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This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2008
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James48843
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
Big open. Up 1.2%.
Big open. Up 1.2%.
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
Wow. I don't know if this is a good sign or bad. How bad are things that they are going to send out emergency checks to help the consumer? The market isn't exactly jumping for joy over it. S&P still down 10 after the announcement.
Show-me
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
It is nothing but a Band-Aid. We need good paying jobs to keep it up after the rebate check is spent.
I've already got mine spent. LOL :nuts:
It is nothing but a Band-Aid. We need good paying jobs to keep it up after the rebate check is spent.
I've already got mine spent. LOL :nuts:
Silverbird
Market Veteran
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
It's like getting an asprin from the Dr. for a broken leg. Check, please!
wv-girl
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
LOL
I hope we won't have to claim our rebate check as 'income' next year!!
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Rebates at this time amount to nothing more then sound bites. The cash obtained by any of these new ill tought out programs will be used to make late payments on credit card bill, cars and such. No new spending will be generated. Those making more than 85K will get nothing. And for the most part, that is the very segment of the population bringing the economy to its knees.
just my opinion
Cash is king for now.
Rebates at this time amount to nothing more then sound bites. The cash obtained by any of these new ill tought out programs will be used to make late payments on credit card bill, cars and such. No new spending will be generated. Those making more than 85K will get nothing. And for the most part, that is the very segment of the population bringing the economy to its knees.
just my opinion
Cash is king for now.
Show-me
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
The Week Ahead
Last Update: 18-Jan-08 10:32 ET
The markets are closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. As for the remainder of the week, economic data is sparse, although plenty of earnings reports will keep market participants busy.
Economic data is restricted to weekly jobless claims, weekly oil inventories, and December home sales. Further detail on these items can be previewed on our Economic Calendar.
As far as the earnings reporting goes, it gets dialed up a few notches in the coming week as 85 S&P 500 components are due to report their results versus just 28 in the prior week. Some of the headliners include Bank of America (BAC), DuPont (DD), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Apple (AAPL), AT& T (T), Pfizer (PFE), United Technologies(UTX), Microsoft (MSFT), Ford (F) and Caterpillar (CAT).
A complete list of all companies scheduled to issue reports can be previewed on Briefing.com's Earnings Calendar.
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Monday, January 21: Markets Closed
Tuesday, January 22:
The Week Ahead
Last Update: 18-Jan-08 10:32 ET
The markets are closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. As for the remainder of the week, economic data is sparse, although plenty of earnings reports will keep market participants busy.
Economic data is restricted to weekly jobless claims, weekly oil inventories, and December home sales. Further detail on these items can be previewed on our Economic Calendar.
As far as the earnings reporting goes, it gets dialed up a few notches in the coming week as 85 S&P 500 components are due to report their results versus just 28 in the prior week. Some of the headliners include Bank of America (BAC), DuPont (DD), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Apple (AAPL), AT& T (T), Pfizer (PFE), United Technologies(UTX), Microsoft (MSFT), Ford (F) and Caterpillar (CAT).
A complete list of all companies scheduled to issue reports can be previewed on Briefing.com's Earnings Calendar.
