shorting stocks, 2011-10-26

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Bank Share Buybacks Are for Suckers: Bove In an effort to please shareholders, banks have been aggressive on the buyback front, but such moves are absolutely wrong, according to Rochdale Securities analyst Dick Bove...... Amazon Willing to Sacrifice Margins to Expand: Baird Analyst Amazon is doing so well it can afford to sacrifice some margin growth as it expands into digital media, Robert W. Baird senior research analyst Colin Sebastian told CNBC Tuesday. ..... Google-Yahoo Deal Not So Far-Fetched Over the weekend, it was leaked that Google was interested in helping at least a couple of private equity players to finance a purchase of Yahoo. Most folks have protested loudly against this possibil..... 5 Rocket Stocks to Buy at End of October Here are five stocks that have seen a combination of analyst upgrades and positive earnings surprises. This list of companies are included on Stockpikr's latest list of Rocket Stocks, ones that could ..... 5 Reasons to Buy American Express Now: Analyst AmEx remains a fantastic pick for long-term investors, as the company consistently generates stellar returns on equity and returns the majority of generated capital to shareholders. ..... Cimarex Draws Attention of Stock Option Bulls The independent oil and gas company's stock is trying to break above its 50-day moving average following a downtrend that has erased half its value between April and earlier this month...... GE Earnings: Don't Buy the Headline, It's a Miss General Electric reported improved profit and an in-line bottom line in the third quarter. If GE met expectations in terms of the 31-cent earnings, it was only on the surface, according to TheStreet.c..... The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street Here's five dumb things that happened on Wall Street, running the gamut from Research in Motion to coffee...... Art Cashin: Today's Rally a 'Stay of Execution' The only reason stocks are up Friday is because the European Union has put off making any decision on bailing out Greece and other issues until Wednesday, UBS Financial's Art Cashin told CNBC. ..... ION Geophysical: Someone's Betting on a Break Out Geophysical seldom trades a lot of options, but yesterday it lit up with bullish call buying. .....

Private Detective http://www.theprivatedetective.com/.....     S&P 500 Chart Hitting Strong Resistance Long Term Technical Analysis Patterns The S&P 500 chart is starting to hit strong resistance. That's the chart annotation I added to the daily S&P 500 chart on my public list yesterday. Today we saw price getting rejected. Apart f..... Gold Miners Lower Prices Ahead – ANV Allied Nevada Gold Technical Analysis More of the same for tonight. I've talked a lot about the bearish patterns developing in the gold and silver mining stocks. The only metric that counts is price. The miners were displaying red flags f..... Web 2.0 Summit 2011 Mary Meeker Video Presentation Mobile Internet Trends Another post as I just watched Mary Meeker's Web 2.0 Summit presentation. She talks about Internet trends and mobile growth. Impressive stuff. You can watch last year's presentation if you missed Mary..... EXK Endeavour Silver NYSE Breakaway Gap Down Chart Pattern This is meant as a follow-up post to my GDX / GDXJ technical video analysis of the break-away gap patterns prevalent in most of the gold and silver mining stocks. Alan Farley coined the term 'Hole in.....