ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
2011 has been a rough year for Google (GOOG) as the stock continues to underperform relative to the S&P 500. GOOG is down 14% year-to-date while the S&P 500 is up 6.5%. I was premature in mid-May speculating that GOOG had finally reached some kind of bottom in the wake of its bond-offering. However, a … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) An apparent downward shift in short interest was part of my premise in speculating that Research in Motion (RIMM) could experience significant upside after its last earnings call. It turns out that shorts increased almost … Read more
On June 20, famed money manager Doug Kass tweeted a stock market warning: “once again the strength in consumer non durables (pg pep cl clx k gis etc) are a market warning sign.” So what happens when these stocks start to break down along with so many others? Is their weakness suddenly a harbinger of … Read more
Research In Motion (RIMM) has been locked in a steep downtrend since February and printed its post-recession highs in September, 2009, so it is hazardous to make any upside predictions for the stock (for example, “Judgment Day for Research In Motion Could Yield Upside Surprise“). However, I could not resist making the observation that RIMM … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece. I have updated price and trading information to reflect time of publishing) While announcing disappointing earnings guidance again, RIMM indicated it will launch another repurchase program as early as July 10, 2011, the first day … Read more