Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Friday, September 26, 2014
The Home Depot Breach Boils Our Blood – and It Should / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Who should worry about data breaches?
Everyone.
You as an individual are at risk. Your bank account is at risk. Your credit is at risk. You’re at risk in ways you never thought about.
Merchants are at risk, maybe to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
Is Apple Watch a Needle Mover? / Companies / Apple
By: Casey_Research
By Adam J. Crawford, Analyst
The investment community has been up in arms over a lack of innovation from Apple. After all, the company hasn’t launched a new product line in quite some time… that is, until now. Meet the company’s brand-new smart device: Apple Watch. Investors hope the product will send Apple’s stock to new heights. Is that wishful thinking?
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
The Best Hope for Reducing Taxes… Isn't What You Think / Companies / Taxes
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: It appears that the move by Warren Buffett-backed Burger King Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: BKW) to buy iconic Canadian fast food chain Tim Hortons Inc. (USA) (NYSE: THI) and relocate to Canada to lower its corporate tax rate was the straw that broke the camel's back when it comes to tax inversion deals.
One has to wonder whether the wily Mr. Buffett was not only trying to make money but doing his best to accelerate much-needed tax reform when he agreed to finance BKW's expansion into the northland...
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Tesco Super Market Giant Fast Disappearing Down a Financial Black Hole / Companies / Corporate News
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Tesco, Britain's giant supermarket chain continues in its death spiral trend towards eventually becoming a mere fraction of its former size as barely a few weeks after its latest profit warning of a 25% collapse, today we find out that its financial controllers (bankers) and accountants can't control or count anything as the management wakes up to find that £250 million of expected profits no longer exists the news of which wiped out £2 billion in market capitalisation as panicked stock holders belatedly start to jump ship as the mega-corp is literally disappearing down a financial black hole.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Nervous Investors Will Hate the Money You Make With This Strategy / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: In the past couple of weeks, we’ve been seeingrecord highs in the markets nearly every day.
However, we saw a pretty scary headline earlier this week about the Nasdaq Composite Index.
On Monday, Bloomberg reported that nearly half of the stocks in the tech-centric Nasdaq have declined 20% from their highs of the past 12 months – putting them in “bear territory.”
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Alibaba - From Crazy to Richest - What Is The World's Largest IPO Telling Us? / Companies / IPOs
By: DK_Matai
1. When the Alibaba Group starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange as "BABA" on Friday, many ATCA 5000 distinguished members may ask: “Ali who?”
2. The world's largest Initial Public Offering (IPO) on Thursday, valued Alibaba at USD 168 billion and raised nearly USD 22 billion. Can one imagine the enormous quantum of wealth that is being generated via this IPO?
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Alibaba is Focused, Will Use Money in Emerging Areas / Companies / IPOs
By: Bloomberg
In an interview with Bloomberg's Emily Chang and Cory Johnson, GGV Capital Managing Partner and person responsible for connecting Jack Ma to Jerry Yang leading to the landmark transaction between Yahoo! and Alibaba, Hans Tung said Alibaba is a 'very focused' company and expects them to focus more on emerging areas such a digital goods as in gaming or in financial services, logistics, search or cross-border commerce.
Friday, September 19, 2014
How You Can Tell When a Company’s P/E is All Flash / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: John_Mauldin
By Andrey Dashkov
College reunions are toxic. Except for the few precious moments of genuine human connection, these parties are nothing but status pageants. Suits and watches are inconspicuously glanced at, vacation photos (carefully selected the night before) are passed around; compensations guesstimated; Platinum Master Cards flashed (“Oh no, let me take care of this round!”); spouses evaluated based on trophy-worthy qualities… and inconspicuously glanced at.
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
The "Hidden" Billions in the Alibaba IPO / Companies / IPOs
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: How many times have you been reading about a long-ago historical event - or been watching a documentary about it on the History Channel - and thought to yourself: "Wow, it would've been really cool to have actually been there to see this happen."
I couldn't agree more. As a big history buff myself, I find myself making that statement on a regular basis.
