{"id":4666,"date":"2006-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"beware-the-ipod-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2006\/beware-the-ipod-rumors.html","title":{"rendered":"Beware the iPod Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NewsFactor Network &#8211; <span>While writing a story today on a Wall Street analyst&#8217;s prediction that Apple will be late in shipping its new iPod Nano, I noticed the effect the report had on Apple&#8217;sstock. Naturally, Apple fell on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>The Yankee Group and Gartner Group analysts I spoke with warned me that Wall Street reports must be treated with caution. One analyst, who did not want to be quoted for the story, said to me:  &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to touch this one. I don&#8217;t see a source for the Wall Street analyst&#8217;s estimate, such as an interview with either Apple or its technology supplier. If the rumor comes from  the channel, I am not sure I&#8217;d give it too much credence.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>Another analyst told me that research firms, by and large, will never confirm or deny Wall Street reports about tech companies. &#8220;The most we will do is to speculate on &#8216;what ifs,&#8217; assuming  that a Wall Street report on one of the companies we cover is correct,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>There is also the possibility of a more sinister motive for some of the reports on tech stocks coming from Wall Street firms. A report on MSNBC yesterday claimed that hedge funds control a  significant amount of the world&#8217;s stock markets and that there are growing concerns among U.S. regulators that they are artificially manipulating share prices to make a profit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>One way in which hedge funds could manipulate a stock price is by using analyst reports to move a share price either up or down. Hedge funds basically make their money by betting on these  movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfactor.com\/blog\/blog.xhtml?story_id=270\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsFactor Network &#8211; While writing a story today on a Wall Street analyst&#8217;s prediction that Apple will be late in shipping its new iPod Nano, I noticed the effect the report had on Apple&#8217;sstock. Naturally, Apple fell on Wednesday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}