Mar

25

Observations and Stocks for Wednesday

By Pete | Filed Under The Podcast | 3 Comments

I was out of the office today.

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And the Winners Are…

The stock scan conducted after the close on Tuesday found 49 winners and 8 losers.

The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the column headers to sort the list. Our scan criteria incorporates price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million).

Ticker Close Change Sell Buy ToSignal
AAPL 140.98 0.66% 126.28   -10.43
ADBE 36.54 0.57% 33.97   -7.04
ADP 42.43 1.58% 39.77   -6.28
AF 28.69 0.00% 26.04   -9.23
BNI 95.34 1.93% 88.65   -7.02
BXP 98.39 1.54% 86.94   -11.64
CELG 61.34 1.64% 55.52   -9.49
CEPH 66.3 1.21% 59.09   -10.87
CHB 10.82 3.00% 8.95   -17.29
CHK 46.4 3.75%   48.19 3.87
COST 66.59 1.68% 60.84   -8.63
CPB 33.85 1.29% 31.7   -6.35
CSX 57.43 2.57% 50.85   -11.46
DDR 43.13 0.82% 37.82   -12.31
DLM 9.34 1.45% 8.53   -8.64
ETN 83.2 1.92% 78.96   -5.09
EXPD 45.94 1.14% 39.35   -14.34
FNF 19.33 1.06% 16.76   -13.28
FNFG 14.05 2.62% 12.16   -13.49
GILD 51.01 2.82% 45.94   -9.93
GLW 25.14 1.75% 22.73   -9.58
HAS 28.82 -0.73% 26.26   -8.89
ISIL 27.31 2.40% 24.46   -10.42
JASO 17.13 6.83% 12.98   -24.2
JCI 35.51 0.66% 32.25   -9.18
JDSU 14.11 1.52% 12.64   -10.43
LIZ 20.05 1.05% 17.63   -12.07
MA 224.98 3.97% 193.85   -13.84
MCHP 34.56 0.00% 31.85   -7.85
MLNM 14.95 3.18% 13.13   -12.16
MS 49.45 1.07% 41.03   -17.03
MWV 27.7 0.92% 25.81   -6.82
NNN 23.12 1.00% 20.19   -12.65
NUE 72.89 1.32% 66.35   -8.98
O 27.16 -0.07% 23.98   -11.7
OMTR 27.01 3.88% 20.92   -22.53
ORCL 21.08 2.07% 19.33   -8.3
PIR 6.64 3.94% 5.08   -23.48
RIMM 115.95 3.53% 97.69   -15.75
SAP 51.42 0.73% 48.14   -6.38
SIAL 59.47 2.09% 53.66   -9.77
SPF 5.26 6.48% 3.77   -28.41
SPG 95.3 2.51% 84.43   -11.4
STD 19.71 2.76% 18.25   -7.41
TIF 43.56 2.58% 35.73   -17.97
TRID 5.54 -0.16% 4.79   -13.58
TS 48.43 4.51%   48.53 0.2
VNO 89.22 0.53% 78.03   -12.54
WYNN 108.87 1.48% 95.84   -11.97

Media Digest

  • Yamakawa Expects BOJ to Cut Rates by 25 Basis Points
    Tetsufumi Yamakawa, chief Japan economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., talked with Bloomberg’s Mike Firn in Tokyo yesterday about the outlook for the Bank of Japan’s Tankan report due on April 1, the country’s central bank monetary policy, and prospects for an intervention by the Group of Seven nations in the currency market.
  • S&P Case Shiller Home Price Index
    Dissecting the numbers, with David Blitzer, S&P 500 Index Committee Standard & Poor’s managing director/chairman and CNBC’s Erin Burnett
  • Message From Russia: Stay Out
    The Russian Duma passes a plan banning foreign investment, with Peter Navarro, University Of California; James Moore Georgetown University and CNBC’s Carl Quintanilla
  • Egypt the pressure cooker
    Social unrest has been growing on the back of rising inflation, which is undermining consumers’ purchasing power and fuelling general dissatisfaction with the fallout of economic reform. This has led to a rising number of demonstrations. These include further protests against rising prices by thousands of textile workers at Mahalla al-Kubra (who are generally credited with having started the current wave of labour protests in late 2006). Groups such as doctors, nurses and university professors have also threatened to strike, a rare phenomenon in Egypt.
  • Free fall
    “A long, ugly, deep recession.” That was how Chrysler’s chief financial officer Jerry York described his outlook for America’s economy at a recent gathering of fellow finance executives. The latest poll of over 1,000 chief financial officers conducted by Duke University, Tilburg University and CFO, a sister publication of The Economist, largely supports this view. In America economic confidence is in short supply, with pessimists outnumbering optimists by a nine-to-one margin in the first quarter of 2008. In Europe, pessimists outnumber optimists by six to one. And to add to the gloom, finance chiefs in Asia are now more pessimistic than optimistic for the first time in five years.

