Twitter had their first quarterly earnings report after their IPO and came out with strong revenues of $243 mn for Q4, beating the analysts’ estimates of $218 mn.And yet the stock tanked on the markets and Twitter (TWTR) lost a quarter of their market cap or close to $10 bn in value, after the results were announced!What happened? What went […]
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One well-accepted gauge of “fear” in the market is the VIX. The VIX typically rises in times of market distress as options traders hedge their positions, thereby causing an increase in the price of implied volatility – leading to a rise in the VIX. Popular ETFs such as VXX are constructed to replicate the value of the VIX. Hence, a […]
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/Short-term pessimism among individual investors rose to levels not seen last since last August, according to the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. Meanwhile, bullish sentiment fell for the fifth time in six weeks. Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months, fell 4.3 percentage points to 27.9 percent. This is the lowest level of optimism registered […]
When I come across stories that make my blood boil, I generally chose not to blog about them because the last thing I want to do is to generate any more exposure for the stupid misconceptions that they are promoting. But in this case, I can’t help myself. This post “3 Reasons You Can’t Measure Social Marketing ROI” feeds into […]
Investors who dismissed some hoary market rules of thumb last year as old wives’ tales did pretty well. Does that mean it makes sense to ignore the cautionary message of the so-called January Barometer following a decidedly weak first month of 2014?In 2013, on the way to as 30% ascent, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (GSPC) refused to ratify […]
Lojko: social media mattersHelping traders to understand input from social media can be a key differentiating factor, according to Albert Lojko, head of content strategy, data management and delivery at Thomson Reuters.Lojko previously worked at online trading company Tradeweb, where he was involved in building the site’s trading platform. He joined Thomson Reuters and began work on its Eikon trading […]
Looking for a turnaround story in emerging market equities that is decoupling from the general deterioration in the asset class seen over the last months? The Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (VNM) might be worth a deeper look.As most emerging markets, Vietnam was severely hit by the global financial crisis in 2008/09. As in many other emerging countries, the rapid pre-crisis […]
Facebook (FB), the social media giant, reports after the closing bell on Wednesday, January 29th, 2014. Analyst consensus per ThomsonReuters is currently expecting $0.27 in earnings per share (EPS) on $2.32 billion in revenues, for expected year-over-year growth of 59% and 92% respectively.Exiting the October ’13 quarter’s report, the consensus EPS and revenue estimates were for $0.22 and $2.2 billion […]
It was easy to be bullish heading into 2012 and 2013.Profit growth was returning, the Fed was still ready and able to add support to the U.S. economy, valuations were attractive across the board, unemployment was still high but improving, the S&P 500 was well below record highs, and — most important of all — there was much less bullish […]
