Moneytalk Bob Brinker Summaries - Information ONLY

Top 487. Aug 27, 2000 1:14 PM

» Rande - Trick to those garden hoses is figuring out the male end from th

Trick to those garden hoses is figuring out the male end from the female end. Once you have that down, it's a breeze. Happy watering.

-- posted by Rande

Top 488. Aug 27, 2000 9:03 PM

» Mark_J - Yes Marty, and the big question is:

Yes Marty, and the big question is: When will it happen to your stock? The answer is "soon."

Sell on strength. Let Joe and Abby ride this down. You don't have to.

-- posted by Mark_J

Top 489. Aug 28, 2000 8:54 PM

» Marty_H - Actually, Mark, a lot of my stocks have been hit...

Mark-

I have a pretty good list of losers in my largest mutual fund when compared to their 52 week highs. Lilly, Dell, Microsoft, Cisco, AMAT are all significant holdings in this fund, and all have seen better days, to put it mildly. So I have my share of blowups!

My point about EMLX was simply that the market reacted first to the bogus report, then corrected itself quickly when it found out it had made a mistake. The fact that the stock rebounded so quickly says a lot to me about the resiliency of the market.

Marty

-- posted by Marty_H

Top 490. Sep 2, 2000 10:06 AM

» Q_out - Pre-broadcast release

Bob continued to discuss the Emulex disaster this weekend, now that the alleged perpetrator has been caught. Bob took several phone calls from investors suggesting what should be done with the college student and the apparent profit of over $240,000 that was made on the scam.

But the stock market was not entirely absent from discussion this weekend. Bob discussed weakness in the retail sector affecting stocks like Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Dayton-Hudson, Dillards, Gap, and Amazon. Yes, folks, Amazon is a retail stock; they depend on sales to consumers. This has spread to other sectors of the economy as evidenced by this week's drop in Yahoo on announcements of lower than expected advertising revenue from dot-com companies like Amazon.

Other reports out this past week show a slowing in the nation's manufacturing sector. Orders decreased, inventories increased, the number of jobs dropped, and manufacturers were able to pull ahead of backlogs despite the fact that the average employee worked less than 35 hours last month.

Also, the treasury yield curve went into full inversion this past week. 3-month rates are above 1-year rates; 1-year above 2-year; 2-year above 5-year; 5-year above 10-year; 10-year above 30-year rates. And the yield spread between 3-month rates and 10-year rates is up around 60 basis points.

The DOW, S&P and NASDAQ indexes have all approached but not exceeded recent highs, a classic double-top formation. Weakness in volume has been attributed to the number of brokers and traders on summer vacation. They'll all be back when the market opens on Tuesday morning and the bulls will attempt to push this market higher. Whether they succeed will be known shortly.

Bob will be plugging all of these factors and others into his Stock Market Timing Model starting Tuesday morning as he prepares to issue the September newsletter.

"The following is a commercial announcement from B..."

8-) Q_out

Correction: In my last pre-released summary I noted that Bob would suggest a stop-loss price of $82 on the QQQ trade. I was off a couple bucks. For those of you who missed the show, August is over, you can take your profit now.

Disclaimer: This post is for entertainment purposes only and does not reflect anything that may or may not be said on ABC radio.

-- posted by Q_out

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Top 491. Sep 9, 2000 8:42 PM

» JenL_2 - Sat 9/9 MoneyTalk

During today's MoneyTalk monologue BB went on and on about the "Bottomfeeder" MP3.com and how they were going to their just deserves with the outcome of the current lawsuit.

Karin just pointed out this post at BB.com:

To: Yair Barniv (161662)
Date: Sep 9 2000 7:00PM
From: Yair Barniv Msg #: 161662

Dear Bob:

First, if you could point me/us to a web site where you get info about the Futures activity at the end of each Sunday by which you can tell what's going to happen the next day, Monday.

