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Stratasys Inc. (SSYS) reported third-quarter earnings of 9 cents per share, exceeding the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 6 cents per share. Revenues The company reported third-quarter revenues of $24.3 million, down 20.6% from $30.6 million reported in the year-ago quarter. The decline in sales can be attributed to a substantial reduction in product sales compared to the [...]

(SSYS) Stratasys Beats Forecasts on Lower Revenues

Stocks put in a very impressive drive higher as another round of short-squeezing hit investors who were a little too heavily short coming into today. The reason why I would call this another short-squeeze rally is that, once again, volume has fallen on a day where the market rallies an extreme amount. If you are playing the indexes on an intraday or very short term basis, the volume is not important and all you will need to focus on is the price action. Then you either move with the trend and/or use support and resistance on price charts to implement your methodology. However, when it comes to wanting to build stock/option positions over a period of time and reap the huge rewards that come to those who invest with those, you need to see volume expand on the rallies and retreat on the pullbacks before you can feel confident to go all-in long with full margin. Until we find volume showing up on the rallies on the indexes, with pullbacks[More...]

Companies that could issue positive surprises include Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX), SucessFactors (SFSF) and Sunoco (SUN). Penn Virginia Corporation (PVA) could potentially disappoint investors. The Week's Events November has historically been one of the best months for the major markets, according to the[More...]

How do we know it is a bear rally? Easy. Volume. Volume would not be heavy on the selloffs and light on the rebounds like it has been if this was real institutional investors. Besides that I ask you, if you were a bank or a mutual fund, would you be buying stocks knowing what kind of macro environment we are coming upon? I would think not.The biggest surprise to Friday’s trading is the complete reversal of action from Thursday. After Thursday ran right into the 50 and 200 DMA resistance points on various indexes, it sure seemed like the trend was ready to push lower. But just when the market looks like it wants to breakdown, it breaks upwards. That is what markets due in bear markets. They do this to throw the shorts off. They make the longs and bears look bad until eventually both give up (like I have done a while ago). This is the right thing for the market to do. But the problem belongs with traders. Most will get frustrated and leave the game behind.[More...]

We are keeping our Hold recommendation on Cosan Ltd. (CZZ). Cosan is benefiting from Brazil's economic growth and increasing demand from ethanol worldwide. Moreover, the company has a great medium-term outlook. Additionally, Cosan is well-positioned to keep leading the consolidation of this industry in Brazil. However, the company posted weak fourth quarter 2008 results. Sugar and ethanol prices have been under pressure in recent months and the short-term outlook remains uncertain due to excess production of sugar, the difficult international economic environment, and the continued strength of the Brazilian currency. Finally, the confusing restructuring plan was not well received by the market. In April, Cosan entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with ExxonMobil International Holdings B.V., for US$826 million, to purchase all of the share capital of certain affiliates of[More...]

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