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David Tepper Dumps 20% Of Financial Holdings During Quarter Of Infamous CNBC Speech
Guess who, after on September 24 David Tepper almost screamed that he was "balls to the wall long" and EVERYTHING was about to go up on QE2, you were very likely buying shares Bank of America and Citigroup from? Why, David Tepper, that's who. In Tepper's just released Q3 13F, the Appaloosa fund manager disclosed that in the quarter ended September 30, one week after his pompous, self-serving speech on CNBC served as a reason to pump the market up by almost 2%, he sold 18% of his BofA holdings (his largest holding both at June 30 and September 30), 11% of Citi, 19% of Wells Fargo, 19% of Fifth Third, 19% of Capital One, 75% of his then $157 million Hartford Financial position, and lighten up on pretty much all of his other financial positions. And congratulations to CNBC for serving as the medium which David Tepper manipulated to his advantage and dump about 20% of his financial stake, which as of June 30 was his biggest, at 56% of total holdings.
Some of the new additions include Hewlett Packard, UAL, a Semiconductor ETF, Applied Materials, Yahoo and a whole lot of other tech. But most poetically, he also bought $157 million of Cisco. Oops.
Top 25 Appaloosa holdings as of September 30, together with change from Q2.
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German truth in advertising police have more teeth than SEC investigations
in the old days this was a crime but now?
what "old days" are you referring to ?
The old days like this clown refers to in how he manipulated markets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRa0B34jMOQ
Good catch.
A self serving fund manager? No.
RBS & Banco Santander could also be an "Oops" with their pigs sovereign bond exposure.
But most poetically, he also bought $157 million of Cisco. Oops.
Your Bernanke Put didn't save you on that one, eh Davy boy? Nice!
so where's the poetry? Now if you'd said "He thought he was ridin' with the Cisco Kid but instead was just following the Grateful Dead" then i'd be with ya'.
roflmao, he took down 45 million of etrade, lol............i guess he believed alot of trading would be done
Now everyone is repeating those words from this sell-side "expert" as if risk is so yesterday...was it Goebbels who said that if you repeat a lie often enough people begin to believe?
Pump dem stocks up all day long...doo dah...doo dah.
Yep, but now it's Tepurd!
A little more advertising of this and maybe people will end this career, hopefully.
All I can say is that I hate that hypocritical fuckhead with a vengeance.
Room on your team for 1 more? We all knew he would be dumping stock after that interview , lying asshole that he is.
Id like someone to remind him about his claim that at s+p 1K he will go "all in"
Because when we are back at s+p 1k , my bet is he will be dumping stock with shit running down the inside of his fat thighs like every other momo chasing sheep in the market whos suddenly lost their nerve.
Heh, Tepper is obviously one of the "old school" investors.
Too many stocks.
Too much diversification.
He's probably getting run over by the younger, nimbler ones who have their entire stash in just 5 stocks:
AAPL
BIDU
NFLX
CMG
FFIV
You need to start listening to Cramerica for your investment strategy:
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=615
Earlier today I calculated the average P/E for those stocks is a little over 70.
Mmm...I love value.
I still don't get cmg. 240 a share for high end fast food. At least mcd and yum have diversification outside of north america and some hedging in commodity prices.
As sanford used to say "and beans and disease to you!"
always check a stocks float, it only has 30 million shares, and no debt
Yep, and margins less than yum and a pe of twice it.
Commodity prices will crush it since its mostly in the USA and Canada,
Hsy, df, kft,gis all getting pinched by the falling dollar and input costs.
The market cap of cmg puts each leased storefront fastfood restaurant at a value of $7,000,000.00. You gotta sling a lot of burritos to make that fad business pencil.
grab some COSI... i rode it from the 50's to over a buck.. great food - if they get their head out of their ass they'll shoot up
answer: peak chipotle (hat tip to daneric).
how 'bout a little "interest rate sensitivity" with that free money mother...truckers!
David Tepper does not strike me as being very smart, nor trustworthy. His interview was like a frat-boy talking smack. "Hey, I've got the world by the balls. Follow me boys."
