i didn't hear it from you! i nibbled at it last week...but i should have waited.