IBM!   

Waahh..Very lucky.. you've dodged the bullet.   

It will take a lot of confidence to hold thru earnings..that's why sometimes, you have to wait till after they announce earnings to buy if the stock is volatile. If the stock already seen the big move before the earnings, the expectation is they must beat otherwise it will be severely punished. 

Next week.. AAPL to watch.  Low expectation here. 

I guess they're not scare of bird flu huh..? Eating more chicken... 

Looks like the bull wants to push it to green....

I somehow feeling more bullish actually. Cook's decision to mark it as now a mature company (who pays good dividend with share buyback) is reasonable. It's better to be reasonable and as a common person than to be a stubborn common person (since Cook knows he's not Job, he's just ordinary). So Apple will no longer a legend as before, but still a brand that produced great (if not best) quality gadgets. This is good enough for a company to sustain. 

Apple kind of flat.....the fight still on going kah? 

i read that amazon's valuation is so damn high!

maybe no sell in may syndrome this year.
maybe still too early to tell.

The market always surprises people.. when you least expect it, it will happen and when you most anticipate it, it won't happen or.. as some would claim that as .."we're not wrong, we just too early". 

Yeah.. I wish too because any hints of slowing purchasing may bring out some bears.

But, I think it may short live. The bulls have multiplied.

Fed still got the foot to the accelerator. $85 bln/month.. $102bln/year it keeps
going until the printing machines run out of oil. 

No resolution but just fact finding by those slowpokes in Washington.

It is nothing really illegal but they are taking advantage of the avoidance to pay hefty tax (35%) by not repatriating their massive cash earnings and leaving it with their oversea corp (AOI in Ireland) so that they can re-invest back into their oversea stores.
Also, as they already acted, they would rather BORROW money at 2% interest and for share buy back and dividends than pay hefty tax on CASH that they already have to repatriate back to US.

Not AAPL doing it but others like GOOG, MSFT, GE, CSCO and other multinational also doing the same thing.
The problem is really the US corporate tax code to be blamed. 

The Chinese govt actually has pretty good corporate business environment and their tax rate is reasonable - that's why they're able to attract a lot of business. They only issue is they tend to favor their own rather than be open and fair to multinationals when it comes to certain services, - pretty much monopolistic and protective (just like Malaysia) and IP protection is very lacking.

As for Chinese investors, most of them don't want to invest in their stock markets (like the Shanghai Stk Exchange) because they themselves don't trust it (irregular accounting scandals). A lot of the midsize to big Chinese companies choose to be listed in Nasdaq and NYSE instead. They got tons of USD and no where else to go but USA to spend it. 

China no need print money already got so much money. 

though the bigger risk now is the market fear of QE ending. that time, graph pattern all no use, straight line dropping. 

Seem like u have Fed's  insider information 

Which stock to buy 

YES!!! INTC rally

Funny thing is, this morning Asian market opened green and then turns red later.
Then, Euro market opened green and turns red til now.
Now, US market opened green also. So....repeat same style?