Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, May 16, 2016
Retail Collapse Signals the Economic Recovery is Officially Dead / Companies / Retail Sector
By: Graham_Summers
The “recovery” is over, at least as far as retail is concerned.
The retail ETF (XRT) has taken out its bull market trendline dating back to the 2009 bottom.
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Monday, May 16, 2016
Double-Digit Yields from Stocks Around the World / Companies / Investing 2016
By: The_Gold_Report
In this bulletin, Adrian Day reviews three companies with strong yields. All three are under some pressure, but equally all are solid companies with very attractive yields.
Ares Capital Corp. (ARCC:NASDAQ) (15.11, 10.1%) is a solid company, the largest of the dividend-paying BDCs. There have been some positive developments in the latest quarter: the Net Asset Value increased, modestly, again; there was improvement in the credit profile of its holdings; and it repurchased $5.5 million of its shares (though earlier in the quarter at lower prices).
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Friday, May 13, 2016
Financial Institutions Which are Too Big to Fail But Too Big to Jail / Companies / Banksters
By: Gordon_T_Long
You Have Financial Institutions Which are Too Big to Fail But Too Big to Jail, and Frankly, Too Big to Regulate and Too Big to Manage!
Friday, May 13, 2016
J.C. Penney Still On Bankruptcy Path / Companies / Retail Sector
By: James_Quinn
I find J.C. Penney to be a sick joke. The executives of this company think they can put out positive press releases and have their financial statements not properly show in the earnings press release to cover up the fact their financial results are deteriorating – not improving. CNBC will dutifully report the corporate lies. Checkout the press release where, for some reason, the financial results don’t format. Must be a glitch. Right?
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
How Recent Foreign Currency Fluctuations Affected Major Stocks / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Nicholas_Kitonyi
Investors can never shy away from the stock market because of the several benefits that come with investing in income generating assets. However, over the last few quarters, this market has been greatly affected by the non-income generating assets such as commodities and currencies.
Even the most popular stocks have not been spared in this case. Multinational companies listed on major exchanges such as the NYSE, NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange have been affected by global currency fluctuations as the USD, the GBP and JPY among other major currencies continue to fluctuate from one reporting quarter to the next.
Monday, May 09, 2016
Analysts Split over Yahoo's Stock Potential / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Nicholas_Kitonyi
Yahoo’s search engine may have lost its online dominance to Google, but many analysts say that shares of Yahoo are undervalued and contain potential for significant gains despite the current volatility.
The main drivers of this potential value come not so much from Yahoo’s search engine, but from divisions like Yahoo Finance, as well as its foreign subsidiaries and stakes in other large companies, mainly online marketplace Alibaba.
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Sunday, May 08, 2016
Medical Mousetraps / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Richard_Mills
In 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson stated; “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”
In 1889, Emerson was credited with having said; “If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor ...”
Today the common phrasing is of course a metaphor about the power of innovation -‘Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.’
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Wednesday, May 04, 2016
Save the Environment and Your Retirement: Sell Tesla / Companies / US Auto's
By: Michael_Pento
The stock price of Tesla Motors (TSLA) has soared along with the recent announcement that pre-orders (i.e. a fully-refundable $1k deposit) for its Model 3 are approaching 400,000 units. The Model 3 is purported to sell eventually for an estimated $35,000; and is Silicon Valley's inexpensive electric vehicle (EV) offering that appears to be affordable for everyone; except Tesla that is.
After all, Tesla loses more than $4,000 on each of its high-end Model S electric sedans; and that model's cost is between $70 and $108k. With margins like that one has to assume a $35k Model 3 can't be the answer to solving Tesla's red ink.
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Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Derivatives Crisis Of Banks…Worldwide / Companies / Credit Crisis 2016
By: I_M_Vronsky
Derivatives are weapons of mass destruction” – Warren Buffett
The WHAT AND WHY Of Derivatives
"Megabanks trade risk via derivatives contracts to another firm while keeping the underlying asset on their books. This way they can bypass capital requirements and take on more debt. This, in turn, allows them to make more trades, but it also means that if a sudden downturn surfaces in the markets, the firm which borrowed way beyond their means may quickly go bankrupt. Lehman Brothers experienced this after they’d borrowed 30 times more money than they had in reserve. In that case, a relatively small loss of a mere 3% meant that Lehman no longer had reserves (i.e. capital), and they therefore collapsed…i.e. totally wiped out. The leverage that derivatives allow is incomprehensible. They are betting 30 TIMES MORE MONEY THAN THEY HAVE. This is financially insane." (Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/nick-fillmore/banks-derivatives_b_4408856.html )
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Tuesday, May 03, 2016
Bank of North Dakota Soars Despite Oil Bust: A Blueprint for California? / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Ellen_Brown
Despite North Dakota’s collapsing oil market, its state-owned bank continues to report record profits. This article looks at what California, with fifty times North Dakota’s population, could do following that state’s lead.
