Today's Video Newsletter: Michael Dell goes private and China catches gold fever

Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Tuesday, the 5th of February.

Dell Goes Private for $24.4 Billion
Going from a public company to a private company allows for many advantages that perhaps Michael Dell thinks he needs in today's ultra competitive smart tablet/phone world.

Michael Dell has sunk all his shares into his new private company and then added another $700 million to get the deal done. Dell, as an individual, has put the most skin into the game to go private. Other investors, like Microsoft, will be investing $2 billion and Silver Lake partners will put up $1 billion. The rest of the financing, over $15 billion is coming from banks. Dell stockholders will receive $13.65 in cash for shares of common stock. So it would appear that DELL has come full circle, private, public, and now private again. If DELL survives, will we see them again offer shares to the public? Continue reading "Today's Video Newsletter: Michael Dell goes private and China catches gold fever"

Today's Video Newsletter: NASDAQ joins the club, while NetFlix rolls the dice with "House of Cards"

Hello traders everywhere! Adam Hewison here, co-founder of MarketClub with your mid-day market update for Friday, the 1st of February.

NetFlix dives into original content with "House of Cards." Is NetFlix a house of cards or can it build its brand with its own content? We will look into this stock today and provide you with a thorough analysis of this stock using our Trade Triangle technology.

Along with NetFlix (NFLX), we will also be looking at energy, precious metals, forex and analyzing why NASDAQ has finally become a member of the club.

Crude Oil continues its climb closer to the $100 a barrel mark with continued problems and tensions in the Middle East. This is definitely not a market to be short. Continue reading "Today's Video Newsletter: NASDAQ joins the club, while NetFlix rolls the dice with "House of Cards""

Today's Video Newsletter: Uncertainty leads to choppy trading

Hello traders everywhere! Jeremy Lutz here with your mid-day market update for Thursday, the 31st of January.

Uncertainty ahead of tomorrow's monthly jobs report is contributing to choppy trading today. Following yesterday's disappointing fourth quarter GDP report, the Labor Department released a report before the start of trading showing a bigger than expected rebound by weekly jobless claims.

The Labor Department said initial jobless claims rose to 368,000 in the week ending on January 26th, an increase of 38,000 from the previous week's unrevised figure of 330,000. Economists had been expecting jobless claims to climb to 350,000 after hitting a five-year low in the previous week. Continue reading "Today's Video Newsletter: Uncertainty leads to choppy trading"

Today's Video Newsletter: Will a name change save RIMM?

Hello traders everywhere! Jeremy Lutz here with your mid-day market update for Wednesday, the 30th of January.

The big news today is that RIMM announced it will change its name to BlackBerry to maintain a single brand. It will have the ticker symbol "BBRY" on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Along with that news, they unveiled 2 new phones for their Blackberry 10 system. The questions remains, is this to little to late?

The markets are extremely flat and quiet today ahead of the Fed's monetary policy announcement due at 2:15 pm ET.

Let's take at look at the markets and see what the Trade Triangles are telling us.

Have a great trading day,
Jeremy Lutz

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Today's Video Newsletter: Consumer Confidence Plunges

Hello traders everywhere! Jeremy Lutz here with your mid-day market update for Tuesday, the 29th of January.

The markets have largely shrugged off a report from the Conference Board showing that U.S. consumer confidence fell to a fourteen-month low in January.

The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index tumbled to 58.6 in January from an upwardly revised 66.7 in December. With the decrease, the index fell to its lowest level since November of 2011. This drop is a direct reaction to smaller paychecks and uncertainty about the debt ceiling. Continue reading "Today's Video Newsletter: Consumer Confidence Plunges"