Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Closing Brief

US equities closed moderately mixed, sp -0.3pts @ 1851 (intra high 1881). The two leaders - Trans/R2K, settled -0.2% and u/c respectively. Despite ongoing shaky price action, near term outlook remains unchanged, with probable further upside back above the sp'1900 threshold.


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Summary

*awaiting earnings from Tesla and Twitter.
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It was a really mixed day..  with the morning significant declines fading into the afternoon, with a fair few indexes closing net lower.

Clearly, it was not a great day for the bulls, but neither was it particularly dire.


For now, unless rising trend is broken - which at the Friday close will be around sp'1835, equity bears are still likely going to need to be patient for another weeks or two.
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notable movers...

AA -3%
CHK -12%, as talk of bankruptcy increases
DIS -3% in the $88s, despite good earnings
SDLR -5%, as energy prices struggle.

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Oh lookie... AMZN is launching a buy back...


Clearly, that will solve the underlying problem of poor profitability, right?
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.. and another...


As noted.. clearly buy backs will solve ALL problems, right, ???
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TLSA earnings... market expected 10 cent EPS.... actual : negative -87 cents.... stock initially implodes to $135, but is already back to $150... and vulnerable to 180s.

Maybe the TSLA problems could be solved with a buy back? They just need to issue more shares or corp' debt.. to fund such a buy back. That will work.. yes?
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oh noes.. ex-momo stock TWTR..  EPS beat.. but market breaks the stock to a new historic low of $12.84



So... we're in the $12s... and sp' ain't even 1700s yet.  If sp'1600s.. TWTR will be sub $10.  Ohh the humanity!

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