Morning News

Premarket action

Upgrades/Downgrades

Two firms defending VMWare, two firms cautious.

VLO beat by $0.38, stock acting well this morning.

MadStocks contest update 

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Earnings season is off to a fabulous start, if you are short of course. I mean look what happened to [[AAPL]] last week, and check out VMW after hours— de-banking at its finest!

Let’s see who will lose half their market cap next.

Tuesday:

• [[MMM]]
• [[CFC]]
• [[LLY]]
• [[EMC]]
• [[ENR]]
• [[X]]
• [[VLO]]
• [[YHOO]]

Wednesday:

• [[AMZN]]
• [[BHI]]
• [[BOBJ]]
• [[ESLR]]
• [[HES]]
• [[MBI]]
• [[MRK]]
• [[SBUX]]
• [[BA]]

Thursday:

• [[BUD]]
• [[CELG]]
• [[DLB]]
• [[ERTS]]
• [[GOOG]]
• [[ICE]]
• [[ISRG]]
• [[MA]]
• [[MNST]]
• [[UA]]

Friday:

• [[CVX]]
• [[XOM]]

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Are you buying this rally? Do you really want to be long ahead of the FED? Do you think we get another 50 bps cut? Too many unknowns for me, I rather just sit here in cash and wait for my entry.

Note: If we don’t get a rate cut on Wednesday, I will be all over this list.

Take a look at a few stocks on the move

• Chart Toppers
• High Volume gainers

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Where are all the iPhones? A cautious note.

CME Group and NYMEX confirm Preliminary Discussions. I’m a buyer of [[ICE]] here.

[[MELI]] Getting the homo-hammer.

[[GLW]] reports good numbers.

Rocket Stocks for week of Jan. 28

Fed, Earnings, & Volatility

Watch SPWR, it’s moving higher in premarket– Wal-mart gets involved

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Asia markets sharply lower

Barron’s Summary

Trading Ideas for Monday

Weekly Outlook & Earnings

Shorts Shorts Shorts! It’s gonna get active next week!

Charts of interest

VIX 37, Giants 31, Pats 20, Go Giants!

Stock Market Recap

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