Russell Napier, former Attorney, researcher, and author of “Anatomy of a Bear” earned our “Ugly” label, not because of his looks, but rather due to his market call. Mr. Napier began his presentation with don’t worry the market will…
Nouriel Roubini, a well know economist, National Bureau of Economic Research staff member, London based Center for Economic Policy Research staff member, former IMF economist, and current professor at NYU earned our stamp of “The Bad” due to his extremely bearish posture. Interestingly…
Over the last six days I have been in Orlando Florida joining the CFA Institute’s Annual Conference. Being short on posts lately, we wanted to give you a heads up that due to a six day conference in Orlando as mentioned…
Just wanted to remind our readers and investors of our prior post: Not in A Straight Line http://street-cents.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=508 A few interesting tidbits of information buried in the Financial Times from the weekend: “Nani Beccalli, who as chief executive of GE…
With the First Quarter of 2009 quickly coming to a close, investor’s will shift their focus to the upcoming earnings releases. While the last few quarters releases have been significant to the market, we feel this quarter’s releases will carry even greater weight. What may…
Many glossy statements, brochures, and reports are printed at the end of each quarter. Many times large money managers and investors tend to create an upward bias at the end of the month, and especially the end of the quarter…
Today, March 20th, 2009 marks the regular expiration of various options contracts. This regular event makes for high volume posturing and wild market movement. Of course a major news event can change investors thoughts but usually posturing, rolling out of…
Item two from our original post on Jan 6, 2009 is getting even more action as of late. IBM sets it’s sights on Sun Micro Systems this morning in a deal worth and estimated $6.5billion and the mega mergers in…
The market participants took a decidedly more positive attitude in the latest week. We caution not to get too optimistic as we have several more economic data points coming that will still be negative. Just as we say farewell to…
For the first weeks of office President Obama continued to drill into the heads of Americas that our economy was in really bad shape and that things could be bad for a very long time if we did not take…
