Yearly Archives: 2011
Santa Forgets the Market as He Huffs on His Hookah
Santa did not produce a follow through rally after yesterday’s monster gap up rally. The bulls win with digestion. Perhaps Santa had some digesting to do while he huffed on his hookah.
DOW up 4.1
NASDAQ down 25
S&P up 2.3
Dumb Ass Wins and Wrecks a Lamborghini in 6 Hours (video)
Garmin Hitting 52 Week Highs; Buy, Sell, or Hold ?
Forget Credit Downgrades; Here are Countries Looking at Upgrades
Hedge Funds Threaten Legal Action Against Greece for Excessive Haircut AKA “Flipping the Scales” on the ECB
Activist Shareholder Rags on AOL for Losing $500 Million on Their Content Sites
Starboard, 4.5% activist shareholder, says stop throwing good money after bad and turn this puppy around.
Comments »Fitch May Downgrade U.S. in 2013
Fitch expects the publicly held debt in the U.S. will hit 90% to GDP over the next decade. With congress stalling on a deficit reduction bill Fitch may have to take us a notch down.
Comments »Allen Stanford Claimed to be Suicidal and Not Fit for Trial
Stanford was roughed up in the tank and is now “suicidal” claiming he can not stand trial.
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BofA to Pay $335 Million to Settle Countrywide Mortgage Probe
FLASH: People are Even Bigger Passive-Aggressive Scumbags When Texting
Story here
Comments »Obama Gets His Phone Game On
STORY HERE
Comments »D.C. Tax Fight Turns Ugly
STORY HERE
Comments »NBC Reporter Arrested for Drunk Driving after ‘attending football party at Sandusky’s lawyer’s house’
Gray and the other reporters were likely trying to win favors to get them the air time, TMZ says [Win favors, or give favors?]
Jay Gray, the NBC News reporter covering the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal in State College, Pennsylvania, was arrested on drunk driving charges after he attended a drunken football-watching party at Sandusky’s lawyer’s house, reports say.
The Pennsylvania State Police arrested Gray just before 2am December 12 during a traffic stop.
He was allegedly at the home of Joe Amendola, the eccentric lawyer defending Sandusky against allegations he molested 10 boys over the course of several years.
Read the rest here.
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Crude Inventories: Prior -1.932 mn, Market Expects -2.1 mn, Actual -10.6 mn
This Morning’s Money Flows, Heat Map, & A/D Line
Money Flows
ISSUE GAINERS SYMBOL EXCH LAST PRICE MONEY FLOW RATIO
(in millions)
iShrs MSCI Emerg Mkts EEM ARCA 37.39 +21.7 2.64
Citigroup C NYSE 25.73 +17.0 1.68
ExxonMobil XOM NYSE 82.15 +16.7 1.64
General Electric GE NYSE 17.23 +16.3 2.02
Johnson & Johnson JNJ NYSE 64.73 +13.3 2.38
AT&T T NYSE 29.15 +13.3 2.46
Chevron CVX NYSE 103.92 +13.0 1.86
Nike Inc NKE NYSE 95.08 +9.9 1.36
NewsCorp B NWS NASD 17.96 +9.1 23.92
Qualcomm QCOM NASD 53.49 +9.0 1.90
JPMorgan Chase JPM NYSE 32.11 +7.9 1.49
Research in Motion RIMM NASD 13.49 +7.8 1.22
Union Pacific UNP NYSE 100.39 +7.3 1.86
Wells Fargo WFC NYSE 26.36 +7.3 1.85
Verizon Communications VZ NYSE 39.21 +7.2 1.85
Intel INTC NASD 23.64 +6.9 1.44
Caterpillar CAT NYSE 90.51 +6.7 1.30
3M MMM NYSE 79.33 +6.5 2.05
Salesforcecom CRM NYSE 94.30 +6.3 1.11
EMC Corp EMC NYSE 21.50 +5.7 1.51
ISSUE DECLINERS SYMBOL EXCH LAST PRICE MONEY FLOW RATIO
(in millions)
IBM IBM NYSE 180.78 -26.5 0.78
SPDR S&P 500 SPY ARCA 123.26 -23.4 0.91
Apple AAPL NASD 394.37 -21.3 0.92
iShs Brclys 13 Yr Crdt Bd CSJ ARCA 103.98 -16.1 0.07
Google GOOG NASD 626.87 -15.5 0.80
Procter & Gamble PG NYSE 65.78 -14.3 0.37
Kraft Foods KFT NYSE 37.27 -13.1 0.34
PwrShrs QQQ Tr Series 1 QQQ NASD 55.06 -13.0 0.77
Amazoncom AMZN NASD 180.88 -12.9 0.71
CVS Caremark CVS NYSE 40.41 -11.5 0.62
Coca-Cola KO NYSE 68.86 -11.2 0.47
McDonald's MCD NYSE 99.30 -10.2 0.56
Accenture PLC A ACN NYSE 52.18 -8.3 0.52
Walgreen WAG NYSE 31.20 -8.0 0.74
Bank Of America BAC NYSE 5.13 -7.3 0.68
PepsiCo PEP NYSE 65.94 -6.7 0.40
Teradata Cp TDC NYSE 44.40 -6.2 0.68
Philip Morris Intl PM NYSE 77.11 -6.2 0.62
