Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, April 02, 2015
Is Warren Buffett Wrong About Oil Stocks? / Companies / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
Recently, Warren Buffett has made headlines by selling all of his shares in Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), the rest of his position in ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), and reducing his stake in National Oilwell Varco. This has people wondering if the glory days of oil investing are over. Warren's opinion of oil investments carries a lot of weight, because over a 32 year period, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway portfolio has generated an average annual return of 24 percent. His most famous investments are Coke, American Express, and Gillette (which is now Proctor and Gamble). These investments have made him over 3 billion dollars each. This is why when Buffett buys or sells a stock, everyone takes notice. The problem with this generally accepted assumption is that it hasn't been proven that his equity investing success equates to success in the resource sector. In order to find out if this accepted assumption is correct, we first have to visit Warren's history of investing in the resource sector.
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015
How Traded Options Can Power a 300%-Plus Gain on Twitter / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: Money_Morning
Tom Gentile writes: Twitter has often been dismissed as a company that should have sold out to Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) years ago, and until recently no one really wanted to own its stock.
I disagree. I believe now is the right time to buy Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) stock, and not just because it's starting to show up on the Street's buy lists.
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Wednesday, April 01, 2015
You Can’t Afford Not to Invest in This Latest Yesla Technology / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: It’s not often a so-called financial writer so blatantly misreads a key tenet of the technology business.
But that’s just what I saw in a piece I came across a couple of weeks ago.
Offering his take on Tesla’s announcement that its new Model S sedans would feature some “self-driving” technology, the columnist bemoaned the vehicle’s high price. He worried that “America’s wealth gap will spread to the highways,” leaving regular folks behind.
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Friday, March 27, 2015
How Investors can Maximize Disney Stock "Magic" / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: Money_Morning
Even though we're in the middle of March Madness right now, I'm not going to talk about this year's "Cinderella" teams, which come out of nowhere and make it to the Final Four in college basketball.
No… the real Cinderella story is happening at U.S. box offices. A simple Disney remake of the classic film managed to gross over $70 million in one weekend earlier this month. There's clearly investment potential in this success.
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Friday, March 27, 2015
Driverless Cars Poised To Transform Automotive Industry / Companies / US Auto's
By: OilPrice_Com
The newest Mercedes autonomous car looks like a car on the outside but like a lounge on the inside, with four swivel seats facing each other in a multimedia bubble of padded leather and walnut veneer.The F 015 'Luxury in Motion' concept car unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year is completely self-driving but still has a steering wheel and brake if you want to swivel around and drive it manually.
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Airline Pilots Death Cult - Germanwings 9525 Crashed by Co-Pilot, is Air Travel Safe? / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The cockpit voice recorder reveals the truth of the mass murder that took place on Germanwings Flight 9525, as the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, locked the pilot out of the cabinet and then proceeded to direct the plane head long into a mountain, that within a few short minutes with the pilot banging on the door, pleading to be let back in and passengers screaming, crashed at a speed of 700mph killing all 150 on board.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Where to Invest the Next Time Your Flight Gets Delayed / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: It’s been a few weeks, but I’m sure you recall the tale of American Airlines Flight 382.
On Feb. 28, the routine commuter flight was scheduled to fly from Dallas to Oklahoma City – usually an hour-long trip.
However, bad weather and mechanical problems combined to leave passengers stranded on the plane for nine grueling hours.
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Monday, March 23, 2015
This Rising Interest Rates Play Could Make You a Quick 55% / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
According to Bloomberg Business, people collectively waste an hour a day on Facebook debating everything from Kim Kardashian's hair to the now infamous gold/blue dress.
After last Wednesday, I've got to wonder how much time they're going to blow talking about what Fed Chair Janet Yellen said… or didn't say.
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Gold Price Outlook Dramatic Improvement Following US Dollar Topping Action / Companies / Gold and Silver 2015
By: Clive_Maund
The immediate outlook for gold has improved dramatically following the dollar's topping action of recent days after the Fed was rumbled, and the vast improvement in the COT structure of the past 2 weeks. While the negative outlook set out in the last update could yet come to pass in the event of a deflationary implosion - and remains a risk until gold breaks out of the downtrend shown here on our 8-year chart - latest COTs certainly suggest that the risk has been averted for now. In anticipation of the dollar reversing after the Fed meeting, we liquidated our PM sector short positions for a profit on the site and reversed to long, and the way things are shaping up we won't need to close our long positions for a while.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Bank Stress Tests Prove the Worst History Repeats Itself / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Last Wednesday, only two out of 31 big banks failed the Federal Reserve's "qualitative" round of bank stress tests.
One was Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE: DB), and the other was Santander Holdings USA Inc. (NYSE: SOV-C).
