Back from Orlando Florida with Great Insights
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…
Reminder of Not in a Straight Line and a Few Interesting Quotes
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…
Earnings Expectations
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…
The End of The Quarter Often Creates An Upward Bias
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…
Quadruple Witching Today, Not Much Reality in Market Movements
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…
2009 Key Market Items to Watch Update
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…
Not in a Straight Line
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…
Optimistic Obama
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…
Looking for a Few Positives, Here’s Some!
This week began with Bernanke talking of light mark to market rules which will help the balance sheets of banks. Ben followed with comments that…
Important News to Come Tomorrow
The following quote may some up the bulk of what the market has been trying to over come for many weeks: “It’s been this continuous…