IBM (IBM) Offering Possible 5.71% Return Over the Next 12 Calendar Days

IBM's most recent trend suggests a bearish bias. One trading opportunity on IBM is a Bear Call Spread using a strike $195.00 short call and a strike $205.00 long call offers a potential 5.71% return on risk over the next 12 calendar days. Maximum profit would be generated if the Bear Call Spread were to expire worthless, which would occur if the stock were below $195.00 by expiration. The full premium credit of $0.54 would be kept by the premium seller. The risk of $9.46 would be incurred if the stock rose above the $205.00 long call strike price.

The 5-day moving average is moving down which suggests that the short-term momentum for IBM is bearish and the probability of a decline in share price is higher if the stock starts trending.

The 20-day moving average is moving down which suggests that the medium-term momentum for IBM is bearish.

The RSI indicator is at 36.83 level which suggests that the stock is neither overbought nor oversold at this time.

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LATEST NEWS for IBM

Saudi Ministry of Education Selects the Alliance of Mobily and IBM to Boost Security
Tue, 06 May 2014 13:00:00 GMT
PR Newswire – RIYADH, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Saudi Arabia Ministry of Education announced today that it has chosen the alliance of Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) to boost information security throughout its organization. Managed and cloud security services are offered to the Ministry through IBM's Security Operations Center, (SOC) hosted in Mobily's Tier IV certified data center. Using sophisticated predictive analytics technology, the services will help the Ministry anticipate and mitigate threats and any possible breaches, providing higher efficiency and productivity to the Ministry's operations.

IBM Cloud Fuels Hands-On Research Projects at Miami's St. Thomas University
Tue, 06 May 2014 12:00:00 GMT
PR Newswire – MIAMI, May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and IBM Business Partner Flagship Solutions Group, Inc. today announced that St. Thomas University (STU) is delivering new innovative classroom curricula and collaborative research projects utilizing infrastructure from SoftLayer, an IBM Company. Located in Miami Gardens, Florida, St. Thomas University (STU) is a private Catholic university renowned for leadership development in justice, science, business and ministry. With approximately 5,000 students, the university offers a diverse learning environment and a wide variety of extracurricular, spiritual and community-oriented programs. As part of its ongoing efforts to establish itself as the leading Catholic university in the Southeast, STU has been focused on bolstering its School of Science, Technology and Engineering Management (STEM).

5 Reasons Why Chinese Companies Go Global
Tue, 06 May 2014 10:21:00 GMT

Big Blue Veteran Leads Apple-Samsung Patent Trial Jury
Tue, 06 May 2014 04:01:01 GMT
Bloomberg – Apple (AAPL) Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) placed their trust in a retired IBM executive with patent litigation experience to give them a fair trial. When jury foreman Thomas Dunham handed over the verdict in court May 2, Apple got just $120 million of the $2 billion it sought for infringement of its smartphone patents. Samsung, whose lawyer said yesterday it will seek to overturn the verdict, won one of its two claims against the iPhone maker. The trial, involving 10 Samsung devices and five of Apple's, demanded the jury weigh complexities of Apple's iOS operating system and Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android system used in the Galaxy and other Samsung models.

Shareholder ends lawsuit against IBM over China risks, NSA scandal
Mon, 05 May 2014 22:38:46 GMT
Reuters – An IBM Corp shareholder has voluntarily ended a lawsuit accusing the company of concealing how its cooperation with a National Security Agency spying program cost it business in China and led to a nearly $13 billion plunge in the company's market value. The dismissal follows “an extensive additional investigation into the matters alleged, which included investigations conducted in the United States and China, as well as information obtained through discussions with defense counsel,” John Browne, a lawyer for lead plaintiff Louisiana Sheriffs' Pension & Relief Fund in Baton Rouge, said in a letter made public on Monday. IBM shares fell 6.4 percent last October 17, wiping out $12.9 billion of market value, a day after the company posted disappointing quarterly revenue, including drops in China of 22 percent in sales and 40 percent in hardware sales. According to the complaint, IBM lobbied Congress to pass a law letting it share the personal data of its customers in China with the NSA to help protect its intellectual property rights.

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