If any of you are holding Almost Family Inc. (AFAM:NASDAQ) or Activision Inc. (ATVI:NASDAQ) from WaveStrength Hot Sheet’s beta phase, please sell at market today.
Almost Family Inc. (AFAM:NASDAQ)is about to split… so it would be smart to take the 72% gain in our model beta portfolio and run. You can always reenter the position after the split.
Additionally, Activision Inc. (ATVI:NASDAQ) the “true winner of the video game console wars” is showing a gain of almost 28%, another good end-of-week winner.
And don’t forget to drop me a note at e-news@taipanfinancialnews.com with the subject “Hot Sheet Beta” to let me know how you did!
The big laggard this morning is Advanced Micro Devices (AMD:NYSE), as the chip-maker is down 9% after issuing a profit-warning that makes investors question the forward-looking strength of the technology sector.
This move comes one day after shares of SAP AG ADS (SAP:NYSE), the world's largest maker of business software, fell nearly 10% after its fourth-quarter sales fell short of forecasts.
But despite weakness in these two tech stocks, the markets keep plugging along – as both the Nasdaq Composite and Nasdaq-100 have registered new 52-week highs in today’s trading.
Material Profits
Wind power has been growing at a scorching rate in Spain... but it still won't be enough to meet the government's Renewable Energy Standard of 20,155 MW by 2010.
What will help, and what will hinder this process?
I’ll explore these issues tonight in Market Report.