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While encouraging economic data, in particular surging housing starts and permits numbers, drove stocks higher earlier this week, light quarterly earnings results from blue-chip companies like Intel (INTC), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), McDonald’s (MCD) and General Electric (GE) are sending shares lower as the week winds down. Depending on how… Read More

Passport Capital was founded in 2000 by John Burbank. Employing a long-term view and willing to tolerate short-term pain, this successful hedge fund has delivered annualized returns of 22 percent per year since. Digging into Passport’s portfolio, what jumped out immediately is that it has quite a bearish bend.  While… Read More

Last week we discussed the need for stocks to undergo a modest correction before they could muster a rally to new highs. Sure enough, share prices moved down in the following days, with the blue chip averages falling to support at their 50-day moving averages before turning around yesterday. Today… Read More

We closed the Fastenal (FAST) January 44 call option last Thursday for a 16 percent profit after the company reported good results and offered positive sentiment for the coming year. On Friday, we added the Dollar Tree (DLTR) February 45 call option following a warning that the company’s third-quarter sales… Read More

A surprisingly positive consumer sentiment reading gave stocks an early jolt, but the S&P 500 is headed for its worst week since late May as earnings and Europe concerns weigh on market participants’ minds. The classic adage of “buy the rumor, sell the news” came into play here. After the… Read More

Buy to open the Dollar Tree (DLTR) February 45 call option. Use a limit order at $1.80 per contract. Shares of discount store operator Dollar Tree (DLTR) are selling off today, with traders piling on from yesterday’s rout in the stock. The company held an analysts’ day meeting yesterday and… Read More

Sell to close the Fastenal (FAST) January 44 call option at the market. Fastenal (FAST) reported its quarterly results this morning and the market likes what it saw. We, however, were a bit disappointed. While the company’s per-share earnings matched consensus expectations, the company’s revenues came up a bit short,… Read More

The Matthew 25 fund (MXXVX) is a 4-star (as rated by Morningstar) large cap growth fund with an excellent performance history, ranking in the top 1 percent among peer funds over the last 1 and 3 year periods. It piqued our interest to see Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN) as one… Read More