“Although the overall market is up, I’m seeing a balance of buyers and sellers. There are people taking advantage of the ‘up’ market to do some profit taking.” – Joe Ranieri (subscription required), Co-Head of Trading, Canaccord Adams The Dow was…
From time to time I’ll write a little report on a stock to keep a record of my own thinking. I just finished one on Taser (TASR) which reports 2nd quarter earnings before the open on Monday (7/23). I thought…
Foster City, CA based Gilead Sciences (GILD) has been on a tear the last 2 years – up more than 250% – on the strength of its leading suite of AIDS drugs: Truvada, Atripla and Viread. It is also a…
“There’s anticipation that second quarter earnings will be better than expected.” – Jim Herrick (subscription required), Head Trader, Robert W. Baird “We think people are gunning to the low side on where earnings should come in…. We think analysts have overdone…
“Negative sentiment took a firm hold of the [subprime bond] market” this past week. “We think the weakness in the ABX will continue.” – JP Morgan in a report from Friday June 15 In “Ills Deepen in Subprime Bond Arena”…
“The whole story is interest rate worries.” – Stephen Carl, head trader Williams Capital (subscription required) “A lot of people are trying to come to grips with the idea that the Fed is just as likely at a future meeting,…
Lot’s of good economic news, or economic news that has been interpreted as good, the last couple of days. Yesterday (Thu) before the open, The Commerce Department reported that preliminary estimates for 1Q 2007 GDP had been revised down to…
You know Wall Street couldn’t go more than a few weeks without obsessing about the Fed and if there is going to be a rate cut this year or not. I swear to God…… The immediate cause is today’s April…
Short interest on the NYSE rose 4.6% (subscription required) for the monthly period ending last Friday April 13. That’s on top of a 9.5% rise for the previous monthly period ending Thursday March 15. That’s an overall rise in short…
Puts Calls Put/Call Ratio February 117,646 134,162 .88 March 236,974 160,127 1.48 April 43,401 9,966 4.35 Source: Scottrade, as of approx. 3:00pm EST What this tells us, I think, is that there are still alot of bears out there. Even though options buyers are…