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What one stock taketh away, another giveth. (Flip it.) The hits we’re taking in Cisco and Celestica are being countered by the profits in Riverbed and Silver. Most of the rest of the portfolio is hardly budging and that means our portfolio is flat-to-slightly down on the
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Cisco and silver are each down almost 5% in the early action. On the conference call cisco CEO guided slightly lower again for next quarter for the fourth time in a row. I am digging through their report and others but the upshot is that I plan to hold my
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Flattish day for the portfolio by the close. After the close though, our second largest position, Cisco, reported very strong earnings and the stock is up 3%. That said, we won’t know how the stock will trade tomorrow until we hear from Cisco CEO, John Chambers, on the upcoming
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Let’s review what I’ve been doing to re-build my portfolio in broad terms. From a strategic standpoint, I’ve been buying the best companies I can find in the App Revolution and the Cloud Revolution which I think will explode into a new bubble in coming years
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The markets have fallen hard intraday, though it’s not a full 2% intraday swing and thus doesn’t meet the worrisome “dislocation” threshold. Regardless, the green on our sheets from this morning has mostly faded to red, though our SLV puts are now more profitable than ever after today’
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Here’s some very good fundamental analysis from Gleacher & Co about the great quarter that Nuance reported last night. I agree with most of their analysis, except my price target is double theirs. They’re looking for a $26 stock. I think this stock could run to $50 in
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Silver has dislocated itself to the downside again today, losing almost 5% this morning and making our SLV puts pop. Gold down. It sure seems to me that silver and not gold is the driver of the direction of the precious metals everyday. Nice gains in the portfolio again this
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I’ve written before about how people thought I was nuts when I was writing about how I was buying Apple at $7 per share back in 2003, even though at that time, as I put it for my subsribers, “Apple was trading for less than the cash it had
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Our short, Lender Processing Services, is in the news again. And not for being a good citizen…From NakedCapitalism: FDIC Filed Suit Against Lender Processing Services for $154 Million Ooh, this is getting fun. Peter W found this tidbit in the May 10 Lender Processing Services 8K: The Federal Deposit
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With Nokia, Ciena and Riverbed all up 3% plus today, we ended up nicely green by the close after bobbing up and down most of the day. We’ll take it. I bought those long-dated Softee call options and that was the only trigger pull of the day from
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Let’s analyze the price Microsoft paid for Skype, the reason why Microsoft bought Skype and how we should trade our Microsoft now. First off, let’s talk price. $8.5 billion is a lot of money and as a Softee shareholder, I do wish they’d only paid the
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Remember a few weeks ago when I was in San Francisco on a Markewatch/WSJ investment panel? I met a couple of you dear subscribers there, but for the rest of you, here’s the first six minutes of what was an hour long program. Not sure if they’ll