iShares Gold Trust IAU ARCA 15.72 -5.9 0.15
Select Sector SPDR-Ind XLI ARCA 33.13 -5.7 0.59
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52 Week Highs and Lows Made This Morning
NYSE
New Highs 70 COMPANY SYMBOL HIGH VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ Airgas Inc ARG 79.19 72,482 Alaska Air Grp ALK 76.67 34,343 Alliance NY Municipal AYN 14.72 1,234 Alliant Energy LNT 43.22 48,689 Altria Group Inc MO 30.07 1,390,927 American Elec Power AEP 40.38 348,777 Amer Muni Income Ptf XAA 14.43 1,924 Amer Tower AMT 60.00 371,015 Aviva PLC Sub Cap Secs AVV 24.93 13,679 B&G Foods BGS 23.75 40,392 Blackrock Core Bond Tr BHK 13.74 15,580 BlkRk MuniYld MI Qlty MIY 15.13 20,495 BlkRk MuniYld NJ Fd MYJ 15.09 6,676 BlRk Muyld NJ Qlty MJI 15.19 3,593 BlRk Muyld NY Qlty MYN 13.89 9,965 Blackrock Strategic Muni BSD 13.83 900 Boston Beer SAM 107.00 9,766 CH Energy Group CHG 58.00 945 CVS Caremark CVS 40.49 3,382,728 Centene CNC 40.59 27,046 Clarcor Inc CLC 50.39 23,664 Consolidated Edison ED 61.36 192,124 Cross Timbers Royalty Tr CRT 49.50 1,619 DTE Energy DTE 54.14 71,278 Delphi Fincl DFG 43.91 5,438,066 Digital Realty Trust DLR 67.43 144,257 DTF Tax-Free DTF 16.06 218 Duke Energy DUK 21.57 764,296 Entergy Inc6.0 Bd2051 EMZ 27.79 2,576 Gallagher AJG 33.12 54,006 Home Depot HD 42.00 1,203,615 Inv CA Ins Tr IIC 15.06 7,208 Invesco CA Qty Tr IQC 13.79 1,822 Invesco NY Qty IQN 15.32 400 Invesco VK MuniOpp VMO 14.53 8,358 Invesco VK PAValMun VPV 14.16 3,666 Kinder Morgan Energy KMP 81.40 79,692 Kraft Foods KFT 37.38 1,667,754 Eli Lilly LLY 41.45 1,042,496 MFS Govt Mkts Income Tr MGF 7.05 15,109 McDonald's MCD 99.50 633,574 Michael Kors Holdings KORS 25.95 142,333 NJ Resources NJR 48.85 16,209 NextEra Energy NEE 59.26 194,613 Nuveen CA Performance NCP 14.78 7,277 Nuveen CA Quality Income NUC 15.78 3,429 Nuveen Div Fnd NAD 14.35 10,172 Nuveen Insurd Prem Inco 2 NPX 13.41 13,735 Nuveen NY Div Adv Pfd 16 NANpD 10.18 3,900 Nuveen NY Select Quality NVN 15.41 7,734 Nuveen Insured NY Select NXN 14.15 287 Oneok Inc OKE 84.93 41,629 Pacific Drilling PACD 9.16 33,963 Pfizer PFE 21.73 5,202,097 Philip Morris Intl PM 77.43 697,709 Piedmont Natural Gas PNY 34.13 13,915 Pimco Muni Inc II PML 11.34 21,107 PIMCO Muni Inc III PMX 11.31 5,000 Progress Energy PGN 55.03 179,401 Qwest Corp7.50%Notes2051 CTW 26.22 11,295 Sally Beauty Hldgs SBH 21.26 48,890 Scana Corp SCG 43.98 73,282 Southern SO 45.86 566,554 SpectraEnergy SE 30.18 320,228 Vectren Corp VVC 29.64 16,176 Verizon Communications VZ 39.49 1,735,710 Wal-Mart Stores WMT 59.66 1,419,950 Western Asset Income Fd PAI 13.97 11,154 Wisconsin Energy WEC 34.46 136,831 Xcel Energy XEL 27.34 343,088 New Lows 10 COMPANY SYMBOL LOW VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ BBVA Banco Frances BFR 4.74 13,636 China Green Agric CGA 2.79 26,870 Citigroup Dep Shs T CpI 40.00 700 Covanta Hldg CVA 12.87 101,207 IDT Corp B IDT 9.25 23,049 Morgan-Stanley Asia-Pac APF 13.01 12,300 Nordion NDZ 8.06 15,834 RBS Grp ADS L RBSpL 13.66 11,776 Salesforcecom CRM 94.24 2,268,399 Xerium Tech XRM 6.30 3,191
NASDAQ
New Highs 20 COMPANY SYMBOL HIGH VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ Amgen AMGN 62.00 937,059 Asure Software ASUR 6.50 4,046 Bank of The Ozarks OZRK 29.89 20,654 Commercefirst Bancorp CMFB 13.99 4,175 Coronado Biosciences CNDO 6.95 1,600 DXP Enterprises DXPE 32.79 11,152 Fastenal Co FAST 43.45 199,330 Garmin GRMN 39.09 90,904 HealthStream HSTM 19.00 86,402 Huron Consulting Group HURN 39.50 9,080 MGE Energy MGEE 46.82 8,548 magicJack VocalTec CALL 14.10 30,074 O'Reilly Automotive ORLY 81.83 71,573 Progenics Pharmaceuticals PGNX 8.94 299,826 Ross Stores ROST 48.15 157,847 SPS Commerce SPSC 27.89 9,289 Starbucks SBUX 45.45 717,696 Synageva BioPharma GEVA 23.15 200 Tangoe TNGO 16.41 12,974 Westway Group WWAY 6.60 77,643 New Lows 21 COMPANY SYMBOL LOW VOLUME ------- ------ ---- ------ Addus HomeCare Corp ADUS 3.23 3,040 Ascent Solar Tech ASTI 0.47 