This post was just published on ZYX Short Sell Change Alert. Consider shorting a 10% tranche in the zone of $39.80 – $40.60. HAS reported good earnings this morning. The up move in the stock is a shorting opportunity for the long-term. The reason is that parents are spending less
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) FOUR DJIA COMPONENTS REPORT BELOW EXPECTATIONS October 19, 2012 Three DJIA components MSFT, GE and MCD report lower than expected earnings or projections. Market seems to be surprised but
(GOOG) was scheduled to release earnings after the market close. Inadvertently, earnings were released at 12:39 PM by its agent RR Donnelley (RRD). Google stock fell about 9% before it was halted. Both revenues and earnings were below consensus. To make matters worse, whisper numbers were higher than consensus. In
Cloud computing is hot. Even lay consumers who hadn’t heard of it only a year ago, not only know about cloud, but now they use it every day. If you are an Apple AAPL iPhone user, you are probably using iCloud. If you are a Google GOOG Android user and using
AAPL is a symbol of American innovation, but it has created more jobs in China than in America. “IPad, the Macs, the iPhones, they are all manufactured in China,” Candy Crowley asked in the presidential debate Tuesday night. “One of the major reasons is labor is so much cheaper. How
FreedomPop is a new start-up that plans to challenge AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) by providing free mobile data–500 MB per month. Both AT&T and Verizon have huge margins on mobile data because of the lack of competition. AT&T and Verizon use these big margins to subsidize Apple‘s iPhone, Google‘s Android and other devices. The big carriers provide
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change SAN is one of the largest and cheapest banks in the world. We are bargain hunters. One of the reasons the bank is so cheap is because it is headquartered in Spain. A big portion of the bank’s profits come from outside
This up-leg in gold and silver was first initiated by speculation about QE3, and then gathered steam after QE3 was announced. The announcement of the bond buying program from the European Central Bank (ECB) helped stoke the fires of the precious metal bulls. Gold and silver investors should take notice
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change CLWR is not part of the Sprint (S) deal with Softbank of Japan. The rationale of Softbank investing in Sprint is that it will build more value added services. To do so, it will require more spectrum. Our thesis for holding CLWR is the large
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) GOLD AND SILVER INVESTORS TAKE NOTE: CORE PPI FALLS October 12, 2012 Core PPI is a leading indicator of future inflation. Core PPI falls to 0.0%