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2021-06-14

Doesn’t look like promising stocks..

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2021-06-12

$ContextLogic Inc.(WISH)$Looks like no more squeeze lol

2021-02-01

Sigh sad case

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2021-06-14

Oil oil recovering soon!

Oil holds near multi-year highs amid demand recovery

2021-01-29

This is how market should work, but right now it seems like the hedge fund managers are playing foul together with brokers.

GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'

2021-01-27

Nice future for Microsoft

Microsoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time

2021-01-27

Singapore stocks move so slow...

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cycle'\n\n","content":"<html><body><font class=\"NormalMinus1\" face=\"Arial\">\n<p>\nMW GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n</p>\n<p>\n  By William Watts \n</p>\n<p>\n  'Comatose' value investing a bigger factor than Reddit users: DataTrek's Colas \n</p>\n<p>\n  Forget about David vs. Goliath. \n</p>\n<p>\n  The battle between day traders and short sellers over GameStop Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GME\">$(GME)$</a> that's blotting out everything else on Wall Street this week offers up an important but much more lasting and practical lesson for investors, according to Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here's the lesson: \"Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle.\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  In a Thursday note, Colas recalled that, as the firm had flagged in December, holiday retail spending and Google search interest in GameStop, the videgame retailer, did not look horrible. \n</p>\n<p>\n   \"'Not horrible' is good enough when capital markets are rallying due to optimism over the future,\" Colas said. And that's what stocks were doing as they extended the rebound from the early 2020 pandemic selloff to push further into record territory in the new year, buoyed by continued optimism over COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Plenty of supposedly sophisticated investors ignored that lesson, at least when it came to GameStop, where short interest exceeded 100% of the company's float. That made it an obvious target for investors looking to foster a short squeeze. \n</p>\n<p>\n  See:This chart shows the most-shorted stocks have seen the biggest gains since the end of last year  \n</p>\n<p>\n  GameStop's meteoric rally was kicked off by individual investors targeting those short sellers. While that offered a new wrinkle, such squeezes, in which a rising stock price forces short sellers to cover their positions, creating a feedback loop, are old hat on Wall Street. \n</p>\n<p>\n  \"Retail investor wolf packs are new, but if you've ever sat on a hedge fund trading desk you know squeezing shorts has been a Wall Street blood sport for decades,\" Colas said. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Explainer: How an options-trading frenzy is lifting stocks and stirring fears of a market bubble  \n</p>\n<p>\n  GameStop shares were swinging wildly between gains and losses Thursday  and were recently down around 24% after having quintupled between Friday and Wednesday. They remain up more than 1,300% since the start of the new year. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Major U.S. stock indexes tumbled Wednesday as beleaguered short sellers were forced to liquidate profitable long positions to raise capital, but rebounded sharply  on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average  up around 575 points, or 1.9%, and the S&amp;P 500  up 2%. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Read: How will this wild GameStop saga end? The ghosts of trading catastrophes past offer clues  \n</p>\n<p>\n  But Colas also played down the role of Reddit-inspired day traders, arguing that the \"comatose state\" of value investing, a strategy that's been on the ropes for over a decade, offered a compelling explanation for the market's initial underpricing of GameStop. \n</p>\n<p>\n  After all, buying \"lousy assets\" at the bottom used to be the bread and butter for value investors, who made fortunes in the early 1990s off that exact strategy. Colas wondered if investor obsession with growth stocks ended up weakening the market's ability to accurately price the option value of subpar companies that managed to survive 2020, or if perhaps \"there just aren't enough value players left to balance markets any more...\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  -William Watts; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n</p>\n<pre>\n \n</pre>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/END\">$(END)$</a> Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  January 28, 2021 12:56 ET (17:56 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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}\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nGameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-01-29 01:56</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><body><font class=\"NormalMinus1\" face=\"Arial\">\n<p>\nMW GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n</p>\n<p>\n  By William Watts \n</p>\n<p>\n  'Comatose' value investing a bigger factor than Reddit users: DataTrek's Colas \n</p>\n<p>\n  Forget about David vs. Goliath. \n</p>\n<p>\n  The battle between day traders and short sellers over GameStop Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GME\">$(GME)$</a> that's blotting out everything else on Wall Street this week offers up an important but much more lasting and practical lesson for investors, according to Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here's the lesson: \"Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle.\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  In a Thursday note, Colas recalled that, as the firm had flagged in December, holiday retail spending and Google search interest in GameStop, the videgame retailer, did not look horrible. \n</p>\n<p>\n   \"'Not horrible' is good enough when capital markets are rallying due to optimism over the future,\" Colas said. And that's what stocks were doing as they extended the rebound from the early 2020 pandemic selloff to push further into record territory in the new year, buoyed by continued optimism over COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Plenty of supposedly sophisticated investors ignored that lesson, at least when it came to GameStop, where short interest exceeded 100% of the company's float. That made it an obvious target for investors looking to foster a short squeeze. \n</p>\n<p>\n  See:This chart shows the most-shorted stocks have seen the biggest gains since the end of last year  \n</p>\n<p>\n  GameStop's meteoric rally was kicked off by individual investors targeting those short sellers. While that offered a new wrinkle, such squeezes, in which a rising stock price forces short sellers to cover their positions, creating a feedback loop, are old hat on Wall Street. \n</p>\n<p>\n  \"Retail investor wolf packs are new, but if you've ever sat on a hedge fund trading desk you know squeezing shorts has been a Wall Street blood sport for decades,\" Colas said. