(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) INCREASE IN PERSONAL SPENDING 400% OF PERSONAL INCOME INCREASE March 30, 2012 February personal spending came at 0.8% and personal income came at 0.2%. In the
In the month of March, Apple (AAPL) insiders have been dumping their stock. It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. There is no picture here, so the table below will have to do. I am purposely not regurgitating in one thousand words the contents of the table. The words
In 1971, a Japanese biochemist, Akira Endo, started work on what turned out to be the next big thing in the prevention of heart attacks and strokes, known as statins. In 1978, Merck (MRK) isolated lovastatin from fungusAspergillus terreus. Lovastatin is naturally contained in red yeast rice, a traditional Chinese fermented rice
I have been advocating backing up the truck and buying all the Facebook (FB) shares an investor can get in the IPO. (For background please see:Facebook IPO Is Nigh, Should You Buy?) When an IPO is as white hot as Facebook, plenty of scams are bound to raise their ugly heads.
An ex-Apple (AAPL) engineer, Michael Margolis, tweeted, “Now there is nobody to say no to bad design.” Margolis was referring to the design of the new Apple TV set top box that was released alongside the new iPad earlier this month. Margolis claims that the new designs were tossed out five
Stops hit in today’s action. We recognize that aggressive subscribers are still holding this position and therefore we will continue to provide updates on PNSN. PNSN sell off appears to be triggered by a proxy filing by the company. The proxy has a section on debt restructuring, which details March 13 agreement. Perhaps some
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers.) SPANISH YIELDS AGAIN OVER 5.5% March 23, 2012 Bench mark 10 year bond yields in Spain have risen to 5.53%. This is a stark reminder that
My objective in contributing to Trading Deck is singular — to help investors make money. We at The Arora Report are neither a bull nor a bear on any investment. The essence of our methodology is to let the hard data speak for itself. From the comments on my articles
Shades of Greg Smith muppets are beginning to appear in Apple stock recommendations. Greg Smith is the conscience stricken ex-Goldman Sachs (GS) renegade whose New York Times op-ed was recently widely read and commented on around the world. The crux of the Greg Smith’s writing is that he believes Goldman Sachs places its own interests
The Fundamental Case for PNSN is Still Positive PNSN still is drastically undervalued from a long-term perspective. PNSN derives significant revenues from providing clearing services to brokers. History tells us that over a long period of time, volume of transactions increases. This long-term trend is beneficial for PNSN. There is an increasing trend towards independent RIAs