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lol. i can tell you've been thinking about this.
niiiiiiiiiiiiice.
(sarcasm intended)
hiya DarkMatter.
yup. congratulations on VDSC $H. congratulations to us.
VDSC
you're right. still have some in my pocket. great stock the past few months. congratulations.
I feel ya.
i'm trying to hang on to SLV. was doing well yesterday and should be a wild ride as the feds meet. we'll see.
nice one congratulations.
Thanks for sharing AugustaFriends.
Silver ETF Holders Brace For Wild Ride as Feds Meet
Volume in iShares Silver Trust (NYSEArca:SLV) has exploded along with activity in options contracts based on the exchange traded fund (ETF) as silver prices flirt with record highs and the Federal Reserve meets this week.
The silver ETF saw wild swings in heavy trading Monday as bullion prices made a run at $50 an ounce, their highest nominal level since the Hunt Brothers attempted to corner the market in 1980. Options contracts on the silver ETF saw four times the average daily turnover. [Options Traders Zero In on Silver ETF.]
Silver prices could see a big move from here as traders watch to see if the metal can break through $50 an ounce, or if the key level acts as resistance.
The Fed’s announcement on interest rates and the first-ever press conference with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke could also fuel volatility in silver prices this week.
The silver ETF was down nearly 2% in premarket action Tuesday.
Good morning ddt.
What's up?
Bought May puts last week after the court settlement. Wishing this option traded more like the stock. Not enough volume for me.
You too $toney. BBB is making us lamb. Yummmm.
BB Stocks <$1 With Earnings Due Next Week
Ticker Company Sector Industry Country Market Cap P/E Price Change Volume
AGEN Agenus Inc. Healthcare Biotechnology USA 105.89 0.94 1.08% 213288
CASB Cascade Financial Corp. Financial Regional - Pacific Banks USA 5.07 0.41 -1.52% 7000
CRBC Citizens Republic Bancorp, Inc Financial Regional - Midwest Banks USA 356.44 0.9 5.59% 2209922
CTIC Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Healthcare Biotechnology USA 350.41 0.39 -0.26% 3186535
CVM CEL-SCI Corp. Healthcare Biotechnology USA 142.69 0.69 1.32% 435739
FNBN FNB United Corp. Financial Regional - Mid-Atlantic Banks USA 2.86 0.25 -3.85% 1300
FSGI First Security Group, Inc. Financial Savings & Loans USA 13.46 0.82 -3.53% 8074
MAJC Majestic Capital, Ltd. Financial Property & Casualty Insurance Bermuda 0.56 0.33 1.66% 5856
ULGX Urologix, Inc. Healthcare Medical Appliances & Equipment USA 11.13 0.76 4.67% 6848
WEST Akeena Solar, Inc. Services Electronics Wholesale USA 21.29 0.46 0.00% 0
WEX Winland Electronics Inc. Technology Scientific & Technical Instruments USA 2.74 0.74 0.00% 2900
BB Stocks <$1 With Earnings Due Next Week
Ticker Company Sector Industry Country Market Cap P/E Price Change Volume
AGEN Agenus Inc. Healthcare Biotechnology USA 105.89 0.94 1.08% 213288
CASB Cascade Financial Corp. Financial Regional - Pacific Banks USA 5.07 0.41 -1.52% 7000
CRBC Citizens Republic Bancorp, Inc Financial Regional - Midwest Banks USA 356.44 0.9 5.59% 2209922
CTIC Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Healthcare Biotechnology USA 350.41 0.39 -0.26% 3186535
CVM CEL-SCI Corp. Healthcare Biotechnology USA 142.69 0.69 1.32% 435739
FNBN FNB United Corp. Financial Regional - Mid-Atlantic Banks USA 2.86 0.25 -3.85% 1300
FSGI First Security Group, Inc. Financial Savings & Loans USA 13.46 0.82 -3.53% 8074
MAJC Majestic Capital, Ltd. Financial Property & Casualty Insurance Bermuda 0.56 0.33 1.66% 5856
ULGX Urologix, Inc. Healthcare Medical Appliances & Equipment USA 11.13 0.76 4.67% 6848
WEST Akeena Solar, Inc. Services Electronics Wholesale USA 21.29 0.46 0.00% 0
WEX Winland Electronics Inc. Technology Scientific & Technical Instruments USA 2.74 0.74 0.00% 2900
All picks up to date. Good luck everyone.
updating.
thanks for that. i'm following now.
nice.
