Skiracer's stock slopes

[skiracer]

C is up .12 in the premarket this morning. today looks like it could be a continuation of the surge from late yesterday afternoon. if C doesnt hold the strength you'll know that the govt is still selling off it's 7.7 bil shares and that they are doing it into whatever strength there is in the markets today. I still dont think they are quite done and that this level will not hold. so i'm waiting it out yet.

[wooish]

Ski

Looks like our gov't have only sold 1/5 of their C shares, they got a long way to go before finishing.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Treasury-gets-62-billion-from-apf-2653586322.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=2&asset=&ccode=

[skiracer]

Ski

Looks like our gov't have only sold 1/5 of their C shares, they got a long way to go before finishing.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Treasu...&asset=&ccode=

C up .15 in the premarket. today looks like it could be a big up day. i thought that about yesterday at the open but look what happened yesterday. might be worth being patient and getting a short or put play in after seeing what today brings to the table.

[skiracer]

Priceline is doing it's best to attract business and bring people to them. this is their latest deal and it looks good to me.

NORWALK, Conn., May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Priceline.com PCLN announced today the launch of a ground-breaking Big Deal Hotel Price Guarantee for its Name Your Own Price® hotel service. With the launch of its Big Deal Guarantee, priceline.com is the first major online hotel reservation service to offer a $25 bounty to hotel customers who can find a lower price than what they paid for their reservations on priceline.com.
Here's how the Big Deal Hotel Price Guarantee works: If a customer books a Priceline Name Your Own Price® hotel room and finds a better price any time up until the day before check-in, priceline.com will match that price, pay a $25 bounty and give the customer a $50 Priceline Vacation Package coupon.*
For full details on the Big Deal Hotel Price Guarantee, visit http://travela.priceline.com/promo/big_deal_guarantee.html.
"We believe that travelers want a hotel price guarantee with teeth," said priceline.com's Chief Marketing Officer, Brett Keller. "Priceline's Big Deal Hotel Price Guarantee doesn't just guarantee the lowest price. It guarantees that you'll get a great deal, and we're backing that guarantee all the way up to the day before check-in."
So why is priceline.com so confident of its hotel Big Deal prowess? In a recent internal study, priceline.com looked at Name Your Own Price® hotel bookings for April 2010 in all star levels, and then compared those booked prices with the published rates available on Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz for the same hotels and dates. The survey found that over 50% of the priceline.com customers saved at least 50% over competitors' published nightly rates. All rates and prices used in the comparison excluded taxes and fees.
In addition to its Big Deal Hotel Price Guarantee for Name Your Own Price® hotel rooms, priceline.com offers its standard best price guarantee for published-price hotel rooms. If a customer books a published-price hotel room through priceline.com and finds a better price online within 24 hours, priceline.com will refund the difference and give the customer a $50 Priceline Vacation Package coupon.
Here are some examples of Name Your Own Price® winning hotel bids recently made by priceline.com customers for major cities around the country. These winning bids were shown on priceline.com on May 26, 2010. Actual prices and availability are not guaranteed and can change at any time.

• Miami, 4 stars, Miami Beach, from $160/night (51% savings).
• Chicago, 4 stars, North Michigan Ave., from $100/night (50% savings).
• Las Vegas, 3.5 stars, Las Vegas Strip vicinity South, from $55/night (52% savings).
• Washington, DC, 3.5 stars, Convention Center/Capitol Hill, from $90/night (67% savings)Priceline.com is an industry leader in increasing savings for traveling consumers. In November 2007, priceline.com became the first major online travel agency to eliminate booking fees for all domestic and international airline tickets. Then, in July 2008, priceline.com became the first major online travel agency to slash booking fees on its published-price hotel rooms. Priceline.com also is known for being the only major online travel agency to offer a sunshine guarantee for its vacation packages in 2008 and is the only major online travel agency to offer hotel rooms, airline tickets and rental cars with the Name Your Own Price® service.

*Priceline's Big Deal Hotel Price Guarantee covers hotels of at least two stars or higher. The $50 Vacation Package coupon is being offered to customers with a valid U.S. billing address. The $25 bounty will be paid as a refund to the customer's credit card. For full details and restrictions, visit http://travela.priceline.com/promo/big_deal_guarantee.html.

[mrmarket]

I just booked a room at the Hyatt in Princeton on Priceline for relatives coming in for Trevor's graduation...$55 per night.

[skiracer]

I just booked a room at the Hyatt in Princeton on Priceline for relatives coming in for Trevor's graduation...$55 per night.

did you shop around and check out prices from the other online outfits? did you get a chance to haggle over the price.

[microchips]

I just booked a room at the Hyatt in Princeton on Priceline for relatives coming in for Trevor's graduation...$55 per night.

