Valeant Says Citron is Full of Shit; Ackman Buys Another 2 Million Shares

CNBC reported that Bill Ackman bought another 2 million shares of VRX today, saying that “he believed in the company.

When confronted with the Citron allegations of fraud, Valeant said called the report ‘erroneous.’

“There is no sales benefit from any inventory held at these specialty pharmacies and inventory held at the Philidor network pharmacies is reflected in Valeant’s reported inventory levels,” said the release.

In an apparent effort to clarify confusion about the relationship between Philidor and R&O, the company said in the release that “Philidor Rx Services is a pharmacy licensed in Pennsylvania and also provides back-end services, including call center, claims adjudication, IT and logistics support, as well as compliance/HIPPA regulation guidance, to other pharmacies, including R&O Pharmacy.”

Valeant’s shares hit a low of $88 today and have recovered mightily, now trading above $120.

Being that the stock of $VRX is single handedly destroying my favorite hedge fund manager, the entire biotech sector, and portfolios of countless investors, I thought I’d share the news with you.

Citron Research, a bearshitting evil website whose sole purpose is to destroy value in the companies they talk about, is out with–yet another–research note, princely timed, accusing VRX of ‘Enron-Like” fraud.

In short, Andrew Left is accusing Valeant of creating ‘phnatom sales’ via a network of nefarious pharmacies, all backed up with a series of screen shots from websites.

At current prices, according to recent filings, Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square stands to lose almost a billion dollars in their VRX position…TODAY.

For the love of Christ, Bill Ackman needs it.

Any takers?

Top picks while stirring myself in the boiling cauldron: SLCA, BIDU, GILD,  SHAK

I hope you’re enjoying yourselves, bulls and bears alike. In an amazing feat of genius, the market has managed to fuck both longs and shorts at the same time.

The Dow is up more than 70, while the S&P and NASDAQ are flat. But underneath the surface, stocks are getting their fucking socks knocked off, led lower by biotech.

I fully admit to finding the decline in VRX humorous. The idea that Pershing Square and their 20 million share position having to refresh their browsers to see if some fucking blogspot web page had updated their short VRX to hell thesis is outrageously funny. Ackman might’ve lost $800 mill today in VRX, all because some misfit at Citron decided to shit on the stock, retweet his adventures, all the while laughing and eating cheesed doodles.

Do you know how many times Ackman could’ve killed those fuckers, with $800 mill? At least 10 million times.

My losses have moderated; but I am not counting my chickens just yet. I am sure some wolf will soon enter my coop to eat them all.

For some reason, this makes me feel better about my plight.

So, based on the math, Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square L.P. is down an astounding $500-$600 fucking million, in his VRX position, for the day.

As an aside, Mr. Ackman is a billionaire and likely will not be in the streets, fucked without shoes, like all of you.

And I cannot get out.

Markets are up; but my positions are behaving as if the market was down 3,000 points. I am sure you think this is funny, seeing Le Fly in sheer agony over the stupid, fucking, stocked market.

I have all of the very best of things working against me today: commodities, China, and fucking Twitter. Morgan Stanley downgraded Twitter, so everyone got really upset, started to cry, and then sold their shares.

Only one of my top 5 stocks are up and that’s GILD. But don’t worry, rest assured, by the time you finish reading this blog it too will self destruct.

Ah, as I put the finishing touches on this old blog post I see that my stocks have merely doubled their losses. How delightful. It also appears that the NASDAQ is finally red. Perhaps someone is selling. To me, and this is from an amateur point of view, it looks as if the FUCKING EARTH OPENED UP AND SWALLOWED SOCIETY WHOLE.

I look forward to our next chat. This will be fun.

This is a well placed opinion ahead of today’s OPEC meeting. They may not cut production today; but they will soon.

“Countries with fiscal buffers are right to use them to smooth their policy adjustment to support growth, but still need to pursue fiscal consolidation over the medium term because oil prices are expected to remain low,” the IMF said. “There is no room for complacency even if fiscal buffers appear strong.”

Net foreign assets fell for a seventh month to $654.5 billion at the end of August. Saudi Arabia has raised 55 billion riyals ($14.7 billion) from debt issuance this year. While the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio was below 2 percent in 2014 — indicating capacity for more borrowing — the IMF expects it to grow to 17 percent next year.

Based off current burn rates and price of crude, the IMF projects the good folks inside of House Saud will run budget deficits of 20% and decidedly run out of reserves inside 5 short years.

The rhetoric has been ratcheted up in recent weeks and I suspect this is all setting the stage for a big oil production cut at OPEC.

By bottoming, I mean not tanking by 15% in a single day. Truth be told, the Grande Society of Exodus has declared XBI to be OVERSOLD today. The track record is next to flawless. As such, in exactly 3 days henceforth, the biotech sector will be appreciably higher.

My long positions are XON, JAZZ, ICPT and SGEN.

GILD is major pharma and is my second largest position.

Lastly, biotech always fucks itself during the month’s of late summer, leading up to a sharp snap-back rally during the fall.

My man Ragin Cajun is depressed because of this tape. He’s just about the most optimistic, cheerful person, you’ll ever meet. There are some people that you meet and feel immediately impressed by their character. RC is one of them. I feel that way about everyone on the iBC team, even that devil who I placed in hell: Bluestar. We have a great nucleus of traders/bloggers here, working tirelessly to provide you, the reader, with up to the minute news and information.

SHAME ON ALL OF YOU OLD SCHOOL IBC’ers for not supporting the site at a time when it needs you most. I will remember this until my last breath, which will be a long, long time from now, being that I am immortal. Many years from now, iBankCoin will be the largest finance site in America, having risen up from the ashes of perfidy to dispatch all former supporters/faux fans to hell.

“The Fly” will be here forever. The internet is infinite and the content delivered here will always be available to society, as a whole, rest assured.

What we’re enduring now is simply consolidation. Markets have risen in recent weeks and now we’re digesting gains, while driving biotech stocks into crucifixes. I have a mind for this sort of tape, one that demoralizes mortal men, breaks them down into tears, sending them back home with hat in hand.

Very soon, the digestion of the gains will be complete and the next leg higher shall commence.

I am long SLCA anyways. I added to my fucking position, ahead of tomorrow’s OPEC meeting. At some point in the not-so-distant-future, those motherfuckers are gonna be visited by space ships and those space ships are gonna send out space aliens who will then tell them “cut production, else we’ll vaporize your continent, unleash dinosaurs on your dumb asses.”

When that surprise cut happens, you will regret the day you were born, leading up to the day you decided to sell short crude.

In it to win, or die trying.

I also added to my SHAK position.