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Monday, January 21: Markets Closed
Tuesday, January 22:
- Earnings: Ambac Financial (ABK), Bank of America (BAC), BJ Services (BJ), CSX Corp (CSX), DuPont (DD), Eaton (ETN), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), KeyCorp (KEY), National City (NCC), United Health Group (ETN), Wachovia Corp (WB), Apple (AAPL), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Texas Instruments (TXN)
- Economic Data: None
- Events: None
- Conferences: None
- Fed Speakers: None
- Earnings: Abbott Labs(ABT), ConocoPhillips (COP), Coach (COH), Exelon (EXC), General Dynamics (GD), Motorola (MOT), Pfizer (PFE), SLM Corp. (SLM), Southwest Air (LUV), United Tech (UTX), Well Point (WLP), Capital One (COF), eBay (EBAY), Qualcomm (QCOM)
- Economic Data: None
- Events: None
- Conferences: Credit Suisse Asia Seminar
- Fed Speakers: None
- Earnings:AmerisourceBergen (ABC), AT&T (T), Con Edison (ED), Kimberly Clark (KMB), Lennar (LEN), Lockheed Martin (LMT), McGraw Hill (MHP), Nucor (NUE), Union Pacific (UNP), US Airways (LCC), Xerox (XRX), Amgen (AMGN), Broadcom (BRCM), E*Trade Financial (ETFC), Hartford Financial (HIG), Microsoft (MSFT), Sun Microsystems (JAVA)
- Economic Data: Weekly Initial Jobless Claims (Week Ending Jan. 19), Weekly Crude Inventories (Week Ending Jan. 19), December Existing Home Sales
- Events: None
- Conferences: None
- Fed Speakers: Former Fed Chairman Greenspan discusses the economy in Vancouver, Canada (2:30 PM ET)
- Earnings: Caterpillar(CAT), Fortune Brands (FO), Harley Davidson (HOG), Honeywell (HON), Weatherford International (WFT)
- Economic Data: None
- Events: None
- Conferences: Credit Suisse Single Manager Hedge Fund Showcase
- Fed Speakers: None
Show-me
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Show-me
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
According to the Stock Trader's Almanac (STA), which I would highly recommend buying each year, JAN. is the 3rd strongest month and FEB. is the 11th. I will add that seasonality is out the window so far this year. You be the judge.
According to the Stock Trader's Almanac (STA), which I would highly recommend buying each year, JAN. is the 3rd strongest month and FEB. is the 11th. I will add that seasonality is out the window so far this year. You be the judge.
Show-me
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
Ben Stein was on CBS morning show. I always like listening to him. Bueller. Any way he was commenting on the current market conditions and said the we won't truly know that we are in recession until six months have passed. The the longest one was 14 months. Buy index stocks. Be the first one to your job and the last to leave. Hold off any major purchases until things get better. There was more, I hit the high points.
Ben Stein was on CBS morning show. I always like listening to him. Bueller. Any way he was commenting on the current market conditions and said the we won't truly know that we are in recession until six months have passed. The the longest one was 14 months. Buy index stocks. Be the first one to your job and the last to leave. Hold off any major purchases until things get better. There was more, I hit the high points.
Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
Stein is a great guy to listen to. I appreciate his views on our military troops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlRct37HeM8
Stein is a great guy to listen to. I appreciate his views on our military troops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlRct37HeM8
Show-me
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
Just some definitions.
Crash
A major decline in a financial market.
Crashes are substantial and lingering. To be considered a crash, the market decline must be evidenced as a 20% drop in an index's total value.
Panic selling
Wide-scale selling of an investment, causing a sharp decline in price. In most instances of panic selling, investors just want to get out of the investment, with little regard for the price at which they sell.
The main problem with panic selling is that investors are selling in reaction to pure emotion and fear, rather than evaluating fundamentals. Almost every market crash is a result of panic selling. Most major stock exchanges use trading curbs and halts to limit panic selling, to allow people to digest any information on why the selling is occurring, and to restore some degree of normalcy to the market.
Correction
A reverse movement, usually negative, of at least 10% in a stock, bond, commodity or index. Corrections are generally temporary price declines, interrupting an uptrend in the market or asset.
A healthy market will correct from time to time.
Recession
A significant decline in activity spread across the economy, lasting longer than a few months. It is visible in industrial production, employment, real income and wholesale-retail trade. The technical indicator of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country's gross domestic product (GDP).
Recession is a normal (albeit unpleasant) part of the business cycle. A recession generally lasts from six to 18 months.
Interest rates usually fall in recessionary times to stimulate the economy by offering cheap rates at which to borrow money.
Uptick Rule
A former rule established by the SEC that requires that every short sale transaction be entered at a price that is higher than the price of the previous trade. This rule was introduced in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as Rule 10a-1. The uptick rule prevents short sellers from adding to the downward momentum when the price of an asset is already experiencing sharp declines. The SEC eliminated the rule on July 6, 2007.
The uptick rule was also be known as the "plus tick rule".