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Explainer: How an options-trading frenzy is lifting stocks and stirring fears of a market bubble  \n</p>\n<p>\n  GameStop shares were swinging wildly between gains and losses Thursday  and were recently down around 24% after having quintupled between Friday and Wednesday. They remain up more than 1,300% since the start of the new year. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Major U.S. stock indexes tumbled Wednesday as beleaguered short sellers were forced to liquidate profitable long positions to raise capital, but rebounded sharply  on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average  up around 575 points, or 1.9%, and the S&amp;P 500  up 2%. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Read: How will this wild GameStop saga end? The ghosts of trading catastrophes past offer clues  \n</p>\n<p>\n  But Colas also played down the role of Reddit-inspired day traders, arguing that the \"comatose state\" of value investing, a strategy that's been on the ropes for over a decade, offered a compelling explanation for the market's initial underpricing of GameStop. \n</p>\n<p>\n  After all, buying \"lousy assets\" at the bottom used to be the bread and butter for value investors, who made fortunes in the early 1990s off that exact strategy. Colas wondered if investor obsession with growth stocks ended up weakening the market's ability to accurately price the option value of subpar companies that managed to survive 2020, or if perhaps \"there just aren't enough value players left to balance markets any more...\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  -William Watts; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n</p>\n<pre>\n \n</pre>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/END\">$(END)$</a> Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  January 28, 2021 12:56 ET (17:56 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站"},"source_url":"http://dowjonesnews.com/newdjn/logon.aspx?AL=N","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2107260058","content_text":"MW GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n\n\n  By William Watts \n\n\n  'Comatose' value investing a bigger factor than Reddit users: DataTrek's Colas \n\n\n  Forget about David vs. Goliath. \n\n\n  The battle between day traders and short sellers over GameStop Corp. $(GME)$ that's blotting out everything else on Wall Street this week offers up an important but much more lasting and practical lesson for investors, according to Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. \n\n\n  Here's the lesson: \"Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle.\" \n\n\n  In a Thursday note, Colas recalled that, as the firm had flagged in December, holiday retail spending and Google search interest in GameStop, the videgame retailer, did not look horrible. \n\n\n   \"'Not horrible' is good enough when capital markets are rallying due to optimism over the future,\" Colas said. And that's what stocks were doing as they extended the rebound from the early 2020 pandemic selloff to push further into record territory in the new year, buoyed by continued optimism over COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. \n\n\n  Plenty of supposedly sophisticated investors ignored that lesson, at least when it came to GameStop, where short interest exceeded 100% of the company's float. That made it an obvious target for investors looking to foster a short squeeze. \n\n\n  See:This chart shows the most-shorted stocks have seen the biggest gains since the end of last year  \n\n\n  GameStop's meteoric rally was kicked off by individual investors targeting those short sellers. While that offered a new wrinkle, such squeezes, in which a rising stock price forces short sellers to cover their positions, creating a feedback loop, are old hat on Wall Street. \n\n\n  \"Retail investor wolf packs are new, but if you've ever sat on a hedge fund trading desk you know squeezing shorts has been a Wall Street blood sport for decades,\" Colas said. \n\n\n  Explainer: How an options-trading frenzy is lifting stocks and stirring fears of a market bubble  \n\n\n  GameStop shares were swinging wildly between gains and losses Thursday  and were recently down around 24% after having quintupled between Friday and Wednesday. They remain up more than 1,300% since the start of the new year. \n\n\n  Major U.S. stock indexes tumbled Wednesday as beleaguered short sellers were forced to liquidate profitable long positions to raise capital, but rebounded sharply  on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average  up around 575 points, or 1.9%, and the S&P 500  up 2%. \n\n\n  Read: How will this wild GameStop saga end? The ghosts of trading catastrophes past offer clues  \n\n\n  But Colas also played down the role of Reddit-inspired day traders, arguing that the \"comatose state\" of value investing, a strategy that's been on the ropes for over a decade, offered a compelling explanation for the market's initial underpricing of GameStop. \n\n\n  After all, buying \"lousy assets\" at the bottom used to be the bread and butter for value investors, who made fortunes in the early 1990s off that exact strategy. Colas wondered if investor obsession with growth stocks ended up weakening the market's ability to accurately price the option value of subpar companies that managed to survive 2020, or if perhaps \"there just aren't enough value players left to balance markets any more...\" \n\n\n  -William Watts; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n\n\n \n\n\n$(END)$ Dow Jones Newswires\n\n\n  January 28, 2021 12:56 ET (17:56 GMT)\n\n\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":161,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":313238924,"gmtCreate":1611719208768,"gmtModify":1704862333124,"author":{"id":"3574080932463726","authorId":"3574080932463726","name":"YY11223344","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bf3abdaa143ded31970008110743d90c","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Nice future for Microsoft","listText":"Nice future for Microsoft","text":"Nice future for Microsoft","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/313238924","repostId":"2106177402","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2106177402","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":0,"media_name":"Dow Jones","id":"106","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"pubTimestamp":1611711540,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2106177402?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-01-27 09:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Microsoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2106177402","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday period","content":"<p>Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday period</p><p>Microsoft Corp. blew away earnings expectations Tuesday as it surpassed $40 billion in sales and $15 billion in profit in a quarter for the first time, sending shares up from their record closing price.