Barron’s Goes Negative on Facebook
“In the short run the market is a voting machine, and in the long run it is a weighing machine.” -Benjamin Graham, regarded as the father of security analysis > With the FB IPO imminent, investor frenzy continues to grow. Given all of this interest, the stock may be a short term trading winner....
Looks Like Apple VIX (VXAPL) Futures Are Coming Soon
In case anyone missed it, I wanted to highlight a report yesterday from Reuters which quoted Edward Tilly, President of CBOE Holdings, as saying that not only is the VIX product line ripe for expansion, but: “We have benchmarks on a number ...
Market Recap with Look at Google Earnings and Rare Apple Divergence
Looking at the latest charts, the S&P 500 and NASDAQ both had no problems today regaining a position back above the 50 day moving average. Furthermore, both indices have now retraced all of Tuesday's fall off. However, while volume is a debatable topic, it is worth noting that today's volume was very low. A look...
50 Random Economic Datapoints
The following comes from a collection of data tidbits assembled by Morgan Housel at Mötley Fool. They used the click-bait title, 50 Amazing Numbers About Today’s Economy — but I decided to just ignore that hyperbole and check it out anyway. Here are a few of my favorites: 50. The S&P 500 is down 3%...
More money for meetings (and drugs for free)…
AmerisourceBergen (ABC) is one of those companies in your life that you may never have heard of: It distributes prescription and over-the-counter drugs, brand names and generics, home health-care supplies and much, much more. It’s big — the company’s market-cap is over $10 billion, and its revenues in the fiscal year that ended September 30...
Google Management Discusses Q4 2011 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Google (GOOG)
Q4 2011 Earnings Call
January 19, 2012 4:30 pm ET
Executives
Nikesh Arora - Chief Business Officer and Senior Vice President
Willa Lo -
Susan D. Wojcicki - Senior Vice President of Ads
Patrick Pichette - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President
Larry Page - Co-Founder, Chief Executive officer, Director,...
VIX and More and the 2012 Bespoke Roundtable
I was delighted to be invited back for the third year in a row to share my thoughts about 2011 and 2012 as a part of Bespoke Investment Group’s third annual Roundtable. As someone who trades options, just predicting what one stock or index will do o...
Tapjoy Forms Advisory Board
Mobile ad network Tapjoy Inc. has formed an advisory board. The board consists of Peter Yared, chief technology officer of CBS Interactive; Bernardo Hernandez, head of emerging products at Google; Razorfish CMO Jeff Lanctot; Arjun Sethi, CEO of LOLapps; GameStop director Shane Kim; Jim Elms, lead of global strategy and insights at UM; Matt Ocko,...
Tapjoy Forms Advisory Board
Mobile ad network Tapjoy Inc. has formed an advisory board. The board consists of Peter Yared, chief technology officer of CBS Interactive; Bernardo Hernandez, head of emerging products at Google; Razorfish CMO Jeff Lanctot; Arjun Sethi, CEO of LOLapps; GameStop director Shane Kim; Jim Elms, lead of global strategy and insights at UM; Matt Ocko,...
