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  • 3:29pm Friday, May 24, 2013: Gary Smith’s Market Take - Wall Street All-Stars» Markets
    Here’s my take on the markets today, May 24th, 2013. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mostly deteriorating today. The Libor-OIS Spread is gaining +4.8% to 16.52 bps(+8.3% in 5 days). The TED Spread is up +2.2% to 23.72 bps. The 2Y Swap Spread is up +6.3% [...]

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    Gary D. Smith
    Gary D. Smith
    Gary Douglas Smith actively trades his portfolio as well as the portfolios of family members. In addition, Mr. Smith maintains Between the Hedges, an investment-oriented blog. Previously, he was founder and managing member of Olympus Capital Management, an alternative investment firm. Olympus consisted of a long/short diversified hedge fund and a long/short technology sector hedge fund. Prior to the formation of Olympus, he spent five years as Vice-President of Research and Portfolio Manager for an independent money management firm. Mr. Smith has been engaged for the past 23 years in the analysis and selection of equity and other investments. His expertise is in long/short U.S. equity investing across all market sectors with an emphasis on technology stocks. He uses a top-down investment approach, investing in securities at a reasonable price relative to their growth prospects. As well, technical analysis plays a role in the timing of his investment decisions. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and subsequently received an MBA, with a concentration in finance, from Vanderbilt University’s Owen School.
  • 1:52pm Friday, May 24, 2013: What will ignite tech next? - Wall Street All-Stars» Markets
    I had more questions from Markewatch.com readers this week than ever before. If you’ve got a question about investing, trading, markets, economics, politics or anything else I can help you with, email me at support@tradingwithcody.com. Here are this week’s questions about specific tech stocks and my best attempt at answering them. Q. Cody, are there [...]

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    Cody Willard
    Cody Willard
    Founder, CEO & Chairman at Wall Street All-Stars, LLC
    Cody Willard is the founder of Wall Street All-Stars and the principal of CL Willard Capital. Cody serves as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University and writes TradingWithCody.com. He was an anchor on the Fox Business Network, where he was the co-host of the long-time #1-rated show on the network, Fox Business Happy Hour. He wrote a monthly investment column for The Financial Times as well as columns for TheStreet.com and was a regular guest on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company from 2004 to 2006. Cody’s stock picking ideas and economic outlooks have been featured on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ABC’s 20/20, CBS Evening News, CNBC’s SquawkBox, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, as well as in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and many other outlets.
  • 1:49pm Thursday, May 23, 2013: Mr. Willard goes to Washington - Wall Street All-Stars» Markets
    I spent the last week in Washington, touristing, taking meetings, and talking to everybody rich or poor, powerful or powerless that I met. I discussed geopolitics, bailouts and economics with immigrants from Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Mexico and Italy. I ran into former head of the FDIC, Sheila Bair, whom I’ve interviewed on TV several times, [...]

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    Cody Willard
    Cody Willard
    Founder, CEO & Chairman at Wall Street All-Stars, LLC
    Cody Willard is the founder of Wall Street All-Stars and the principal of CL Willard Capital. Cody serves as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University and writes TradingWithCody.com. He was an anchor on the Fox Business Network, where he was the co-host of the long-time #1-rated show on the network, Fox Business Happy Hour. He wrote a monthly investment column for The Financial Times as well as columns for TheStreet.com and was a regular guest on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company from 2004 to 2006. Cody’s stock picking ideas and economic outlooks have been featured on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ABC’s 20/20, CBS Evening News, CNBC’s SquawkBox, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, as well as in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and many other outlets.
  • 2:25pm Tuesday, May 21, 2013: Gary Smith’s Market Take - Wall Street All-Stars» Markets
    Here’s my take on the markets today, May 21st, 2013. If you’d like to read more of my articles, click here. Credit gauges are mostly deteriorating today. The Libor-OIS Spread is up +2.4% to 16.3 bps. The 2Y Swap Spread is up +2.1% to 14.75 bps. The US sovereign cds is up +3.0% to 29.83 [...]

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    Gary D. Smith
    Gary D. Smith
    Gary Douglas Smith actively trades his portfolio as well as the portfolios of family members. In addition, Mr. Smith maintains Between the Hedges, an investment-oriented blog. Previously, he was founder and managing member of Olympus Capital Management, an alternative investment firm. Olympus consisted of a long/short diversified hedge fund and a long/short technology sector hedge fund. Prior to the formation of Olympus, he spent five years as Vice-President of Research and Portfolio Manager for an independent money management firm. Mr. Smith has been engaged for the past 23 years in the analysis and selection of equity and other investments. His expertise is in long/short U.S. equity investing across all market sectors with an emphasis on technology stocks. He uses a top-down investment approach, investing in securities at a reasonable price relative to their growth prospects. As well, technical analysis plays a role in the timing of his investment decisions. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee and subsequently received an MBA, with a concentration in finance, from Vanderbilt University’s Owen School.
  • 6:53pm Monday, May 20, 2013: Gold, silver, and real estate will save you - Wall Street All-Stars» Markets
    Gold and silver and stocks and bonds and real estate and cash and checking accounts and money market accounts and taxes and bailouts and crises and terrorism and corruption. I’m sure I left a lot out, but those are some of the topics I’ve been addressing for my subscribers and in Washington while I’m here [...]

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    Cody Willard
    Cody Willard
    Founder, CEO & Chairman at Wall Street All-Stars, LLC
    Cody Willard is the founder of Wall Street All-Stars and the principal of CL Willard Capital. Cody serves as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University and writes TradingWithCody.com. He was an anchor on the Fox Business Network, where he was the co-host of the long-time #1-rated show on the network, Fox Business Happy Hour. He wrote a monthly investment column for The Financial Times as well as columns for TheStreet.com and was a regular guest on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company from 2004 to 2006. Cody’s stock picking ideas and economic outlooks have been featured on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ABC’s 20/20, CBS Evening News, CNBC’s SquawkBox, Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, as well as in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and many other outlets.


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