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A glimpse of the future (with a bit of Google propaganda) from…well, Google. http://www.zeromomentoftruth.com/ From the page: The way we shop is changing and marketing strategies are simply not keeping pace. Whether we’re shopping for corn flakes, concert tickets or a honeymoon in Paris, the
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The merry Merry-Go-Round goes round merrily to try to keep us going in circles again today. It’s a pretty broad rally this morning with S’s over N’s (meaning the S&P 500 is stronger than the Nasdaq). That’s cuz of Intel, which is down a
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It’s a muddled day at the markets and there’s not a lot of oomph away from the companies who actually reported earnings in the last 24 hours. I’m not making any moves today, but we do have more earnings fireworks tonight and tomorrow, and we’ll see
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Can you see her in the distance, As she tumbles by? Veteran of a race that should be over, Can you hear her sigh? — Neil Young “I’ve Loved her So Long” One of the main arguments you’ll always hear against Sandisk and its NAND-based flash drives is that
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And they’re off. Up along the inside is Apple, but it’s a muddy track and the horse just ins’t catching as much traction as many had bet for. With just a slight lead for Apple, the rest of the horses are bunched up in the middle, with
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Apple’s huge and is up nicely after hours. Riverbed, not so much. Let’s talk both. First, Apple. What a blow out quarter. The company didn’t just find that bar that had been raised as I’d mentioned, but they blew past it. Great numbers on the top
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What a rally, especially in tech today. Guess that Greece didn’t doom us after all. Or was it Portugal? I’m not buying another more today and indeed I’m more inclined to trim a little around this kind of action than to chase it. Especially when we’d
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Email from a subscriber: “Cody, you bought the Google calls before Google’s earnings report and it made us huge money. Why aren’t we doing the same by buying Apple calls before Apple’s earnings report?” Great question. The set up for each stock was very different heading into
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Oh, man, it’s all about Greece…oh wait. No, it’s not. Nobody anywhere is talking about Greek debt today and how it’s supposedly going to create contagion and collapse. You remember how palpable that “Greek debt is going to destroy the world’s economies” fear was a
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Newsflash: Shares of Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley all hit two-year lows today http://on.wsj.com/oxRr4U I’m short the XLF which gives me profits as these TBTF banks collapse. Of course, I wish I’d been aggressive this whole time…I’ve just barely
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Here’s how my portfolio stands with both longs and shorts in order of size at this moment. I’d mistakenly not had listed Sandisk on Friday’s portfolio rundown. It’s in there at the right spot now: Longs – * Google * Riverbed * Microsoft * Cypress * Cisco * Sandisk * Nuance * Marvell * Corning * Apple