11,809 BTU Intl BTUI 2.46 400 China Auto Sys CAAS 3.23 6,730 China Sunergy Co CSUND 1.33 35,517 Cree CREE 20.25 402,426 Cytori Therapeutics CYTX 1.98 42,254 Euroseas ESEA 2.26 25,500 Jiayuan.com Intl ADS DATE 5.62 14,550 Mindspeed Techs MSPD 4.27 40,598 Motricity MOTR 0.85 124,520 Rocky Brands RCKY 8.75 2,750 Rovi Cp ROVI 23.20 201,012 School Specialty SCHS 2.82 19,337 SeaChange Intl SEAC 6.86 9,407 Shiner Intl Inc BEST 0.37 34,658 Shutterfly SFLY 22.41 74,933 Symantec SYMC 15.12 809,230 Targacept TRGT 4.91 259,779 TigerLogic Corp TIGR 1.95 1,000 Winner Medical Group WWIN 2.53 1,100Comments »
Moody’s Warns on U.K. Credit Rating
Frontier Labs: An Investigation of the OWS Protesters’ Deep Motivating Values
The Frontier Lab’s Breakthrough Study Proves Occupy Wall Street Short-Selling America
Site Editor – Tuesday, December 13, 2011
CHICAGO – The Frontier Lab released today the results of a 3-month-long study of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters in New York City and Chicago. “Short-Selling America,” the Means-Ends Value Chain report of the OWS participants’ deep motivating values provides richer intelligence for social scientists, commentators, and civic leaders who seek a deeper understanding of this emerging segment of political activists.
“After reading, watching, and listening to so many thought leaders expound on the mission, motives, and manners of this group, we saw an opportunity for science to make sense of a movement catching everyone’s attention,” said Anne Sorock, partner and research director of The Frontier Lab. “The study reveals two segments, “Communitarians” and “Professionals,” with distinct value sets, and categorically refutes the notion that Occupy protesters share the deep values of Americans who seek financial security and are fed up with crony capitalism.”
Key insights from the report:
- The Communitarians’ deep values set includes Community, Purpose, and Security
- The Professionals’ deep values set includes Prestige, Validation, and Control
- The promise and responsibility of ‘The American Dream’ do not overlap with either deep values set
- The most viable segment for conversion to other political movements are the Communitarians, because a sense of Community, Purpose, and Security can be more easily replicated
“While their signs and rhetoric might decry crony capitalism and bank bailouts, their values reveal self-centered and fear-based motivations. When understood at the deep values level, the similarities drawn between everyday Americans’ desire for fiscal responsibility and Occupy’s signage appear superficial and hollow. Anyone who would market American freedom to this disinterested and differently motivated audience fails to realize that Occupy wins when America loses. They are going short on America,” concluded Sorock.
The Short-Selling America report demonstrates that the OWS protesters’ values form a new way of understanding the movement beyond the traditional Left-Right dimension. The Frontier Lab is using this understanding to map the Occupy segments and other segments across the political landscape to reveal the frontier lines in the battle for America.
The Frontier Lab is a non-partisan 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit organization that conducts marketing research and provides strategic marketing counsel to leaders and organizations promoting freedom. Inspired by Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” of 1893, the lab’s mission is to define a new and sustainable American frontier based on the values majorities of Americans share. The Frontier Lab team’s pioneering approach applies Means Ends Value Chain market research used by the most cutting-edge private sector organizations to the civic space in order to advance republican democracy. To read the complete “Short-Selling America” report and to learn more about The Frontier Lab, please visit www.thefrontierlab.org.
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