</p><p>Microsoft <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">$(MSFT)$</a> has found strong gains during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies rely on cloud computing from Azure and cloud-software offerings like Teams to keep employees connected while they work from home. Sales in the cloud and personal-computer segments led the way in Tuesday's report, easily beating expectations as demand for PCs and remote computing power continued through the end of 2020.</p><p>In the holiday quarter, Microsoft reported earnings of $15.46 billion, or $2.03 a share, on sales of  $43.1 billion, strong growth from the same quarter a year ago, when Microsoft reported earnings of $1.51 a share on sales of $36.9 billion. Analysts on average expected Microsoft to report fiscal second-quarter earnings of $1.64 a share on revenue of $40.23 billion.</p><p>Shares jumped 4% in after-hours trading following the announcement, after the stock established a new all-time closing high of $232.33 in the regular session, topping a previous record from Sept. 2, 2020. Microsoft stock has increased 40.8% in the past 12 months, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Microsoft as a component -- has increased 6.8%.</p><p>The product that has most excited investors and analysts in recent years has been Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing rival to Amazon.com Inc.'s <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> Amazon Web Services, or AWS.  The company said Tuesday that Azure grew 50% in the second quarter -- Microsoft does not provide actual financial performance of Azure even as rivals such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">$(GOOGL)$</a>(GOOGL) break out the performance of their cloud-computing offerings -- and that sales in its \"intelligent cloud\" segment grew to $14.6 billion from $11.87 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.</p><p>\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"</p><p>Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. Azure growth had been slowing steadily, and Microsoft reported growth of 48% and 47% in the two previous quarters; Ives said expectations were closer to 44% to 45%.</p><p>Microsoft is \"firing on all cylinders and these numbers start to drive the stock to a $2 trillion market cap,\" Ives said.</p><p>As personal-computer sales spiked due to work-from-home needs and Microsoft began selling new Xbox consoles in the holiday season, sales in Microsoft's \"more personal computing\" segment grew to $15.12 billion from $13.21 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Analysts on average expected segment sales of $13.47 billion.  Microsoft said that revenue from Xbox grew 40% in the quarter, while sales of its Surface lines of PCs increased 3%.</p><p>Microsoft's \"productivity and business services\" division, which includes cloud software assets such as its Office suite as well as LinkedIn and other properties, reported revenue of $13.35 billion, up from  $11.83 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected sales of $12.89 billion.</p><p>For the fiscal third quarter, Microsoft projected sales topping $40 billion yet again, with guidance for $40.35 billion to $41.25 billion. Analysts on average were projecting revenue of $38.74 billion ahead of the report.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Microsoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nMicrosoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-01-27 09:39</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday period</p><p>Microsoft Corp. blew away earnings expectations Tuesday as it surpassed $40 billion in sales and $15 billion in profit in a quarter for the first time, sending shares up from their record closing price.</p><p>Microsoft <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">$(MSFT)$</a> has found strong gains during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies rely on cloud computing from Azure and cloud-software offerings like Teams to keep employees connected while they work from home. Sales in the cloud and personal-computer segments led the way in Tuesday's report, easily beating expectations as demand for PCs and remote computing power continued through the end of 2020.</p><p>In the holiday quarter, Microsoft reported earnings of $15.46 billion, or $2.03 a share, on sales of  $43.1 billion, strong growth from the same quarter a year ago, when Microsoft reported earnings of $1.51 a share on sales of $36.9 billion. Analysts on average expected Microsoft to report fiscal second-quarter earnings of $1.64 a share on revenue of $40.23 billion.</p><p>Shares jumped 4% in after-hours trading following the announcement, after the stock established a new all-time closing high of $232.33 in the regular session, topping a previous record from Sept. 2, 2020. Microsoft stock has increased 40.8% in the past 12 months, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Microsoft as a component -- has increased 6.8%.</p><p>The product that has most excited investors and analysts in recent years has been Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing rival to Amazon.com Inc.'s <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> Amazon Web Services, or AWS.  The company said Tuesday that Azure grew 50% in the second quarter -- Microsoft does not provide actual financial performance of Azure even as rivals such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">$(GOOGL)$</a>(GOOGL) break out the performance of their cloud-computing offerings -- and that sales in its \"intelligent cloud\" segment grew to $14.6 billion from $11.87 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.</p><p>\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"</p><p>Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. Azure growth had been slowing steadily, and Microsoft reported growth of 48% and 47% in the two previous quarters; Ives said expectations were closer to 44% to 45%.</p><p>Microsoft is \"firing on all cylinders and these numbers start to drive the stock to a $2 trillion market cap,\" Ives said.</p><p>As personal-computer sales spiked due to work-from-home needs and Microsoft began selling new Xbox consoles in the holiday season, sales in Microsoft's \"more personal computing\" segment grew to $15.12 billion from $13.21 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Analysts on average expected segment sales of $13.47 billion.  Microsoft said that revenue from Xbox grew 40% in the quarter, while sales of its Surface lines of PCs increased 3%.</p><p>Microsoft's \"productivity and business services\" division, which includes cloud software assets such as its Office suite as well as LinkedIn and other properties, reported revenue of $13.35 billion, up from  $11.83 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected sales of $12.89 billion.</p><p>For the fiscal third quarter, Microsoft projected sales topping $40 billion yet again, with guidance for $40.35 billion to $41.25 billion. Analysts on average were projecting revenue of $38.74 billion ahead of the report.