http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/blogs/breakout/ en-US Copyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved Tue, 22 May 2012 13:23:34 -0400 5 http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/blogs/breakout/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif The French have a saying that revenge is a dish best served cold. In the annals of IPO history, Facebook's (FB) hot-to-cold reversal of fortune happened extraordinarily fast. While it only took one day to confirm what many investors had unsuccessfully tried to argue for years—that Facebook was over-valued—the drama and battling over the social [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/plenty-blame-share-faulty-facebook-ipo-ritholtz-172334833.htmlTue, 22 May 2012 13:23:34 -0400blogs/breakout/plenty-blame-share-faulty-facebook-ipo-ritholtz-172334833There are two rules in trading: 1) no whining 2) trade the next move, not the last. Follow rule 1 and stop whimpering about the S&P 500's collapse from 1,420 to just under 1,300. Life is hard, buckle up and wear a helmet. Once done weeping, the only question is how to position for the [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/next-move-p-500-1200-1400-160906185.htmlTue, 22 May 2012 12:09:06 -0400blogs/breakout/next-move-p-500-1200-1400-160906185Yesterday JPMorgan (JPM) announced it was suspending its $15 billion buyback program. The move comes just 11 days after Jamie Dimon revealed a $2 billion trading loss stemming from a trade gone horribly wrong at the firm's Chief Investment Office. Dimon said suspending the buyback was merely a proactive move designed to keep JPM on [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/jp-morgan-rallies-despite-bizarre-buyback-suspension-150234651.htmlTue, 22 May 2012 11:02:34 -0400blogs/breakout/jp-morgan-rallies-despite-bizarre-buyback-suspension-150234651There's a funny scene in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where the the medieval-era trash collectors are calling on citizens to "bring out your dead." There's one small problem though; people who are still alive typically don't want to be declared dead. And so it is with stocks right now, with the [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/time-sift-left-dead-sectors-stovall-121700042.htmlTue, 22 May 2012 08:17:00 -0400blogs/breakout/time-sift-left-dead-sectors-stovall-121700042It would be easy to overthink the reasons behind today's rebound in stocks. But market watchers like Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ, cite another one: precedent. In a note to clients today, Stovall writes, "history, sentiment, and technicals indicate that a recovery, or at least a counter-trend rally, is around the [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/history-sentiment-technicals-predicting-market-bounce-stovall-181719351.htmlMon, 21 May 2012 14:17:19 -0400blogs/breakout/history-sentiment-technicals-predicting-market-bounce-stovall-181719351Shares of Facebook (FB) fell as low as $33 today, more than 13% below the offering price on Friday. Ironically the same shareholders who were assumed to be buyers of the stock at any price are now ditching FB at a steep discount. The details of what caused the epic debacle of Facebook's IPO will [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/facebook-sell-off-shares-recover-160325753.htmlMon, 21 May 2012 12:03:25 -0400blogs/breakout/facebook-sell-off-shares-recover-160325753Over the weekend Yahoo! (YHOO) finalized a deal to sell half of its long-standing 40% stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. The deal is valued at $7.1 billion -- $6.3 billion in cash and $800 million of newly minted Alibaba preferred shares. The deal gives Yahoo! liquidity and a clarified mission, but it comes at [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/yahoo-makeover-continues-alibaba-deal-143921937.htmlMon, 21 May 2012 10:39:21 -0400blogs/breakout/yahoo-makeover-continues-alibaba-deal-143921937If troubles in Europe and falling markets are giving you a sense of deja vu, things are about to get really weird. House Speaker John Boehner is making noise about reviving last summer's infamous debt ceiling debate prior to November elections. Before cursing Boehner or blaming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, avowed Republican John Mauldin [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/lifting-curtain-debt-ceiling-debate-114906713.htmlMon, 21 May 2012 07:49:06 -0400blogs/breakout/lifting-curtain-debt-ceiling-debate-114906713All that hype for a 23-cent gain! Facebook's (FB) first day as a publicly traded company started with a bang and ended in a whimper. FB shares opened on the Nasdaq at 11:30am et, after a 30-minute delay, at $42 each; 11% higher from the IPO price of $38. Within 10 minutes, that gain was [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/facebook-fizzles-analyst-voices-concerns-moving-forward-205956326.htmlFri, 18 May 2012 16:59:56 -0400blogs/breakout/facebook-fizzles-analyst-voices-concerns-moving-forward-205956326What's not to love about cheaper oil, gasoline, imported BMW's or that summer trip to Rome? While the answer for most people is something along the lines of "more, more, more," the reaction at the Fed the dollar's sudden surge to a 4-month high is likely to be one of much greater concern. "At the [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/forget-cheaper-gas-fed-sick-over-surging-dollar-132739950.htmlFri, 18 May 2012 09:27:39 -0400blogs/breakout/forget-cheaper-gas-fed-sick-over-surging-dollar-132739950Click to Follow Us on Facebook! Facebook (FB) officially becomes a public company today. Shares are just hours away from debuting on the Nasdaq. The social media king made history becoming the largest U.S. internet IPO ever. Yesterday afternoon the company sold 421.2 million shares priced at $38 each, giving the company a $104 billion [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/big-facebook-5-years-114028849.htmlFri, 18 May 2012 07:40:28 -0400blogs/breakout/big-facebook-5-years-114028849There was a time not long ago that credit rating downgrades—threatened or actual—by the ratings agencies were largely dismissed as being late to the game and simple confirmations of what was already known. But even though the problems facing Spain's banking system are widely known, market watchers, like Peter Kenny of Knight Capital, say rating [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/european-bank-downgrades-really-matter-knight-capital-kenny-190455627.htmlThu, 17 May 2012 15:04:55 -0400blogs/breakout/european-bank-downgrades-really-matter-knight-capital-kenny-190455627One week ago tonight J.P. Morgan (JPM) announced a real loss of more than $2 billion on synthetic CDS trades—and the news has only gotten worse for the bank since. At least two shareholder lawsuits are in the works, and an FBI informal investigation has already been launched—with more regulatory heat sure to follow. Twisting [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/jp-morgan-aftermath-no-amount-regulation-stop-bad-174646469.htmlThu, 17 May 2012 13:46:46 -0400blogs/breakout/jp-morgan-aftermath-no-amount-regulation-stop-bad-174646469Click to Follow Us on Facebook! Unleash the hounds! Facebook's (FB) first day of trading can no longer really be characterized as just an IPO. Despite an increase in both the number of shares being sold and the price at which they're being offered, Facebook shares are getting snatched up as fast as they can [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/facebook-frenzy-squeezes-main-street-investors-ipo-150848272.htmlThu, 17 May 2012 11:08:48 -0400blogs/breakout/facebook-frenzy-squeezes-main-street-investors-ipo-150848272John Mauldin, outspoken author of "The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing" has one message for Germany and the European Central Bank: "If you want to keep the Union together we're going to have to have inflation." The goal isn't to spend forever; just long enough to get through the Spain's elections in three years. [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/fire-euro-printing-presses-only-way-save-euro-115951773.htmlThu, 17 May 2012 07:59:51 -0400blogs/breakout/fire-euro-printing-presses-only-way-save-euro-115951773Technically speaking, a Form 13-F is an SEC document that managers who control more than $100,000,000 must file within the end of each quarter. To James Altucher of Formula Capital, the regulatory requirement transforms the titans of finance into your personal staff every 90 days. Not only that but sometimes you get them for cheap. [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/whales-buy-stocks-discount-says-altucher-183811807.htmlWed, 16 May 2012 14:38:11 -0400blogs/breakout/whales-buy-stocks-discount-says-altucher-183811807Target (TGT) nailed a trifecta with surprisingly strong first-quarter earnings results released this morning. The big box retailer reported EPS of $1.11 a share (ex-items) versus the $1.04 consensus estimate. Revenues came in at $16.87 billion versus $16.85 billion estimated. And the company raised full-year 2012 guidance by 5 cents to $4.60 to $4.80. "They [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/target-wal-mart-buffett-believes-consumer-too-says-170554052.htmlWed, 16 May 2012 13:05:54 -0400blogs/breakout/target-wal-mart-buffett-believes-consumer-too-says-170554052Days away from Facebook's (FB) IPO, General Motors (GM) has announced it's pulling $10 million in advertising business from the social media kingpin. No full explanation was given, and the dollar value is a mere rounding error for either company. Regardless, the move is raising questions as to what can be inferred from the nation's [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/gm-unfriends-facebook-ahead-ipo-went-wrong-151627212.htmlWed, 16 May 2012 11:16:27 -0400blogs/breakout/gm-unfriends-facebook-ahead-ipo-went-wrong-151627212Last week the NPD Group reported that video game sales in the month of April had fallen 42% year over year. The news seemed to put an exclamation point on the death sentence of the era of console gaming. Ironically the demise of the big studio game comes at a time when the tablet craze [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/electronic-arts-activision-game-game-over-125925126.htmlWed, 16 May 2012 08:59:25 -0400blogs/breakout/electronic-arts-activision-game-game-over-125925126Ignore every piece of government data you hear about consumer spending habits, consumer confidence, or even unemployment this week. If you want to know what's really going on in the hearts and minds of American consumers, listen to the earnings conference calls held this week. Starting this morning with Home Depot (HD) and Dick's Sporting [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/breakout/retail-earnings-could-set-tone-market-next-move-185001379.htmlTue, 15 May 2012 14:50:01 -0400blogs/breakout/retail-earnings-could-set-tone-market-next-move-185001379