bmags Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 26, 2014 -> 04:10 PM) Isn't that the case anyway? The difference between 15%-20% and 1% is pretty large. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 My favorite part of the BK thing is that the guy named a tax code act after is helping a company flee the country and pay less taxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Sadly, guessing this thread is going to be a lot more active soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2HH Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 01:16 PM) Sadly, guessing this thread is going to be a lot more active soon. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabiness42 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Why? Dow down 6.3% in the last 4 3/4 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2HH Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 01:23 PM) Dow down 6.3% in the last 4 3/4 days. Just a healthy correction. Buying opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 07:26 PM) Just a healthy correction. Buying opportunity. I really hope so, and with respect to Ebola hitting Boeing getting cut 4% perked my ears. BUT. I'm nervous. Germany/Brazil/China all slowing down, US retail having a declining month and the oil plummet I have to imagine is a sign of a global demand shortage. but I hope you are right. Here's to hoping for a fantastic holiday retail season. If my wife and I can keep our jobs through this, we were hoping to purchase a house in the spring. A real estate correction and the mortgage interest dropping to 4% doesn't hurt me terribly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y2HH Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 01:30 PM) I really hope so, and with respect to Ebola hitting Boeing getting cut 4% perked my ears. BUT. I'm nervous. Germany/Brazil/China all slowing down, US retail having a declining month and the oil plummet I have to imagine is a sign of a global demand shortage. but I hope you are right. Here's to hoping for a fantastic holiday retail season. If my wife and I can keep our jobs through this, we were hoping to purchase a house in the spring. A real estate correction and the mortgage interest dropping to 4% doesn't hurt me terribly. I think things got a little ahead of themselves for a while there, and this was due. And retail will probably do better with the oil demand falling, as people will have more money to spend, instead of giving it to oil companies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 01:32 PM) I think things got a little ahead of themselves for a while there, and this was due. And retail will probably do better with the oil demand falling, as people will have more money to spend, instead of giving it to oil companies. Energy prices coming down is nothing but good for our economy, as opposed to places like Russia, Venezuela, Iran, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Y'alls best guess - If I had to book a flight for january, knowing that oil is falling. Would you wait or book now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 15, 2014 -> 01:36 PM) Y'alls best guess - If I had to book a flight for january, knowing that oil is falling. Would you wait or book now? Personally? I wouldn't count on oil to keep falling. I would be looking now, and lock in whenever you see a good price. 21 days before is the magic cutoff for when flying gets really expensive, as a general rule. You've got a time, but if there is a good number now, I'd take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Sweet. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I think a lot of the airlines hedge their future fuel purchases anyway. They buy long-term contracts, not jet fuel at day-to-day prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 16, 2014 -> 02:07 PM) I think a lot of the airlines hedge their future fuel purchases anyway. They buy long-term contracts, not jet fuel at day-to-day prices. Well yes, it's not nearly that volatile but this large of a decrease will be noticeable in pricing as it's been happening for about 2 mos now and does not appear to be from incredible supply increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Spain’s unemployment rate fell to the lowest since the end of 2011 in the third quarter as its economy turned into one of the fastest-growing in the euro region. Joblessness fell to 23.7 percent in the three months through September from 24.5 percent in the previous quarter, Spain’s national statistics institute INE said in Madrid today. The economy grew 0.5 percent in the period, the Bank of Spain predicts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 .5% was the fastest growing economy in the Eurozone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 "one of" still, pretty terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 What's reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Meh jobs report. Thought it would be 300k this month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 5% and 4.7% GDP growth in 2 and 3, let's see how much cheap oil helps in q4 and lets see some wage growth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 23, 2014 -> 10:58 AM) 5% and 4.7% GDP growth in 2 and 3, let's see how much cheap oil helps in q4 and lets see some wage growth. 5% is the best quarterly number since 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-critic...-055732036.html Alibaba and the Chinese government are fighting...this is virtually unheard of. Guess Jack Ma is getting too big and too much attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caulfield12 Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Alibaba (BABA) getting hammered... down to $90 in pre-trading So between the Chinese government leaking their "attack report" six months late...to the disappointing earnings announcement today...and then earlier in the week the announcement that Yahoo was spinning off its stake, lots of moving pieces. Has zoomed from around $82-83 (IPO time) up to $120 and now back to the low $90's with more room to fall. So the logical play here is wait until Alibaba's around $68-70 or Yahoo (because they have a 15% stake in BABA and will spin it off in the 2nd half of the year) is around $34-36...because most are arguing the stock's being punished unfairly at the moment and there's nothing fundamentally wrong with their strategic position in e-commerce. Edited January 30, 2015 by caulfield12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Crain's Chicago @CrainsChicago 2h2 hours ago RadioShack is in talks to sell half its stores to Sprint and close the rest: http://trib.al/O91PRi5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Well, they tried. I thought they did a decent job of pivoting but when your pivot is making a store not as good as best buy it's a matter of time. I hope the displaced find jobs quickly. Unfortunately, looks like there's still a lot of slack in the labor market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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