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"MSFT":"微软"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2106177402","content_text":"Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday periodMicrosoft Corp. blew away earnings expectations Tuesday as it surpassed $40 billion in sales and $15 billion in profit in a quarter for the first time, sending shares up from their record closing price.Microsoft $(MSFT)$ has found strong gains during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies rely on cloud computing from Azure and cloud-software offerings like Teams to keep employees connected while they work from home. Sales in the cloud and personal-computer segments led the way in Tuesday's report, easily beating expectations as demand for PCs and remote computing power continued through the end of 2020.In the holiday quarter, Microsoft reported earnings of $15.46 billion, or $2.03 a share, on sales of  $43.1 billion, strong growth from the same quarter a year ago, when Microsoft reported earnings of $1.51 a share on sales of $36.9 billion. Analysts on average expected Microsoft to report fiscal second-quarter earnings of $1.64 a share on revenue of $40.23 billion.Shares jumped 4% in after-hours trading following the announcement, after the stock established a new all-time closing high of $232.33 in the regular session, topping a previous record from Sept. 2, 2020. Microsoft stock has increased 40.8% in the past 12 months, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Microsoft as a component -- has increased 6.8%.The product that has most excited investors and analysts in recent years has been Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing rival to Amazon.com Inc.'s $(AMZN)$ Amazon Web Services, or AWS.  The company said Tuesday that Azure grew 50% in the second quarter -- Microsoft does not provide actual financial performance of Azure even as rivals such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. $(GOOGL)$(GOOGL) break out the performance of their cloud-computing offerings -- and that sales in its \"intelligent cloud\" segment grew to $14.6 billion from $11.87 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. Azure growth had been slowing steadily, and Microsoft reported growth of 48% and 47% in the two previous quarters; Ives said expectations were closer to 44% to 45%.Microsoft is \"firing on all cylinders and these numbers start to drive the stock to a $2 trillion market cap,\" Ives said.As personal-computer sales spiked due to work-from-home needs and Microsoft began selling new Xbox consoles in the holiday season, sales in Microsoft's \"more personal computing\" segment grew to $15.12 billion from $13.21 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Analysts on average expected segment sales of $13.47 billion.  Microsoft said that revenue from Xbox grew 40% in the quarter, while sales of its Surface lines of PCs increased 3%.Microsoft's \"productivity and business services\" division, which includes cloud software assets such as its Office suite as well as LinkedIn and other properties, reported revenue of $13.35 billion, up from  $11.83 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected sales of $12.89 billion.For the fiscal third quarter, Microsoft projected sales topping $40 billion yet again, with guidance for $40.35 billion to $41.25 billion. 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It rose 1.1% last week and hit the highest since May 2019 of $73.09 on Friday.</p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate was also up 14 cents, or 0.2%, at $71.05 a barrel, after reaching the highest since October 2018 at $71.24 on Friday and rising 1.9% on the week.</p>\n<p>Vehicle traffic is returning to pre-pandemic levels in North America and much of Europe and more planes are in the air as lockdowns and other restrictions are being eased, driving three weeks of gains for the oil benchmarks.</p>\n<p>The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, known as OPEC+, need to increase output to meet recovering demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its monthly report on Friday.</p>\n<p>The OPEC+ group has been restraining production to support prices after the pandemic wiped out demand in 2020.</p>\n<p>\"OPEC+ needs to open the taps to keep the world oil markets adequately supplied,\" the IEA said.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs said last week it expects Brent to rise to $80 per barrel this summer as the rollout of inoculations boosts economic activity around the world.</p>\n<p>U.S. oil rigs rose by six to 365, the highest since April 2020, energy services company Baker Hughes Co said in its weekly report.</p>\n<p>It was the biggest weekly increase of oil rigs in a month, as drilling companies sought to benefit from rising demand.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Oil holds near multi-year highs amid demand recovery</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nOil holds near multi-year highs amid demand recovery\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1086160438\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/a113a995fbbc262262d15a5ce37e7bc5);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Reuters </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-06-14 10:11</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Oil prices held near multi-year highs on Monday, underpinned by an improved outlook for demand as increased COVID-19 vaccinations help lift travel curbs.</p>\n<p>Brent crude was up 14 cents, or 0.2%, at $72.83 by 0123 GMT. It rose 1.1% last week and hit the highest since May 2019 of $73.09 on Friday.</p>\n<p>U.S. West Texas Intermediate was also up 14 cents, or 0.2%, at $71.05 a barrel, after reaching the highest since October 2018 at $71.24 on Friday and rising 1.9% on the week.</p>\n<p>Vehicle traffic is returning to pre-pandemic levels in North America and much of Europe and more planes are in the air as lockdowns and other restrictions are being eased, driving three weeks of gains for the oil benchmarks.</p>\n<p>The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, known as OPEC+, need to increase output to meet recovering demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its monthly report on Friday.</p>\n<p>The OPEC+ group has been restraining production to support prices after the pandemic wiped out demand in 2020.</p>\n<p>\"OPEC+ needs to open the taps to keep the world oil markets adequately supplied,\" the IEA said.</p>\n<p>Goldman Sachs said last week it expects Brent to rise to $80 per barrel this summer as the rollout of inoculations boosts economic activity around the world.</p>\n<p>U.S. oil rigs rose by six to 365, the highest since April 2020, energy services company Baker Hughes Co said in its weekly report.</p>\n<p>It was the biggest weekly increase of oil rigs in a month, as drilling companies sought to benefit from rising demand.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1157408170","content_text":"Oil prices held near multi-year highs on Monday, underpinned by an improved outlook for demand as increased COVID-19 vaccinations help lift travel curbs.