QualcommSemiconductor company Qualcomm lost ground on Monday despite activist firm Jana Partners urging it to speed up a $10 billion stock repurchase and consider splitting its business. The stock closed more than half a percent lower, around $69 per share.Trader Dan Nathan said that Qualcomm looked “broken.” He added that it would continue to be a “work in progress.”YahooInternet company […]
Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Extended Short-Term Uptrend – New All-Time Highs Ahead?By: Paul Rejczak | Mon, Apr 13, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on April 13, 2015, 6:25 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, no speculative positions are justified.Our intraday outlook is neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral:Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): neutralShort-term outlook (next 1-2 weeks): neutralMedium-term outlook (next 1-3 […]
Among most shorted stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Chesapeake Energy and Petrobras once again saw sharp increases in their short interest between the March 13 and March 31 settlement dates. On the other hand, short sellers fled from Pfizer and Verizon for the second period in a row.All of the top five had more than 120,000 shares […]
As Nanex’s Eric Hunsader pointed out, while the well-paid HFT-lobbyists proclaim their rigging clients “knit together liquidity from all markets,” it appears BATS’ new CEO (since the lying old one left) disagrees. The exchange that caters significantly to the front-running HFTs believes it knows how to improve the market for thinly traded stocks… it will stop handling them.As Bloomberg reports,
BATS […]
Related FSLRBy 2016, All Solar Investors Will Know The Name ‘8point3’New ETF From BlackRock And EdelmanEnergy Yieldcos On The Rise(Investor’s Business Daily)Related RGSEEarnings Scheduled For March 31, 2015SolarCity, Sunedison Earnings Drag Down Solar SectorShort sellers shied away again from many of the leading U.S. solar-related stocks between the March 13 and March 31 settlement dates. The most significant downswings in […]
“Fast Money” trader Tim Seymour says shares of fellow content streaming provider Pandora may get a boost thanks to competitor Spotify’s surprise valuation.Investors have valued its Spotify at about $8.4 billion, according a Dow Jones report, as it plans to raise some $400 million in funding. That values the firm at more than double Pandora’s current market cap of $3.6 […]
Read MoreGE unveils massive financial unit restructuring”The rumor had been out there,” said Dan Nathan, a CNBC contributor, who first wrote about the activity on RiskReversal.com. “GE is not a name we usually see short-term speculation in the options market.”Most curious about those purchases is that those April calls expire next Friday, giving whoever bought them precious little time for […]
Stock Trading Alert: Stocks Fluctuate As Investors Await Earnings Reports Releases – Which Direction Is Next?By: Paul Rejczak | Thu, Apr 9, 2015SharePrintEmailStock Trading Alert originally published on April 9, 2015, 6:17 AM:Briefly: In our opinion, no speculative positions are justified.Our intraday outlook is now neutral, and our short-term outlook is neutral:Intraday outlook (next 24 hours): neutralShort-term outlook (next 1-2 […]
Belski: Not surprised by jobs, Fed still raises later 2015
The U.S. added 126,000 jobs in March. Brian Belski, BMO Capital Markets, doesn’t think the bad jobs number will affect the Federal Reserve raising rates later this year.
U.S. stocks will likely plummet on Monday, especially with the disappointing March jobs report.Markets are closed on Good Friday, and the Monday afterwards is […]
Cramer questions the market’s intelligence
Mad Money host Jim Cramer shares his final thoughts of the day on the latest moves taking the tape, including Micron; Procter & Gamble; Kimberley-Clark and PVH.
Sometimes even Jim Cramer has to admit—the stock market is dumber than a bag of hammers.This is exactly what he was thinking on Wednesday night when Micron reported an upside […]
