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How to Profit with Options Trading on Apple's (AAPL) iCloud News
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 5:09pm | 127Using a Bull Call Options Trading Spread on Apple (AAPL) (OptionsHouse) If you are an options trading investor with faith in Apple's iCloud and you believe that AAPL might gain up to 15% or more in the weeks leading up to their next product announcement, an August 335/340 bull call spread might be...
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Swiss Cheese Rally With Holes Everywhere
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 3:44pm | 339The major stock market indexes are all surging higher this afternoon. The rally is broad based as energy, commodities, agriculture, retail, and technology are all trading higher. While this move is very strong today on the surface there are still some pockets of weakness in the market place that...
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Blueshift Ideas Positive On ARM Holdings, Tablets As A Whole
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 2:44pm | 283Blueshift Ideas is out with a series of tweets discussing the tablet market, and the winners and losers in the space. Blueshift, which is a boutique research firm that caters to hedge funds and institutional investors, said that Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE: CY),...
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Five Investments for Johnny Depp's Birthday
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 1:45pm | 559Johnny Depp is the most beloved, beautiful actor of his generation. He has starred in everything from small-budget art pieces to blockbuster cinema movies. His eyes are synonymous with sex for a lot of folks in the 25-50 age group. Today happens to be Depp's 48th (already?) birthday. In his honor,...
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Market Update: Stocks Rally
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 12:52pm | 241The markets are rallying today as investors are scooping up cheap stocks. After a six day fall, and financial stocks hitting multi year lows, a bounce day seems to be in the cards. The SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSE: DIA) is trading at $121.50, +1.20 (+1.00%) while the PowerShares QQQ...
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Fusion Io Off Highs
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 11:15am | 139Fusion Io Inc (NYSE: FIO) shares are off their highs of the session, after the flash storage drive maker went public today. Fusion Io, which counts Steve Wozniak among its employees, priced at $19, and opened for trading at $25 per share, indicating the strong interest in the company. The company...
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Options Brief: Teradata Corporation
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 10:10am | 73Shares of Teradata Corporation (NYSE: TDC) are higher on the session by 0.35%, trading at $54.08. Overall call volume is now running at 2.20x the daily average, with 8% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,073 contracts have traded on the session so far. Teradata Corporation is a...
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JPMorgan Cuts 2011 PC Outlook Due to China, Weak Global Consumer
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 9:23am | 154J.P. Morgan is cutting its 2011 PC unit growth, revising it down sharply for a variety of reasons. The two largest reasons are China, and a weak global consumer that is facing rising commodity costs and an uncertain economic future. J.P. Morgan said that it is cutting its unit growth outlook to 2...
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HP TouchPad Available in the U.S. on July 1
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 9:02am | 114HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that the Wi-Fi version of HP TouchPad will be available in the United States on July 1. HP's first webOS tablet will be available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Germany a few days later and in Canada in mid-July, with availability scheduled to follow...
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Citi Impressed by Microsoft's E3 2011 Presentation
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 8:16am | 159Citi seems to be quite impressed with Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) presentation at E3 2011. “Much of Microsoft's keynote reinforced the strength of the Xbox ecosystem validated by broader Kinect adoption and a growing library of digital content,” Citi writes. “Don Mattrick indicated at the briefing...
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BMC Provides Color on Hewlett-Packard and Dell
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 7:37am | 214BMC provided color on Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Dell (NASDAQ: DELL). In a research report published today, BMC stressed that higher components costs for both companies could provide a headwind to their stock price performance. In the report, BMC states, "for both Dell and HP, increases in...
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Apple Products vs. Platform
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 12:24pm | 113Apple (AAPL) is an unusual stock for several reasons, not the least of which is the strong retail demand for the stock and a large contingent of customer-zealots who regularly worship at the altar of Steve Jobs.Throw together the factors mentioned abov... Go to http://SwingTradingDaily.com for...
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ETFs For Caterpillar's Shareholders Meeting
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 4:04am | 342Dow darling Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, kicks off its annual shareholders meeting today in Arkansas and while the Cat confab isn't is widely as anticipated as Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) developer's conference or the annual Berkshire Hathaway (...
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Cloud Technology and Real Estate
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 1:01am | 809Say goodbye to your traditional PC? Well, that that may very well be the case now that Apple Inc. (AAPL)CEO Steve Jobs has unveiled their iCloud technology. This new asset will allow users to store their information in the “cloud” rather than on a soon-to-be-obsolete hard drive. Although this...
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IBM Microprocessors to Power the New Wii U System from Nintendo
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 2:21pm | 103IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it will provide the microprocessors that will serve as the heart of the new Wii U system from Nintendo. Unveiled today at the E3 trade show, Nintendo plans for its new console to hit store shelves in 2012. The all-new, Power-based microprocessor will pack some...