That is exactly who and what Tepper is. Search him, and it isn't hard to find the opinion trail.
The guy is typical scum, part of the never ending criminal syndicate known as Wall Street.
Ex goldman , do the math. He is part of the club and knows whats going to happen along time before mere mortals looking at fundamentals or technicals do. All you need when youre in that club is a phone.
I remember watching that asshole and while being impressed by his record, couldn't help but wonder if he wasn't the expert in reading a credit induced bubble bull run economy that was basically dead at the date of his call. Anybody right that long thats still not only swingin for the fence....but calling it.....is gonna go down hard. And just like those fickle fans who love and hate you within the span of a pitch, his "loyal" investors will bail on him in even less time. I remember watching him though....good performance. The negative futures just fucking melted up as he spoke. The heady, gregarious attitude oozed out of my tv speakers - I was pissed and calmed (knew his brand of bullshit) all at the same time.
TD, C-Bass went BK today.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-12/credit-based-asset-servicing-se...
The affidavits will be very interesting. Certainly looking forward to any discovery involving Jeffrey Toll.
Now you're talking. We need a clearinghouse of all accessible discovery in BK's and civil fraud cases. public access. connect the dots.
apparently being told "they're angry C-bass" isn't good enough.
This is Epiq's free bankruptcy database. not all cases are here, but most.
http://www.epiqsystems.com/Chapter11.aspx?id=210
The prostitutes at CNBC did what they do best. Fuck viewers.
smart guy!
I must be getting punch drunk--I couldn't help but laugh about that. He's an Ivy League boy, I would guess?
That would be a bad guess Bob.. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tepper
Oh, a real scrapper of a conman.
Plus ca change ...
Ah, nice to see some consistency again.
David Tepper rooked in the suckers and now went CRAMERICA on them....
It's an old wrasslin' move:
Hit them with a steel folding chair after they've bought into his bullcrap, then cut them with a razor, and as they lay on the mat crying laugh at them and scream:
BOOYAH!
soooo... david was selling 'us' BAC while john chambers was selling CSCO shares to him?
SWEET!
How was it the TBT went up. I wrongly sold yesterday thinking the natural move would be down.
Does he have to pay for those ads?
CNBC = THE CORPORATE BOILER ROOM.
Tepper made his 2009 money off inside information, the legal kind - government inside. His old interview, he says it would have been illegal for the gov to nationalize the banks - WRONG. He bullshitted and gave them a bunch a reasons he was so sure...
The real reason? Likely a few phone calls.
Time for some torches and pitch forks...
TD,
My crack lawyers will be right on it. Oh that's a web site
Best
Shellia
bank failure friday anyone:
Regulators seized two small banks in Georgia and one in Arizona
drank a bottle of wine last night..made a switch to beer for the night..cheers
I didn't think Georgia had any banks left. I'm going to check Ancestry.com to see if there was a General Sherman in Sheila Bair's background.
TD: my "crack" lawyers 'll be on this one, too. We'll start with "taking money away so people don't get any crazy "crack like" ideas." i mean DT didn't ask our government to "ride this crazy train." They've gone down this path with both eyes WIDE open. Are the "bad guy's winning"? To be honest at this point I have a hard time making a judgement anymore though clearly "you're either in this camp or that camp" now. Am i right? because believe me "i'd rather be wrong."
For more on the Corruption on Wall Street, watch the YouTube video Bankrupt Motors IPO, Hedge Fund Fraud at (http://youtu.be/JmrZikbC0zE).
The American public gets robbed, and we are supposed to be thankful??!!
Anonymous-
47 seconds agoGreat upload cgreen34, the best fictional writer in the world couldn't even make this nonsense? up. Makes me sick.
he changes his mind
please, give a girl a break
and break the fucker over his millionaire head
Anyone applying commonsense would have known Tepper, appearing on CNBC for the first time ever after numerous invitations to appear, was there to create a market for his shares. Say you are a hedgefund manager and you have no problem lying with a straight face, what would you do different? Squat. It's the same game that has been played over and over again throughout time.
Quite frankly, there used to be rules against that sort of thing. Thanks to the liberalization of these rules and a complete lack of enforcement by an incompetent SEC, we now have systemic fraud.