AVIX
thanks big j$tops.
agreed.
Thanks Lotto123.
we're getting ready to go out here soon for a pop or two to top off the week.
tomorrow, we lay out the lamb and start preparing the feast.
i'm less bearish on obama but he has to get out from under the dems.
AVIX
Thanks for that DD. Will check it out this weekend.
nah didn't and won't.
have too many in play right now to be thinking of any new may calls.
American International Group Inc. in recent weeks has sought to rally support among investors and credit-ratings firms for a controversial deal: the sale of securities backed by insurance policies on the lives of older people.
There have been few offerings of these types of securities, which critics have called "death bonds," "blood pools" and "collateralized death obligations" because they pay off when the insured dies. And AIG's effort so far isn't panning out. Standard & Poor's recently declined to provide a rating, an essential step in selling such securities to most investors.
American International Group Inc. in recent weeks has sought to rally support among investors and credit-ratings firms for a controversial deal: the sale of securities backed by insurance policies on the lives of older people.
There have been few offerings of these types of securities, which critics have called "death bonds," "blood pools" and "collateralized death obligations" because they pay off when the insured dies. And AIG's effort so far isn't panning out. Standard & Poor's recently declined to provide a rating, an essential step in selling such securities to most investors.
DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors made a remarkable comeback in 2010. But its new CEO took the job too late in the year to profit as much as other top executives.
GM gave Chief Executive and Chairman Dan Akerson a 2010 pay package valued at just over $2.5 million. The compensation was announced in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors made a remarkable comeback in 2010. But its new CEO took the job too late in the year to profit as much as other top executives.
GM gave Chief Executive and Chairman Dan Akerson a 2010 pay package valued at just over $2.5 million. The compensation was announced in a regulatory filing on Thursday.
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall about 333,000 RAV4 and Highlander SUVs because of the risk airbags sensors could fail and cause the curtain airbags to deploy.
The recall covers about 214,000 RAV4 and about 94,000 Highlander SUVs from the 2007 and 2008 model years in the United States, and about 19,000 RAV4 and 6,000 Highlanders in Canada.
The recall only affects vehicles sold in North America, Toyota said.
(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall about 333,000 RAV4 and Highlander SUVs because of the risk airbags sensors could fail and cause the curtain airbags to deploy.
The recall covers about 214,000 RAV4 and about 94,000 Highlander SUVs from the 2007 and 2008 model years in the United States, and about 19,000 RAV4 and 6,000 Highlanders in Canada.
The recall only affects vehicles sold in North America, Toyota said.
Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada, saying he wanted to spare his family the emotional “wear and tear” of an ongoing ethics investigation into an extramarital affair, announced today that he would resign his office.
The resignation will take effect May 3, according to a statement on his website.
Ensign, 53, a veterinarian first elected to the Senate in 2000, said in March that he wouldn’t seek a third term next year.
He had disclosed in June 2009 that he had had an affair with a campaign worker, Cindy Hampton, whose husband, Doug, was an aide on Ensign’s Senate staff. The Justice Department last December said Ensign was no longer a target of a probe into whether a severance payment he made to Cindy Hampton was an illegal campaign contribution.
The Senate Select Committee on Ethics, though, continued looking into allegations stemming from the matter. In February, the ethics panel signaled it was intensifying its probe by hiring an outside counsel to assist in the investigation, which could have led to public hearings. With Ensign’s resignation, the committee will lose its jurisdiction over him.
“While I stand behind my firm belief that I have not violated any law, rule, or standard of conduct of the Senate, and I have fought to prove this publicly, I will not continue to subject my family, my constituents, or the Senate to any further rounds of investigation, depositions, drawn out proceedings, or especially public hearings,” Ensign said on his website. “For my family and me, this continued personal cost is simply too great.”
Ensign’s Parents’ Payment
After the senator acknowledged the affair, Ensign’s parents paid $96,000 to Cindy and Doug Hampton and two of their children. A lawyer for Ensign, Paul Coggins, said in July 2009 that the payment was made “out of concern for the well-being of long-time family friends during a difficult time.”