Mar

25

Mad Money Stocks for Wednesday

By Teresa | Filed Under Trading Ideas | Leave a Comment

HCP and UBS were added today. 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.

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Mar

24

Observations and Stocks for Tuesday

By Teresa | Filed Under The Podcast | 1 Comment

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I won’t elaborate on the irony in the timing of this “special report” by The Economist.

FYI: Part 8 of Build Your Own Investment Portfolio was uploaded yesterday. We also took a look at how one old trader transformed himself into a quant.

Jeff asked about Ed Thorp’s book Beat The Street which was mentioned in a weekend WSJ article. Forget the book: I will upload his important research papers and discuss the Kelly Criterion in tonight’s podcast for subscribers.

CLICK HERE to read Market Strategy and Trading Ideas for Tuesday.

And the Winners Are…

The stock scan conducted after the close on Monday found 51 winners and 21 losers.

The winners are listed in alphabetical order below. Click on the column headers to sort the list. Our scan criteria incorporates price movement, range and liquidity (500,000 shares on the day, 20-day average of 1.5 million).

Ticker Close Change Sell Buy ToSignal
AAPL 139.53 4.64% 120.19   -13.86
AIV 39 2.55% 33.87   -13.14
AMAT 20.91 -0.90% 19.58   -6.36
BJ 36.45 2.41% 31.88   -12.53
BZH 10.57 6.02% 7.59   -28.23
CAT 76.03 2.99% 71.14   -6.44
CEPH 65.2 1.41% 58.4   -10.43
CHB 10.68 11.02% 8.34   -21.94
CHKP 24.16 2.98% 21.87   -9.49
CIEN 31.76 5.14% 26.77   -15.72
CMA 39.46 1.08% 35.31   -10.5
COF 54.35 2.07% 47.03   -13.46
CSX 56.06 2.94% 49.8   -11.17
DDS 18.59 2.17% 15.92   -14.34
FNFG 13.62 -0.87% 12.16   -10.75
GE 37.4 -0.24% 35   -6.43
GIS 59.63 -0.82% 56.97   -4.46
GME 53.99 7.59% 43.63   -19.19
GPS 21.34 -0.84% 19.28   -9.65
HCBK 18.13 -0.87% 16.71   -7.81
HCP 33.11 4.32% 29.12   -12.06
HOT 55.6 6.11% 47.25   -15.02
HRB 21.93 3.98% 19.41   -11.49
ISIL 26.49 4.74% 24.09   -9.04
LINTA 16.88 0.52% 15.46   -8.39
MA 216.5 -1.99% 193.85   -10.46
MCHP 34.13 2.67% 31.57   -7.51
NHP 35.28 1.94% 31.67   -10.23
NNN 22.62 0.40% 20.16   -10.88
NSM 18.97 4.00% 17.08   -9.99
NYB 18.45 -2.79% 17.44   -5.46
O 26.87 -0.15% 23.98   -10.75
ORCL 20.77 3.83% 18.73   -9.84
PG 69.97 0.86% 66.87   -4.42
PLD 61.73 0.88% 56   -9.28
PMCS 5.97 10.00% 4.89   -18.07
PRGO 38.81 2.55% 34.84   -10.23
PSA 94.5 2.73% 82.62   -12.58
PSUN 13.43 4.22% 11.29   -15.94
SHPGY 63.01 0.75% 57.91   -8.09
SMTC 14.93 4.54% 13.38   -10.36
SNV 12.83 -0.08% 11.72   -8.65
SPG 92.83 -2.30% 84.43   -9.05
SVU 28.65 0.41%   29.44 2.75
TER 12.84 4.22% 11.37   -11.43
THC 5.4 3.05% 4.59   -14.99
TQNT 5.26 5.33% 4.59   -12.74
TRID 5.46 4.85%   5.5 0.8
TYC 43.92 1.01% 40.68   -7.37
UDR 25.77 1.02% 23.38   -9.29
WMT 53.63 0.73% 50.85   -5.19

