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Post by phoebear611 on Feb 19, 2014 3:42:33 GMT -8
And the beat goes on...and the beat goes on...drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain... La de da de de, la de da de da
Good morning ~ Asia was mixed ~ Europe a bit in the red ~ US futures also a bit red. No huge news overnight ... unrest in Kiev continues as does unrest in Venezuela.
AAPL down about 2 pts. in PM on a whopping 1500 shares - BOOM! (Seems to me that someone is anxious to get the stock down when I see crap like that.) Nine days to shareholder meeting ... doubtful anything earth-shattering will emerge from it. Pretty quiet out there folks...sorry for the lack of information flow this morning but not a big news day.
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Post by qualitywte on Feb 19, 2014 4:21:55 GMT -8
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 19, 2014 6:48:28 GMT -8
hmmmmm.. Apple Announces iTunes Festival Coming to SXSW―Five Amazing Nights, Five Amazing Shows CUPERTINO, California―February 19, 2014―Apple® today announced the first iTunes® Festival to be held in the US, featuring an amazing lineup of global superstars, running from March 11-15. Taking place at ACL Live at the Moody Theater, home of Austin City Limits, the iTunes Festival at SXSW will feature iTunes chart toppers including Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Pitbull, Keith Urban, ZEDD and more to come. All five nights of the iTunes Festival will be available to enjoy for free as a live and on-demand stream via the iTunes Store® on your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac® or PC. Performances can also be seen in the iTunes Festival app on your iOS device or with Apple TV® in stunning HD. “The iTunes Festival in London has become an incredible way for Apple to share its love of music with our customers,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We're excited about the incredible lineup of artists performing and SXSW is the perfect place to debut the first iTunes Festival in the US.” At the iTunes Festival in London over 400 artists have performed in front of more than 430,000 fans and tens of millions more online. Performances are available for purchase and download on the iTunes Store. For additional details on the lineup for the iTunes Festival check out www.itunes.com/festival.
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Post by gtrplyr on Feb 19, 2014 9:04:01 GMT -8
Anyone hear anything ?? This news vacuum sucks ... AAPL's got 0 momentum at this point and needs something to get it moving .. well it is moving , just in the wrong direction : (
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 9:11:19 GMT -8
Anyone hear anything ?? This news vacuum sucks ... AAPL's got 0 momentum at this point and needs something to get it moving .. well it is moving , just in the wrong direction : ( Ya, Apple is always down when the market is flat...other than the past 2 weeks where we went up 10%...but other than that, this stock sucks. It should go up everyday... /sarcasm
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Post by rickag on Feb 19, 2014 9:15:42 GMT -8
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Post by appleaddict on Feb 19, 2014 9:20:43 GMT -8
Anyone hear anything ?? This news vacuum sucks ... AAPL's got 0 momentum at this point and needs something to get it moving .. well it is moving , just in the wrong direction : ( I bought some back yesterday at $551. There's your answer.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 10:32:38 GMT -8
Anyone hear anything ?? This news vacuum sucks ... AAPL's got 0 momentum at this point and needs something to get it moving .. well it is moving , just in the wrong direction : ( I bought some back yesterday at $551. There's your answer. Ahhh, the old sell low, buy high trick...I've done that a few times myself
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Post by artman1033 on Feb 19, 2014 10:42:15 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 11:41:32 GMT -8
To lose a bunch more money trying to sell gigabit internet? Personally I would love to have that speed for $70/month, but not if I was a Google shareholder.
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Post by JDSoCal on Feb 19, 2014 12:17:56 GMT -8
Yeah, Google might want to ask Verizon how that FiOS roll out worked for them. Drilling into the ground and laying fiber to get to customers makes Amazon Prime look cheap. Maybe Google and Amazon can split the costs, and build pnuematic tubes to every house for delivery of both physical goods and Internet. Isn't it fun that GOOG gets rewarded for the "light your Cohibas with $100 bills" cash strategy, while Apple returns its money to stockholders and is punished? Ironic how Apple has been able to monetize yet another Woz idea (US Festival). Lame music today is lame. RAMONES Live At Us Festival '82********************** Monthly OpEx tank comes a day early with the holiday...
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Post by Ted on Feb 19, 2014 12:18:10 GMT -8
To lose a bunch more money trying to sell gigabit internet? Personally I would love to have that speed for $70/month, but not if I was a Google shareholder. If Google provides the internet access, then I'm sure there'd be no way to prevent them from capturing a record of everything you'd do online. There'd be no need to avoid Google services cause they'd snag it all anyway... No thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 12:28:29 GMT -8
To lose a bunch more money trying to sell gigabit internet? Personally I would love to have that speed for $70/month, but not if I was a Google shareholder. If Google provides the internet access, then I'm sure there'd be no way to prevent them from capturing a record of everything you'd do online. There'd be no need to avoid Google services cause they'd snag it all anyway... No thanks! And what's stopping every other ISP from gathering the same information and using it to make money? Do you really believe they aren't gathering all this data already? The internet is no longer a free, anonymous space.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 12:30:14 GMT -8
I read somewhere a few weeks ago that Google has surpassed Apple as the most valuable company on earth when you look at Enterprise value...so take Apple and Google's stock price and back out the cash/debt that each has and Google was now worth more than Apple.
