Stock Trading

Futures pointed to a slightly lower open, and that’s what we got. On a day with no economic news, the S&P 500 stuttered for the first ninety minutes and then rallied to its intraday high, up 0.43 percent, at midday. It then sold off to its -0.13 percent intraday low at 2 PM. An afternoon effort to get back into the green met with little success, and the index closed the day with a fractional loss of 0.07 percent. Explanations in the popular financial press blamed today’s malaise on Fed talk of tapering of QE and the fears of the “C” word (correction worries). Here is a 5-minute look at today’s action: Volume today was 14 percent below its 50-day moving average, so market bulls can take comfort in the relative indifference to whatever motivated today’s market malaise. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! The S&P 500 is now up 16.84 percent for 2013 and 0.07 percent below the all-time closing high of May 17.  Doug Short Ph.d is the author of dshort at Advisor Perspectives. Don’t Miss: Is the IRS Corrupt or Just Incompetent? Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Zoom Technologies, Inc. (ZOOM) Q1 2013 Earnings Call May 20, 2013 06:00 pm ET Executives Patrick Wong – Vice President-Corporate Finance Anthony K. Chan – Chief Financial Officer & Director Presentation Operator Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Q1 2013 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) I must advice you that this conference is being recorded today, Tuesday the 21st of May 2013. Now I’d like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mr. Patrick Wong, Vice President of Corporate Finance. Thank you, please go ahead. Patrick Wong Thank you operator. Thank you for joining Zoom Technologies for its first quarter 2013 earnings conference call. My name is Patrick Wong, Vice President of Finance. Welcome back everybody. We will recap our results

hhgregg (HGG) Q4 2013 Earnings Call May 20, 2013 5:00 pm ET Executives Andy Giesler - Vice President of Finance Dennis L. May - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Jeremy J. Aguilar - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Corporate Secretary Analysts Daniel T. Binder - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division Michael Lasser - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Gregory S. Melich - ISI Group Inc., Research Division Bradley B. Thomas - KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division David S. Strasser - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division Christopher Horvers - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division David A. Schick - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division Brian W. Nagel - Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division David G. Magee - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Research Division Peter J. Keith - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division Gary Balter - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division Presentation

Urban Outfitters (URBN) Q1 2014 Earnings Call May 20, 2013 5:00 pm ET Executives Oona McCullough - Director of Investor Relations Francis J. Conforti - Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller David W. McCreight - Chief Executive Officer of Anthropologie Group Richard A. Hayne - Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President Tedford G. Marlow - Chief Executive Officer of Urban Outfitters Group David Hayne Analysts Kimberly C. Greenberger - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Janet Kloppenburg Adrienne Tennant - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division Lindsay Drucker Mann - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Lorraine Maikis Hutchinson - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division Marni Shapiro - The Retail Tracker Paul Lejuez - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Matthew McClintock - Barclays Capital, Research Division Erika K. Maschmeyer - Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division Oliver Chen - Citigroup Inc,

The rumor mill keeps chugging along as more information on the supposed iWatch has come out. Foxconn could be producing a small batch soon Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) to test. The rumors have been floating around for a while. Smartphones and tablets took the mobile world over, but wearable devices haven’t been explored as thoroughly, and it’s been suggested time and time again that Apple would be making a smartwatch. In March, Samsung (SSNLF.PK) went ahead and announced that it plans to make one. Meanwhile Sony (NYSE:SNE) has actually already made some smartwatches, though with very limited success. Is Apple now a once-in-a-decade buying opportunity? Click here to get your 24-page Ultimate Cheat Sheet to Apple’s Stock now! Despite Apple saying nothing about developing a watch — as secrecy has been one of the company’s longstanding traits — much of the hype around wearables has been surrounding an Apple iWatch. The rumors do go pretty deep, adding a sense of probability to them. One Japanese blog, Macotakara, cited to reports in Taiwan’s Economic Daily News that suggested an iWatch was going into limited production, like that required by a trial phase. However, the news source is not always accurate with its information and predictions, with a track record a bit spottier than that of KGI Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Many believe there’s a good bit of money to be made in a smartwatch industry. Some estimates put the smartwatch market at $6 billion by 2016. With Apple commanding a strong share of the smartphone and tablet industry, it’s likely that it could also snag a large share of the new watch market, assuming it is actually going to launch a device. One survey showed that consumers are already more excited about an iWatch than they were about iPads or Macs that ran on Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) components prior to the launch of such devices. Of the consumers surveyed, 19 percent showed interest in buying an iWatch. One surprising bit of information is that the iWatch could be utilizing Organic Light Emitting Diode technology, which Apple has long been expect to use but never has. The technology would seem practical for something as small as a watch, as it requires less power than the display technologies in other devices. It was also suggested that the screens would be 1.5 inches in size after tests of a 1.8-inch display found the screen to be too large. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! As all details remain rumors, it’s hard to say just what can truly be expected from Apple, but it might be even harder to think Apple won’t come out with a smartwatch. Follow Mark on Twitter (@WallStMarkSheet) Don’t Miss: When It Comes To Retail, No One Is Better Than Apple. Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Macquarie Infrastructure Company LLC. (MIC) 2013 Annual Shareholder Meeting Conference Call May 20, 2013 5:30 pm ET Executives Jay Davis – Managing Director, Investor Relations John Roberts – Chairman Michael Kernan – General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Presentation Jay Davis Good afternoon, welcome to the Macquarie Infrastructure Company Annual Meeting of Shareholders. I am Jay Davis, Head of Investor Relations for the Company. Before turning the proceedings over to the Chairman of the MIC Board of Directors, let me remind you that this presentation by Macquarie Infrastructure Company is proprietary and all rights are reserved. Any recording, rebroadcast or other use of this presentation in whole or in part without the prior written consent of Macquarie Infrastructure Company is prohibited. Today’s presentation has been prepared solely for information purposes, it is not a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any security or instrument. You may have questions for

