The Fed slashed the interest rate by another 3/4 point! The market was already up in the morning on better-than-expected earnings from GS and LEH. After the Fed’s rate cut announcement, the market pole-vaulted to its biggest one-day gain since 2002 (even though, just yesterday, the market was still hanging up-side-down)! Many of our members [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Premarket Analysis for 3/18 – Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls
March 18, 2008 – 5:08 am
Submitted By OptionDragon Journey – Don’t Stop Believing From briefing.com LEH reports Q1 EPS 81c vs. consensus of 72c-Bloomberg Reports Q1 revenue $3.5B vs. consensus of $3.35B. LEH gapping up. Refiners got downgrades today. WNR downgraded to Underperform from Market Perform@BMOC. HOC downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform@BMOC. FTO downgraded to Market Perform from Outperform@BMOC. [...]
Waiting For The Fed: SPX, Nasdaq, JPM, BSC, LEH, UBS, GS, SKF
March 17, 2008 – 6:00 pm
The market was very volatile today. It opened lower but started to recover immediately. It then dropped again in late morning and went below the opening low. But, after lunch, it started to come back up. The Dow ended up +21.16 points; SPX was down 11.54 points; and Nasdaq fell 35.48 points. Here’s how the [...]
Premarket Analysis for 3/17 – Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls
March 17, 2008 – 5:07 am
Submitted By Optiondragon AC/DC – Thunder Struck From briefing.com UBS downgrades brokers and fiduciaries to Neutral: cuts Bank of New York (NYSE: BK), Lehman (NYSE: LEH), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), InVesco (NYSE: IVZ), State Street (NYSE: STT). Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ: WYNN) raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns. According to Reuters, the Fed is opening up [...]
Market Forecast for Week of 3/17: SPX, Nasdaq, GLD, SLV, GDX, XAU, FXY, FXB, FXE
March 16, 2008 – 7:04 pm
With big news (BSC/JPM and Fed’s discount rate cut) on a Sunday before the options expiration week, the market is bound to be very volatile on Monday. Fed’s immediate discount rate cut is, no doubt, an attempt to buffer the effect of the JPM $2/share bailout of BSC! Nikkei (Japan) is down more than 400 [...]
Weekly Wrap!!
March 16, 2008 – 5:39 pm
Last weekend, I said, “The market is testing its January low, which for the new week, could be very interesting. The market has now fallen more than 15% from last year’s October high; Nasdaq has done worse, dropping more than 20%! If the Jan. lows do not hold, SPX’s next support is between 1225-1250; for [...]
News Flash: Fed Cuts Discount Rate
March 16, 2008 – 4:39 pm
Fed just announced an immediate quarter-point cut on the discount rate. More on this later… HappyTrading! ™
News Flash: JPMorgan (JPM) To Buy Bear Stern (BSC)
March 16, 2008 – 4:27 pm
Wow!! JPM just announced a deal to buy BSC for $2/share!! This values BSC at only $236 million!! More on this later!! HappyTrading! ™
Premarket Analysis for 3/14 – Upgrades/Downgrades, Gappers, Actionable Calls
March 14, 2008 – 5:07 am
Submitted By OptionDragon Bob Marley- Stir It Up From briefing.com Boeing (NYSE: BA) raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) Started At Buy at Broadpoint. Southern Copper (NYSE: PCU) started as Underweight at JP Morgan, target $91@JPMS Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) have begin informal discussion about the buy-out. Reuters [...]
$1000 Gold! SPX, Nasdaq, AEM, LDK, UNG, UPL, APA, ECA, SWN
March 13, 2008 – 5:33 pm
I have been talking about gold A LOT lately. Yesterday, I mentioned that GLD and SLV are rising again and we may see $1000 gold. And, here it is! Gold reached $1001/50/ounce today, but, closed under $1000. It does seem that gold is going higher, though. The market was weak at the open, testing the [...]
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