| Feed The Bull - Top Stories |
|
| Description: |
The basic front page view. |
| Format: |
RSS 2.0 |
| Feed URL: |
http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedthebull |
| |
| Latest Headlines |
|
Real Tick Review
Tue, 06 May 2008 09:31:22 -0400
Real tick was developed in 1980’s by Townsend Analytics as the changed the revolutionized the stock trading industry. Realtick dates from the times of DOS operating system to recently when they came out with RealTick 8.0 in 2004.
RealTick is the most powerful direct access platform and online trading in the market, as it provides stock traders and brokers a cutting edge advantage to stay ahead in the market. RealTick provides real-time data of stocks in the market, news and the analysis about various stocks. It also provides risk management tools to stock traders, stock brokers and trade institutions. In short RealTick is a software that provides traders and investors with real time updates about the market and the trading going on.
Some of the features of RealTick are real time data, totalview window, charts, multiquote screens, tickers, news windows, integrated web browser, financial research, alarms and alerts and many more.
|
5 Personal Finance Lessons Learned from Famous Movie Quotes
Mon, 05 May 2008 17:25:37 -0400
Even movies can help you live a better, more economical lifestyle. Remember to plan for the worst, and keep your finances in order if you really want to live the dream!
|
Deustche Telekom and Sprint: A Good Fit?
Mon, 05 May 2008 15:23:51 -0400
A rumor has surfaced regarding a purposed merger of DT and S. Here are some initial thoughts on some potential benefits and challenges in store, were the companies to proceed.
|
Yahoo Stock Plunges After Microsoft Backs Off
Mon, 05 May 2008 10:35:50 -0400
After Microsoft withdrew its $33-a-share offer for Yahoo on Saturday, the question was how far Yahoo’s stock would drop. On Monday morning, the markets gave an initial answer: plenty.
Shortly after 10 a.m., Yahoo’s shares were off nearly 20%, at $23.92, down from the close of $28.67 on Friday — a day when the companies were said to be escalating their talks on a merger.
Microsoft’s own shares edged up slightly, to $30, from their Friday close of $29.24. And shares of Google — a rival of both companies but now a potential partner of Yahoo — were up about 2%, trading around $595.
How long Yahoo’s stock will stay down will largely depend on the company’s next moves. And its successful resistance to Microsoft’s pursuit set up a clear challenge for Yahoo’s chief executive, Jerry Yang: prove to investors that the company is worth $37 a share, the price he was willing to sell it for.
People close to Yahoo said that Mr. Yang and his team greeted Microsoft’s decision as a victory. High-fives were exchanged Saturday afternoon when they learned Microsoft was backing down.
Yet some Yahoo shareholders, large and small, have indicated that they favored a deal at around $34 to $35 a share. Even those who were holding out for a higher price said a merger with Microsoft made strategic sense.
“I don’t believe that Jerry Yang as a founder, as someone who is emotionally attached to the company, was really looking out for my interest as a shareholder,” said Darren Chervitz, co-manager of the Jacob Internet Fund, which owns about 150,000 shares of Yahoo. “I don’t think anything Yahoo puts out there is going to be comparable with what Microsoft was offering.”
The entire board backed Mr. Yang’s desire to reject Microsoft’s offer, said a person involved in the negotiations who was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. But unhappiness with Mr. Yang could spread through the company’s ranks.
“If the stock drops as far as I think it will, a lot of employees are going to be angry and many key employees could leave,” said a Yahoo executive, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid upsetting his superiors.
On Jan. 31, just before Microsoft’s uninvited bid for Yahoo became public, Yahoo closed at $19.18, near a four-year low.
Yahoo defended its decision, saying it had always thought Microsoft’s offer, worth about $47.5 billion, undervalued the company. Officially, the company has shed little light on what it might do next. “We remain focused on maximizing shareholder value and pursuing strategic opportunities that position Yahoo for success and leadership in its markets,” Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s chairman, said in a statement issued late Saturday.
But people close to the company suggested that Yahoo’s most likely lifeline could come from an unlikely source: Google.
The two companies recently conducted a two-week test in which Google delivered ads on a small portion of Yahoo searches. The test, which both companies described as successful, was intended to show how much more Yahoo could earn by outsourcing some of its search ads to Google, whose technology and large base of advertisers allow it to extract more revenue on average for every search.
