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Pulte Homes or Gafisa?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:50:00 GMT

This market will drive a sane person batty at times, I have to tell you. Remember about 2-3 months ago, every day oil dropped people ran into technology stocks as a "safe haven"? We were shaking our head sadly and saying, how is this a safe haven... in time this will be proven to be a false assertion. But that did not stop the stocks from running up 5-10-15% each time oil dropped a few bucks as hedge funds had to find something to "play". Remember, as we always say, perception is reality. Until reality strikes. Lately we've seen poor earnings from Dell (DELL), we've seen bad news out of the semiconductor industry yesterday, Corning ([More...]

Meredith Whitney Continues to be Negative on Financials (and Housing)

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:51:00 GMT

Meredith Whitney has created a star for herself by going against the pack (along with certain bloggers) and denouncing the "this is the kitchen sink quarter in financials" thinking that pervaded the market last summer and fall. I've remained negative alon[More...]

Big Blue

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:08:35 GMT

Good morning. Premarket futures are higher this morning following good news from International Business Machines (IBM) who told the market really want they wanted to hear this morning- i.e. strong profits from Asia, Europe and emerging countries led to the better than expected results. In response, buyers are bidding up tech and hoping that more unexpected good news is coming as earnings season gets fully underway. While not all earnings news was great (see Sears (SHLD)), some positive analyst commentary, rumors of more writedowns in the financial space & subsequent takeovers,...[More...]

Goldilocks is leaking like a SIV

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:53:26 GMT

Hey! What Happened to Goldilocks? She seems to be leaking like a SIV! I had to look it up, but here are a few definitions of SIV in non-financial terms; SIV--Webster's Medical Dictionary: a lentivirus that causes a disease in monkeys similar to AIDS and that is closely related to HIV-2 of humans called also simian immunodeficiency virus. I like this one better; SIV-- Self-Inflicted Violence and...[More...]