Ask Ron Coleman

• went wake boarding today for the first time. Took me a million tries to get out of the water, but was finally able to get it. I am hooked. #
• State of the Chart: MOO http://tinyurl.com/kkoom3 #mkt #feedthebull #
• Economic Indicators That May Signal A Bottom In The Economy http://tinyurl.com/l9zova #mkt #feedthebull #
• Royal Philips Electronics, the world’s biggest lighting maker, reported a 94% fall in net profit for the second quarter #mkt #
• Anyone interested in BusinessWeek? McGraw-Hill $MHP has it up on the chopping block. #mkt #
• @NatGeoChannel does that mean we are more or less safe as a country? Stricter laws or more corruption? in reply to NatGeoChannel #
• Markets are going for a ride today. Dow Jones up 1.53%, Nasdaq up 1.38% and the S$P 500 is up 1.66% #mkt $$ #
• $DELL expects to report a slight increase in revenue for the quarter ending July 31, but it forecast a modest decline in gross margins #mkt #
• Take-Two ($TTWO) reduced its fiscal 09 guidance, reflecting a delay in the release of “BioShock 2″ and the weak retail environment #mkt #
• Netflix $NFLX jumped 5.2%, to the highest since January, on speculation that $AMZN may acquire them #mkt #
• The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. #
• Goldman Sachs $GS reported a 33% rise in quarterly earnings, topping analysts expectations. Stock up 0.50% #mkt #
• Johnson & Johnson’s ($JNJ) 2Q earnings fell 5%, but profit and revenue beat analyst forecasts helped by pharmaceuticals. Stock up 1.56% #mkt #
• Sun Microsystems $JAVA lowered guidance as it prepares for its final quarter as an independent company. Looking to sale to Oracle $ORCL #mkt #
• RT @dodihandy Facebook gets $6.5 billion valuation with share sale http://bit.ly/Jr3aH #EFCG #mkt #
• Yesterday’s Most Popular Penny Stocks – UMC, HBAN, LVLV, SPNG http://www.tinyurl.com/lalw5g #mkt #feedthebull #
• FTB’s M&A Report: Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical agreed to buy Noven Pharmaceuticals $NOVN for $428M to boost its presence in the U.S. #mkt #
• Exxon Mobil $XOM is making a major jump into renewable energy with a $600 million investment in algae-based biofuels #mkt #
• Retail Sales rose a stronger-than-expected 0.6% in June, boosted by a jump in auto sales. PPI jumped 1.8%, twice as much as expected #mkt #
• Guess What Really Brought Us out of the Great Depression? http://tr.im/sisW
  #mkt #feedthebull #
• Microsoft’s $MSFT Ballmer laughed off the challenge of Google’s $GOOG planned Chrome OS, conceding only that it was “interesting” #mkt #
• $INTC Intel’s results and outlook were much better than analysts’ estimates, sending its shares up 7% after hours. #mkt #
• Janus $JNS CEO resigns as company reports 76% drop in profits; $YUM Brands 2Q earnings were up 35%; Altera $ALTR 2Q net down 52% #mkt #
• @eyenigma good point, at this stage, what are his options? I am sure they are scrambling to figure out what they really have in reply to eyenigma #
• CPI increased 0.7%. The core index rose 0.2%. Compared with a year earlier, prices fell 1.4%, the biggest drop since January 1950. #mkt $$ #
• Former $GM CEO Rick Wagoner will receive $8.5M over the next five years, a reduction of about $12M in his retirement package #mkt #
• Wagoner will get about $1.7M a year for the next five years, and after that he will receive about $74,000 a year for the rest of his life #
• Goldman Sachs (GS) “insiders” dump $700 MILLION in stock http://tinyurl.com/n2hzdw #mkt #feedthebull #
• Capital One $COF and Discover $DFS, reported lower-than-expected defaults and delinquencies in June sending their shares up #mkt #
