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It's funny how when analysts predict earnings, they predict earnings excluding any potential one time losses, options expenses, etc. To be objective, why don't they also say excluding one time beneficial tax rate or currency exchange rate changes. Don't hear that much eh? But, when...

The positive: Ironically, it's a good thing that analyst got shorts out early. If not it would've probably gapped 20%.

Thanks for these replies. I just read something in stocks and commodities that blew my mind about fractal generators. Almost makes elliot waves looks objective. Too bad elliot waves != fractals, although it's followers will eventually try to make the connection.

flow ("you can kiss my grits")

deja vu? http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/22/HNgoogleconfuse_1.html?PORTALS these analysts/companies needs to start making consistent metrics for reporting earnings :mad:

google response looking suspiciously muted like ebay yesterday. Funny how QQQQ keeps soaring, while reporting components are fizzling.

http://208.234.169.12/vb/showthread.php?threadid=44638

look up dynamic charting on google. You can use a macro with vba to scale and zoom in on time axis.

another blow..... http://www.wnbc.com/news/12339359/detail.html massive system failure Maybe the relays broke down after too many halts following bad news.

Is it even possible for them to do bad? The analysts lowered the bar so low (.11c), they'd have to do worse than they did over 9 quarters ago to be below that. The only thing I can picture being bad is the market reaction. Anything worse than .11c would be unbelievably bad.

If you had a half a mind to use a little logic, you'd see that my perception is not that far from your own. One of my points in showing this is that the market participants don't seem to care if the CPI/PPI etc.. are bad, and that they are not driving it inline with the way you would logically...

ok, here's a recap for the cpi and last interpretation by market. Futures were down S&P -4.9 NAS -8.25 DIW -4.1 Nas dropped lower, then had the typical miracle rebound later in the day. This held for a few days... to new high... then the big surprise drop. It could...

"With annual inflation running at nearly 150%, and with interest rates fixed at well below this level, investors are left with few other choices of where to put their money." Yeah, but if you look at core inflation minus food and gas it was only 1%. :D

Google needs a quick boost in ad clicking numbers to keep up with expectations IMHO. What better timing. Write off the acquisition costs and add the clicks.

As mentioned earlier, self similarity abounds all over the place in indexes. However, past is no guarantee of future: thus the nature of 'similar'. There are many patterns that look identical over history, then completely diverge. So far the general shape similarity is loosely tracking.

all the consumer confidence indexes dropped. PPI up sharply (but only if you include gas and food... who needs that?). FED utters some words about economy isn't slowing. Gee doesn't that further corroborate inflation on rise? All great news says the timed market surge.

I tend to agree with makloda here. Markets do not follow news, (I think they follow opposite of net retail client order flow, personally). Just look at last PPI interpretation -- a huge jump over expectations in inflation -- how did markets react?

looks like she finally cratered.

inflation growing + economy slowing + consumer confidence tanked 2X in row + death of double digit gains after 4.5 years + market making new 4 yr highs + steepening yield curve inversion great combo = more upside 100%!!! The fed actually acknowledged inflation growing and economy...

Why can't they make standards less gray? To my understanding, estimates are based on diluted share, whereby the estimate was decreased to .75c/share. The actual diluted eps was .75c/share. According to yahoo, cons est was... .78 30 days ago .77 7 days ago .75 today seems convenient to...