Why should China be the single largest concern for AAPL shareholders? Because they are currently losing in the second largest economy in the world with the fastest growing middle class population. A couple weeks back …
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QCOM reported their Q2 results last night after the close that beat street consensus and came in near the high end of their previous guidance. While Q3 guidance came in a tad light to consensus, …
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MorningWord 7/25/13: FB’s Q2 results last night shattered a main tenet of the near-term bear thesis on the company, that FB was unable to monetize their mobile users in a manner that offsets declining …
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General Motors is one of the better earnings reports to read given their far-reaching global operations. Sales for GM are about 60% in North America, 15% in Europe, 15% in emerging markets (mostly China), and …
Continue readingTrade Update March 26th, 2013, 1:46 pm: CMI is down about 6% in the past 2 weeks, since I initiated the put fly due to commodity and Chinese weakness. That’s an especially big move considering …
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Cummins stock has been on a tear ever since the stock reduced its guidance in early October, a good example of bad news already priced into a stock. Here is the 1 year chart showing …
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Event: NKE reports fiscal Q2 earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 4.25% move, which is right in line with the 4 quarter avg of 4.25%, and slightly below the 8 …
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Coca-Cola. It’s practically the C in AMERICA. One of our most successful global exports of the last century. And even though that global growth has been phenomenal, more than half of their beverage sales still …
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Event: NKE reports Q3 earnings Thursday morning after the close. The options market is implying about a 5% move, which is right in line with the 4 quarter avg of 5%, and slightly below the 8 …
Continue readingOn many occasions we have discussed the concentration of strength among a handful of names driving much of the SPX and the NDX’s ytd performance. For instance the top 20 weighted names in the SPX …
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