One thing that most energy analysts can probably agree on is that oil and natural gas reserves aren't getting any easier to discover, or extract from the earth. The obstacles are only increasing, from the pure location of the natural resource, to the political barriers being established to wean ourselves off of our fossil fuel addiction. However, another notion I think most energy analysts can agree on is that fossil fuels will continue to play a vital role in fueling global growth for decades to come.With that in mind, we have developed a longer-term structural theme in the energy services sector for clients in our opportunistic growth portfolio. It recaptured my attention today due to a notable outperformance in energy services ETFs vs. the rest of the market. This was more than likely due to the affirmation of a positive outlook from the energy analysts over at

TiVo (TIVO) Q1 2014 Earnings Call May 20, 2013 5:00 pm ET Executives Derrick Nueman - Investor Relations Executive Thomas S. Rogers - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Naveen Chopra - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategy Matthew Zinn - Chief Privacy Officer, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Analysts Michael J. Olson - Piper Jaffray Companies, Research Division David W. Miller - Caris & Company, Inc., Research Division Anthony Wible - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division Todd T. Mitchell - Brean Capital LLC, Research Division Brian Patrick Fitzgerald - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division Barton E. Crockett - Lazard Capital Markets LLC, Research Division Richard Tullo - Albert Fried & Company, LLC, Research Division Perry Huang - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Daniel Ernst - Hudson Square Research, Inc. Alan S. Gould - Evercore Partners Inc., Research

So, what did the market want today? Nothing it appears. It traded on weak volume and had very little movement. This morning, the market hated commodities especially silver, but by day's end, the market liked silver, gold and even oil, but not the dollar. Why?Last week, the economic reports were tough, with bad misses on more than one occasion. But the market tended to ignore the bad news, probably because money continues to pour into equities from money market funds, long-term fixed income, and many struggling foreign economies. On Thursday, investors finally caved to even more bad news from Initial Jobless Claims and weak Housing Starts. Then on Friday, when Michigan Sentiment and Leading Indicators posted large positive surprises, the money came pouring back to generate quite a positive week for all the leading domestic indices with Small-cap Growth leading the way, up 2.6% for the week. The Russell

GSV Capital Corp. (GSVC) 14th Annual B. Riley & Co. Investor Conference Transcript May 20, 2013 5:00 PM ET Executives Michael Moe - Chairman, President and CEO Analysts Presentation Unidentified Analyst Yeah. So, I’ll do quick intro. GSV Capital, ticker is GSVC. And we have here Michael Moe, if you recollect, he is the person who call [Sorbert] called back in ’80. And GSV Capital, they make investments in pre-IPO, VC-backed companies. We just saw Keating Capital, so I guess, it will be interesting how this contrast with it. And with that, I’ll hand over to you. Michael Moe Great. Thanks so much, [Jeff]. So, [Tim], coming out here, it seems like he was in one piece, so maybe like him have equal success, so it will be good. So in terms of GSV, just quickly, GSV stands for Global Silicon Valley. We are based in the heart of Silicon