\nBrent crude was up 14 cents, or 0.2%, at $72.83 by 0123 GMT. It rose 1.1% last week and hit the highest since May 2019 of $73.09 on Friday.\nU.S. West Texas Intermediate was also up 14 cents, or 0.2%, at $71.05 a barrel, after reaching the highest since October 2018 at $71.24 on Friday and rising 1.9% on the week.\nVehicle traffic is returning to pre-pandemic levels in North America and much of Europe and more planes are in the air as lockdowns and other restrictions are being eased, driving three weeks of gains for the oil benchmarks.\nThe Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, known as OPEC+, need to increase output to meet recovering demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its monthly report on Friday.\nThe OPEC+ group has been restraining production to support prices after the pandemic wiped out demand in 2020.\n\"OPEC+ needs to open the taps to keep the world oil markets adequately supplied,\" the IEA said.\nGoldman Sachs said last week it expects Brent to rise to $80 per barrel this summer as the rollout of inoculations boosts economic activity around the world.\nU.S. oil rigs rose by six to 365, the highest since April 2020, energy services company Baker Hughes Co said in its weekly report.\nIt was the biggest weekly increase of oil rigs in a month, as drilling companies sought to benefit from rising demand.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":92,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":318242205,"gmtCreate":1611858339407,"gmtModify":1704865000428,"author":{"id":"3574080932463726","authorId":"3574080932463726","name":"YY11223344","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bf3abdaa143ded31970008110743d90c","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"This is how market should work, but right now it seems like the hedge fund managers are playing foul together with brokers.","listText":"This is how market should work, but right now it seems like the hedge fund managers are playing foul together with brokers.","text":"This is how market should work, but right now it seems like the hedge fund managers are playing foul together with brokers.","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/318242205","repostId":"2107260058","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2107260058","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":0,"media_name":"Dow Jones","id":"106","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"pubTimestamp":1611856560,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2107260058?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-01-29 01:56","market":"hk","language":"en","title":"GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2107260058","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"MW GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n\n","content":"<html><body><font class=\"NormalMinus1\" face=\"Arial\">\n<p>\nMW GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n</p>\n<p>\n  By William Watts \n</p>\n<p>\n  'Comatose' value investing a bigger factor than Reddit users: DataTrek's Colas \n</p>\n<p>\n  Forget about David vs. Goliath. \n</p>\n<p>\n  The battle between day traders and short sellers over GameStop Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GME\">$(GME)$</a> that's blotting out everything else on Wall Street this week offers up an important but much more lasting and practical lesson for investors, according to Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here's the lesson: \"Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle.\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  In a Thursday note, Colas recalled that, as the firm had flagged in December, holiday retail spending and Google search interest in GameStop, the videgame retailer, did not look horrible. \n</p>\n<p>\n   \"'Not horrible' is good enough when capital markets are rallying due to optimism over the future,\" Colas said. And that's what stocks were doing as they extended the rebound from the early 2020 pandemic selloff to push further into record territory in the new year, buoyed by continued optimism over COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Plenty of supposedly sophisticated investors ignored that lesson, at least when it came to GameStop, where short interest exceeded 100% of the company's float. That made it an obvious target for investors looking to foster a short squeeze. \n</p>\n<p>\n  See:This chart shows the most-shorted stocks have seen the biggest gains since the end of last year  \n</p>\n<p>\n  GameStop's meteoric rally was kicked off by individual investors targeting those short sellers. While that offered a new wrinkle, such squeezes, in which a rising stock price forces short sellers to cover their positions, creating a feedback loop, are old hat on Wall Street. \n</p>\n<p>\n  \"Retail investor wolf packs are new, but if you've ever sat on a hedge fund trading desk you know squeezing shorts has been a Wall Street blood sport for decades,\" Colas said. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Explainer: How an options-trading frenzy is lifting stocks and stirring fears of a market bubble  \n</p>\n<p>\n  GameStop shares were swinging wildly between gains and losses Thursday  and were recently down around 24% after having quintupled between Friday and Wednesday. They remain up more than 1,300% since the start of the new year. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Major U.S. stock indexes tumbled Wednesday as beleaguered short sellers were forced to liquidate profitable long positions to raise capital, but rebounded sharply  on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average  up around 575 points, or 1.9%, and the S&amp;P 500  up 2%. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Read: How will this wild GameStop saga end? The ghosts of trading catastrophes past offer clues  \n</p>\n<p>\n  But Colas also played down the role of Reddit-inspired day traders, arguing that the \"comatose state\" of value investing, a strategy that's been on the ropes for over a decade, offered a compelling explanation for the market's initial underpricing of GameStop. \n</p>\n<p>\n  After all, buying \"lousy assets\" at the bottom used to be the bread and butter for value investors, who made fortunes in the early 1990s off that exact strategy. Colas wondered if investor obsession with growth stocks ended up weakening the market's ability to accurately price the option value of subpar companies that managed to survive 2020, or if perhaps \"there just aren't enough value players left to balance markets any more...\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  -William Watts; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n</p>\n<pre>\n \n</pre>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/END\">$(END)$</a> Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  January 28, 2021 12:56 ET (17:56 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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}\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nGameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-01-29 01:56</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<html><body><font class=\"NormalMinus1\" face=\"Arial\">\n<p>\nMW GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n</p>\n<p>\n  By William Watts \n</p>\n<p>\n  'Comatose' value investing a bigger factor than Reddit users: DataTrek's Colas \n</p>\n<p>\n  Forget about David vs. Goliath. \n</p>\n<p>\n  The battle between day traders and short sellers over GameStop Corp. