Father’s Day Weekend:

TWC Chat room highlights, articles & links, June 15th – June 19th 2015.

* Bond market to fuel a stock market rally.
* Facebook’s little known 100 Billion dollar hardware business.
* Skip College and start making $70,000 a year.
* Is it time to ditch cable and get full with a la carte?
* Google drone is here to save your life.
* ECB has an Ace up its sleeve and Greece will submit.
* The real reason a college degree costs so much.
* The west coast has Silicon Valley. Now NYC is building Silicon Island

* Stop into the Trading with Cody chat room during the trading week. Exchange ideas / catch up for a few minutes with other members of the TWC community and ask our LIVE portfolio manager any questions.

Chat room Highlights:

Codywillard :Morning folks. $FIT #FitBit about to open IPO trading at $28-31, up 40% or so from where it finally priced at about $20. The float was increased 20% as the price was raised from $14ish earlier this week — and it’s all insiders that are getting that last 20%, not the company. Not good for long-term shareholders. I’m not impressed with how the management handled this IPO and I’m not a fan of owning a smart watch that sucks compared to the new Apple Watch. Long $AAPL. No position in $FIT.

Q: Whats your take on $ICON here?

A: I’m working on it again now, but nothing new so far. I might nibble on some more if the price drops more.

Articles:

How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market.

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-open-compute-project-history-2015-6#ixzz3d7vRIpON

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This time, the ‘Great Rotation’ may be a thing
much like the Great Pumpkin, the “Great Rotation” out of bonds and into stocks has famously failed to turn up. Until now, that is.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102753196

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Is this the future of higher education in this digital age? Can this course give you all you need to find a job you love and bypass 4 years of college?

Make $70,000 a year with no degree.

Students who attend Flatiron School for coding have a 99 percent chance of landing a job after completion with an average starting salary of $70,000.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102753396

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How a Google drone might soon save lives.
Drones that carry medical supplies and provide audio instructions for CPR are the future, if Google has anything to say about it.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102755841
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The trump card the ECB could use on Greece.
By accepting emergency liquidity assistance from the ECB, Greece may very well have already forfeited its fight against its creditors.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102763996

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The real reasons a college degree costs so much. With student debt outstanding topping 1.2 trillion, parents, students and researchers are asking: Why does college cost so much? Here are some reasons.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102746071

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The west coast has silicon Valley. Now NYC is building Silicon Island- Bloomberg donates $100M to New York City’s tech island campus:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/17/8795009/bloomberg-cornell-tech-donation-100-million

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Have a great Father’s day weekend!  From the team at Trading with Cody.