“Given his outrageous conduct, it is unbelievable Senator Ensign was allowed to linger for so long,” said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group. “At least the senator will finally be gone and Americans can put this latest politician- behaving-badly behind us.”
Ensign resigned his fourth-ranking post in the Senate Republican leadership after he confirmed the affair.
U.S. Representatives Dean Heller, a Republican, and Shelley Berkley, a Democrat, have already announced their candidacies for the Senate seat.
Appointment Possible
Governor Brian Sandoval, a Republican, can name a successor to fill the seat through the end of Ensign’s term and could select Heller, making him the incumbent in next year’s election.
Ensign served two terms in the U.S. House before losing a 1998 Senate race to incumbent Harry Reid, a Democrat, by fewer than 500 votes. He ran successfully for the Senate two years later and was re-elected in 2006.
Reid, now the Senate majority leader, said in a statement that he has “appreciated John’s partnership in working with me to address our state’s needs. He was a strong advocate for Nevada, and worked for many years to improve our state.”
Reid also said, “I know this is a difficult time for the family and I wish them all well as they work through it.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan D. Salant in Washington at jsalant@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: [url]Mark Silva at msilva34@bloomberg.net [url]
Republican Senator John Ensign of Nevada, saying he wanted to spare his family the emotional “wear and tear” of an ongoing ethics investigation into an extramarital affair, announced today that he would resign his office.
The resignation will take effect May 3, according to a statement on his website.
Ensign, 53, a veterinarian first elected to the Senate in 2000, said in March that he wouldn’t seek a third term next year.
He had disclosed in June 2009 that he had had an affair with a campaign worker, Cindy Hampton, whose husband, Doug, was an aide on Ensign’s Senate staff. The Justice Department last December said Ensign was no longer a target of a probe into whether a severance payment he made to Cindy Hampton was an illegal campaign contribution.
The Senate Select Committee on Ethics, though, continued looking into allegations stemming from the matter. In February, the ethics panel signaled it was intensifying its probe by hiring an outside counsel to assist in the investigation, which could have led to public hearings. With Ensign’s resignation, the committee will lose its jurisdiction over him.
“While I stand behind my firm belief that I have not violated any law, rule, or standard of conduct of the Senate, and I have fought to prove this publicly, I will not continue to subject my family, my constituents, or the Senate to any further rounds of investigation, depositions, drawn out proceedings, or especially public hearings,” Ensign said on his website. “For my family and me, this continued personal cost is simply too great.”
Ensign’s Parents’ Payment
After the senator acknowledged the affair, Ensign’s parents paid $96,000 to Cindy and Doug Hampton and two of their children. A lawyer for Ensign, Paul Coggins, said in July 2009 that the payment was made “out of concern for the well-being of long-time family friends during a difficult time.”
“Given his outrageous conduct, it is unbelievable Senator Ensign was allowed to linger for so long,” said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group. “At least the senator will finally be gone and Americans can put this latest politician- behaving-badly behind us.”
Ensign resigned his fourth-ranking post in the Senate Republican leadership after he confirmed the affair.
U.S. Representatives Dean Heller, a Republican, and Shelley Berkley, a Democrat, have already announced their candidacies for the Senate seat.
Appointment Possible
Governor Brian Sandoval, a Republican, can name a successor to fill the seat through the end of Ensign’s term and could select Heller, making him the incumbent in next year’s election.
Ensign served two terms in the U.S. House before losing a 1998 Senate race to incumbent Harry Reid, a Democrat, by fewer than 500 votes. He ran successfully for the Senate two years later and was re-elected in 2006.
Reid, now the Senate majority leader, said in a statement that he has “appreciated John’s partnership in working with me to address our state’s needs. He was a strong advocate for Nevada, and worked for many years to improve our state.”
Reid also said, “I know this is a difficult time for the family and I wish them all well as they work through it.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan D. Salant in Washington at jsalant@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: [url]Mark Silva at msilva34@bloomberg.net [url]
hello ladies. been crazy at work. looks like you guys had an interesting week.
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calls on optionone after toyota announced shutdown of plants due to lack of parts.
SINA downgraded today by GS.
maybe something is up.......
good morning and good day friend.
okay. you can say that my YONG took a beating for 3 days after the call. but whatafter?