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Senator Dodd Says His Reform Bill Won’t Stop the Next Crisis from Coming
by John Bougearel author of Riding the Storm Out: What Do Investors Do Now? I can’t believe that Dodd just said “this legislation won’t stop the next crisis from coming” What a total jackass Dodd has been and always will be! Jon Stewart retort to Dodd: “You can’t short your own reform...
Daily Limit Signal: EURUSD & GBPUSD
EURUSD Trade: Buy Limit EURUSD (pending order @ 1.3732) Stop Loss: 1.3690 Take Profit: 1.3793 Commentary: Daily Limit trading strategy. Today’s signal was sent out near Wednesday night 23:00 GMT. It expires in 24 hours, Thursday night 23:00 GMT, if not triggered. If triggered and it does not...
Frontier Hails FCC Broadband Plan - Analyst Blog
Leading rural telecom carrier Frontier Communications (FTR) has applauded the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) National Broadband Plan (NBP), which the agency submitted to the Congress on March 16, 2010. In its statement, the carrier appreciated FCC’s initiatives to expand broadband...
Arena Loss Wider Than Expected - Analyst Blog
Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s (ARNA) fourth quarter fiscal 2009 net loss per share came in at 38 cents (excluding special items), wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 30 cents. The year-ago loss was 84 cents. For 2009, the company reported a loss per share of $1.81 (excluding...
The Trend Trader For Futures Trading on Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite futures markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling...
The Trend Trader For ETF Trading on Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite ETF markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness....
The Trend Trader For Stock Trading on Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite stocks. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness. Before...
The Trend Trader For Forex Trading on Thursday, March 18, 2010
The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite forex markets. It not only helps us to stay on the right side of market direction, but also helps us avoid those without a trend. You can even use the grid as a spread matrix too - buying strength and selling weakness....
The Gambler's Fallacy
It's more of a mathematical curiosity than anything else, but check out the odds of 14 successive up-days below, the record for which looks to get set by the SPY today. Less than one tenth of a percent ex-ante -- if that's not a pot of leprechaun gold for the bulls on this St. Pat's day, I don't...
Halliburton Retains Neutral Rating - Analyst Blog
Halliburton (HAL) enjoys a strong competitive position in the global oilfield services market. We like the company’s broad and technologically complex product and service offerings, along with its robust financial profile. Halliburton is among the top three players in each of its product/service...
UBS Pays Executives $51.8M - Analyst Blog
Bailed out Swiss bank UBS AG (UBS), which suffered a loss for a third consecutive year, has paid out $51.8 million in compensation to executive board members for 2009. After repaying the $5.6 billion funds it received in 2008, the bank is now free to set its own compensation policies. Among the...
American Dairy Posts Sluggish Q4 - Analyst Blog
American Dairy Inc. (ADY) swung to a fourth-quarter net loss of $27.0 million, or $1.34 per share, from a net profit of $25.1 million, or $1.42 per share in the year-ago quarter. Excluding special items, adjusted loss per share came in at $1.29, which was way behind the Zacks Consensus Estimate...
Earnings Scorecard: Sara Lee - Analyst Blog
Last month, Sara Lee Corp. (SLE) reported strong results for the second quarter of fiscal 2010. Earnings for the quarter were $0.36 compared to $0.20 during the same period of fiscal 2009. Earnings were well above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.23. Further, the company reported strong...
Factset Revenue Grows, EPS Beats - Analyst Blog
FactSet Research (FDS) reported EPS for the quarter of 75 cents, exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 74 cents. The company reported revenue for the second quarter of $157.3 million, up 0.5% from $156.5 million reported in the year-ago quarter. The company is witnessing some benefits from...
DFS Posts Loss, Will Repay TARP - Analyst Blog
Discover Financial Services (DFS) reported a fiscal first quarter loss as the company bolstered its loan loss reserves. However, the company has received the regulatory approval to payback the $1.2 billion bailout money. For the fiscal first quarter (ended Feb 28, 2010), Discover reported a loss...
