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SPY Puts
Article By:
Gary Tanashian
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 12:01 PM EDT
I bought puts on the bounce in SPY that will pay off if the market takes any kind of significant correction this year. They are dated out to December. The mental ‘stop’ would be if it looks like the recent bear hysterics were just a fuel stop for an upside blow off to come.
In this article: SPY
Jungle Bunnies, Polls, Mercenaries, And Corruption
Article By:
Vivian Lewis
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:56 AM EDT
The best performing companies will be ones with more sales and production outside of Japan. As Indians line up to vote, most observers expect a victory for the supposedly pro-business Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Narendra Modi.
In this article: CAE, CBI, CZZ, EC, GLP, GSK, NOK, VALE, ALLRF, EFLVF, GBTZF, PDYPF, QCOR, MSFT, TEVA, MNK, FBASF
"Growth" Stocks Slammed - Lose All FOMC Minutes Exuberance
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:43 AM EDT
Well that didn't take long. At yesterday's close, every talking head was proclaiming the growth sell off over and "see" the Fed is as easy as we said... however, this morning (after dismal data out of Japan and China) US equities have been a one-way street lower.
More Signs Of Economic Recovery: Dollar Stores Collapsing
Article By:
James Quinn
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:39 AM EDT
Family Dollar stores have been a Wall Street darling for over a decade. Its stock rose from $5 in the late 1990s to $77 in the last year. It has sales of over $10 billion and operates 8,100 stores in 46 states and employs over 34,000 full time employees.
In this article: FDO
Now That The U.S. And China Have Picked The Low-Hanging Fruit, Peak Everything Looms
Article By:
Charles Hugh Smith
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:34 AM EDT
With no plan to manage an economy in which expanding credit no longer generates growth, the two nations are rapidly reaching Peak Everything.
Another Excerpt: All The Presidents' Bankers: Nixon's War/Wall Street's War
Article By:
Nomi Prins
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:12 AM EDT
While the protests against the Vietnam War intensified in the first years of the Nixon administration, the financial elite was fighting its own war—over the future of banking and against Glass-Steagall regulations.
3D Systems; Despite The Crash
Article By:
Gary Tanashian
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:58 AM EDT
3D Systems, after its hope bounce, is probably going lower over time.
In this article: DDD
Finding Profits On The Final Frontier
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Global Economic Intersection
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:46 AM EDT
Looking for new growth opportunities in an overbought market? Look to the stars.When seeking aerospace plays, investors tend to focus on the commercial or military aircraft segments and ignore the satellite industry.
GMAC 2.0: ALLY Opens Below Its IPO Price
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:29 AM EDT
Another day, another 'failed' IPO. Ally Financial - aka GMAC - that bastion of subprime auto loans and risk management, IPO'd at $25 last night (at the very bottom of the $25 to $28 range) but investors seem to prefer to sell their allocations than pile into this 'bank'.
In this article: ALLYPRB
Fed-Fueled Thursday – Do We Have Enough Thrust?
Article By:
Phil Davis
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:14 AM EDT
Wow, what a recovery! I mean we expected a bounce yesterday on Monday, when we pointed out that there were 3 Fed Doves in a row speaking after the release of the minutes but – WOW! – that was pretty extreme.
Import Price Deflation Continues, Export Prices Inflate In March 2014
Article By:
Steven Hansen
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:58 AM EDT
Year-over-year import price deflation continues. Import prices have deflated year-over year for 20 of the last 21 months. Export prices this month showed marginal year-over-year growth.
Forget HFT: The 4 Greatest Risks To Investors Now
Article By:
Lance Roberts
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:43 AM EDT
The financial media discussions regarding high-frequency trading have reached a fevered pitch. No pun intended as the igniter of this public relations flame is famous author of “Money Ball” Michael Lewis who has been making the television circuit promoting his new book “Flash Boys.”
New Jobless Claims Plunge To 300K, Much Better Than Forecast
Article By:
Doug Short
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:26 AM EDT
The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. The 300,000 new claims number was a dramatic decline of 32,000 from the previous week's 332,000 (revised from 326,000).
Greek Bond Final Term Sheet: Upsized, Eight Times Oversubscribed, And Yielding 4.95%
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:10 AM EDT
"Fear Of Missing Out" - that is the only way one can explain the irrational idiocy with which asset "managers" are scrambling to allocate other people's money into today's "historic" Greek (where unemployment just printed at 26.7%)