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GME\">$(GME)$</a> that's blotting out everything else on Wall Street this week offers up an important but much more lasting and practical lesson for investors, according to Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Here's the lesson: \"Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle.\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  In a Thursday note, Colas recalled that, as the firm had flagged in December, holiday retail spending and Google search interest in GameStop, the videgame retailer, did not look horrible. \n</p>\n<p>\n   \"'Not horrible' is good enough when capital markets are rallying due to optimism over the future,\" Colas said. And that's what stocks were doing as they extended the rebound from the early 2020 pandemic selloff to push further into record territory in the new year, buoyed by continued optimism over COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Plenty of supposedly sophisticated investors ignored that lesson, at least when it came to GameStop, where short interest exceeded 100% of the company's float. That made it an obvious target for investors looking to foster a short squeeze. \n</p>\n<p>\n  See:This chart shows the most-shorted stocks have seen the biggest gains since the end of last year  \n</p>\n<p>\n  GameStop's meteoric rally was kicked off by individual investors targeting those short sellers. While that offered a new wrinkle, such squeezes, in which a rising stock price forces short sellers to cover their positions, creating a feedback loop, are old hat on Wall Street. \n</p>\n<p>\n  \"Retail investor wolf packs are new, but if you've ever sat on a hedge fund trading desk you know squeezing shorts has been a Wall Street blood sport for decades,\" Colas said. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Explainer: How an options-trading frenzy is lifting stocks and stirring fears of a market bubble  \n</p>\n<p>\n  GameStop shares were swinging wildly between gains and losses Thursday  and were recently down around 24% after having quintupled between Friday and Wednesday. They remain up more than 1,300% since the start of the new year. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Major U.S. stock indexes tumbled Wednesday as beleaguered short sellers were forced to liquidate profitable long positions to raise capital, but rebounded sharply  on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average  up around 575 points, or 1.9%, and the S&amp;P 500  up 2%. \n</p>\n<p>\n  Read: How will this wild GameStop saga end? The ghosts of trading catastrophes past offer clues  \n</p>\n<p>\n  But Colas also played down the role of Reddit-inspired day traders, arguing that the \"comatose state\" of value investing, a strategy that's been on the ropes for over a decade, offered a compelling explanation for the market's initial underpricing of GameStop. \n</p>\n<p>\n  After all, buying \"lousy assets\" at the bottom used to be the bread and butter for value investors, who made fortunes in the early 1990s off that exact strategy. Colas wondered if investor obsession with growth stocks ended up weakening the market's ability to accurately price the option value of subpar companies that managed to survive 2020, or if perhaps \"there just aren't enough value players left to balance markets any more...\" \n</p>\n<p>\n  -William Watts; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n</p>\n<pre>\n \n</pre>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/END\">$(END)$</a> Dow Jones Newswires\n</p>\n<p>\n  January 28, 2021 12:56 ET (17:56 GMT)\n</p>\n<p>\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc.\n</p>\n</font></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"GME":"游戏驿站"},"source_url":"http://dowjonesnews.com/newdjn/logon.aspx?AL=N","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2107260058","content_text":"MW GameStop saga's real lesson: 'Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle'\n\n\n  By William Watts \n\n\n  'Comatose' value investing a bigger factor than Reddit users: DataTrek's Colas \n\n\n  Forget about David vs. Goliath. \n\n\n  The battle between day traders and short sellers over GameStop Corp. $(GME)$ that's blotting out everything else on Wall Street this week offers up an important but much more lasting and practical lesson for investors, according to Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research. \n\n\n  Here's the lesson: \"Don't short troubled companies at the start of an economic cycle.\" \n\n\n  In a Thursday note, Colas recalled that, as the firm had flagged in December, holiday retail spending and Google search interest in GameStop, the videgame retailer, did not look horrible. \n\n\n   \"'Not horrible' is good enough when capital markets are rallying due to optimism over the future,\" Colas said. And that's what stocks were doing as they extended the rebound from the early 2020 pandemic selloff to push further into record territory in the new year, buoyed by continued optimism over COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. \n\n\n  Plenty of supposedly sophisticated investors ignored that lesson, at least when it came to GameStop, where short interest exceeded 100% of the company's float. That made it an obvious target for investors looking to foster a short squeeze. \n\n\n  See:This chart shows the most-shorted stocks have seen the biggest gains since the end of last year  \n\n\n  GameStop's meteoric rally was kicked off by individual investors targeting those short sellers. While that offered a new wrinkle, such squeezes, in which a rising stock price forces short sellers to cover their positions, creating a feedback loop, are old hat on Wall Street. \n\n\n  \"Retail investor wolf packs are new, but if you've ever sat on a hedge fund trading desk you know squeezing shorts has been a Wall Street blood sport for decades,\" Colas said. \n\n\n  Explainer: How an options-trading frenzy is lifting stocks and stirring fears of a market bubble  \n\n\n  GameStop shares were swinging wildly between gains and losses Thursday  and were recently down around 24% after having quintupled between Friday and Wednesday. They remain up more than 1,300% since the start of the new year. \n\n\n  Major U.S. stock indexes tumbled Wednesday as beleaguered short sellers were forced to liquidate profitable long positions to raise capital, but rebounded sharply  on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average  up around 575 points, or 1.9%, and the S&P 500  up 2%. \n\n\n  Read: How will this wild GameStop saga end? The ghosts of trading catastrophes past offer clues  \n\n\n  But Colas also played down the role of Reddit-inspired day traders, arguing that the \"comatose state\" of value investing, a strategy that's been on the ropes for over a decade, offered a compelling explanation for the market's initial underpricing of GameStop. \n\n\n  After all, buying \"lousy assets\" at the bottom used to be the bread and butter for value investors, who made fortunes in the early 1990s off that exact strategy. Colas wondered if investor obsession with growth stocks ended up weakening the market's ability to accurately price the option value of subpar companies that managed to survive 2020, or if perhaps \"there just aren't enough value players left to balance markets any more...