ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
As the stock market gains new momentum, interesting charts are bound to appear everywhere. Priceline.com (PCLN) and Baidu (BIDU) are two of many with interesting post-earnings patterns. I covered the post-earnings set-up on priceline.com (PCLN) on August 11th (see “Priceline Not Likely to Recover Post-Earnings Losses In the Near-Term“). PCLN never closed below the critical … Read more
Wednesday was a rough day for priceline.com (PCLN). The company significantly pulled back current quarter revenue and earnings guidance based on expectations for poor performance in Europe. Europe represents 60% of PCLN’s revenues. It is a wonder that Europe is only just now dragging down results. In fact, PCLN spent almost three months of this … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 9, 2012 PRE-EARNINGS. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} In 2010, PCLN finally overtook Expedia (EXPE) in revenues. Click image for a larger view… Source: MSN Money {snip} With earnings coming up for PCLN, and given recent successes … Read more