Year: 2012

Zacks – Earnings ESP for the Coming Week

Print Share IBM | CCBG | ZIP | KKR The second week of earnings season continues to give me mixed emotions.  On one hand you have cautious outlooks coming from about 60% of companies and yet on the other there are some strong relative numbers sending stocks mostly higher.  These conflicting messages can make trading extremely…
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Option Action Meets the Zacks Rank

Print Share ValueClick VCLK is one of the world’s largest online marketing companies, but has definitely fallen off the radar since its heyday.   While that may be true, we might not want to ignore this stock, especially with call volume at 1000% of normal today. But let’s see what’s really going on…
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Does the Jobs Number Even Matter?

  Friday morning at 8:30am, investors will know just how bad the employment situation in the US really is. The consensus among analysts is for 92,000 new jobs to be added to the economy; some estimates are higher than 100k, others are down around 60k. After reading countless articles, watching…
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