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...Intel (INTC) is the stock to short for the hardware industry just the way Microsoft is for investors betting against software. The shares in largest maker of chips in the world rises and falls on sales information about PCs and servers. Its expansion into less expensive and less powerful chips for netbooks and other portable devices may drive significant revenue growth once the economy begins to recover. Shares sold short in Intel as of April 15 were over 80 million, down 15%. Intel's positive remarks about sales in the PC market in its most recent earnings release may have...
...Intel earnings are a perfect example of why the market is having trouble recovering and why there is so little solid data to support the concept of an improving economy. The report that sales will be flat only implies that the worst will continue, not that it is in the past...
Large corporations have never had a lot of credibility when investors have attempted to interpret their predictions. The comments from Intel's CEO were gibberish. His business is dead, but for some reason he implies that the activity in his customer base is improving...
...Intel is the first large tech company to report each quarter. If Intel's comments are positioned to support its belief in a recovery, there is a temptation for Wall St. to buy up its shares...
...there is anything good about the stock market catastrophe it is the skepticism that has become a part of the investor's way of thinking. Intel traded down because Wall St. read its comments as a "false positive." Investors look at its vague statements as being the equivalent of misleading. Intel clearly did not have any sinister intentions. It just hinted at something that isn't true because the broader economy does not lend it any credence...