Sprint has long been the red-headed step child of the telecom industry in the U.S. The company has been ridiculed and ignored as a bit player among the major cell phone service providers. In fact, …
Continue readingWSJ
I’m in a forward timezone to New York. But when I sat down this morning to offer up a few thoughts on the global equity rout (while you were hopefully still sleeping despite knowing what futures were …
Continue reading
Since EBAY’s tax free spin-out of their faster growing Paypal (PYPL) unit, the new stock has traded within a range of $34 on the downside, and just above $42 on the upside, with the average …
Continue reading
This tweet from Jim Cramer caught my attention this morning.: Is it me or has http://t.co/2U0CAxmyIb just become the house of gloom. Every article negative spin today. Amazing.. — Jim Cramer (@jimcramer) August 19, 2015 …
Continue reading
Event: QCOM reports Q2 results tonight after the close, the options market is implying about a 4.5% one day move which is shy of the 4 qtr average one day move of about 6.5%, ranging …
Continue reading
Prior to last night’s report from the WSJ that government owned Chinese company Tsinghua offered to pay $21 a share ($23 billion) for Micron (MU), the stock had declined 50% from its 52 week highs …
Continue reading
In case you missed it, recent U.S. housing data is pointing to a recovery, from this morning’s WSJ.com Housing Showing Signs of Recovering: Existing home sales rose at their strongest pace in five-and-a-half years in May, suggesting that …
Continue reading
I have been wearing the Apple Watch Sport 42 mm since May 28th. After one day I was surprised that the battery drained as quickly as it did. I Tweeted the following: Left home 14 hours …
Continue reading
Another day, another proposed mega-deal. M&A is the big story of this stage of the bull run. Market participants became too familiar with special dividends in 2013, and corporate financiers moved towards massively increasing share buybacks …
Continue reading
Generally, I look to experts to get direction on things in financial markets outside of my wheelhouse. That’s why this story from the WSJ this mornings was fairly enlightening on how to think of the …
Continue reading