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I take it, its going well... :)
hey guys hows it going...... i see msft is finally going up.....
msft goes down ... thats interesting, good thing i took profits.... :)
IPI having a good day too... :)
yeah and Gs back at 200, and rimm 133??? market way way overpriced imo
why in hell is RIMM 133???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fly MSFT FLY FLY FLY
i think msft will go up..... or at least i hope.,,,,
long Msft 29.90... lets hope it FLYS!!!! be back got to get for food...
nah not playing options, but im going to get long msft in a sec here
Morning ALL!!!!!!!!!!!
market running here.... rate cut related imo....
i think they are long the stock on cc...
lol exactly, its a crapshot.... imo id rather bet on a real company with real revs, then one that might or could be....
pm me ur number, lost it..... or anyone with marcs number would u pm it to me.... :)
anyone who can glance at a chart can see iahl has done nothing of any interest since the begining of the year, trust me been there done that, ive waited over 18 months now for a pinky to uplist as they promised they would,and there has yet to be any progress.. trust me stay away....
nice... a .25 should make the market run up..... :)
What kinda rate cut is everyone expecting???
Nice, but cant go off that alone, last time i did that was crox cause of the huge short, and that didnt pay off at all... :( but crox was in trouble already....
whats the short % on the float for bidz???
looks like we have a newbie to the pinky market, we have heard it all before, GL is about all u can say.... better return then pot, how about when they do a r/S 1000 to 1 for their uplist, IF they even uplist... i mean could go on and on.... hope they take the money while they can.... a pinkys really going to get a market cap of a billion bucks lol fed, ur really putting it out there.... lolololololololol
from what im reading, it seems to me that they could go hostile, kinda still up in the air tho...... I Would LOVE IT if they walked...... u should know in a day or two......
yeah....
lol touche
NICE!!!!!
he he.... was a real trade, put the 25 into zecco a bit ago... going to transfer over to prodigy later if it keeps going well.....
yeah that was yesterday, i shorted at 35 weeeeeeeeee and today i got long V when it was 6% down lol weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Number of US homes facing foreclosure jumps 112 percent in first quarter from 2007 AP
Homes facing foreclosure more than doubled in 1Q from 2007
Tuesday April 29, 6:18 am ET
By Alex Veiga, AP Business Writer
Number of US homes facing foreclosure jumps 112 percent in first quarter from 2007
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The number of U.S. homes heading toward foreclosure more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier, as weakening property values and tighter lending left many homeowners powerless to prevent homes from being auctioned to the highest bidder, a research firm said Monday.
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Among the hardest hit states were Nevada, Florida and, in particular, California, where Stockton led the nation with a foreclosure rate that was 6.6 times the national average, Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac Inc. said.
Nationwide, 649,917 homes received at least one foreclosure-related filing in the first three months of the year, up 112 percent from 306,722 during the same period last year, RealtyTrac said.
The latest tally also represents an increase of 23 percent from the fourth quarter of last year.
RealtyTrac monitors default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions.
All told, one in every 194 households received a foreclosure filing during the quarter. Foreclosure filings increased in all but four states.
The most recent quarter marked the seventh consecutive quarter of rising foreclosure activity, RealtyTrac noted.
"What would normally alleviate the foreclosure situation in a normal market is people starting to buy properties again," said Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac's vice president of marketing.
However, the unavailability of loans for people without perfect credit and a significant down payment is slowing the process, he said.
"It's a cycle that's going to be difficult to break, and we're certainly not at the breaking point just yet," Sharga added.
The surge in foreclosure filings also suggests that much-touted campaigns by lawmakers and the mortgage lending industry aimed at helping at-risk homeowners aren't paying off.
Hope Now, a Bush administration-organized mortgage industry group, said nearly 503,000 homeowners had received mortgage aid in the first quarter. Most of the aid was temporary, however.
Pennsylvania was a notable standout in the latest foreclosure data. The number of homes in the state to receive a foreclosure-related filing plunged 24.4 percent from a year earlier.
Sharga credited the decline to the state's foreclosure relief measures, noting that cities such as Philadelphia put in place a moratorium on all foreclosure auctions for April and implemented other measures aimed at helping slow foreclosures.
Nearly 157,000 properties were repossessed by lenders nationwide during the quarter, according to RealtyTrac.
The flood of foreclosed properties on the market has contributed to falling or stagnating home values, yet lenders have yet to implement heavy discounts on repossessed homes, Sharga said.
