Charting Stocks

News of a leaked memo by Nationalized Citigroup CEO Vikrim Pandit sent the markets soaring 5% today. The memo states that Citi is profitable for the year. We’ll wait and see if Mr. Pandit’s optimism makes its way to the company’s next earnings release. Judging by previous and similar such statements by Citigroup’s CEO, we [...]

Fitch Ratings downgraded Toyota Motor Corp.’s (TM:65.73) long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings and senior unsecured debt ratings to ‘AA’ from ‘AAA,’ with a negative outlook, late Tuesday. “Multiple negative developments, including the rapid and significant appreciation of the yen, the concurrent downturn in all major auto markets and high raw [...]

The annuity shoe is about to drop!
(MarketWatch.com) Shares of AXA dropped as much as 17% in Paris as the French insurance giant shaved about a quarter of this year’s underlying earnings assumptions as the world’s market gyrations produced fewer asset fees and made it more difficult to pay out on annuities.
The insurer added that the [...]

Charting Stocks
September 16, 2007
In recent of posts, I’ve mentioned that 13,450 was an important level of resistance for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. On August 19th I noted that 13,458 was a key Fibonacci resistance level and thought that this would be a reasonable spot for the market to stall. I used last weeks post [...]