By entering a short sale order with a price above the current bid, a short seller ensures that his or her order is filled on an uptick. The uptick rule is disregarded when trading some types of financial instruments such as futures, single stock futures, currencies or market ETFs such as the QQQQ or SPDRs. These instruments can be shorted on a downtick because they are highly liquid and have enough buyers willing to enter into a long position, ensuring that the price will rarely be driven to unjustifiably low levels.
Just some definitions.
Crash
A major decline in a financial market.
Crashes are substantial and lingering. To be considered a crash, the market decline must be evidenced as a 20% drop in an index's total value.
Panic selling
Wide-scale selling of an investment, causing a sharp decline in price. In most instances of panic selling, investors just want to get out of the investment, with little regard for the price at which they sell.
The main problem with panic selling is that investors are selling in reaction to pure emotion and fear, rather than evaluating fundamentals. Almost every market crash is a result of panic selling. Most major stock exchanges use trading curbs and halts to limit panic selling, to allow people to digest any information on why the selling is occurring, and to restore some degree of normalcy to the market.
Correction
A reverse movement, usually negative, of at least 10% in a stock, bond, commodity or index. Corrections are generally temporary price declines, interrupting an uptrend in the market or asset.
A healthy market will correct from time to time.
Recession
A significant decline in activity spread across the economy, lasting longer than a few months. It is visible in industrial production, employment, real income and wholesale-retail trade. The technical indicator of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country's gross domestic product (GDP).
Recession is a normal (albeit unpleasant) part of the business cycle. A recession generally lasts from six to 18 months.
Interest rates usually fall in recessionary times to stimulate the economy by offering cheap rates at which to borrow money.
Uptick Rule
A former rule established by the SEC that requires that every short sale transaction be entered at a price that is higher than the price of the previous trade. This rule was introduced in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as Rule 10a-1. The uptick rule prevents short sellers from adding to the downward momentum when the price of an asset is already experiencing sharp declines. The SEC eliminated the rule on July 6, 2007.
The uptick rule was also be known as the "plus tick rule".
By entering a short sale order with a price above the current bid, a short seller ensures that his or her order is filled on an uptick. The uptick rule is disregarded when trading some types of financial instruments such as futures, single stock futures, currencies or market ETFs such as the QQQQ or SPDRs. These instruments can be shorted on a downtick because they are highly liquid and have enough buyers willing to enter into a long position, ensuring that the price will rarely be driven to unjustifiably low levels.
350zCommTech
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
.75% cut.
.75% cut.
Show-me
TSP Legend
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
The Week Ahead
Last Update: 25-Jan-08 10:32 ET
A full slate of earnings reports is on tap for next week, but the market will likely relegate many of those announcements to the backburner knowing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) convenes January 29-30 to talk further about monetary policy.
As of this writing, fed funds futures are pricing in a 52% probability of a 25 basis point ease (up from 24% yesterday) and a 48.0% probability of a 50 basis point cut (down from 76.0% yesterday). The opinion is pretty mixed, then, as to the scope of the move, but the opinion is clear that a cut of some sort is expected.
Separately, the economic calendar will be a focal point too, with a number of noteworthy reports on the docket. In particular, the New Home Sales, Durable Orders, Advanced Q4 GDP, Personal Income and Spending, January Employment, and ISM Index reports are all headed your way. For further information on each of these reports, be sure to visit our Economic Calendar.
On the earnings front, eight Dow components will release their results, and will be joined by other luminaries such as Amazon.com (AMZN), Starbucks (SBUX), Yahoo! (YHOO), MasterCard (MA) and Google (GOOG). A complete list of all companies reporting can be previewed on Briefing.com's Earnings Calendar.
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Monday, January 28:
The Week Ahead
Last Update: 25-Jan-08 10:32 ET
A full slate of earnings reports is on tap for next week, but the market will likely relegate many of those announcements to the backburner knowing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) convenes January 29-30 to talk further about monetary policy.
