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All-time Return +1.18% (in 4 months)	Risk (SD) Conservative 0.00%	Sharpe Ratio N/A
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Last Activity: Removed CCL from bearish list on 06/27/09

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Symbol	Return	Since
CSCO	+26.48%	06/20/09
AN	-5.63%	06/20/09
LYG	+3.98%	06/14/09
GS	+19.06%	06/14/09
GOOG	-29.14%	06/14/09

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Bullish on CSCO ... about CSCO 06/20/09
$33bn in cash and short term investments. Same price as 5 years ago but diluted net income has grown at a 16% compound rate since then. If the market stays firm or enjoys another step up, CSCO is a str

Bearish on AN ... about AN 06/20/09
Overbought from Octobers $4. Due a retracement. Technicals aside, it's a fine company but in a sector facing a lot of challenges.

Lloyd's Balance Sheet Getting Stronger about LYG 06/14/09
When LloydsTSB ( LYG ) agreed to a merger with HBOS last September in a government led rescue, it was well documented that the combined entity with significant overlap in branch coverage would soone...

Choppy Seas Ahead for Carnival about CCL 06/14/09
Carnival, the cruise specialist, was at the end of the last financial year, the “world’s most profitable” vacation company. With 88 ships, up from 79 in 2005, Carnival catered for ...

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Re: Bullish on AN ... 06/20/09
Sorry... copied and pasted the worng piece posted the wrong piece. Here's AN. AutoNation is America’s largest specialist automotive retailer. The very statement encourages readers unfamiliar with the company to jump to conclusions. Just weeks after the formal demise of GM and Chrysler, hasty journalists need to be restrained from writing the retailer’s epitaph, exercising tired sound-bites a...

Re: Bullish on AN ... 06/20/09
Years ago it was relatively easy to understand Cisco’s core proposition, networking. The company enabled consumers and businesses to connect, communicate and collaborate online. They provided the infrastructure that made the world-wide-web a reliable and reachable user friendly portal for endless on-line discovery. As time progressed since 1984, the year of Cisco’s inception, the scope and func...

Re: Cisco (CSCO): A 'true dominator' 06/20/09
Years ago it was relatively easy to understand Cisco’s core proposition, networking. The company enabled consumers and businesses to connect, communicate and collaborate online. They provided the infrastructure that made the world-wide-web a reliable and reachable user friendly portal for endless on-line discovery. As time progressed since 1984, the year of Cisco’s inception, the scope and func...

Europe to Trail US, Asia Out of Recession 06/16/09
Europe continues to trail the field in the race to escape recession. The US, Asia and UK all appear better equipped to formally report positive GDP data, before the Euro-zone. The reasons for this are many. A single financial and monetary framework, for the 16 member states of the Euro-Zone, has created a one size fits all policy which inevitably fails to address the unique needs of individual ...

Barclays Sells its Assets, and its Credibility 06/14/09
Long term holders of Barclay’s shares, multi-year equity supporters of the international bank, have suffered this past year. The stock fell from a 12 month high of 475p to a portfolio crunching 50p, then back up to the recent high of 320p. The share price volatility perfectly articulates the roller coaster journey from the end of the last bull market through the near-collapse of the credit mark...

UK GDP Estimate Surprises on Upside 06/14/09
Doomsayers, serial pessimists towards UK equities and the British economy are sitting a little lower in their seats today. But three short months ago, at the dawn of spring, when the equity rally was so new, so fragile, equity trading bears stretched their necks, held their heads above their trading room screens and gently mocked opposing colleagues who dared to hope for a sustainable rally. If...

Google. Wave Goodbye to $400 plus. 06/14/09
Google (GOOG) is a global phenomenon. It’s hard to think of another industry in which the sector leader has such a large proportion of market share. But, there is a big difference between having market share and controlling market share. After all, internet surfing consumers are literally just a click away from trying a new search engine and last week that’s exactly what tens-of-millions of Ame...

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Age: 30's	Occupation: Strategist
Location: London

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Writer, economist, trader.

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