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Are Insiders Trying To Tell Us Something?
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 2:01pm | 171Read More...Insider selling has surged to highs of the past few months, with $662 million in stock sold last week, as opposed to just $1.6 million in stock purchased. This information comes via Bloomberg and Zerohedge. A company insider will buy stock only for one reason, because they believe it is...
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Seagate No Longer On The Block (STX)
Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 2:05pm | 84Read More...ZeroHedge tweeted that there is a rumor out there today that Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) is no longer on the block for sale, despite the company speaking about the potential when it reported earnings last week. The unconfirmed rumor says that negotiations between the private equity firm, which...
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Goldman Move Just A Mirage (GS)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 4:00pm | 338Read More...An article on Zerohedge talks about how Michael Lewis has exposed the fraud that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has gotten rid of its proprietary trading desk, by moving it over to client services. In an article on Bloomberg Lewis wrote, "One trader I interviewed,” [Robert] Wosnitzer says, “said that...
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Is Cardinal Health Going Private? (CAH)
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 11:27am | 98Read More...An interesting article at Zerohedge seems to suggest that Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) might be going private in a leverage buyout offer, as evidenced by the surge in its credit default swaps. CAH's CDS has doubled in the past 5 days, going from 60 to 120, which for an investment grade company is...
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More On The Live Deal Shootup (LIVE)
Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 3:57pm | 77Read More...Zerohedge has a nice write up on the drastic move up in shares of LiveDeal, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIVE). The stock is by far the biggest gainer on the NASDAQ today, up an astounding 256%. It appears this is high frequency trading at its worst, or best, depending on what side of the trade you're on....
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Update On China Currency Report
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 12:31pm | 94Read More...A tweet from Zerohedge is alerting that Reuters has reported that the Treasury has postponed the currency report. Reports came out earlier that the report, which was scheduled to be released at 1 p.m., was going to label China a currency manipulator. This sent the U.S. dollar sharply higher, and...
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Update On China Currency Report
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 12:31pm | 94Read More...A tweet from Zerohedge is alerting that Reuters has reported that the Treasury has postponed the currency report. Reports came out earlier that the report, which was scheduled to be released at 1 p.m., was going to label China a currency manipulator. This sent the U.S. dollar sharply higher, and...
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Chinese To Be Listed Currency Manipulator?
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 11:58am | 69Read More...An article at Zerohedge suggests that China may indeed be branded as a currency manipulator at 1 p.m. today, should the Treasury issue its report. If this is true, it would mark a huge course of action change from previous administrations, who have refused to label China a currency manipulator....
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Janet Yellen Says It Could Happen Again
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 2:54pm | 85Read More...Janet Yellen, the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve and former president of the San Francisco Fed said that is it possible that the accommodating policy that the Federal Reserve currently has in place could lead to another bubble, and subsequent bursting of that bubble. Yellen said that the...
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ZeroHedge: More Truth From Kyle Bass!
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 12:10pm | 66Read More...Hayman Capital's Kyle Bass spoke with CNBC's David Faber yesterday from the Barefoot Economic Summit in LaRue, Texas. Bass will also be appearing on CNBC again today. This interview, like always with Bass, is terrific. This guy is very, very sharp. ZeroHedge provides the intro and Bass provides...
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Goldman: QE2 Could Be More Than $1 Trillion
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 11:49am | 171Read More...In a tweet from Zerohedge, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) believes the next round of quantitative easing could be north of $1 trillion. A CNBC poll done last week expected the next round of quantitative easing to be around $500 billion, and that number was echoed by New York Federal Reserve President...
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Market Chatter On Goldman Buyout (GS)
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 11:09am | 80Read More...There is talk today that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) could be going private, led by a buyout from company management. In a tweet from Zerohedge, the rumor is reported to be around $170 per share, around $25 higher than where shares are currently trading. So far the stock isn't moving much on these...
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Today's Quantitative Easing Report
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 11:45am | 50Read More...Today's quantitative easing came in at just $2 billion today, as the Fed monetized $2 billion of 3 Year bonds. The ratio of Submitted to Accepted bids was a whopping 10x. Most desired CUSIP was 912828NY2. See Some of the Top Moving Indexes Here.
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Insider Selling Sharply Outpacing Buying Last Week
Monday, September 13, 2010 - 10:19am | 74Read More...In an article on Zerohedge, it shows that corporate insiders are dumping stock faster than you can blink your eyes. Last week, 4 companies purchased $500,000 worth of stock, while 651 companies showed stock sales worth $332 million. Corporate insiders can sell stocks for many reasons, such as taxes...
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Irish Bank Does Quantitative Easing... To Itself
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 8:28am | 147Read More...An article at Zerohedge shows that Irish Nationwide, an Irish bank is now doing quantitative easing to itself. The Irish Times writes, "'Irish Nationwide has issued €4 billion of Government-guaranteed bonds effectively to itself. It can use the bonds to draw €4 billion in funding from the European...







