The Least Helpful Call You Will Get Today
The least helpful call you will get today is so unhelpful that, young as the day might be, we think there is no chance it will be superseded by anything even less helpful as the morning wears on.
This particularly unhelpful call comes from the alma mater of the proprietor of this blog, Merrill Lynch, and it is a downgrade of General Motors stock, from “Buy” to “Underperform.” The analyst has also lowered his price target on the stock from, and we are not making this up, $28 to $7. Last trade: $11.75.
The reasoning behind the change is not particularly important. Like Hamlet’s recounting of Claudius’ commission for the killing of Hamlet, these things are always “larded with many several sorts of reasons” which all avoid the essential issue: the analyst has been wrong; his clients and his sales force all know he’s been wrong; he can’t take it anymore; and he’s throwing in the towel.
We know: been there, done that.
Jeff Matthews I Am Not Making This Up © 2008 NotMakingThisUp, LLC
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