shorting stock market, 2011-03-23

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Reverse Stock Splits Are Usually Good for Investors: Report According to a new report by Cleve Rueckert, Birinyi Associates senior equity strategist, there have been 14 stocks in the S&P 500 since 2000 that have undergone a reverse stock split. Of those fo..... Railroad Stocks Look Attractive Now: Pro The railroad sector is looking attractive, said Jason Seidl, director of Dahlman Rose & Co. ..... Housing Sector to Lead Markets Higher: Strategist Use the pullback opportunity to sell weaker holdings and wait for the correction to run its full course, said Art Nunes, CIO of Northwest Asset Management. ..... Greenberg: China Stock Action Heats Up We should start calling this, “China Stocks Today.” The events surrounding Chinese stocks, mostly reverse mergers, are moving so quickly it’s hard to keep track of them. ..... Dubious Chinese Stock Snares Hank Greenberg Whenever anybody raised red flags over China MediaExpress, as has happened quite a bit in recent months, the flip-side from the bulls was always that the company’s biggest investor was none other th..... Beware of 'Double-Dip Scare' in Near-Term: Strategist The volatility index spiked over 30 percent in the past month and pros including Russell Napier, market strategist at CLSA, and Kim Caughey, VP and assistant portfolio manager at Fort Pitt Capital Gro..... Tech Firms May Be Next to Boost Dividends: Strategist While several large banks recently announced dividend hikes, Channing Smith, vice president and co-manager of Capital Advisors, explained why companies in the tech sector are the next likely to boost ..... Markets Are 'Overreacting' to Geopolitical Events: Economist Markets are ""overreacting"" to the geopolitical events around the world, including the political unrest in North Africa and the Middle East, and troubles in Japan, said Willem Buiter, chief economist..... Greenberg: AT&T Deal Born Out of Weakness? There’s no question who came into this transaction from a position of strength. Hint: It wasn’t AT&T......

Poll: Who is Smarter in AT&T Deal? The knee-jerk reaction in this deal, based on an early poll I conducted on Twitter, was the seller, which has been trying to figure out what to do with T-Mobile USA, a distant competitor among mobile .....     S&P 500 Pullback Technical Shorting Opportunity The S&P 500 chart technicals keep deteriorating. Still, I typically don't short and prefer to stand aside when going long doesn't look like a good proposition for position traders. Making money on..... Intuition Discipline Confidence Risk Going back to the roots of what 'risk' is all about. As I suggested rereading Justin Mamis' passage of 'When to Sell' yesterday, I did reread passages of 'The Nature of Risk' probably my all time favo..... Sitting On My Hands Watching And Waiting The images of destruction from Japan are very tough to digest. My heart goes out to all those affected by recent events!What most traders probably have on their mind right now is how everything relate.....