• 175 prominent economists warned that politicians attacks on the Federal Reserve are putting “the independence of US monetary policy at risk” #
• What Are the True Odds of Inflation? http://tinyurl.com/kql6kc #mkt #feedthebull #
• @ralphie1015 can you tweet the call in number? in reply to ralphie1015 #
• JPMorgan $JPM posted a second quarter profit of $2.72 billion, a 36% jump that surpassed expectations. Shares down 1%. #mkt #
• Foreclosures rose 15% in first 6 months with unemployment the main cause of the problem, even as Obama gave out $50B in subsidies to banks #
• Credit-risk spike means continued collapse for U.S. Economy http://tinyurl.com/mgws7w #mkt #feedthebull #
• FTB’s Job Loss Report: McGraw-Hill $MHP has cut 550 jobs. This comes after an announcement to sell BusinessWeek magazine #mkt #
• $CIT is looking to line up secured financing from private investors between $2 and $3B to avoid a Chapter 11 filing as soon as tomorrow #mkt #
• The average rate for 30-year fixed mortgages was 5.14% this week, down from 5.2% last week, the lowest since May #mkt #
• $GOOG posted 2Q sales and profit that beat forecasts, sending shares up 1% during market hours. After hours, the stock was down 3.2% #mkt #
• Nouriel Roubini: “My Views Were Taken Out of Context” http://tinyurl.com/m8b6ga #mkt #feedthebull #
• @quanghoc the selloff is due to the slowing ad sales, the slowest rate ever during the spring. It overshadowed the earnings. $GOOG #mkt in reply to quanghoc #
• $C posted a $4.28 billion profit. Helped by gains from selling control of its Smith Barney brokerage and beating analysts’ estimates #mkt #
• Citigroup $C is down 95% from its December 2006 peak, even after jumping 17% this week #mkt #
• Buffett Partnership Letters http://tinyurl.com/mndabq #mkt #feedthebull #
• General Electric $GE second-quarter profit fell 49%. Shares down 6% #mkt #
• Unemployment topped 10% in 15 states and DC last month. Michigan surpassed 15%, the first time any state hit that mark since 1984. #mkt #
• Ok, I am taking the rest of the day off and heading up to the mountains to go camping and fishing. Have a good weekend tweeps. #
• Where Will Investors Invest Their Cash? http://tinyurl.com/mjcak6 #mkt #feedthebull #
• @Stargazer71 Pandora has had ads for quite some time now. in reply to Stargazer71 #
• 57 federally insured banks have failed this year. 2 banks in Cali and 2 smaller banks in Georgia and South Dakota shut down Friday #mkt $$ #
• @Stargazer71 Have you received the 40 hour e-mail? Limiting usage to 40 hours a month w/o premium account? Ads arent cutting it for them in reply to Stargazer71 #
• 40 Stock Traders To Follow On Twitter http://tinyurl.com/ndubws #mkt #feedthebull #
• Pennsylvania is withholding pay for 69K state employees until they approve a budget. Connecticut and North Carolina are close behind #mkt #
• Continuing unemployment claims fell by 642,000 to 6.273 million last week. That marked the biggest drop ever in continuing claims #mkt #
• This week, 145 of the S&P 500 companies will report results, or 23% of the broad index. #mkt $$ #
• Thomson Reuters forecast a 35.2% drop in S&P 500 companies’ second-quarter earnings from a year ago #mkt #

Tweet This Post

Related posts:

1. FTB Twitter Updates for 2009-03-23 @GeorgeVHulme thoughts on how that will affect the market...
2. FTB Twitter Updates for 2009-07-27 Leading indicators rose 0.7% in June. It is the...
3. FTB Twitter Updates for 2009-07-27 Leading indicators rose 0.7% in June. It is the...
4. FTB Twitter Updates for 2009-04-27 @marketfallacy @KHeebner at some point the market will discount...
5. FTB Twitter Updates for 2009-05-25 This weeks newsletter is out. Time to get ready...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.