Second, I am an MP3.com artist with MP3.com (www.mp3.com/ramibarniv), and I wanted to give you an insider testimonial which, I believe, will change your mind on the latest court mis-ruling against MP3. I heard you bust MP3 on your show this Sunday, 9/9/00, and got frustrated not being able to get through and illuminate you on this subject.

As you can see on my web page, and in plain view, MP3 has been treating and paying me ---and their artists in general--- VERY nicely!!!! They pay the artist 50% of his CD sales through their service, whereas the Recording Industry hardly pays 5%. As far as I am concerned, I would prefer to sell ALL my music through MP3, and would love to see the Recording Industry EXPIRE. Yes ---DISAPPEAR.

MP3 doesn't steal my music, or anyone else's for that matter. They help me reach and sell my music to audiences I would NEVER be able to reach in any other way. In fact, I sold more CDs through MP3.com in one year than I had sold during many years past through the "customary channels".

You cannot equate MP3.com with Napster, which DOES steal my music ---although it, indirectly, does me a great advertising service. MP3.com lets people, who ALREADY purchased a CD, listen to what they purchased prior to getting their order through the snail. So, where is the stealing if the customer already paid for it and he gets to listen to what he purchased on the spot, while waiting to get his CD in the mail.

I feel you did a major mis-justice to MP3.com because you obviously do not know the facts. I guess you bought what the media and the injustice system are spreading on this matter out of their ignorance. Have they ever talked with an MP3 artist before dirtying this GREAT service (to the artists)?

I thank you very much for your many years of fantastic service through your newsletters and Radio shows.

Sincerely yours,

Rami Bar-Niv
www.mp3.com/ramibarniv

I totally agree. From what I've seen of sites like MP3.com they are more of a service to musicians in helping them reach their audience and in cutting out the middlemen than they are trying to rip off the musicians.

Here's a better link to Rami Bar-Niv's website at MP3.com:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/14/rami_...

.....Jen

-- posted by JenL_2

Top 492. Sep 9, 2000 9:12 PM

» Slick - Thanks Jen..

I very rarely log in to the Brinker site anymore, so the referrals are appreciated. As for Brinker's editorial...he couldn't wait to over use the term " bottomfeeder". Like all good politicians, they make there points with buzzwords. Somehow, it cements the argument for them, and leaves a lasting impression. We've all known how good Bob is at this...grizzled veterans that we are. (:>) As usual---there's two sides to the question, and I'll be surprised if the post last over at the " monitored" site.

Slick

-- posted by Slick

Top 493. Sep 17, 2000 2:31 PM

» Kirk - Recommended Asset Allocation.

Saturday 9/16/00 Bob wouldn't answer a direct question "what asset allocation do you recommend at this time." The caller asked it twice. I heard in chat that the call screener would not take calls on the "possible inflection point" either. My guess is Bob doesn't know what the market will do (just like the rest of us), is neither bearish or very bullish now (like most of us) but doesn't want to get called "clueless" for those that he used to rag on in years past for not saying "bull" or "Bear" when he used to be a bull.

Here we are again above his market exit point 9 months ago and he doesn't talk about the market. Seems a perfect opportunity to do so.

Here is the Call Summary that I speak of.

-- posted by Kirk

Top 494. Sep 17, 2000 5:07 PM

» Will_L - Kirk

Surely you jest!!! The omniscient Mr. Brinker with the foolproof timing model (and junior timing model for bear market countertrend rallies that sells at the low point of the trade) clueless like the rest of us on the market? How could that be. If that were true he just wouldn't take any questions about the stock market. He wouldn't tell you exactly what he expects the market to do the rest of the year and into next year. He would give no quidance at all during the entire 6 hrs of his show. He would probably try to sell his investement service. He would consider retirement. I'm sure Brinker would never do anything like that.

-- posted by Will_L

Top 495. Sep 17, 2000 5:18 PM

» Thruhiker - as the owner of disney (well.

as the owner of disney (well...one of "several" owners) i can disclose that i have decided not to renew brinkers contract at the end of the year.

-- posted by Thruhiker