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TSO going again... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
ok that does it for me for the day... cya guys later.. :)
weeeeeeeee and i just got em... thats it for me today i guess... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Shorting TSO today just need a few more ticks down.... :)
ahhhhhh, cool hope it went well and ur ready to trade again... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
where did u go... atlantic city????
morning... hows it going?
Thats interesting wonder if they can stop Ichan from getting his own board in there......
everybody busy working i guess.... me too ill cyall later...
yeah pushy like yhoo and then Blockbuster will walk..... ewwwwww
bid of 11.50 for cc and its a done deal.... ?
Cnet lets hope cc goes the same way... :)
POT goingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg
pal 16% up weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee good for pal holders... :)
been putting my paychecks into trading made some good trades plus a bit of credit cards... but yeah, been going ok..... just wish i could trade more....
no... 5 bucks with zecco, trading with 4500 of my cash and then margin, actually works out ok.......
yeah, i mean really not been doing anything special, just making stock plays, instead of options plays, and taking profits on like 1% 2% moves..... been playing with the margin too tho.... mostly been playing ipi and pot... tso yesterday was icing on the cake... and today i did 150 on hpq short... :) But im not trading everyday either, get busy and all the rest....... but been doing ok when i do trade, i honestly feel like leaving the options alone was the right thing to do.... anyway, hope ur doing well...
yep sherri i guess u could say that, ive been trading just stock, going long and short.... still with zecco but going to switch to prodigy sometime, as meeting that margin is no longer a problem lololol..... but yeah ive been doing much better leaving options alone......
also made a good short trade on hpq today.. :)
yep still alive and well.. made a nice nice nice trade yesterday on tso, made like 700 weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee that trade went well a ittle over 2% :)
short hpq today... :)
financials making some up movement now.....
hope yhoo investors are ready for some more of that too... plenty more where that came from....
lol, that will more then likely happen, being as yhoo is in a great place financially to where they can compete with msft... lolololololololololololol
yep, yet yhoo, goes from 21 or low 20s to 25 26 on freeking HOPE lolololol
lol, im pissed at freeking msft, WTF u suddenly are 47billion bucks richer then a miniute ago and ur stock doesn't move... ??????
cool... me too for the next 30 mins or so....
MA going for a 300 break.... V to follow????
Pending home sales hit record low in March
Wednesday May 7, 10:00 am ET
The number of homes under contract for sale fell in March, hitting a record low for the second consecutive month, according to a report released Wednesday.
The National Association of Realtors' (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index fell to 83 in March, down 1% from a downwardly revised reading of 83.8 in February. The rate of decline was in line with a consensus estimate of economists compiled by Briefing.com.
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March's reading was down 20.1% from the same period last year.
"Things are beginning to improve, but the availability of affordable mortgages is uneven around the country and sometimes within metropolitan areas," said NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun in a statement.
The Pending Home Sales Index is considered a more forward-looking indicator of home sales than other real estate forecasts such as the NAR's more closely watched existing home sales report. Unlike existing home sales estimates, pending home sales are measured before the time of closing, typically a month or two before a sales contract is signed.
The Pending Home Sales index was launched in 2001, and a reading of 100 is equal to results that first year.
The Realtors boosted their forecast slightly for existing home sales, projecting first-quarter existing home sales to decline 14.4% from the same period last year after saying in April they would decline 14.5%. NAR maintained its previous prediction for a total 4.7% drop in existing home sales in 2008.
"As anticipated, we continue to look for a soft first half of the year, for both housing and the economy, before notable improvements in the second half," said Yun.
Existing home sales for March will be released May 23.
The NAR upwardly revised its forecasts for second-quarter and full-year real GDP growth, the broadest measure of the nation's economic strength. But it cut its expectations for nonfarm job growth in the second-quarter and full-year periods.
Bill Gates says Microsoft going 'independent' way
Wednesday May 7, 7:33 am ET
By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer
Bill Gates says Microsoft going 'independent' way after withdrawing from Yahoo bid
TOKYO (AP) -- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn't pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo.
He said in Tokyo that the company put "a lot of effort" in the talks with Yahoo and has decided the two should pursue "independent paths."
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Over the weekend, Microsoft withdrew its 3-month-old unsolicited bid for Yahoo Inc. after seeing the impasse with Yahoo's board over a mutually acceptable sales price.
"Now at this point Microsoft is focused on its independent strategy," Gates told reporters at a news conference in Tokyo.
Those comments seemed to set a different tone than on Tuesday in South Korea, where he said the company wasn't ruling out alternative partnerships after the failure to buy Yahoo.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer had orally offered to pay $33 per share, or $47.5 billion, for Yahoo, up from an initial bid valued at $44.6 billion, or $31 per share. At the time the negotiations collapsed, the value of Microsoft's original offer had fallen to $42.3 billion, or $29.40 per share, because half the deal was supposed to be financed with Microsoft's declining stock.
Yahoo's board wanted $37 per share -- a price that the company's stock hasn't reached in more than two years.
Microsoft trails Google in the online search and advertising markets, and the bid for Yahoo was an attempt at turning that around.
But Gates said that Microsoft was determined to make "advances" in its own search offering and meetings were in the works in Seattle to hammer out more specific plans.
"We will make the advances that give people a great choice there," he said.
Microsoft's intense pursuit of Yahoo was widely seen as an acknowledgment of weaknesses in Microsoft's solo Web search and advertising strategy, and the software maker now needs to prove it can innovate without Yahoo as a partner.
Gates makes periodic trips to Asia, and he was in Japan two years ago. He said he met with business partners in Japan, which he sees as an important market. Talks covered digital broadcast software for Windows-based personal computers and giving free downloads of Microsoft software to Japanese students.
Possible partners for Microsoft in the future might include large Internet companies such as Time Warner Inc.'s AOL and News Corp.'s MySpace and promising startups such as Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp.
Microsoft already owns a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook, the second-largest social network behind MySpace.
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ahhhh, nice work on those calls :)
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morning all. S merging.... hmmmmmm interesting.. :)
thanks appreciate it... :)
Whatever happened to the Sell in May and walk away???
not sure......
yhoo up 6& today???? WTF??? i think there are going to be some very very sorry yhoo investors.....
pot and ipi have been really nice tho... i got to say if u traded it ipi has been AWESOME the past 2 week... :)
yep sure do, sucks....... as long as ur up more days then down... :)