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Media Digest

  • New York Fed’s Chief Steers Wall Street Into Uncharted Waters
    Remarkably, Geithner (pronounced GITE-ner) has largely succeeded in avoiding the media’s glare despite a resume full of high-stakes work that has already, at age 46, given him a storied career. Although not a household name, he has been a point man on the U.S. response to almost every major financial blowup of the past decade, including the Mexican peso crisis, the Asian financial meltdown, the government’s bailout of Long Term Capital Management, and now the current storm that’s still raging.
  • Ms Watanabe Not Easily Deterred
    [Editor: Believe it or not, there *are* markets in worse shape than the U.S….]
    And why all this fuss then? Well, I think that we have mounting evidence for the ‘demography matters’ thesis yet no one in the high circles has come close to addressing it yet. Quite simply, the demographic transition is not this automated process with a fixed beginning and an end and it is not one which exhibits the same features across countries. I mean, this is where it all shores up. How can we e.g. expect China to simply become the new ‘US’ given the underlying toll of the one-child policy? Ironically (or tragically?) the turning point by which China is forced into this new role may come now at the precise point in time where the effects of its demographic profile are materialising.
  • Gartman ‘Frightened’ by Volatility in Commodity Markets
    Dennis Gartman, an economist and editor of the Gartman Letter, talks with Bloomberg’s Carol Massar from Suffolk, Virginia, about the recent decline among commodities, his investment strategy and the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cuts.
  • Wyss of S&P Says U.S. Economy to Bottom By Mid-Year 2008
    David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller from New York about the U.S. housing market, his forecast for a further decline in home prices and expectations for the economy.
  • Phelps, Economist, Sees ‘Big’ Rise in U.S. Unemployment
    Edmund Phelps, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for economics and a professor at Columbia University, talks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller in New York about the state of the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve monetary policy and regulatory outlook.
  • Deleveraging Theme
    Deleveraging is the big theme for the next two years, says Hans Goetti, chief investment officer, Asia Pacific at LGT Bank in Liechtenstein, speaking to CNBC’s Lisa Oake.
  • Google’s Android Makes Phones Act Like PCs
    The blogs are agog about Android, Google’s entry into the already-crowded mobile phone market. Google says it’s not developing its own phone, just the platform necessary to run cell phones as if they were PCs. Andrew Rubin, Google’s senior director of mobile platforms and co-creator of Android, talks with Andrea Seabrook.
  • The Nationalists are back in Taiwan
    The predictions were for a much narrower race. Yet Ma Ying-jeou of the Nationalist party, or Kuomintang (KMT), won by a landslide in presidential elections in Taiwan on Saturday March 22nd. Taiwanese turned out in high numbers–about 200,000 alone poured back from mainland China to vote. They gave Mr Ma over 58% of the vote, a 17-point lead over his rival, Frank Hsieh of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and returned to power through the ballot box a party that had once ruled Taiwan by force.
  • Pump action
    Stuck in a traffic jam on the road home after an Easter break, the motorist has time to ponder many things. One may be the pain felt filling up the car for the return journey. Petrol prices have risen as the oil price has increased. But the driver’s pain at the pump differs across countries, dependent in part on the proportion of the cost that is paid in taxes. Turks have the most reason to feel aggrieved, closely followed by the British. Americans still enjoy relatively cheap fuel–they pay far less in tax than drivers elsewhere.

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