Thursday, November 15, 2007

Thursday, November 15

436.21 -3.65 (recalibrated, more tomorrow)

Monday, October 15, 2007

Yum, yum, yum, munch, munch, munch. It's the tasty Credit Crunch!

Okay, so it's not so tasty. Actually, it tastes like crap.

The Credit Crunch is far from over, apparently. And the usual suspects — come on, you know...Bear Stearns, Citigroup, American Express — reflect it, each down about 3-4% as I type this.

So, apparently, Citigroup (listed on the NYSE simply as C) reported a 57% decline in third-quarter earnings. On top of that, it has undergone a private-sector bailout.

I thought we were done with this.

So much for a market that goes up on good news and surges on bad news. Like the rate cuts Wall Street loves so much that will come back to bite our economy in the ass — in a big way. It'll be when our dollar's worthless.

But what am I talking about? I'm just an eighteen year old who's just another arrogant college student who thinks he knows everything.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Recalibrated Index (this is just stuff so I don't lose it in Excel anymore, lol)

=POWER(((POWER(P1,0.85))+(POWER(P19,0.88))+(POWER(P29,0.92))+(POWER(P39,0.92))+(POWER(P51,0.95))+(POWER(P57,0.95))+(POWER(P69,1.04))+(POWER(P74,1.01))),(539.453/679))

P1=Foodservice
P19=Finance
P29=Technology
P39=Pharmacy
P51=Media
P57=Retail
P69=Personal Media
P74=Energy

Anyway, I recalibrated at 500. The index closed at 493.63, a loss of 6.37. Technology lost the most, ending at 482.02, down 25.24 points.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Slow day today...

24 of the stocks on the index were up today. Pfizer was unchanged, and the rest were down.

However, the index managed to slip very little, down 0.23 points, or 0.02 percent, to close at 1016.51.

Tomorrow, I will have a full recap of the day's market action, weather permitting.

Friday, October 5, 2007

Friday, October 5, 2007 market action

Foodservice 243.93 +1.46
Finance 398.40 +5.17
Technology 286.49 +7.84
Healthcare 215.50 +1.76
Media 126.09 +0.74
Retail 318.64 +3.53
Personal Media 139.89 +0.36
Energy 211.29 +1.29

KASI 1,013.08 +12.31 +1.23%. VOL 704,509,760 (updated at 5:10 pm CDT)

Bold sectors had larger than a 1% move on the day. Technology blazed the trail for a rally. It moved up around 3%. All sectors were up, and so were most of the stocks. Advances led declines 63 to 14, with one stock (The New York Times) unchanged at the close. One stock of note was Research In Motion (RIMM), which gained almost 13% on the day on a very good forecast; it was the biggest mover in the index.

Introduction

The Kailajenus Stock Index is composed of 78 stocks in 8 sectors:

Foodservice
McDonald's
Wendy's
Yum! Brands
Domino's Pizza
Panera
Starbucks
Sysco
Winn-Dixie
Safeway
Krispy Kreme
Kroger
Ingles (small chain in the southern Appalachians)
ConAgra
General Mills
Hormel
Coca-Cola
PepsiCo
Family Dollar
Finance
Wachovia
U.S. Bank
Bank of America
Bear Stearns
Countrywide
Citigroup
Goldman Sachs
American Express
JPMorgan Chase
Prudential
Technology
Microsoft
Apple
Baidu.com
Research in Motion
KLA-Tencor
Hewlett-Packard
Nokia
Intel
Dell
Motorola
Healthcare and Health-Assisting Products
Schering-Plough
Pfizer
Johnson & Johnson
Merck
Celgene
Quest Diagnostics
GlaxoSmithKline
AstraZeneca
Healthsouth
Shire
Mylan
Colgate-Palmolive
Media
CBS Corporation
New York Times
General Electric
Viacom
Meredith
Clear Channel
Retail
Toyota Motors
Limited Brands (Limited Too)
Mattel (Barbie)
American Eagle Outfitters
Black & Decker
Whirlpool
Innovo Group (Joe's Jeans)
Clorox
Avon Products
Vector Group (Cutco, anyone?)
Walgreen Corporation
The Home Depot
Personal Media (you could call this an extension of the tech sector)
Sprint Nextel
AT&T
Verizon
Hughes (DirecTV)
Time Warner
Energy

Duke Energy
Edison International
Atmos Energy
Piedmont Natural Gas
Exxon Mobil (I assume everyone knows this one, LOL.)