Nevada posted the worst foreclosure rate in the nation, with one in every 54 households receiving a foreclosure-related notice, nearly four times the national rate.
The number of properties with a filing increased 137 percent over the same quarter last year but only rose 3 percent from the fourth quarter.
California had the most properties facing foreclosure at 169,831, an increase of 213 percent from a year earlier. It also posted the second-highest foreclosure rate in the country, with one in every 78 households receiving a foreclosure-related notice.
California metro areas accounted for six of the 10 U.S. metropolitan areas with the highest foreclosure rates in the first quarter, RealtyTrac said.
Many of the areas -- including Stockton, Riverside-San Bernardino, Fresno, Sacramento and Bakersfield -- are located in inland areas of the state where many first-time buyers overextend themselves financially to buy properties that have plunged in value since the market peak.
"California still hasn't hit bottom," Sharga said. "We have a lot of California homes that are in early stages of default that may not be salvageable because either there's no market or financing available, or both."
Arizona had the third-highest foreclosure rate, with one in every 95 households reporting a foreclosure filing in the quarter. A total of 27,404 homes reported at least one filing, up nearly 245 percent from a year ago and up 45 percent from the last quarter of 2007.
Florida had 87,893 homes reporting at least one foreclosure filing, a 178 percent jump from the first quarter of last year and a 17 percent hike from the fourth quarter last year. That translates into a foreclosure rate of one in every 97 households.
The other states among the top 10 with the highest foreclosure rates were Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
266 ish, but their profits just more then doubled...
AP
MasterCard profit more than doubles as card use abroad rises
Tuesday April 29, 8:58 am ET
By Madlen Read, AP Business Writer
MasterCard's first-quarter profit doubles on higher spending, particularly outside the US
NEW YORK (AP) -- MasterCard's profit more than doubled in the first quarter, the card processor said Tuesday, as more customers outside the United States used their credit and debit cards for purchases.
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Cardholder spending within the United States rose, too, but at a more moderate pace, indicating that while Americans are increasingly turning to plastic in a weak economy, emerging markets are becoming especially lucrative for the industry.
The Purchase, N.Y.-based card company said Tuesday it earned $446.9 million, or $3.38 per share for the January to March period. That is up from $214.9 million, or $1.57 a share, in the same timeframe last year.
After excluding the effects of a gain from terminating a customer business agreement and another gain from selling shares in a Brazilian company, earnings per share totaled $2.59. That is above the average analyst estimate of $2 a share, according to Thomson Financial.
Shares rose $23.50, or 9.7 percent, to $266 in pre-market trading.
MasterCard Inc. is like Visa Inc., in that it processes card payments, but its member banks issue the credit.
And like Visa -- as well as American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services LLC, which have also released their profit reports for early 2008 -- MasterCard has reported an increase U.S. cardholder spending.
Purchase volume with both credit cards and debit cards rose, driving MasterCard's U.S. gross dollar volume up 8.9 percent from a year ago to $259 billion, despite a decline in U.S. credit card advances.
Meanwhile, card use outside the United States surged even faster, with gross dollar volume soaring 30 percent to $352 billion.
"Regions outside the U.S., such as Latin America and South Asia, Middle East and Africa, are driving significant growth, and cross-border volumes remain healthy as cardholders continue to travel and prefer the use of electronic over paper-based forms of payment," said Robert W. Selander, MasterCard's president and chief executive officer, in a statement.
that does look quite nice.. lol let me just get long the market right now off that news... lol
or me on the options either... pot is a big ol meanie...
GET long on Ag names on this selloff imo... pot ipi u name...
yes thats right, u get real money on the bigs....... I always laugh my butt off when some pinky poster talks about big money flowing into a stock, and its like 5 mil in volume and the pps is .002 lololol, yeah thats big money alright.... lol try 5mil at 200 bucks per share... lol anyway, in all seriousness if u want to succeed u really need to stay away from pinks.....
yep.... :) might workout well...
yeah i mean its like 90% of all options expire worthless and unexcercised...... and ud get to keep the money that u sold the covered calls or puts for..... It could work out to be a very interesting thing....
yep, thats why we dont play the pink here.... mostly big board and options..... :) doesnt matter how great a pinky looks they are all the same, and pink for a reason...
that sucks...... why dont u write some covered puts or calls on ur pot position, something that will never see the money... then u can cover the loss ....
whats heppening there?? just a selloff yeah? no biggie... go time for more shares?
wm down 4% today tho.... u need 10ish on it tho huh?