Now Google and Yahoo will have to decide whether to move from test to broader partnership. Talks around a deal were active Friday, even as Yahoo and Microsoft were engaged in a last-ditch effort to come to an agreement, said a person familiar with the discussions.
For Yahoo, the idea of letting Google run some of its search ads is not new. Some shareholders and even some Yahoo executives have long favored it. By the company’s own reckoning, Google earns about 60 percent to 70 percent more on average for every search than Yahoo.
But before Microsoft made its offer, Mr. Yang and his team had repeatedly rejected the idea, saying search advertising was an essential part of the company’s long-term strategy. Instead, the company spent millions in improving its own search advertising system, called Panama, telling investors it was the right choice.
In a letter sent Saturday to Mr. Yang, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, used precisely those arguments to emphasize why a search advertising partnership with Google was a bad idea. He also noted that it was one reason Microsoft decided to walk away from its offer, rather than initiate a proxy fight.
By MIGUEL HELFT, The New York Times
Published: May 5, 2008
|
Bullish Week Ends With Mixed Trading On The Major Market Indexes; Individual Stocks Are Starting To Look Real Good
Sun, 04 May 2008 13:49:52 -0400
It was another overall boring session to end the week but despite the overall boring tone to Friday’s session it was still a bullish session underneath as many stocks had solid sessions and many stocks that I was long had a very positive session. This kind of action on a do nothing day is just what I like to see in a market that refuses to do much. If there would have been a lot of blowups and negative action today, then I would have been a lot less enthusiastic about the non-event that Friday was.
By the close, the NYSE was up .6%, the SP 500 was up .3%, and the DJIA was flat. The Nasdaq finished lower but the intraday support and positive action by the close is something that has to be considered positive overall. I mean obviously if this market was real weak they would have sold them into the close.
|
Blow-Out Rally or Volatility? Time to do the numbers....
Sun, 04 May 2008 06:08:46 -0400
"A main theme for the year is the underlying trend of volatility would go up, but I was not smart enough to predict the volatility of the volatility. The underlying trend of volatility is still up,” - Richard Bernstein, Merrill’s chief investment officer.....(If you understand that… good luck to you)
|
Ormat Technologies, The Pure Play On Geothermal
Fri, 02 May 2008 19:36:37 -0400
The coming election is increasingly looking like alternative energy is going to win no matter if a Democrat or Republican is elected. Sure, there is Solar, but a lot of people don't realize the potential of geothermal and heat recovery systems. Ormat is the only pure play, just look at these numbers...
|
8 Reasons Why Mutual Funds Make For Lousy Investments
Fri, 02 May 2008 11:04:05 -0400
Many people think that investing in mutual funds is the way to go and the best method for getting rich. I think mutual funds are horrible investments. Here are 8 reasons why you should not invest in mutual funds.
|
Breakouts And Nice Round Bases Are Everywhere While Commodity Stocks Look Extremely Toppy
Fri, 02 May 2008 08:12:42 -0400
I see nice round bases everywhere in EVERY long scan and CANSLIM scan that I run. Stocks like our HA long from 3/27/08 is already up 60% and MA from 8/2/06 is up almost 500% since then and now we have a lot of pretty green BOP filled charts starting to round out and complete bases. If they make handles, two or three-week tight bases, or another base on base, this market should be heading MUCH higher. Everywhere I look I see good chart patterns. Now if only I could get volume on the NYSE. But did you see the Nassy? Another BIG DAY OF GAINS ON HIGHER VOLUME. That is now five days of above average volume since 4/17. Only one was lower and it has seen a very bullish response today with even higher volume and much larger price gains.
Volume is starting to come back, my existing longs are now starting to put in some real strong gains, and bases are forming everywhere. This is definitely a market I want to be long. If we fail and reverse, it would be the NASTIEST reversal ever because this is how stocks should be acting before a powerful rally and a reversal of this super-bullish action would be in one word: NASTY!
|
Kiplinger's June Issue: 7 Stock at Bargain Prices
Thu, 01 May 2008 23:24:33 -0400
Kiplinger's June Issue article about 7 stocks that have been beaten up but look like bargains today
|
Webmasters - Another button for your collection
|