\" \n\n\n  -William Watts; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com \n\n\n \n\n\n$(END)$ Dow Jones Newswires\n\n\n  January 28, 2021 12:56 ET (17:56 GMT)\n\n\n  Copyright (c) 2021 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":161,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":313238924,"gmtCreate":1611719208768,"gmtModify":1704862333124,"author":{"id":"3574080932463726","authorId":"3574080932463726","name":"YY11223344","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bf3abdaa143ded31970008110743d90c","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Nice future for Microsoft","listText":"Nice future for Microsoft","text":"Nice future for Microsoft","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/313238924","repostId":"2106177402","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"2106177402","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Dow Jones publishes the world’s most trusted business news and financial information in a variety of media.","home_visible":0,"media_name":"Dow Jones","id":"106","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99"},"pubTimestamp":1611711540,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/2106177402?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-01-27 09:39","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Microsoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2106177402","media":"Dow Jones","summary":"Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday period","content":"<p>Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday period</p><p>Microsoft Corp. blew away earnings expectations Tuesday as it surpassed $40 billion in sales and $15 billion in profit in a quarter for the first time, sending shares up from their record closing price.</p><p>Microsoft <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">$(MSFT)$</a> has found strong gains during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies rely on cloud computing from Azure and cloud-software offerings like Teams to keep employees connected while they work from home. Sales in the cloud and personal-computer segments led the way in Tuesday's report, easily beating expectations as demand for PCs and remote computing power continued through the end of 2020.</p><p>In the holiday quarter, Microsoft reported earnings of $15.46 billion, or $2.03 a share, on sales of  $43.1 billion, strong growth from the same quarter a year ago, when Microsoft reported earnings of $1.51 a share on sales of $36.9 billion. Analysts on average expected Microsoft to report fiscal second-quarter earnings of $1.64 a share on revenue of $40.23 billion.</p><p>Shares jumped 4% in after-hours trading following the announcement, after the stock established a new all-time closing high of $232.33 in the regular session, topping a previous record from Sept. 2, 2020. Microsoft stock has increased 40.8% in the past 12 months, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Microsoft as a component -- has increased 6.8%.</p><p>The product that has most excited investors and analysts in recent years has been Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing rival to Amazon.com Inc.'s <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> Amazon Web Services, or AWS.  The company said Tuesday that Azure grew 50% in the second quarter -- Microsoft does not provide actual financial performance of Azure even as rivals such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">$(GOOGL)$</a>(GOOGL) break out the performance of their cloud-computing offerings -- and that sales in its \"intelligent cloud\" segment grew to $14.6 billion from $11.87 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.</p><p>\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"</p><p>Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. Azure growth had been slowing steadily, and Microsoft reported growth of 48% and 47% in the two previous quarters; Ives said expectations were closer to 44% to 45%.</p><p>Microsoft is \"firing on all cylinders and these numbers start to drive the stock to a $2 trillion market cap,\" Ives said.</p><p>As personal-computer sales spiked due to work-from-home needs and Microsoft began selling new Xbox consoles in the holiday season, sales in Microsoft's \"more personal computing\" segment grew to $15.12 billion from $13.21 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Analysts on average expected segment sales of $13.47 billion.  Microsoft said that revenue from Xbox grew 40% in the quarter, while sales of its Surface lines of PCs increased 3%.</p><p>Microsoft's \"productivity and business services\" division, which includes cloud software assets such as its Office suite as well as LinkedIn and other properties, reported revenue of $13.35 billion, up from  $11.83 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected sales of $12.89 billion.</p><p>For the fiscal third quarter, Microsoft projected sales topping $40 billion yet again, with guidance for $40.35 billion to $41.25 billion. Analysts on average were projecting revenue of $38.74 billion ahead of the report.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Microsoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nMicrosoft hits $40 billion in quarterly sales for first time\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/150f88aa4d182df19190059f4a365e99);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Dow Jones </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-01-27 09:39</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday period</p><p>Microsoft Corp. blew away earnings expectations Tuesday as it surpassed $40 billion in sales and $15 billion in profit in a quarter for the first time, sending shares up from their record closing price.</p><p>Microsoft <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">$(MSFT)$</a> has found strong gains during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies rely on cloud computing from Azure and cloud-software offerings like Teams to keep employees connected while they work from home. Sales in the cloud and personal-computer segments led the way in Tuesday's report, easily beating expectations as demand for PCs and remote computing power continued through the end of 2020.</p><p>In the holiday quarter, Microsoft reported earnings of $15.46 billion, or $2.03 a share, on sales of  $43.1 billion, strong growth from the same quarter a year ago, when Microsoft reported earnings of $1.51 a share on sales of $36.9 billion. Analysts on average expected Microsoft to report fiscal second-quarter earnings of $1.64 a share on revenue of $40.23 billion.