Just to follow up, the odd put volume from yesterday in AAPL, GS, FCX, and AMZN that I mentioned earlier did not translate into much increased open interest.Generally just a bump of 1000-2000 contracts. So I suppose it was trading volume up and back. Rather large I would note. Speaking of larg ... Read more

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon (AMZN), looks a bit mad. Stick thin and without a hair on his head he is both bug-eyed and frenetic. He has the look of a man who has never slept. Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, which makes him one of the internet's few elder statesmen. While the other ... Read more

Analysts at Piper Jaffray commented on Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) following comScore data which showed that total eCommerce sales declined 4% Y/Y QTD for Q4 and declined 37% Y/Y in the last full week of December. comScore said this was the first time they've seen negative growth rates for the holiday ... Read more

There was a fashion, once, for industrial conglomerates.  Companies would buy each other up and the market would reward the result with a higher PE than the components.  This got going in the 1960s and worked into the '70s, but went into reverse with the fashion for down-sizing, right-si ... Read more