Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Friday, July 01, 2016
Barclays Doesn’t Need More Capital Even With Brexit, Staley Says - Video / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Bloomberg
Barclays CEO Jes Staley says in a Bloomberg Television interview with Erik Schatzker that the bank didn’t see stress in funding during market volatility.
He says:
- No agreed-upon sales of non-core assets had clauses that would cancel them because of Brexit.
- Stock decline prompted by earnings concerns, not capital or liquidity questions.
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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Details Behind Semiconductor Stocks Leadership / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Gary_Tanashian
I am prompted to write this article because TA’s are starting to pick up on the Semiconductor index’s bullishness and even the overwhelmingly bearish website, the Daily Reckoning is calling bull on the Semiconductor sector.
These Tech Stocks Are Ready to Lead the Market. Before Buying, Read This…
The author uses only charts to clue readers in to this little secret (Semis led the market down and now they are leading it up) but there is much more to the story, and since it has been our story (for its upside and downside market leadership) since 2013 I’ll lay claim before the whole enchilada opens up and every wise guy with a chart or a stock pick is touting the Semis.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Here’s a Trillion-Dollar Investment Opportunity for Those Few with No Debt / Companies / Credit Cards & Scoring
By: John_Mauldin
BY TONY SAGAMI
Politicians and central bankers throw the word “trillion” around as if it were chump change, but a trillion dollars is a huge mountain of money.
A trillion is equal to a thousand billions (1,000 x 1,000,000,000).
1,000 = one thousand
1,000,000 = one million
1,000,000,000 = one billion
1,000,000,000,000 = one trillion
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Friday, June 17, 2016
Stock Investors Get Higher Returns and More Dividend Income - In Less Time With Less Risk / Companies / Dividends
By: Charles_Carnevale
Investing in blue-chip dividend growth stocks such as the Dividend Aristocrats or Champions has become very popular with retirees. This is understandable considering the low interest rate environment we find ourselves in. Traditional fixed income investments do not currently offer enough yield for the retired investor to live on. Consequently, current low interest rates, coupled with the possibility of a steadily increasing level of dividend income have made dividend growth stocks a viable and even attractive alternative.
When choosing the appropriate dividend growth stock, many dividend growth investors will rightfully focus on the company’s dividend record and dividend growth more than they will its price history. However, this can be a detrimental practice if the investor ignores valuation. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon practice. There are many dividend growth investors who will invest in a blue-chip Dividend Aristocrat even when it is overvalued at the time. Many of these investors argue that since the dividend is what is of paramount importance, being out of a blue-chip will cause them to generate less dividend income. To these investors, a dividend missed is a dividend lost.
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Friday, June 10, 2016
Nasdaq Composite Pieces of The Puzzle / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Joseph_VanDerveer
Below is a weekly chart of the Nasdaq or Comp accompanied by 5 pieces of the market puzzle.
Williams %R oscillator is suggesting overbought conditions.
Moving average crossover indicating momentum is slowing.
Wednesday, June 08, 2016
Investment in Cell and Gene Therapies Ramps Up / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
After decades of disappointment, cell therapies and gene therapies are finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Investors, investigators, clinicians, and patients with serious unmet needs are watching pivotal trials move into the home stretch. Yes. . .pivotal data are actually on the way.
Though the roadblocks that have held back development of cell and gene therapies since the mid-1990s have been expensive in terms of a lingering hangover with depressed valuations, investors are now looking at achievement in terms of meaningful endpoints.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Detecting Cancer With White and Blue Light / Companies / BioTech
By: Richard_Mills
Endoscopy is often used in the prevention, early detection, diagnosis, staging, and treatment of cancer.
X-rays and CT scans can show physical changes within the body and give information about the size, shape, and location of the changes. Endoscopes show details like color and surface texture allowing doctors to see exactly what’s going on.
If you go to a doctor exhibiting certain symptoms, endoscopy could be used to find the cause:
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Thursday, May 19, 2016
Market Forecast 2016: Technology a Huge Player / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Boris_Dzhingarov
It is being forecast that 2016 is going to see huge advances in technology and if anyone is looking for a place to invest, technology would be the place to start. Technology is infiltrating every aspect of our lives from the clothes we wear to smart gadgets for home and play, if you can buy it, technology had a hand in producing it. According to the Deloitte group of member firms, the backbone of the digital economy is the technology sector and this is where they forecast the most growth this year and probably every year going forward.
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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.”