Ackman, Loeb, other hedge funds lose in May - CNBC

Ackman, Loeb, other hedge funds lose in May Published: Wednesday, 6 Jun 2012 | 6:44 PM ET Text Size   BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - May's stock market rout dealt a blow to many on Wall Street…


Form Worst To First - S&P Has Best Day Of 2012 Shortly After Worst | ZeroHedge

Form Worst To First - S&P Has Best Day Of 2012 Shortly After Worst Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/06/2012 16:17 -0400 Ben Bernanke Copper High Yield Investment Grade SPY Three days after posting…


Reuters TV | Buffett: chance of double dip U.S. recession very low - Rough Cuts

No one has a better network than Warren Buffett so he is the economist I pay most attention to. Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, speaking to the Economic Club of Washington, said he believed the…


Euro like a bad marriage that's too expensive to leave

I've been struggling with a metaphor to describe the state of affairs in Europe.  I've got it now.  It's a bad marriage .  All parties now realize they'd be better off ending it except they can't…


HAL, Halliburton revisit. Stock looks very undervalued

After re-doing the valuation on Halliburton and refining the inputs to the DCF model, the stock looks like it has even more potential upside with a new intrinsic value of $63.24, representing a 117%…


Headline risk seems to overload indicators

As a trader, I look at charts to try and understand crowd behavior.  The headlines make me want to sell everything and hide under a rock until this euro mess is sorted out once and for all.  When I…


Soros says Europe has three months to avoid catastrophe

I don't pretend to know what's going to happen but I've said many times, the world would be much better off without the euro.  For reasons beyond my comprehension, the Europeans seem hell bent on…


Japan Is Never Going To Default, And The Kyle Bass Trade Will Be A Disaster - Business Insider

Kyle Bass's Most Famous Trade Is A Disaster, And It Is Never Going To Work Out Joe Weisenthal | May 20, 2012, 6:42 AM | 23,775 |   Kyle Bass was one of the handful of hedge funders who made a…


Sobering World Stock Charts from Yardeni Research

Just how bad is it out there?  Check out this blog site's download of stock market performance around the world.  You'll probably be surprised at which market is doing the best and not so surprised…