Monthly Archives: February 2012

Feb21

Many have pointed to the generally fantastic performance of the German economy, relative to not only other European markets but certainly versus the United States over the past 3-4 years.   Of course having a depressed currency helps; an independent…

Feb21

For the upteempth time in the past 2+ years we wake up to a Greek rescue.  I'll spare you the details as you can find them on a myriad of websites, but let us be sure we'll be circling back…

Feb17

Range bound for seemingly years, it's been a heck of 2012 for no other than… Microsoft (MSFT).  It seemed a lot of money that had been chasing Apple rotated into MSFT yesterday.   Disclosure Notice Any securities mentioned on this…

Feb17

This article is getting some media attention in the financial arena this morning, however it doesn't seem to jive very well with data seen in weekly jobless claims (yesterday's 348k was the lowest since early 2008) or the ISM reports….

Feb17

After gapping up on the first day of the year with most other 'aggressive' stocks, Chinese search giant Baidu (BIDU) spent most of January doing very little while the market was in the midst of a surge.  Over the past…