Archive | February, 2008

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

I am catching up on some reading this morning. The February 11 Barron’s interview with Jeremy Grantham was finally reprinted yesterday: In the fourth year of a presidential cycle, where you have a lame-duck president, the typical pattern of S&P 500 performance has been something like 10% below the normal long-term average (a 5.2% gain, [...]
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Stocks to Watch for Monday

The day was devoid of economic data. Stocks drifted lower after Merrill Lynch downgraded Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to a sell. The big news came near the end of the day when Charlie Gasparino broke a story that a bailout for Ambac may be near. Broad equity indexes rallied to close [...]
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Mad Money Watch for Monday

The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column. Want more ideas? Get your All Access Pass to our research. [TABLE=95]
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Stocks to Watch for Friday

U.S. stocks popped at the open but dropped on a worse-than-expected Philly Fed number: “The survey’s broadest measure of manufacturing conditions, the diffusion index of current activity, fell from -20.9 in January to -24.0 this month. Forty percent of the firms reported no change in activity from January, but the percentage of firms reporting decreases [...]
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Mad Money Watch for Friday

The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column. Want more ideas? Get your All Access Pass to our research. [TABLE=93]
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Stocks to Watch for Thursday

Commodities continued to be in the spotlight today. The news was full of “new era” stories, complete with confident projections of ever-higher oil prices and base metal consumption by China to the potential for a global famine. Those in the habit of thinking diabolically might see the gold chart as a test of [...]
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Mad Money Watch for Thursday

The Booyah list is comprised of featured and game plan stocks mentioned by Jim Cramer on Mad Money. The stocks are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the headers to sort by column. Want more ideas? Get your All Access Pass to our research. [TABLE=92]
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Post Mortem: Suntech Power Holdings (STP)

Suntech Power Holdings Co (NYSE:STP) is one of today’s losers after the company said “it expects first-quarter revenue to miss analysts’ estimates, partly due to seasonal slowness.” Let’s take a closer look at recent price action, identify and walk through the key phases of the Sentiment Cycle to see if investors could have avoided this downside [...]
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