And then on Thursday, Santander's biggest U.S. unit, Santander Consumer USA, was able to sell a bundle of subprime auto loans, worth $712 million, in a matter of hours.
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
Three Iconic Stocks Are Poised for a Dive / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: We’ve spent a lot of time talking about how to identify great companies with huge upside potential. No doubt you’ve got the 3-Step Total Wealth Process down by now: 1) identify the trend, 2) pick your trade, and 3) control your risk.
So today I want to shift gears and talk about the one metric you can use to identify seemingly pristine companies that are ripe for a fall.
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
The Hottest Investment Opportunities in Tech Stocks Sector Right Now / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: Although I speak with Money Morning technology guru Michael Robinson almost every day – and share his comments and recommendations with you on a regular basis – it has been some time since we actually engaged in a full-fledged question-and-answer session for your benefit.
Today I'll share that Q&A with you.
In it, Michael – editor of our Nova-X Report and Radical Technology Profits advisories – details his outlook for tech stocks, outlines a risk-management strategy every investor should follow (especially now), and highlights the half-dozen tech stocks that will point you down the path to meaningful wealth.
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
T-Mobile CEO: "Sprint couldn't give away service...their network is completely dead" / Companies / Mobile Technology
By: Mike_Shedlock
John Legere, CEO of T-Mobile, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Stephanie Ruhle today about the company's latest "uncarrier" move, business strategy and recent growth.
On Sprint making a big push into business and competition with T-Mobile, Legere said: "Sprint could give away service in the business or the consumer side because their network is completely dead and everybody knows it. What Sprint announced recently was an age-old bundle service per seat where you try to aggregate everything that happens in the office place. We're not fooling around with that. This is wireless services and we are focusing straight in there, and I have very little concern about Sprint."
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Utility Stocks Sector - The Most Crowded Trades on Wall Street / Companies / US Utilities
By: EconMatters
This crowded trade revolves around a common theme Central Bank Policy and its effects on financial markets. The third most crowded trade in our series is the Utility Sector Stocks. Investors have piled into this sector due to the perceived defensive nature of the sector with the fact that this sector pays a hefty dividend, a dividend higher than say a 10-Year Bond. And because bond yields have been driven so low by yield chasers, utility stocks get even more of a bid than they otherwise would given their fundamentals. In short, utility stocks and the utility sector in general have become surrogate bond instruments for investors.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Banks Stress Tests When the Worst Loans Are the Best Deals / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Last Wednesday, only 2 out of 31 big banks failed the Federal Reserve‘s “qualitative” round of stress tests.
One was Deutsche Bank USA, and the other was Santander Holdings USA Inc.
And then on Thursday, Santander’s biggest U.S. unit, Santander Consumer USA, was able to sell a bundle of subprime auto loans, worth $712 million, in a matter of hours.
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Investors Earn 6% When Others Are Losing Money / Companies / Investing 2015
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: We're living in crazy economic times.
The race to debase and stimulate has taken us into uncharted financial waters.
Zero interest rate policies (ZIRP) are being replaced with negative interest rate policies (NIRP).
It's an upside-down banking environment that presents some serious challenges.
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Monday, March 16, 2015
The Most Crowded Trades on Wall Street - Apple / Companies / Apple
By: EconMatters
Herd Mentality
Here are 5 of the most crowded trades in financial markets, where a lot of group think has led to large fund flows on one side of the trade. This has been a very common phenomenon the last couple of years in financial markets, partly due to participating in the same investment conferences, limited trading opportunities, lack of imagination, investors seeking security with the crowd, Fed incentives, shared information and networking otherwise called industry collusion, trend trading, and going with ideas that have worked in recent history.
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Friday, March 13, 2015
At Citigroup, It’s the Same as It Ever Was / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Flashback to the 2008 credit crisis.
There’s Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) – bent-over by arrogance, off-balance sheet liabilities and derivative weapons of mass destruction in an insolvent fetal position.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The Best Way to Trade off Sony Stock's Success / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Tom Gentile writes: Sony Corp. (NYSE ADR: SNE) had another blockbuster on its hands with its latest movie release, "50 Shades of Grey," based on the best-selling book of the same name. While most parents justifiably didn't take their kids to this movie, adults seeking the cover of a wide release to justify their desire to watch soft-core porn have flocked to the theaters over the last 30 days.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Biotech Stocks Blowoff Beats Even Dot-Com Madness / Companies / BioTech
By: Anthony_Alfidi
Annual health tech fests like the JPMorgan Health Care Conference, Biotech Showcase, and One Med Forum came and went this year in San Francisco. The star performers in this sector no doubt have a lot to brag about. They will also have a lot of explaining to do when the biotech and health care sectors eventually crash.
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