BloggingStocks http://www.bloggingstocks.com BloggingStocks http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/media/feedlogo.gif BloggingStocks http://www.bloggingstocks.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Closing Bell: Chalk Up a Win (AA, BP, NVDA, INTC, AAPL, SVU, VZ, MBI)]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2011/01/11/closing-bell-chalk-up-a-win-aa-bp-nvda-intc-aapl-svu-vz/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2011/01/11/closing-bell-chalk-up-a-win-aa-bp-nvda-intc-aapl-svu-vz/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2011/01/11/closing-bell-chalk-up-a-win-aa-bp-nvda-intc-aapl-svu-vz/#commentsFiled under: , , , ,

Tuesday was an up-day on most index readings as earnings season gets further underway. The notion that there are no blow-ups so far is helping to ease some fears of the cautious bulls. A private placement from Portugal also may have helped out even if that is more cause of concern longer-term. Another snow storm is about to shut down the Eastern Seaboard all over again. These are today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow Jones: 11,671.81 +34.36 (0.30%)
S&P 500: 1,274.47 +4.72 (0.37%)
Nasdaq: 2,716.83 +9.03 (0.33%)

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Closing Bell: Chalk Up a Win (AA, BP, NVDA, INTC, AAPL, SVU, VZ, MBI) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>AAAAPLINTCMBINVDASVUVZTue, 11 Jan 2011 16:20:00 EST<![CDATA[Closing Bell: Opening Day Indicator Brings 2011 Hope (APC, AAPL, CLX, MBI, MPEL, NVDA, UNG)]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2011/01/03/closing-bell-opening-day-indicator-brings-2011-hope-apc-aapl/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2011/01/03/closing-bell-opening-day-indicator-brings-2011-hope-apc-aapl/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2011/01/03/closing-bell-opening-day-indicator-brings-2011-hope-apc-aapl/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

As goes the first day of trading, so goes the year. That is what many investors believe in one form or variation. Another expansion in manufacturing helped and bonds started out weak. The real culprit for gains was more gains in overseas stock markets followed by expectations for more positive gains in 2011. If you weight the DJIA components equally, I even have a formula that calls for the DJIA moving above 13,000 in 2011. That formula last year came within about 1% of the DJIA close in 2010.

Here are today's closing bells:

Dow Jones 11,670.75 +93.24 (0.81%)
S&P 500 1,271.87 +14.23 (1.13%)
Nasdaq 2,691.52 +38.65 (1.46%)

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Closing Bell: Opening Day Indicator Brings 2011 Hope (APC, AAPL, CLX, MBI, MPEL, NVDA, UNG) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tiring is how you'd explain the next to last trading session of 2010. The markets whipped around all day. A huge regional business spending gain in Chicago and the first sub-400,000 weekly jobless claims failed to give us any further runaway days. That was despite also having a positive housing figure.

After less than a handful of red S&P closes in December, the markets were soft most of the day and a late-day rally made the red or black verdict for the market something one couldn't predict until right at the close.

Here were today's closing bell levels:

Dow Jones 11,569.71 -15.67 (-0.14%)
S&P 500 1,257.88 -1.90 (-0.15%)
Nasdaq 2,662.98 -3.95 (-0.15%)

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Closing Bell: Right Down to the Wire! (APC, DARA, GM, MBI, XING, WEBM) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you are looking for clues telling you which stocks have a good chance of increasing in value, you might want consider watching what insiders are doing. After all, talk is cheap, but when insiders put their own money on the line, you should sit up and take note.

Citigroup (C) topped the insider-buying charts for the week ending July 9th as insiders snapped up 542,198 shares of company stock at a market value of $2,330,386. During the past six months, insiders have increased their overall holdings in the company by 26.58% and now own 0.08% of C stock.

General Motors (GM) was not far behind, with insiders buying 43,150 shares at a market value of $1,455,536.

