Market Recap – A Whipsaw Day
The real story of today is the wild price swings that started around 10 AM. Several times the market dropped and took off in response to news. Also note volume was heavy throughout the day, yet ANOTHER distribution day. Based on the price action the last two weeks this market looks poised to fall lower....
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%...
Millennium Makes Max Chee Partner
Millennium Technology Value Partners said that Max Chee has been promoted to partner. Chee joined the firm in 2005 and has led Millennium investments in companies such as ArcSight, Airvana (acquired by SAC Capital), Green Dot, RigNet, Epocrates and Tumblr.
PRESS RELEASE
MILLENNIUM PROMOTES MAX CHEE TO PARTNER
NEW YORK, NY – January 24, 2012—Millennium Technology...
Millennium Technology Announces Investments
Millennium Technology Value Partners announced 18 portfolio companies that received new or follow-on investment in the last 18 months. The companies include Chegg, Twitter, Good Technology, Tumblr, BeachMint, IronPlanet, ETF Securities, Tremor, Acronis, HootSuite and Yodle, among others.
Microsoft Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Microsoft (MSFT)
Q2 2012 Earnings Call
January 19, 2012 5:30 pm ET
Executives
Bill Koefoed - General Manager of Investor Relations
Peter S. Klein - Chief Financial Officer
Analysts
Richard G. Sherlund - Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division
Adam H. Holt - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Gregg Moskowitz - Cowen and Company, LLC, Research Division
Tim...
Is LULU or LLL.to a buy or a sell – Doin’ a drilldown!
This will be a longer post. You might need a coffee! Here is LULU Weekly. Hummm, this chart needs a little annotation. We need a little background information. How do great stocks signal their final top? Lets take some random examples. I want to take one of the greatest growth...
Top Favorite Stock Holdings of Congress
Why aren’t congressional members required to put all of their stock holdings into a blind trust? Why can’t insider trading by Congressional members be banned? How can elected officials do “the people’s business” when they are too busy running around trading on the votes they are about to cast? How one earth can we ever...
WhaleShark Gets $150M From JP Morgan, IVP–CORRECTED
WhaleShark Media Inc. said it received $150 million in funding from J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Institutional Venture Partners. The new money brings the Austin, Texas, online coupon company’s total funding to nearly $300 million. (An earlier version of this post misspelled the name WhaleShark in the headline.)
PRESS RELEASE
WhaleShark Media Raises $150...
Microsoft Management Discusses Q1 2012 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Microsoft (MSFT)
Q1 2012 Earnings Call
October 20, 2011 5:30 pm ET
Executives
Bill Koefoed - General Manager of Investor Relations
Peter S. Klein - Chief Financial Officer
Analysts
Brent Thill - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Richard G. Sherlund - Nomura Securities Co. Ltd., Research Division
Adam H. Holt - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Gregg Moskowitz...
Lai Joins Intel Capital
Former Institutional Venture Partners VP Carey Lai will join Intel Capital to work as an investment director in the corporate VC’s digital media division. Already, Carey led the corporate VC’s investment in Sweet Labs. Lai has also worked with Banc of America Securities.