As of this writing, fed funds futures are pricing in a 52% probability of a 25 basis point ease (up from 24% yesterday) and a 48.0% probability of a 50 basis point cut (down from 76.0% yesterday). The opinion is pretty mixed, then, as to the scope of the move, but the opinion is clear that a cut of some sort is expected.
Separately, the economic calendar will be a focal point too, with a number of noteworthy reports on the docket. In particular, the New Home Sales, Durable Orders, Advanced Q4 GDP, Personal Income and Spending, January Employment, and ISM Index reports are all headed your way. For further information on each of these reports, be sure to visit our Economic Calendar.
On the earnings front, eight Dow components will release their results, and will be joined by other luminaries such as Amazon.com (AMZN), Starbucks (SBUX), Yahoo! (YHOO), MasterCard (MA) and Google (GOOG). A complete list of all companies reporting can be previewed on Briefing.com's Earnings Calendar.
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Monday, January 28:
- Earnings: Alberto-Culver (ACV), Black & Decker (BDK), Corning (GLW), Halliburton (HAL), McDonald's (MCD), Sysco (SYY), Verizon (VZ), YRC Worldwide (YRCW), American Express (AXP), SanDisk (SNDK)
- Economic Data: December New Home Sales
- Events: None
- Conferences: Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Manager Roundtable
- Fed Speakers: None
- Earnings: 3M (MMM), American Electric (AEP), Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI), Cardinal Health (CAH), Dow Chemical (DOW), Eli Lilly (LLY), EMC Corp. (EMC), Entergy (ENR), Valero (VLO), Allstate (ALL), Flextronics (FLEX), Robert Half (RHI), Yahoo! (YHOO)
- Economic Data: December Durable Goods Orders, January Consumer Confidence
- Events: FOMC begins two-day meeting
- Conferences: Wachovia 2008 Healthcare Conference
- Fed Speakers: None
- Earnings: Altria(MO), Boeing (BA), Dominion (D), Eastman Kodak (EK), Illinois Tool Works (ITW), Kellogg (K), Kraft (KFT), Merck (MRK), Royal Caribbean (RCL), SAP AG (SAP), Amazon.com (AMZN), Pulte Homes (PHM), Starbucks (SBUX)
- Economic Data: January ADP Employment, Fourth Quarter Advanced GDP and Deflator
- Events: Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Monetary Policy Announcement (14:15 ET), Former Fed Chairman Greenspan Speaks at an Investment Forum in Moscow (12:00 PM ET)
- Conferences: Wachovia 2008 Healthcare Conference
- Fed Speakers: None
- Earnings:AstraZeneca (AZN), CVS Corp (CVS), Lear (LEA), Marathon Oil (MRO), MasterCard (MA), MBIA Inc. (MBI), Procter & Gamble (PG), Raytheon (RTN), Wyeth (WYE), Anheuser-Busch (BUD), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Google (GOOG), McKesson (MCK)
- Economic Data: Fourth Quarter Employment Cost Index, December Personal Income/Spending and Core PCE Inflation, Weekly Initial Jobless Claims (week ending Jan. 26), January Chicago PMI, Weekly Crude Inventory (week ending Jan. 26)
- Events: None
- Conferences: Wachovia 2008 Healthcare Conference
- Fed Speakers: None
- Earnings: Automatic Data(ADP), Chevron (CVX), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Estee Lauder (EL)
- Economic Data: January Auto and Truck Sales, January Employment Report, December Construction Spending, January ISM Index, Revised Univ. of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index
- Events: None
- Conferences: No conferences are currently scheduled
- Fed Speakers: None
robo
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Re: This Month in Stocks January: 12/28 - 02/01/2007
What Do You Think?
With Wednesday's dramatic turnaround has the U.S. stock market finally reached bottom?
Yes. It's time to go shopping.
No. This was a sucker's rally.
Vote at the lower right side of the page at the link below.
http://finance.yahoo.com/
What Do You Think?
With Wednesday's dramatic turnaround has the U.S. stock market finally reached bottom?
Yes. It's time to go shopping.
No. This was a sucker's rally.
Vote at the lower right side of the page at the link below.
http://finance.yahoo.com/
