Wells Fargo’s (WFC) shares are up 8% on strong volume. The bank stock should be trading down along with Citigroup (C) and Wachovia (WB). Due to the perverse reasoning of traders, Well…
Short interest in a number of financial stocks moved up very sharply for the period ending August 29. Shares short in Washington Mutual (WM) rose 12% to 383 million. Short interest in…
Short sellers believe that they have seen the bottom for financial shares and exited the industry en masse. Shares sold short in Merrill Lynch (MER) fell 12.6 million to 42.3 million. Short…
This morning there was a rather long CNBC interview where Becky Quick got to interview Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK-A) Warren Buffett live in Omaha. He noted specifically that the economic weakness was…
These are the last of Warren Buffett’s and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) holdings as of June 30, 2008: Torchmark Corp. (NYSE: TMK) more than 3.51 million shares in multiple lots US…
Shorts sellers suffered from a lack of conviction on the direction of financial stocks in the period that ended July 31. They were clear that betting against tech was no longer a…
At the start of the year, many Wall St. analysts and much of the media give the impression that the current financial crisis would pull down all large US banks and brokerages.…
These are not all of the analyst downgrades or negative calls affecting shares, but these are some of the calls impacting shares pre-market this Thursday morning: Albany Molecular (NASDAQ: AMRI) Cut to…
The short interest in most financial and industrial companies rose sharply for the period ending June 30. Shares sold short in Washington Mutrual (WM) rose 21.6 million to 276.4 million. Short interest…
US home foreclosures moved up 49% in May, compared with the same month a year ago. Figures from RealtyTrac show that "One in every 483 U.S. households received a foreclosure filing in…
Short sellers sharply increased their bets against big US banks based on data from the NYSE as of May 30. The number compare with those onMay 15. Short interest in Washington Mutual…
After today’s close, we saw the filing showing which stocks Warren Buffett held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) at the cut off date of March 31, 2008. This is a…
Not all financial shares are created equal, at least no according to short bets made on NYSE companies for the period ending. April 30 compared to numbers on April 15. Short interest…
Consumers and businesses are faced with two difficult problems as a result of major banks taking huge write-offs. The first is that, even though the Fed is chopping rates, lower interest loans…
The mid-month reports on short interest in NYSE shares showed that many short sellers moved out of big financial stocks but made large bets against airlines and auto companies. With the prices…