</p><p>Shares jumped 4% in after-hours trading following the announcement, after the stock established a new all-time closing high of $232.33 in the regular session, topping a previous record from Sept. 2, 2020. Microsoft stock has increased 40.8% in the past 12 months, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Microsoft as a component -- has increased 6.8%.</p><p>The product that has most excited investors and analysts in recent years has been Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing rival to Amazon.com Inc.'s <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">$(AMZN)$</a> Amazon Web Services, or AWS.  The company said Tuesday that Azure grew 50% in the second quarter -- Microsoft does not provide actual financial performance of Azure even as rivals such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">$(GOOGL)$</a>(GOOGL) break out the performance of their cloud-computing offerings -- and that sales in its \"intelligent cloud\" segment grew to $14.6 billion from $11.87 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.</p><p>\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"</p><p>Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. Azure growth had been slowing steadily, and Microsoft reported growth of 48% and 47% in the two previous quarters; Ives said expectations were closer to 44% to 45%.</p><p>Microsoft is \"firing on all cylinders and these numbers start to drive the stock to a $2 trillion market cap,\" Ives said.</p><p>As personal-computer sales spiked due to work-from-home needs and Microsoft began selling new Xbox consoles in the holiday season, sales in Microsoft's \"more personal computing\" segment grew to $15.12 billion from $13.21 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Analysts on average expected segment sales of $13.47 billion.  Microsoft said that revenue from Xbox grew 40% in the quarter, while sales of its Surface lines of PCs increased 3%.</p><p>Microsoft's \"productivity and business services\" division, which includes cloud software assets such as its Office suite as well as LinkedIn and other properties, reported revenue of $13.35 billion, up from  $11.83 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected sales of $12.89 billion.</p><p>For the fiscal third quarter, Microsoft projected sales topping $40 billion yet again, with guidance for $40.35 billion to $41.25 billion. Analysts on average were projecting revenue of $38.74 billion ahead of the report.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"MSFT":"微软"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2106177402","content_text":"Microsoft shares increase from record close after easily beating expectations for the holiday periodMicrosoft Corp. blew away earnings expectations Tuesday as it surpassed $40 billion in sales and $15 billion in profit in a quarter for the first time, sending shares up from their record closing price.Microsoft $(MSFT)$ has found strong gains during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies rely on cloud computing from Azure and cloud-software offerings like Teams to keep employees connected while they work from home. Sales in the cloud and personal-computer segments led the way in Tuesday's report, easily beating expectations as demand for PCs and remote computing power continued through the end of 2020.In the holiday quarter, Microsoft reported earnings of $15.46 billion, or $2.03 a share, on sales of  $43.1 billion, strong growth from the same quarter a year ago, when Microsoft reported earnings of $1.51 a share on sales of $36.9 billion. Analysts on average expected Microsoft to report fiscal second-quarter earnings of $1.64 a share on revenue of $40.23 billion.Shares jumped 4% in after-hours trading following the announcement, after the stock established a new all-time closing high of $232.33 in the regular session, topping a previous record from Sept. 2, 2020. Microsoft stock has increased 40.8% in the past 12 months, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average  -- which counts Microsoft as a component -- has increased 6.8%.The product that has most excited investors and analysts in recent years has been Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing rival to Amazon.com Inc.'s $(AMZN)$ Amazon Web Services, or AWS.  The company said Tuesday that Azure grew 50% in the second quarter -- Microsoft does not provide actual financial performance of Azure even as rivals such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc. $(GOOGL)$(GOOGL) break out the performance of their cloud-computing offerings -- and that sales in its \"intelligent cloud\" segment grew to $14.6 billion from $11.87 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected cloud revenue of  $13.77 billion, according to FactSet.\"This is a shot across the bow at Amazon and Bezos, they're gaining more and more shares vs. AWS,\"  Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told MarketWatch in a brief interview after the numbers hit Tuesday. \"A year from now, this could start to be a head-to-head battle.\"Ives said that even those bullish on Microsoft weren't expecting Azure to grow by 50%. Azure growth had been slowing steadily, and Microsoft reported growth of 48% and 47% in the two previous quarters; Ives said expectations were closer to 44% to 45%.Microsoft is \"firing on all cylinders and these numbers start to drive the stock to a $2 trillion market cap,\" Ives said.As personal-computer sales spiked due to work-from-home needs and Microsoft began selling new Xbox consoles in the holiday season, sales in Microsoft's \"more personal computing\" segment grew to $15.12 billion from $13.21 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Analysts on average expected segment sales of $13.47 billion.  Microsoft said that revenue from Xbox grew 40% in the quarter, while sales of its Surface lines of PCs increased 3%.Microsoft's \"productivity and business services\" division, which includes cloud software assets such as its Office suite as well as LinkedIn and other properties, reported revenue of $13.35 billion, up from  $11.83 billion a year ago. Analysts on average expected sales of $12.89 billion.For the fiscal third quarter, Microsoft projected sales topping $40 billion yet again, with guidance for $40.35 billion to $41.25 billion. Analysts on average were projecting revenue of $38.74 billion ahead of the report.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":52,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":313293003,"gmtCreate":1611717736102,"gmtModify":1704862315921,"author":{"id":"3574080932463726","authorId":"3574080932463726","name":"YY11223344","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bf3abdaa143ded31970008110743d90c","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Singapore stocks move so slow...","listText":"Singapore stocks move so slow...","text":"Singapore stocks move so slow...","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/313293003","repostId":"2106402067","repostType":4,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":174,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}