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In its entire history as a public entity, Twitter has had four earnings reports, and for all four of those, there has been a big price gap. Earnings yesterday after the close were no exception, and I was cheerfully short the stock (I thank Slopers for chattering so much about it, since it didn’t even occur to me to short the stock until you guys chimed in). One wonders if the day will come that Twitter’s earnings don’t shock the market in one direction or the other. I’ve covered.
I was talking yesterday about the 1976 SPX target and the trendline resistance that may well be there. SPX is likely to gap up today and we will see whether that target is hit today and if so, whether the trendline holds. SPX daily chart:
These videos are not “news”, but they are quite interesting.
The first one, from early in 2009, shows Congressman Alan Grayson grilling Donald Kohn (of the Federal Reserve, in case it wasn’t screamingly obvious already) about where the $1.2 trillion of taxpayer money was sent (we all know the answer – Goldman Sachs – but it’s fun watching Kohn-head squirm anyway).