But go ahead and simply suggest it has always been this way. You are incorrect.
Anyone, I repeat anyone on public tv with strong conviction should be viewed as a contrarian indicator.
We should know by now they're not on our side.
The rooten wood of BAC, FTIB, STI, and WFC. He sure knows value. Great picks if he bought in Mar09. But I doubt that. He'll get what he has coming. And to boot, the steelers suck!
I'll remember this one. CNBS treated him like he was spouting the wisdom of Solomon. What a lying sack of shit. Hope he has drink Dom Perignon's bad years.
Thanks for the info, Tyler.
Dom P doesn't do bad years. That's why they don't make their champagne every year, unless the master thinks the harvest is good enough. :)
as for Tepper, he needs to get himself a pawn the way Soros does to do his dirty work for him in order to protect himself and not seem as if he's trying to manipulate any market. Soros has roubini (Paulson used to as well til they had a falling out over gold) bu perhaps Tepper can use one of his former colleagues with a decent track record. Jan Hatzius anyone??
Everything did go up. Probably quicker than Tepper expected. The game changed in financials since then and so he cut them. Known in the business as smart trading I guess.
John Maynard Keynes once said: "When the facts change, I change my mind – what do you do, sir?".
No doubt these sales were just part of a perfectly understandable, pre-arranged plan to diversify the portfolio of which Tepper was completely unaware, nothing to see here, move along.
But right now the whisper seems to be slight correction, more like a pause, then we go to 1300 and upward by year end. Not that I agree with that, or that there is any reason outside POMO for that to occur. They even pissed all over CISCO's bad news as Cisco's faulty "execution. No market problems, people.
Yeah we stopped listening to Joe and Becky a long time ago. All they do is sing the corporate mantras and Becky, though married, has the hots for brother Buffett. BTW I thought it interesting that in last week's episode of The Event, the alien's reveal they make so much money but are able to hide this fact because they have a man in the midwest (Buffett?) who takes credit for it. :=)
PS for better business news we go with Dagen McDowell on Fox Business The Power to Prosper. double :=)
Dear Mr Durden,
your website is great and unique, but this particular analysis looks to be wrong in two aspects:
1.
Tepper gave his interview on Sept.24th. So only 4 trading days were left to profit from a manipulated public. Compared to about 70 trading days a quarter contains, this seems to be very late for a strategic action.
I would say:
When he gave the interview he HAD already rearranged his portfolio.
2.
Tepper did not really dump financial shares.
The only figure that decreased in the Q3-report was the VALUE of the financial shares.
All other figures did rise, which is:
* the number of SHARES overall rose by 41%
* the number of financial shares rose by 25%
* the number of non-financial shares rose by 114%
* the VALUE overall rose by 18%
(- the value of financial shares decreased by -19%)
* the value of non-financial shares rose by 83%
(all percentages relate to previous quarters figures)
the spreadsheets of this analysis you find here: http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/johnjacobphotobucket/zh-tepper-... http://i933.photobucket.com/albums/ad179/johnjacobphotobucket/zh-tepper-...
The reason I am writing, is to let your excellent website not become a place of just moaning.
The background of Tepper's interview, though, does contain an interesting aspect, worthwhile to be investigated.
On that issue I sent quite a few e-mails to your team, detailing the ominous points (last on Oct.25th), but nobody answered.
I was astonished, that such an interesting topic was untouched.
Yours sincerely
JJ
JJ:
Moaning is under-rated.
CNBC proved years ago that it is possible for a T.V. show to be 100% advertising.
Shilling me softly....
Everything you hear or see on CNBC, believe the opposite, then ignore.
Better yet, throw your TV through a plate glass window. It won't permanently make CNBC go away, but after you calm down you may not watch it ever again.
Tepper is a scumbag and the weasels at CNBC are complicit in his manipulation. This no worse than Bill Gross or his minions coming on after every Fed meeting to talk their books but still sickening because it got so much play.
As Jesse Livermore said so many years ago, "If a law were passed that would punish bull liars as the law now punishes bear liars, I believe the public would save millions."
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