Few weeks back I talked about The Geithner Put and raised my concerns about the plan. So finally, it’s official now that The U.S. Treasury’s plan to purge toxic assets from banks’ balance sheets is vulnerable to fraud and abuse and needs tough rules against conflict of interest, the government’s…
“Fast and Furious” is how I can describe the rally we have been seeing so far. As I mentioned earlier that this is the most healthy rally I have observed so far in this almost 17months old bear market. Albeit, on a psychological perspective, I am not yet convinced that…
Though it is difficult to say anything like this these days, but still I am inclined to say this; Fasten your seat belts. I hope you had sufficient time to prepare for hedging as I shared my “heads-up” after Thursday close last week. As of this writing Dow futures are…
Too much to handle for the week which slowed down the postings this week. What a “Rambo Fed” action that was (I was looking for a picture replacing Bernanke with Stallone but gave up after a few searches). But guess what, was this really surprising, I don’t think so. Uncle…
So we had a good rally, and two 90% up days along the way. An excellent week for Bulls. There are two schools of thoughts. One, it may feel like,oops..I missed the rally. Probably “that” was the bottom and since I don’t want to miss the “value”, I better get…
AP reports that General Motor’s (GM) CFO says they don’t need $2billions as cost cutting is bearing fruits. Quite interesting, and possibly a good sign for GM’s survival. But I think more than cost cutting, they need to have cutting edge car models and this cutting edge doesn’t mean high…
So we had it finally. The pressurized spring bounced back and shorts were pressed against the wall to cover. Fantastic rally by all means, it was easily qualified as a 90% Upside Day on both the NYSE and the NASDAQ that too on expanding volume. Market breadth was also much…
There is a lot of earnings data this week and today is also heavy. There doesn’t appear to be a clear direction. As of this writing futures are pointing to modestly higher opening. Here are four heavyweights- Citigroup (C) issued a quarterly progress report sharing how they are deploying $45…
There are a lot of positive news in the market, for a change. Some of the companies have announced good results. FDIC starting a “bad bank” concept and FOMC meeting announcement at 2:15pm. There is nothing much fed is left with from the interest rates perspective, but Uncle Ben may…
US stock futures are pointing to a sharp lower opening. As of this writing Dow futures are down over 200 points. Well, these days few hundred points move doesn’t really matter. Futures, Opening and closing are now different things. From earnings perspective, General Electric (GE) reported in-line earnings of $0.37…