Mr M,
.......Is that price per person or for the room and see how many you can pack in?.

[skiracer]

Mr M,
.......Is that price per person or for the room and see how many you can pack in?.

they're Armenians micro, not Mexicans.

[skiracer]

they're Armenians Micro, not Mexicans.

[mrmarket]

did you shop around and check out prices from the other online outfits? did you get a chance to haggle over the price.

No..I guess I bid too high. They took my first bid.

[skiracer]

No..I guess I bid too high. They took my first bid.

I have no experience with them or any of them for that matter. i have never made any arrangements like that online or thru someone like Priceline.

[billyjoe]

Ski,
Bought more NYB @15.69. It looked a bit better than NJR today but still looking for good entry on these div. guys.

------------billy

[skiracer]

Ski,
Bought more NYB @15.69. It looked a bit better than NJR today but still looking for good entry on these div. guys.

------------billy

billy,
everyone is touting how strong NYB is fundamentally and how it is one of the best banking outfits and all it does is drop farther. i can't believe it is still under $16 and i'm holding a decent amount of it's July 10 / $17 calls from .35 thru .20

[skiracer]

I found this article at MSN Money Investing website under "Market Talk with Jim Jubak". Here is the article and the website address below the article for anyone that is interested. this definitely backs up what peanuts has been stating for quite some time. interesting article and links to a few other articles.

Silver trades at less than 1/6th of its inflation high and Gold at less than 1/2. Almost all other major commodities easily surpassed those highs in 2008/2009. There is a massive and growing body of research by some very intelligent people at the non-profit organization called the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, called GATA, which continues to counter decisively what the Fed and the largest of the Central Bank's primary dealer bullion banks have said. What remains clear from the excerpts I will post below in support of this thesis is that despite the fact that the US forfeited its gold obligations (strike that, abandoned the gold standard of money), and then proceeded to spend years creating a language of deception and propaganda claiming that gold is not hard money and that un-backed promissory notes burdened by ever growing and now un-repayble current and future debts are as good as "hard money." The world central banking followed the US lead as the US was the only surviving super power who's nation did not suffer the damage and destruction of WWII and which had all the guns and the result from that time in the 1970's when the gold standard was abandoned they have systematically done everything possible to keep the price of gold down and during the same period real inflation adjusted wages and the purchasing power of the new promissory notes referred to as "money" has continued to decline in value. Despite continued calls for a full open, multi-party audit of the gold which the Federal Reserve keeps on behalf of the citizens of the United States, they have adamantly refused to share such information and continue to seek to maintain great secrecy in most areas of operations.

That the new "financial reform" package being pushed through by Dodd will cede great power to the Federal Reserve, which is not governed in any way by the US government, is to me a further sign that the Wall Street powers that influence our nations political system in what I consider a highly corruptive manner, are seeking to put their primary representative in the drivers seat. This means that rather than having the people in control of the Too Big to Fail Wall Street Monster Amalgamations, the unregulated and uncontrollable Federal Reserve, not a instrument of the People of the United States, but a private entity, will be tasked with that very very important job. Hmm, no transparency, no accountability, prints the money that Constitutionally should be Congresses job, caused the internet bubble and then housing bubble and denies it to this day is going to be in control of regulation. And conveniently, the provision that was a teaser for the tax payers and consumers (a consumer protection agency) is stripped from the legislation. Who's interests are being served. Enough of the Dodd bill. I will begin posting some of supporting documentation which was recently deleted when all 7000 of my posts were deleted from the MSN message boards. These posts will go on for several doze pages as I have a lot of content to make up for.

First Here is a List of Links to Important Articles and I'll start some cursory excerpting in the next message:


Gold is decade's best performing investment
Greenspan on Gold and Economic Freedom:
Gold suppression is public policy and public record, not 'conspiracy theory'
More Fed minutes document gold market manipulation
Interview with Theodore Butler on the unprecedented massive short position in silver on the COMEX
GATA Claims To Have Evidence Of "Massive Physical Short Gold And Silver Positions That Can Not Be Covered" - From Zero Hedge
James Turk: What are banks doing with their depositors' money?

http://moneycentral.msn.com/detail/stock_quote?Symbol=nyb

I've noticed a big drop in worthwhile stock talk here over the last few weeks. if i were someone new to the site and forum i would be wondering what would anyone find of interest to stimulate their desire to come back again. no real interactive stock talk, no charts, and very little of interest happening. what's going on?

[wooish]

Ski

Very good post, it's always enjoyable reading your comments. It's just down right scary that Wall Street has so much power over our economy and may I say controlling our government. I read somewhere that for every senator there are 3 lobbyist working for the financial institution so they can make major influence. If you read www.zerohedge.com often enough, you will get to know how the government and wall street put up the biggest lies and ponzi scheme ever.