Boiler Room: The Official Stock Market Discussion

[Donald J Trump]

IBM making a big announcement at 11:45 @Shugg Ross

quote me and let me know what happens

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

quote me and let me know what happens

something to do with twitter and ibm teaming up. I don't have all the details.

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Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced an agreement to let enterprises incorporate Twitter data into IBM tools. The official statement is below.

"We believe that social data has unlimited value, and near limitless application. Today, we’re taking an important step toward unleashing this value through a new relationship with IBM. This alliance will let enterprises incorporate Twitter data into their decision-making through an established set of IBM tools, solutions and consulting services.

From a data perspective, Twitter represents an enormous public archive of human thought that captures the ideas, opinions and debates taking place around the world on almost any topic at any moment in time. While companies have long listened to what their customers are saying on Twitter, complex enterprise decisions often require input from a lot of different systems. IBM’s expertise is in integrating complex systems and data to make better decisions.

This is why we’re thrilled to partner with IBM, a global leader in helping companies take advantage of emerging technologies and platforms like Twitter. This relationship will enable IBM solutions – like the famous computer Watson – to access Twitter data as an input for multi-variable, pattern-dependent questions like “What do customers like best about my products?” or “Why are we growing quickly in Brazil?”

Twitter provides a powerful new lens through which to look at the world – as both a platform for hundreds of millions of consumers and business professionals, and as a synthesizer of trends. This partnership, drawing on IBM’s leading cloud-based analytics platform, will help clients enrich business decisions with an entirely new class of data. This is the latest example of how IBM is reimagining work.

Ginni RomettyChairman, President and CEO, IBM

Something we hear consistently is that companies want guidance on how to incorporate Twitter data into their business operations. Our relationship with IBM will directly address this need by training tens of thousands of IBM Global Business Services consultants on the business applications for Twitter data, as well as the technical and organizational changes needed to effectively weave this important resource into day-to-day business operations.

And to ensure that companies maximize the value of this new data set, IBM and Twitter will work together on a unique collection of enterprise solutions that include Twitter data in IBM’s analytics solutions. All of this will make Twitter data an even more critical input to the operation of global enterprises.

This announcement has been years in the making. Twitter’s data efforts started when we first made our public data available for analysis. Since then, we’ve made great progress in getting social data into the hands of decision makers. Our acquisition of Gnip earlier this year was an important milestone because it gives us an enterprise-grade platform that delivers more than 15 billion social activities per day to a vibrant ecosystem of customers and partners who are innovating using this data. As a result, we have a strong platform for data that makes our relationship with IBM possible."

 

[Donald J Trump]

Out of IBM

 

[Ohene]

2:00PM Est i expect the S&P to shoot up. 2000 by Hallowen

 

[无名的]

2:00PM Est i expect the S&P to shoot up. 2000 by Hallowen

SPY puts continue to outpace calls. Hope you're playing a short-term game if you're buying calls.



Correction coming soon to a theater near you. If we hit 2000 again, that might be a double top before the slide down.

 

[Ohene]

SPY puts continue to outpace calls. Hope you're playing a short-term game if you're buying calls.



Correction coming soon to a theater near you. If we hit 2000 again, that might be a double top before the slide down.

. as far as buying calls i aint in the market right now except for them XLE calls I bought in September. They raped me...lost about $350.

i see it going to 2050 before we head back down personally

 

[Ohene]

Share prices were discounted by 6% on Wednesday afternoon after the company made zero qualms about its plans to spend at the expense of future results. Whats more, WhatsApp financials were released for the first time, shedding light on the popular messaging app's extremely unprofitable business.



Coming off an otherwise impressive three month stint, Facebook's tone on the Tuesday afternoon call was so pragmatic it was almost as if the company went into the call with a plan to scare away short-term investors. If they did, the strategy worked. Facebook has recovered a bit from yesterday's extreme after-market lows, but Wall Street still seems spooked by the bad guidance.

Here are the three key takeaways from Facebook's third-quarter report:

Facebook has a plan: spend, spend, spend

Even with WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus in its back pocket, Facebook is not future proof. But the social network does have 3-year, 5-year, and 10-year plans to secure its future, and all three plans involve massive amounts of spending.

For the full year 2014, Facebook padded guidance around GAAP expenses by 15%, mostly because of costs, such as stock-based compensation, associated with the WhatsApp takeover. In addition, 2015 will be a "significant investment year," as CFO Dave Wehner said. Total costs will increase between 55% and 75% over 2014, he said.

And the spending is already set to take a toll in the December quarter. Management, which rarely provides revenue guidance, warned of fourth quarter revenue that would be just 40% to 47% greater than the year ago quarter. Not so great when compared against a 2013 fourth quarter that showed 55% year-over-year growth.

The writing is on the wall: This year's holiday season, as executives cautioned, definitely won't live up to last year's, especially given that the fourth quarter of 2013 was inflated by the full rollout of News Feed ads, Facebook said

 

[无名的]

Markets looking after Fed announces what we all knew was coming

 

[88m3]

going up

 

[Futuristic Eskimo]

QE

 

[88m3]

QE

 

[Futuristic Eskimo]

There will be more when China drags everyone down with them.

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

Facebook has a plan: spend, spend, spend

the fukk is this shyt?

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) filned an automatic shelf registration covering an unannounced amount of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities and/or warrants.

From the filing: "We may offer from time to time Class A common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, or warrants in one or more offerings. Certain of these securities may be convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A common stock, preferred stock, or other securities. When we decide to sell a particular type of securities, we will provide specific terms of the offered securities, including the amount of securities offered, in a prospectus supplement. This prospectus and any accompanying prospectus supplement may be used to offer securities for the account of persons other than us, including selling securityholders. We or any selling securityholders may offer and sell these securities to or through one or more underwriters, brokers, dealers, agents, or directly to purchasers, on a continuous or delayed basis. Unless the applicable prospectus supplement provides otherwise, we will not receive any proceeds from the sale of securities by the selling securityholders."

 

[Ohene]

the fukk is this shyt?

 

[jerome]

Whos in on some alibaba shares ?