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Insiders Jumping into Citigroup, General Motors and More originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>avatar holdingsavtrccitigroupgeneral motorsgminthenewsmbimbiatwotwo harbors investmentMon, 29 Nov 2010 15:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Closing Bell: The Bears Found Some Bulls (ABK, JASO, MBI, NFLX, INTC)]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2010/08/10/closing-bell-the-bears-found-some-bulls-abk-jaso-mbi-nflx/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2010/08/10/closing-bell-the-bears-found-some-bulls-abk-jaso-mbi-nflx/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2010/08/10/closing-bell-the-bears-found-some-bulls-abk-jaso-mbi-nflx/#commentsFiled under: , ,

How you look at today's FOMC meeting is up to you, but the stock market bounced in reaction to the FOMC's decision to reinvest rolling maturities into more Treasury bonds. A higher oil forecast from the EIA also lent more credence to a sustained growth despite some tempering of those growth estimates.

Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow Jones 10,644.25 -54.50 (-0.51%)
S&P 500 1,121.08 -6.71 (-0.59%)
Nasdaq 2,277.17 -28.52 (-1.24%)

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>ABKcomputer salesfomcINTCMBINFLXTue, 10 Aug 2010 16:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Closing Bell: Almost 700 DJIA Points in 6 Trading Days (ADCT, TEL, AA, AAPL, MBI, RSH, TLT)]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2010/07/13/closing-bell-almost-700-djia-points-in-6-trading-days-adct-te/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2010/07/13/closing-bell-almost-700-djia-points-in-6-trading-days-adct-te/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2010/07/13/closing-bell-almost-700-djia-points-in-6-trading-days-adct-te/#commentsFiled under: , , ,

Today was one of those days where the news was tied to more hope and a decent start to earnings season than over any great breaking global news. A barely-decent 10-Year Treasury auction was not showing anything rotten, and it seems that the corporate credit markets are starting to open back up. News on deficits being another $1 trillion held nothing back for stock gains. Can you believe it, six straight days of gains in stocks? Cramer coming back after a holiday and saying that the bottom of the market has been seen for the year may have also gotten some comfort back in the game from retail investors.

Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 10,363.02 +146.75 (1.44%)
S&P 500 1,095.28 +16.53 (1.53%)
Nasdaq 2,242.03 +43.67 (1.99%)

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Closing Bell: Almost 700 DJIA Points in 6 Trading Days (ADCT, TEL, AA, AAPL, MBI, RSH, TLT) originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Standard & Poor's is performing some end-of-year cleanup on its benchmark index, the S&P 500 Index (SPX). My colleague Mark Fightmaster reported earlier that Visa (V) is set to replace Ciena Corp. (CIEN) on the widely watched market barometer, but that's not the only SPX development hitting Wall Street today. In fact, struggling insurance issue MBIA Inc. (MBI) is preparing to take its leave from the venerable index.

In a press release late Friday, Standard & Poor's explained that MBIA "currently ranks 500th in the index and is no longer representative of the S&P 500 index market cap space." The beaten-down insurance company will be replaced by Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN), which is in the process of being spun off by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY).

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MBIA booted from S&P 500 Index originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We had another bit of data showing strong home sales in Q3, but as prices fell. Yet the only real thing to note was that the sell-off that was starting out this morning just didn't hold when you look at the broad indexes today. Some dollar directional changes may be part of the issue that kept the stocks from getting cheaper. There were still many losers on the day.

Here were today's unofficial closing bell levels:

Dow 10,247.88 +20.94 (0.20%)
S&P 500 1,093.04 -0.04 (0.00%)
Nasdaq 2,151.08 -2.98 (-0.14%)

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The conventional wisdom is that consumer spending is what drives the U.S. economy. And consumer spending arises out of consumer confidence. Unfortunately, the signals along the road to economic recovery are mixed, what with the rising GDP growth and the dismal unemployment numbers. Its enough to leave investors scratching their heads. What barometers of consumer confidence will the coming week bring?

The TIPP Economic Optimism Index for November is scheduled for Tuesday, and the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index for November is due out Friday.

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The week in preview: Earnings from Walmart, Macy's, and other retailers originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer believes we'll get a selloff, but is mindful that stocks tend to come back.