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Post by jmolloy on Feb 19, 2014 13:04:43 GMT -8
I read somewhere a few weeks ago that Google has surpassed Apple as the most valuable company on earth when you look at Enterprise value...so take Apple and Google's stock price and back out the cash/debt that each has and Google was now worth more than Apple.
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Post by pauls on Feb 19, 2014 15:44:09 GMT -8
To lose a bunch more money trying to sell gigabit internet? Personally I would love to have that speed for $70/month, but not if I was a Google shareholder. If Google provides the internet access, then I'm sure there'd be no way to prevent them from capturing a record of everything you'd do online. There'd be no need to avoid Google services cause they'd snag it all anyway... No thanks! As much as I distrust Google, I would jump off the Comcast wire in a heartbeat.
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Post by Mav on Feb 19, 2014 15:49:33 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2014 16:15:42 GMT -8
Just protecting their social media turf...very expensively
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Post by appleaddict on Feb 19, 2014 16:27:49 GMT -8
Maybe Tesla will merge with Apple, sending AAPL higher. So tired of this casino.
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Post by bud777 on Feb 19, 2014 17:21:24 GMT -8
Maybe Tesla will merge with Apple, sending AAPL higher. So tired of this casino. I wouldn't bet on a Tesla Apple merger. Think about how apple repeats its mantra of "Focus on a few things and do those right". Do you really see a venture into automobiles as consistent with this? The drama of earnings has been removed by providing a range and hitting it. The drama of new products has been quieted by moving the product cycles to pre Christmas introductions. There is nothing left to move the stock except for these kinds of rumors and if the stock doesn't move, traders don't make money. Personally, i would rather listen to merger rumors than to have them discussing Tim Cook's health ( which I predict will be the next FUD topic..you heard it here first) And no, there is nothing wrong with his health
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Post by phoebear611 on Feb 19, 2014 17:26:49 GMT -8
I and many others scoffed at the Instagram acquisition and Zuck had the last laugh there. Many companies make acquisitions that don't turn out quite like they anticipated (GOOG with MOT) so who knows but I am beginning to trust his judgement more and more. Zuck has grown up a bit this last year and the street has rewarded him thru stock price. I am not saying this is a good or bad acquisition - don't know enough to form an opinion yet but I strongly suspect he knows his space - is aggressive - and is willing to take chances on what he thinks the future will hold and how FB will be interwoven in it. Not bad attributes. Many of us wish TC was a bit more aggressive in general, no? I have lots of reading to catch up on but from all I read, I am encouraged. By the way, the rumor was that GOOG was also aggressively pursuing Whatsapp. Eric Jackson wrote a good piece about them months ago as well. Anyway, I suspect today's retrace in AAPL is associated with some Fib number from the recent high? Anyone care to share the technical reason or was there some FUD on the name I missed. As bad as I feel I'm loving that Putin feels a whole lot worse between the uprisings in Ukraine and the loss / elimination of the Russian men's hockey team with today's loss. Yikes! Would hate to be sitting across from him at dinner tonight...or any night, actually. Oh yeah, one last thing ... I would hate to be sitting in Goldman banking right now. You damn well know someone is walking the plank for missing this deal!
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Post by appleaddict on Feb 19, 2014 17:45:58 GMT -8
Maybe Tesla will merge with Apple, sending AAPL higher. So tired of this casino. I wouldn't bet on a Tesla Apple merger. Think about how apple repeats its mantra of "Focus on a few things and do those right". Do you really see a venture into automobiles as consistent with this? The drama of earnings has been removed by providing a range and hitting it. The drama of new products has been quieted by moving the product cycles to pre Christmas introductions. There is nothing left to move the stock except for these kinds of rumors and if the stock doesn't move, traders don't make money. Personally, i would rather listen to merger rumors than to have them discussing Tim Cook's health ( which I predict will be the next FUD topic..you heard it here first) And no, there is nothing wrong with his health Sorry Bud, that was nothing but sarcasm. Tesla up 15% after earnings, and Apple down $14 for no apparent reason. Apple could certainly use some of that mojo. And I wouldn't say the drama of earnings has been removed when a $55-drop occurs after the announcement. Cramming all your new products into one quarter and not being able to meet demand doesn't seem like no drama either.
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Post by macwire on Feb 19, 2014 19:21:08 GMT -8
I wouldn't bet on a Tesla Apple merger. Think about how apple repeats its mantra of "Focus on a few things and do those right". Do you really see a venture into automobiles as consistent with this? The drama of earnings has been removed by providing a range and hitting it. The drama of new products has been quieted by moving the product cycles to pre Christmas introductions. There is nothing left to move the stock except for these kinds of rumors and if the stock doesn't move, traders don't make money. Personally, i would rather listen to merger rumors than to have them discussing Tim Cook's health ( which I predict will be the next FUD topic..you heard it here first) And no, there is nothing wrong with his health Sorry Bud, that was nothing but sarcasm. Tesla up 15% after earnings, and Apple down $14 for no apparent reason. Apple could certainly use some of that mojo. And I wouldn't say the drama of earnings has been removed when a $55-drop occurs after the announcement. Cramming all your new products into one quarter and not being able to meet demand doesn't seem like no drama either. aapl moved 40 handles in a weeks worth of time. it needed some rest and to work off some of its overbought"ness"
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