[Golddigger3]

GE posts earnings this week.

[Izzy Dunne]

Sheesh, a new low for empty posts - we have to google it ourselves..

LOL!

[Zhang Fei]

I think you mean options traders. In this highly-charged environment (where short sellers are unfairly accused of forcing companies into bankruptcy), it’s unlikely that GE’s traders are betting against the parent company.

[Hacklehead]

So this is just something you pulled out of your butt.

[MahatmaGandu]

This thread needs to be pulled. The SEC takes a VERY dim view of people who post crap to promote shorting a stock.

[Iron Munro]

There’s less here than in an Obama speech.

If there is anything to say, say it.

[Zhang Fei]

Here's the link.

[Arguendo]

Some traders bought some put options. So what? That doesn't even necessarily mean they believe it will lose half its value, since it could just be a hedge of some sort. And even if they did believe that, many more investors obviously disagree, since the stock is not trading there already.

Your post was useless, and even the article you didn't link to (no idea why you can't link to--or at least mention--the title of a Bloomberg article) was more or less useless.

Go troll some penny stock message board.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Put buyers think the stock will go down.

Put sellers think the stock will go up.

Alert the media. LOL!

[dila813]

Looks like a Short Raider, beware the Short, in a bear market they are after anything that can make them money.

[KeyLargo]

USA TODAY
Stocks pounded by weak earnings reports
By Stephen Bernard And Tim Paradis, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK — Stocks skidded Friday for a second straight day as weak corporate earnings reports stir fears that the recession will be deeper and longer lasting than some investors had predicted.

General Electric’s fourth-quarter numbers made investors uneasy. While the 46% drop in earnings met Wall Street’s lowered expectations, investors are worried the conglomerate will reduce its dividend. They are also nervous the company could lose its coveted ‘AAA’ credit rating because of the recession that has crimped lending at GE Capital and hurt its industrial and entertainment businesses. The stock, a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, fell 8%.