Gapping Up
JNJ +3%,DANG +1.9%, YOKU +1.4%, QIHU +1.3%, BBL +1.2%, BHP +0.9%, MT +0.5%, BIDU +0.9%, MICC +6%, CR +9.2%, NVS +3%, ALU +1.8%, S +1.3%, DEO +1.1%, X +1.8%, AKS +0.7%, X +1.8%, AKS +0.7%, SNE +6.0%, GS +1.4%, DEO +1.1%, SDRL +1.9%, STLD +5.4%, WWW +4.7%, ZION+4.5%
Gapping Down
HOG -2.8%, TXN -2.3%, INVE -5.1%, BMI -8.6%,NLST -2.5%,LOGI -2%
Comments »“Bank of NY Mellon, one of the world’s largest custody banks, said first-quarter profit rose 4 percent, helped by an increase in assets under custody and fee revenue.”
Comments »Permits up 11.2% & Starts up 7 %
Comments »“Goldman Sachs reported sales and earnings well above Wall Street estimates Tuesday.
The Wall Street firm reported net income of $2.74 billion, or $1.56 a share, against $3.29 billion, or $5.59 a share, in the same period last year.
Revenue came in at $11.89 billion, against revenue of $12.77 billion a year ago.
Analysts who follow the company had expected earnings of 82 cents a share on sales of $10.22 billion, according to a survey conducted by Thomson Reuters.”
Comments »European markets opened higher, roughly 0.5% across the board.
S&P futs are well off the session lows, now down just 1.5 points below fair value.
Comments »The U.S. & NATO has had to ignore some chilling facts about who we are supporting…..but war is a dirty business for sure.
Warning these videos are only for the morbid, pathologists, and those who can put things out of mind.
Comments »Thought the recovery was moving along and that according to the bearded clam we were not to worry over inflation…..
“The Fed chief’s top two lieutenants said this month the economy and inflation are too weak to warrant the start of a monetary-policy reversal.”
Counter punch article on the end of QE2
Comments »Multinationals do their bidding for worker bees over seas. Any doubt on where the growth is ?
Comments »Apparently Apple is not fond of copycats. Guess imitation is not the highest form of flattery.
Comments »“I don’t think they realized the complications the sanctions would create, and now they’re trying to backtrack on the question of selling oil and on the arms embargo,” a U.N. diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Comments »The recent crackdown in online poker continues to presage an eventual legalization (and taxation by implication) in America. One can only imagine the windfall that the major casinos and governments will receive in this country.
Comments »Off by 1.2%.
Comments »China’s farmland per capita is less than half the world average, and one-sixth that of the U.S., according to China Comment, a Communist Party magazine. Actual land loss may be greater than the government’s numbers suggest, as local officials fudge figures and illegal use proliferates.
The basic gist of the story is that China has far too little land set aside for farming, and in conjunction with growing world populations, global food supplies are going to be hard pressed.
Comments »Archer Daniels Midland Co., Bunge Ltd. and Cargill Inc. were among U.S. food companies that in January won $6.68 billion of deals to supply China with soybeans, the U.S. Soybean Export Council said.
