<p>No idea what the claims will be or the market reaction…</p>
<p>You’re a little gambler…razorsharp.:)</p>
<p>I think you give Whitney too much credit.</p>
<p>K cups,hmm. I love coffee,but bought the Refillable generic cup and purchase my own bags of coffee and save BIGTIME,by placing the coffee i purchase and place in my ‘k’ cup…GMCR is nothing but a producer of a coffee maker at the end of the day…not unlike Krups, value is way too high, and once buyers realize they don’t need prefilled k cups, they are toast</p>
<p>And i thought jobless claims are not til friday</p>
<p>Initial claims for unemployment are scheduled for Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EST. The street is estimating 375K claims for unemployment. I sure hope the figure is much lower. I really cannot stand seeing people lose their jobs.</p>
<p>Nonfarm payroll is friday at 8:30 a.m. EST.</p>
<p>Really rolling the dice there. My credit union has free coffee and tea via K-Cups and I like how smooth and clean the dark roast is but I can’t see buying the machine and the K-Cups when I have free coffee (New England) in the office and I’m surrounded by Dunkin Donuts at home.</p>
<p>375K is not a great number so missing would be ugly. I do not like the way jobs numbers are doing just slightly better than treading water. I hope that they are right but I don’t care to call it. The manufacturing number this week was surprisingly good and you have to hire people to manufacture things, right? If the manufacturing number wasn’t as strong as it was, then I’d guess about 385K first time claims. At this point I don’t know.</p>
<p>I would be very surprised if the Friday report was much stronger than March’s report which was weak. Best of luck on the coffee company.</p>
<p>Just read an interview article with Dr. Doom - the guy who never saw a crash, depression or recession that he didn’t like. What caught my eye was the end - which was exactly what we discussed here earlier today - maybe even word for word!</p>
<p>Getting motorists to convert to natural gas-burning cars will take years, meaning that becoming energy independent could take up to three decades with no viable national energy policy.</p>
<p>“Where is the leadership?” Roubini asked.</p>
<p>[Expect</a> stagnant U.S. economy in 2013: Roubini - MarketWatch](<a href=“http://www.marketwatch.com/story/expect-stagnant-us-economy-in-2013-roubini-2012-05-02]Expect”>Expect stagnant U.S. economy in 2013: Roubini - MarketWatch)</p>
<p>GMCR looking good this AM. 
Down 19.50±… I thhought they’d have issues</p>
<p>ANR earnings lower than expected. Street expected -.06 but they had a loss of -.027. Time to cover your short, dstark?</p>
<p>Last I heard Dr. Doom had turned bullish. I guess he is back to bearish. But he is right on nat. gas.</p>
<p>I am long ANR…</p>
<p>Did I mention ANR before?</p>
<p>Maybe I did. :)</p>
<p>Razor, did u get out of Green Mountain yesterday?</p>
<p>I see my support of Beam products, has led to better then expected earnings…particularly bourbon,so says the CEO…Makers Mark is fantastic</p>
<p>Well…you better drink extra for me…</p>
<p>Because…I don’t drink Beam’s products. :)</p>
<p>I’m still in GMCR at $31.10. I am hoping for a bounce to get out with a scalp. But the more I read about the stock, I am thinking of doubling down for a longer term (few weeks or months) investment. It’s growth rate is still about 40 to 50 percent. How is this a bad stock?</p>
<p>Because their k cups are too costly, and by purchasing the generic cup and filling with your own coffee, they will have major issues going forth…plus they even said last night their growth rate going foward is likley much lower…</p>
<p>I had a quick look at their stats and I would consider this a good company based on static numbers. In reading the earnings report analysis last night though, I got the impression that management goofed badly this past quarter and didn’t make adjustments during the quarter to a lower level of growth.</p>
<p>Well-run companies today react very quickly to changes in demand and some even warn ahead of earnings if there’s going to be a significant miss. If they have communications next quarter, then they will be in the Wall St doghouse. I’ve been in good companies in the doghouse and Wall St just ignores all the good stuff that you’re doing because they felt that you weren’t frank with them in the past or felt that there was some level of mismanagement. You can earn your name back but it takes a while. I think that you’re just in it for a quick trade - I wouldn’t touch this stock for an investment for a while - a trade? Sure. Short ratio is about 5. That can be a fair amount of fuel. I prefer it at 9 or higher on a pure short-squeeze play on a garbage company.</p>
<p>Best of luck on your trade.</p>
<p>First-time claims: 365K, I think that 378K were expected. Slightly better than expected is translating to slight green. The big number will be tomorrow.</p>
<p>I couldn’t trade the claims numbers today. The productivity numbers threw me off. Good thing. S and P went up initially but then went back down.</p>
<p>I got out bid on the Scream painting. Someone bid $119.9 million. Oh, if I only had had an additional $100 to bid. :)</p>
<p>The market is very quiet right now…</p>
<p>any predictions for tomorrow?</p>
<p>[Facebook</a> Sets $28-$35 IPO Range](<a href=“Facebook Sets $28-$35 IPO Range - WSJ”>Facebook Sets $28-$35 IPO Range - WSJ)</p>
<p>Why doesn’t Facebook do a Dutch auction like Google did?</p>