Anyone approaching the month of September long will feel pressured to sell given the history of the month. We all know that September's been brutal for years in markets that are up, and we know that everyone's expecting bad things to come in. We have now read a gazillion articles about how it is impossible to have a real rally based on earnings with no sales, and each article sounds incredibly compelling.

Of course, you could have written the same article for the last 3,000 points, but that's OK too.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Don't fear September originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says this bank is the best call on the next leg of the market.

Citigroup's (NYSE: C) (Cramer's Take) plan to split itself into two banks -- the retail/service/investment bank and Citi Holdings, which would consist of (among other things) the household lending arm and the old special purpose vehicles -- will work if the government gives it time. It will work for the same reason the "Bankers Win Big in Toxic Pay Plan," article in The Wall Street Journal states: Much of what was thought to be worthless or worth pennies in Citi Holdings is really money good and will pay off when due.

That's how you can get the book value of Citigroup to go up, and given that Tier 1 capital has not been an issue -- they have a ton of it -- you are going to see book go up quarter after quarter.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: A Citi, divided against itself, can prosper originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>axpbacccoffeaturedjim cramerJimCramermbitgtwfcFri, 07 Aug 2009 10:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Ford, Citi, MBIA, GBE and Sir John Templeton]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/08/06/ford-citi-mbia-gbe-and-sir-john-templeton/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/08/06/ford-citi-mbia-gbe-and-sir-john-templeton/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/08/06/ford-citi-mbia-gbe-and-sir-john-templeton/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , ,

You can learn a lot from your elders and when it comes to investing, you best listen very attentively. I often refer to 'my pal Warren' in my posts and I credit Mr. Buffett's investment advice and parables over the years for much of my gains in 2009.

There is another mentor, though, one I have not referred to often but that I have gleaned some wisdom from in terms of value investing and courage, and that is 'my pal Sir John.' While Buffett has been very straight forward in his position that you should buy on fear and this was the year to do that, it was Templeton that preached buying far and wide and diversifying broadly into out-of-favor companies. As he did when he started out.

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Ford, Citi, MBIA, GBE and Sir John Templeton originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says in the wake of an upgrade, FCX has to do a big equity offering.

What will Richard Adkerson do? I can tell you what the CEO of Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX) (Cramer's Take) ought to do in the wake of the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch upgrade to buy from sell. He ought to do the biggest darned equity offering in history.

I like Richard. He's candid, he's a great copper man, but he spent too much at the high on Phelps Dodge and wasn't prepared when copper prices plummeted as his balance sheet's simply not so hot. So he had to cut his dividend at the bottom, literally at the exact bottom.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Freeport-McMoRan must come to the market originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says you'll miss some great opportunities if you blindly believe all the bad news.

You want a rebuke to the "never-ending woes of commercial and residential real estate mortgage bonds"? You get one every day in this market, and today is no different. Look at what is up big today: Genworth (NYSE: GNW) (Cramer's Take), Lincoln National (NYSE: LNC) (Cramer's Take), Wyndham (NYSE: WYN) (Cramer's Take), Regions Financial (NYSE: RF) (Cramer's Take) and Zions (NASDAQ: ZION) (Cramer's Take). Each in its own way needs the residential or commercial real estate markets to be robust to thrive, and if the myriad articles I read about the horrible state of the mortgage bond market and the dim commercial real estate prospects were true, why would you be making money in Wyndham, a gigantic timeshare company? How could Regions and Zions be rallying? They are among the worst of the worst; unless you consider Genworth and Lincoln National, which are supposed to be roadkill because of all of their mortgage bonds.

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Cramer on BloggingStocks: Warning: The financial media can be hazardous to your portfolio originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>featuredgnwjim cramerJimCramerlncmbirfslmwynxlzionTue, 30 Jun 2009 10:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Earnings highlights: Walmart, JCPenney, Freddie Mac, Playboy, Whole Foods and more]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/16/earnings-highlights-walmart-jcpenney-freddie-mac-playboy-wh/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/16/earnings-highlights-walmart-jcpenney-freddie-mac-playboy-wh/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/16/earnings-highlights-walmart-jcpenney-freddie-mac-playboy-wh/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:

