The SEC is looking into what many people are calling a blatant sign of insider info on the Hewlett-Packard for 3Com acquisition according to Bloomberg (hat tip Zero Hedge). In case you missed it: More than 8,000 3Com calls changed hands on Nov. 11, 17 times the four-week average. The most active were contracts conveying…
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The Danger of Earnings Season Extrapolation
Yes, we all get excited when an Amazon.com scorches their earnings forecast or when an Apple Inc. Suge Knights the whole sell-side with a massive beat, but should that enthusiasm really spread to other stocks? One of the dangers of extrapolating the good earnings reports out of Apple, Amazon or Intel is that in reality,…
Hot Links: Facebook's Ticker, HP's Earnings & Coke's Milk
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Way overdue: Howard Lindzon decides to assign stock ticker symbols to Twitter and Facebook. (HowardLindzon) Hey anarchists, the US government is starting to turn a profit on the chaos loans. (NYT) Mutual Funds blowing out shares of consumer spending plays, retailers etc. (Bloomberg) Pretty provocative stuff for Newsweek: Is The…
Don't Get Too Excited About Tech Just Yet
With the Nasdaq up over 22% year-to-date and many tech stocks on the receiving end of big upgrades recently (Goldman practically proposed to Google this past week with their endorsement), many investors have begun digging in the crates for some of their old favorite tech stories again. Eric Savitz‘s Technology Trader column in Barron’s today…
Hewlett-Packard Printer Choreography
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3211254&w=425&h=350&fv=] That was sick. Neatorama gives us the details of what we just saw: Who knows how much is paper and how much is special effects in this ad made in response to a challenge from Hewlett-Packard. The finished product, named “Invent” is impressive! Created by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth. Music by Round…
