When are the dates that one should look out for?

Been away from U.S news for awhile,

Will there be a confirmation that there will be results on 27th Feb?
I think there was one time that there was no results during the last announcement which result in a government shutdown, was it?

I prefer to watch Ben leh. He looks powerful and more star-like, watching him is like watching a movie star speaks. This Yellen hor....less attractive. 

So tapering intact, low interest rate intact. Market continues as it is = boring market. 

yes, the debt ceiling seems to be raised unconditionally !!! AWESOME !!!

from the internet : -

Like her predecessor, Ms. Yellen indicated the Fed plans to remain data dependent in its decision making and that measured tapering will continue unless economic data takes a turn for the worse. When asked about the impact of the disappointing jobs reports for December and January on the Fed's reaction function, Ms. Yellen said it would be premature to alter policy based on a limited sample size.

In other news from Washington, all signs pointed to the House of Representatives being ready to pass an unconditional bill to raise the debt ceiling, which likely contributed to the market's sunny disposition

As Dan said ... buy buy buy? dare not wor .... wait a bit la.

congrats! 100% already? 

sell on news, love it! 

only added some Apple last week at 505 range. I kiasi, so wait for a deeper dip to buy more.   
you are looking at new high? that's good to know. 

Debt Ceiling Limit issue is off the table till March 2015, as the new legislation came in force. 
IMHO Add more portfolios should there be any good discount and QE will be continue till Q2 2015.
Near zero interest rate will be continued for long period... Monday market is off for President's day.

all time high region, quite scary. 

dows futures had been low to flat the whole afternoon prior to the opening bell, probably awaiting the fed minutes. an hour into the open things are quite green, except my twtr. yeak.

bears are trying but it seems the 30-day inverted head and shoulders is stronger, maybe attempting to hit 16.4k again? don play play ... scared le

FB bull is really strong! Everyone down he still hard stick up. 

at what price will you buy...hehe
or you wouldn't

Hope this acquisition will be a big correction...hehe

I think what will get most investors worried is how WhatsApp is able to make back that money.

For what I understand Whatsapp charge 0.99 cents on their per pay service,
which current 300million users only they might make 300million dollars, but 19billion?
There is no adds or anything like that in whatsapp from what I understand.
They might develop it further since Mark Zuckerberg fail to purchase SnapChat

What I hear from bloomberg this afternoon is that Only 2% of americans uses Whatsapp, most of them just prefer to use text messages. But in Europe, South East Asia, users are up to about 80++%

China on the other hand has a very low user rate as well due to WeChat , and Korean they have their own Chat App as well.

So based on the 2% of Americans and with FB's publicity on Whatsapp, there is a very high chance it can grow.

If I remember correctly, its a very low percentage...
Did some google search and.. The link here says 9%...
http://engineeringfukrey.com/how-does-whatsapp-earn-money/

Most Europe and Latin Americas are above 90%
I think countries like Malaysia, Singapore too uses them, but not in the list .. too kuuchi

Well, maybe Whatsapp is not properly promoted in USA

Edit
Oh yeah. they said USA uses blackberry messenger, but it went south with Blackberry formally RIM

The valuation is 1 year ahead. At current growth rate of above 1m new uers a day, their estimation is reaching 1b active users in 12 months time. So the income is 1b, and so the PE is 19x.

For me, I won't see it as expensive, really, even if it couldn't give back any profit. Now there is profit, that's a bonus actually. The buying is most benefit from users base protection (if not increment). The highest value on any social network platform is user base, only that can give advertising/trading etc. value to the company.

However, as I said before, I still couldn't understand FB's business model and find this business very high risk since any day when a new cool platform emerge, people will just dump you and switch over to that one because they have nothing to lose and it's easy to switch system since the learning curve is very small, unlike smartphone (many loyal android/iphone users prefer to keep to the same system when they upgrade their phone). So FB is only good for traders, not good for investors (cannot sleep at night). 

wow! nice trade there! since rumors on Apple merging Tesla, I started watching it a little, this unpredictable new boy in town.