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Earnings highlights: Walmart, JCPenney, Freddie Mac, Playboy, Whole Foods and more originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 16 May 2009 09:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>4KidsAbercrombieAMATANFApplied MaterialsBankrateBBIBlockbusterDPSDr PepperearningsFREFreddie MacIMBJCPJCPenneyJWNKDEKohlsKSSLIZLiz ClaiborneMacysMBIMBIANordstromPCLNPLAPlayboyPricelineRATESNESonySTECWal-martWalmartWFMIWhole FoodsWMTWWESat, 16 May 2009 09:40:00 EST<![CDATA[So many questions: AEO, APC, C, GM, MBI & MSFT]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/12/so-many-questions-aeo-apc-c-gm-mbi-and-msft/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/12/so-many-questions-aeo-apc-c-gm-mbi-and-msft/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/12/so-many-questions-aeo-apc-c-gm-mbi-and-msft/#commentsFiled under: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Never mind the bears and bulls or even the pigs and chickens, I think between Wall Street and Washington D.C. the goofs and ghosts are leading the charge.

What I mean by this is that the rationale for certain market activity and advisement makes no sense to me. Maybe we are not recovering from the recession but we are moving into something like a shadow economy, where people look at what is going on in the market and rationalize it after the fact, when all the real energy is in the darkness.

Today American Eagle (NYSE: AEO) was upgraded to Overweight from Equal Weight at Barclays, and Lazard Capital Markets upgraded AEO from hold to buy. Why now, after the stock has run up 65% this year, do they finally wake up and think there might be something here?

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So many questions: AEO, APC, C, GM, MBI & MSFT originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 12 May 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After five consecutive quarters of losses it was reported today after the markets closed that MBIA (NYSE: MBI) earned $3.34 per share in the first quarter through March 31, 2009. This flies in the face of analysts expectations of a 33 cent loss.

The stock closed today at $6.96 but in after hours trading has been up over $8.00 as I type at 5:00 EST.

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Flash: MBIA on fire -- huge earnings news! originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 11 May 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>after market newsAfterMarketNewsLow PBlow PElow PSLowPbLowPeLowPsMBIMBIApositive earningsPositiveEarningsSheldon LiberSheldonLiberMon, 11 May 2009 18:00:00 EST<![CDATA[The week in preview: A peek at apparel retail earnings]]>http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/10/the-week-in-preview-a-peek-at-apparel-retail-earnings/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/10/the-week-in-preview-a-peek-at-apparel-retail-earnings/http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/05/10/the-week-in-preview-a-peek-at-apparel-retail-earnings/#commentsFiled under: , ,

As earnings season begins to wind down, some apparel retailers are scheduled to report quarterly results this week. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters anticipate that Walmart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), the 800-pound gorilla in the space, will report that it earned $0.77 per share in the first quarter, about the same as in the first quarter of last year. But JCPenney Co. (NYSE: JCP), Kohl's Corp. (NYSE: KSS), Nordstrom Inc. (NYSE: JWN), and Urban Outfitters Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN) are expected to report lower profits for the first quarter as consumers continued to hold off on spending. Macy's Inc. (NYSE: M) and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) are expected to have swung to a loss year over year.

Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) and Winn Dixie Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: WINN) are likewise expected to report declining earnings, while the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (NYSE: GAP), parent of the A&P supermarket chain, is expected to have narrowed its net loss 68.9% to $0.28 per share.

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Over the past few weeks the market has been playing a favorable tune but that does not mean that all bad news and negativity have been wrung out of it. There is plenty of fear and suspicion creating volatility.

In many cases this past quarter I have been doing naked puts, in stocks I would be happy to own anyway. I first mentioned this opportunity about seven week ago in Investor fear puts me 'naked' on Wall Street. The actual option position is a "sell to open" put where you get paid today, to pledge to buy something at a later date. These options are available at different strike prices and monthly intervals depending on the company stock.

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There are very few people on this planet that can honestly say that they have not been affected in some way by the economic firestorm caused by underappreciating risk.

Congress, along with the Securities and Exchange Commission during a period where the White House was comatose, opened up the flood gates for Wall Street's financial wizards to bet the world and lose!

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