Insider Data - Week ending 02/13/2010

Another Interesting week. The tussle between bulls and bears continues and both are trying equally hard to outpace the other. S&P 500 gained for the week, albeit slightly. What does that tell us, same thing that is being told to us since past 8 to 12 weeks. The market is in balance and no side is able to push the other aside. It will probably continue for some time. Although the valentine's day weekend seems to have brought the consumer spirit back to the retailers. Will it last? Chinese are tightening their money supply, what are we doing?

The top transactions of the week are shown in the chart below. CHTT saw a big investment for Sanofi-Aventis. This big amount has tilted the sell/buy ratio in the favorable category again. It almost seems like a new measure of insider bullishness needs to be devised. Any suggestions? We are seeing selling by MSFT and GOOG executives which probably is an old news.



As mentioned earlier, the sell/buy ratio has turned favorable again. This is a good sign for investors.



Personal products has seen a big up tick, mainly because of CHTT buying. Specialty retail is on rise also for past several weeks. Information technology services is a new entrant this week.



Next week will be shortened due to President's day. May be it is good for the markets because over the weekend WSJ has reported the issues in Dubai CDS spreads again. That should get mitigated due to the fact that people got longer time to digest that news. Or may be not. We will find out Tuesday morning in US markets.