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- Watching the Airline Stocks [view article]
- Best and Worst Performing Stocks on Earnings [view article]
- Global Investing Roundup: 8/15/08 [view article]
- Time To Ban CEOs and Senators from Derivatives Markets [view article]
- Slimfast Diet, Airlines Version [view article]
- Out of the Money - Midday Fast Money (8/12/08) [view article]
- The Airlines' Recent Death Defying Actions [view article]
- Mid-Year Picks and Pans From Barron's Roundtable Part II [view article]
- A Global Transport ETF Strategy [view article]
- Why Airline Mergers Don't Work [view article]
- Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
- When Crude Drops, AMR Will Fly [view article]
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Watching the Airline Stocks [view article]
Of course the airlines will always be viable. Their main problem is too much competition. We will never go back to the horse and buggy or even the train.Also I expect oil will drop far lower than $100. Few if any developing countries can afford $100 and demand will continue to drop. Reply
Watching the Airline Stocks [view article]
The airlines stocks are like DUG multiplied by 10. They trade 100% on oil without ay regard for the airlines business itself. I owned UAUA at $6, sold at $8 for a quick trade. The business is not viable as it is long term with $100 + oil. UAUA continued on to $14. Unbelievable. Every time oil moves $1, airlines move 20%. ReplyBest and Worst Performing Stocks on Earnings [view article]
As a WFR shareholder i must say this is comforting news. These guys have been beaten up bad and my research has led me to the conclusion that there is no reason to sell. Investors soured on WFR because it wasn't able to handle the huge influx of business it's receiving.. get it? the stock is cut down because there is too much business!Now if this were a high flying company with a high P/E, it would make sense to figure they won't be able to grow as fast as was expected, but WFR has a P/E of 16..
This is more proof that wall street institutions have simply lost touch with the street. I used to have respect for these guys but it's become so technical, you can't see the company from all the shenanigans they try to pull.
I for one am happy wall street bankers are loosing their jobs and going to jail.. they robbed us blind and left our tax dollars to clean up their mess - they need to do time.
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Best and Worst Performing Stocks on Earnings [view article]
Hey Frankfurt, add something constructive or shutup. ReplyGlobal Investing Roundup: 8/15/08 [view article]
For more on American Airlines check out americanairlinesinvest.../ ReplyTime To Ban CEOs and Senators from Derivatives Markets [view article]
For more on UAL's management mishaps, check out unitedairlinesinvestor.../ ReplySlimfast Diet, Airlines Version [view article]
I have not heard of any airline lowering cabin pressure and thus raising cabin altitude to save fuel. Pressurizing the cabin does not add weight to the airplane. It is illegal to allow cabin altitude to intentionally rise above 10,000 ft. Higher cabin altitudes are uncomfortable for passengers (7,000 ft+), so generally they are avoided if possible. The relative humidity in the cabin (which is much lower than normal) and stress would be more likely factors for your elderly dog's faster breath. Flying at cabin altitudes above 10,000 ft would compromise safety, as lower amounts of oxygen in the blood decrease brain function, which is why oxygen is provided for high altitude flight, in the event of a cabin pressure loss.On Jul 19 03:50 AM Dr. Steven wrote:
> I have observed the occasional elderly passenger becoming short of
> breath at high altitudes and requiring oxygen. My regular travel
> companion, an elderly Yorkshire terrier, becomes short of breath
> on certain airline flights.
> I am quite suspicious that cabin pressure is often lower than is
> acceptable for safe and comfortable travel. Decreased pressure decreases
> the airplane's weight significantly as well as the oxygen concentration
> in the air aboard.
> I've heard complaints from otherwise healthy passengers of experiencing
> headaches more frequently when flying as well as worse jet lag in
> recent years.
> Have any of you readers of Seeking Alpha experienced physical discomfort
> while flying more frequently now that airlines are focusing on decreasing
> the weight of planes as a cost saving measure? Reply
Out of the Money - Midday Fast Money (8/12/08) [view article]
Apple is way undervalued, no one is seriously accounting for the iPhone revenue that has already been booked, let alone the run rate they are hitting (with lines still at every outlet, and 22 more countries to come online very soon). Also, new product and revisions in the pipeline in time for Christmas.It will be two years from now before all the money is accounted for from the 3 million iPhone 3Gs sold this month. But that money is Apple's to spend (they already have 20 billion in cash) in the meantime.
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The Airlines' Recent Death Defying Actions [view article]
Two days ago, JP Morgan recommended people overweigh their portfolios with airline stocks. Today LCC sells 19 million shares plus to Lehman. Is this the old pump-and-dump?In July when LCC was at $2 and everyone considered it a dog-with-fleas, no one liked it. Today it is Lehman's little darling that everyone should own. A stock being talked up by a brokerage is really creepy.
Once oil is done going down, I am afraid there will be little reason to own this group of companies. Today oil closed at $115 and is headed down as of this comment. Today T. Boone Pickens puts oil's bottom as low as $110, but not $100.
Clark Jenkins
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Time To Ban CEOs and Senators from Derivatives Markets [view article]
Well said. It's all about the Peter principal. Any clown that whines about speculators is just demonstrating his ignorance and collectivist leanings. Probably a Keynesian, and got his position through cut-throat office politics instead of merit.Well, that's over. After this depression merit will again rise to the fore. Speculation is a holy advocation. It is the foundation of true capitalism (we ain't seen much of that in these huge companies). Speculators add liquidity to markets, damping excesses by taking risks. They are the people that business operators should transfer the risks to, instead of gambling with their profit margins.
Any CEO that spouts this ignorance should be removed by their board. If these guys are not smart enough to calculate at what price fuel costs will negatively impact their operating margins, and use the market for price insurance as it was intended, they better read some Ron Paul.
They are the speculators. Essentially they were short energy and were wrong. Speculating with the capital of their shareholders. It is just incompetence.
If I can lock in a price for fuel that guarantees my margins, I had better do it. If I don't, it is pure negligence,
the tools are there. If you can't manage risk, and get caught with your pants down, go back to school.
Better yet, hire a rogue economist that understands the realities of the market, can use cycles and trends to identify the risks, and understands your business.
My clients didn't get caught with "unexpected" price rises,
because I have trained them to be pro-active risk managers. Anybody caught by "surprise" shouldn't be blaming the guys who provide the grease that makes capitalism work. Or maybe they would prefer the
Chinese system, where gross misallocations of resources are made for political reasons. They will
crash like Russia.
Great article.
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Time To Ban CEOs and Senators from Derivatives Markets [view article]
What exactly is the benefit to our economy or society in general to have wealthy hedge fund owners, for example, inserting themselves as cost added middlemen in a business where they have no business? Creating a market for Oil? ....not hardly. This type of speculation is merely another tool for the wealthy, influential, insider-informed, few to take from the productive section of society while contributing nothing more than added costs to everyone else. ReplyMid-Year Picks and Pans From Barron's Roundtable Part II [view article]
Poor Fred Hickey. He just won't let go of his AAPL short. He has been losing money on it since $70/shr. ReplyA Global Transport ETF Strategy [view article]
See my blog post on this at:mikehav.blogspot.com/2... Reply
Why Airline Mergers Don't Work [view article]
This is great news! ReplyA Global Transport ETF Strategy [view article]
I like your "strategy" ideas, but that doesn't do us much good without a an actual product to invest in. How about a preview of the three ETFs that are in registration? Reply