In November 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Bank of North Dakota (BND), the nation’s only state-owned depository bank, was more profitable even than J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. The author attributed this remarkable performance to the state’s oil boom; but the boom has now become an oil bust, yet the BND’s profits continue to climb. Its 2015 Annual Report, published on April 20th, boasted its most profitable year ever.
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Saturday, April 23, 2016
Mish Shedlock: “EXCUSE ME MR. PRESIDENT, IS THAT A JOKE?” / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Gordon_T_Long
FRA Co-founder Gordon T. Long is joined by Mish Shedlock in discussing the rigging of gold and silver by Deutsche Bank and the reliability of so called “casino banks” and the state of global banking institutions.
Read full article... Read full article...Mike Shedlock / Mish is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. He is also a contributing “professor” on Minyanville, a community site focused on economic and financial education.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Mike Mayo: Citigroup, BofA, Comerica Should Shrink Faster / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Bloomberg
Mike Mayo, managing director at CLSA Americas, spoke with Tom Keene and Michael McKee on Bloomberg Radio this morning. Mayo said Citigroup, Bank of America and Comerica should move faster to restructure, including selling more assets, to catch up with competitors that are generating better returns: “All three of those banks have failed to create value for every year for the last eight years. And so our question for the board of directors is if you’re not getting it done, what is your plan B?”
He said: “You have some banks like JPMorgan and Wells Fargo with very good returns. Citigroup has poor returns. That’s why our team is going to the annual meeting on Tuesday to say some of your peers are getting it done.”
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Lithium War Heats Up After Epic Launch Of Tesla Model 3 / Companies / US Auto's
By: OilPrice_Com
The unveiling of Tesla’s Model 3 electric car was no less than the lifting of the final curtain on a game-changing energy revolution. And if we follow that revolution to its core, we arrive at lithium—our new gasoline for which the feeding frenzy has only just begun.Unveiled just on 31 March and already with 325,000 orders, it seems that the market, too, understands that the Model 3 is more than just another electric vehicle. In one week alone, Tesla has racked up around $14 billion in implied future sales, making it the “biggest one-week launch of any product ever.” (And if you think the “implied future sales” negates the news, think again: Each order requires a $1,000 refundable deposit.)
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
NFLX has Negative Impact on Nasdaq / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Harry_Boxer
The stock market indices had a very intriguing day today with the Nasdaq 100 under pressure from Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) dropping 14 points on bad earnings. The day started out with a surge to the upside on the Nasdaq 100, and then it came down hard, while the S&P 500 actually rallied. They both rolled over midday, reaching their session lows around noon, rallied in the afternoon, pulled back midafternoon, tried to get through the highs, but was unsuccessful, and backed off just a little bit to close mixed on the day.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Corporate Earnings Actuall Now Matter? or Are They Too Bad To Ignore? / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Gordon_T_Long
With John Rubino & Gordon T Long
Bank profits are in trouble!. Don't be fooled by the "beat analyst estimates" charade, because that is exactly what it is. First quarter bank earnings can only be described as an unmitigated disaster.
With the aid of 24 charts, John Rubino and Gordon T Long discuss what they see in this 32 minute video, what is important to be aware of and what is being hidden from public scrutiny.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Deutsche Bank Settles Lawsuit for Price Rigging, Turns “State’s Evidence” on Other Banks / Companies / Banksters
By: MoneyMetals
Prior to last week, Deutsche Bank made headlines for a string of huge losses and massive exposure to risky derivatives. The last time the firm’s shares traded at prices this low, the world was in the midst of 2008’s financial apocalypse.
Deutsche Bank didn’t need more bad news, but a group of investors who brought suit against the massive German bank for cheating them by rigging the London “fix” price for gold and silver certainly must be smiling. Last week, the bank offered to settle their class action suit for an undisclosed amount.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Woe-Mart: The Retail Giant Walmart Has Faltered / Companies / Retail Sector
By: EWI
The era of "always low prices" no longer translates into always high profits. Learn what we think is behind the shift
Walmart founder Sam Walton said:
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Investigating Deutsche Bank's Euro21 Trillion Derivative Casino / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Shedlock
Deutsche Bank Admits Rigging, Will Expose Other Riggers
Deutsche Bank has admitted it rigged both the Gold market and the Silver market. ZeroHedge has the details in his report Deutsche Bank Agrees To Expose Other Manipulators .
Many asked me to comment. I am shocked?
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Thursday, April 14, 2016
Bootstrapping A Business – How To Self-Fund Startups / Companies / SME
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
Funding is a huge challenge for many entrepreneurs, especially those that are now starting their business journey. It does not really matter what option is considered since it is a certainty that everything will be complicated. You want to invest like a fund manager and even if you are really good, when you launch your own business, it is a certainty that everything will become subjective to some degree. That is why bootstrapping a business is normally a failure.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Apple (AAPL) Stock Price Set To Fall / Companies / Apple
By: Austin_Galt
Apple Inc (AAPL) is involved in the design, manufacture and marketing of mobile communication and media devices, personal computers and portable digital music players. It is listed on the NASDAQ with a market capitalisation of around $600 billion. Price last traded at $108.66.
Let's take a top down approach beginning with the quarterly chart.
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