Thursday, December 17, 2009

Indices lost 1.18% to 1.27% @ close....

Strength of US$ & Option Expiry pressure put markets in a tailspin...closing near/@ lows of the day......

Internals were also very weak where Down volume dominated by a huge margin......

Gold was given a big drubbing and closed @ lowest point since reaching all time highs......

BUT......AH RIMM surprised everyone by handily beating Sales & EPS consensus...RIMM also guiding UP..... higher than consensus.....AH RIMM is UP 12.21% on AH volume of 1.10 million shares.....

ORCL also beating consensus UP 4.02% on AH 3.2 million shares...

These two reports are causing optimism and AH futures are UP strongly......

AG stocks were under pressure as there are reports that next week China will finalize Potash contract which MAY be slightly below SPOT price which could be under $400......this news is in the price of stocks now......

Most commodities were under pressure due to US$ strength......

AH Nikkei,Hang Seng,Shanghai are all Down in sympathy with Wall Street negative close...

AH Oil & Silver UP

BLOG does NOT give buy or sell.

Saleem

6 comments:

c said...

BDI NEWS

Baltic Dry Index Report
Friday 12/11/2009 4:04 PM ET - MarketNewsVideo.com

Yesterday, the Baltic Dry Index closed lower by more than three percent and is off sharply from its November peak. The index settled at 3671 and still remains below its 2007 highs as the oversupply of ships coupled with the global recession has driven rates lower across the entire sector.

c said...

SALEEM

Here are some tanker related links
ENJOY:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=n...

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=n...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=n...

it is Friday have a great weekend to all

Stocks100 said...

HI C,

Thanks for BDI update....

Did you buy any shipping stocks?

Saleem

c said...

I bought a load of GNK

Looking for a pop today

I still own DSX and FRO from 2008.

So I am a LT bag holder!

AMAZON got an up grade from Citi Bank $170 --wow

c said...

SALEEM

POT is taking a beeting today

Gosh so much pain wow

Stocks100 said...

HI C,

YES..POT is trading near lows....downgraded by Soleil to sell....with $85 target??

Saleem