MorningWord 1/9/12: If you want to wrap the whole European Sovereign Debt situation into one sentence, brought forth with a bit of German efficiency, I think the following Bloomberg headline from this mornings pre-Summit Summit does the trick: …
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MorningWord 1/6/12: Forget Iowa, if we continue to get the sort of incremental improvement on the employment front like we saw this morning, it won’t matter who the Republican presidential candidate is, he will be toast. I am not …
Continue readingMorningWord 1/5/12: Some things change (like the calendar) and some things just stay the same…….The Euro is extending its Q4 decline this morning making new 52 week lows agains the U.S. dollar at about 1.2835. Since May …
Continue readingMorningWord 1/4/12: If you were to look at the performance of the German equity market and see the DAX up 3.6% ytd (off almost 2% from yesterday’s highs), after just 2 1/2 trading days you …
Continue readingMorningWord 1/3/12: After a fairly volatile year in 2011 that saw a 21% peak to trough draw-down in the SPX and a 30 plus point surge at its highs in the VIX (but still closing …
Continue readingOK, bear with me here as this is a bit of a long one, I am on a 4 hour flight and have a little time so I thought I would go into some detail …
Continue reading2nd Trade Update Dec 14th 2011: WIth GMCR down another 10% this morning, I just closed out the second half of this put spread at 3.00 for a 1.45 gain. So to recap I took …
Continue readingTrade Update Dec 13th 2011: GMCR is down ~9% his morning and the only news I can see is the following Bloomberg blurb: By Joshua Fineman Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) — Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup shr …
Continue reading2nd Update Dec 1st 2011 at 12:25pm: I am taking the other half of this position off now with the stock up 8% off of the opening lows (stock still down 9.3% at 45.00). I …
Continue readingUpdate Dec 1st 2011: LULU is down this morning about 14% following disappointing guidance for Q4. The disappointment lies not with an actual miss, but the company not raising guidance. As I said yesterday in …
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