Monday links: design and demons
Quote of the day Mike Bellafiore, “Trading is not the place to come and work out your personal demons.” (SMB Training) Chart of the day A look at the sharp rise and long decline in junk bond spreads. (the research puzzle) Markets How have some ‘flight-to-safety‘ assets performed YTD? (VIX and More) Despite its rise,...
Closing Bell: Bull & Bears Still Fight For Show (GM, HPQ, SLXP, TM, TGT, UAL)
Filed under: Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), General Motors (GM), Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Target Corp. (TGT), UAL Corp (UAUA)Stocks tried to open positive today but geopolitics and oil kept things from being a solid win throughout the trading day. Oil's gain i...
General Motors: For Now, Stand Aside
Filed under: General Motors (GM)Time for a second look at General Motors Company (GM), first discussed in this space on November 11, 2010, shortly after its IPO.
And the view remains -- stand aside.
Like most new and/or restructured companies, GM nee...
Who Will Win the Super Bowl Ad Game This Year?
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), General Motors (GM), Marketing and Advertising, Walt Disney (DIS), Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD), Best Buy (BBY), E*TRADE (ETFC)Teams have been preparing their game plans and it's time to see w...
Comfort Zone Investing: The Path to Investing Wisdom
Filed under: General Motors (GM), Comfort Zone InvestingAll investors start at the beginning. They know very little, maybe nothing, but they see the stock market can make them money, big money. It can also take all their money and never even say thank ...
Comfort Zone Investing: Can You Feel the Pendulum Swinging?
Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Intel (INTC), Ford Motor (F), General Motors (GM), International Business Machines (IBM), Procter and Gamble (PG), duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD), Comfort Zone InvestingEconomies go in cycles. They push ...
Closing Bell: Mixed Second Day of 2011 (ATHR, QCOM, GM, GLD, WFMI, XOMA)
Filed under: General Motors (GM), Whole Foods Market (WFMI), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM)The FOMC Minutes gave a Bernanke justification, or attempted re-justification, for QE2 today. Shares tried to have a positive day yet again for the second trading day of th...
Comfort Zone Investing: Two Industries Set to Recover in 2011
The stage is set for a recovery in certain industries. They've been hit hard the last three years, pounded by a slow economy. But now things are starting to change, and if you believe the worst is over, then these sectors should see good advances in 20...
Closing Bell: Right Down to the Wire! (APC, DARA, GM, MBI, XING, WEBM)
Filed under: General Motors (GM), Anadarko Petroleum (APC)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 joble...
Snowed in at the SEC…