But I'll also make this observation: The same folks who get so turned on about events from the distant past are often the last to recognize current developments - what you and I would refer to as "history in the making."
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Is Citigroup the Dumbest Bank Ever? / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: John_Rubino
Back in 2006, when the housing bubble was entering its truly (and obviously) manic phase, mega-bank Citigroup was being pressured by Wall Street to grow faster. And rather than pushing back against what were clearly ill-timed demands from desperately-short-sighted analysts, Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince uttered some words — and adopted a strategy — that live on in the annals of banker cluelessness:
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Stock Market Investing - Don't Let Media "Noise" Drown Out True Value / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Michael E. Lewitt writes: Signs of overvaluation and "irrational exuberance" abound in the market, and not surprisingly it is most often seen in the run-up of stocks with which we have daily familiarity.
We hear incessantly of Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) and Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) - when not checking them ourselves.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Top 3 Internet IPOs of the decade / Companies / Internet
By: Submissions
Amigobulls writes: Alibaba Group, the e-commerce behemoth, is set to make its initial public offering. Alibaba will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on the 19th of September, 2014 under the stock symbol ‘BABA’. We take a look at the top 3 IPOs of the decade.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
The Big Investor Opportunity in the Orbital Space Junkyard / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: To say that I've been fascinated with space technology since I was a little kid is no exaggeration.
See, when I was in the first grade, I met none other than U.S. astronaut John Glenn, the first person to orbit Earth, and a man many will know about as an almost mythic figure in the book and movie The Right Stuff.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Kohl's and The Rest of The Retailers are in Deep Doo Doo / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: James_Quinn
I never believe government manufactured numbers. They will always be adjusted, massaged, and manipulated to achieve a happy ending for the propagandists attempting to control and fleece the sheep. Yesterday, the government produced retail sales numbers for August that were weak and the corporate MSM propaganda machine immediately threw up bold headlines declaring how strong these numbers were. Positive stories were published on the interwebs and Wall Street hack economists were rolled out on CNBC, where the bubble headed bimbos and prostitutes for the status quo like Jim Cramer and Steve Liesman declared the recovery gaining strength. Woo Hoo.
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Friday, September 12, 2014
If You Own Only One Investment, Make Sure This Is It / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: For a change of pace today I wanted to tell you a personal story.
Twenty years ago, when I was working as a business reporter in upstate New York and covering Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: KODK) for Gannett Newspapers, I decided it was time to start saving for a house.
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Apple’s Smartwatch May put Biotech on Silicon Valley Time / Companies / BioTech
By: John_Mauldin
By Patrick Cox
Tech sites are buzzing right now about the new Apple smartwatch and iPhone. Having been a part of or close to the tech industry for a long time, the excitement that builds over new products doesn’t normally move me much. This time, though, it’s a little different because of reports that the phone and watch will be integrated to support healthcare apps.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014
A Better Way to Play Tesla’s Success in China / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Tesla Motors Inc. stock hit a new high on Aug. 29 thanks to very positive news out of China.
The world leader in electric vehicles is set to install 400 charging stations in roughly 120 Chinese cities. And that’s on top of 200 charging stations Tesla already operates in the world’s most populous nation.
The news comes just weeks after Tesla began selling its luxurious $70,000 Model S in China.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014
Amazon Stock Biting Off More Than It Can Chew? / Companies / Internet
By: Investment_U
Zachary Scheidt writes: Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is one of the best growth stocks of our generation. Over the last 10 years alone, revenues have grown from $6.3 billion to more than $80 billion per year. Yet despite all the revenue, profits have been absent.
Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO, built his empire by growing revenues with the promise of profits. His strategy has been to aggressively cut prices (at the expense of profits) to gain market share. Thus far, the strategy has made the company into a retail powerhouse. Bezos hopes to repeat this success with the company’s new business lines.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2014
It's Time to Get a Bargain on Apple Stock / Companies / Apple
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Ed Butowsky is going to owe me a steak dinner.
Butowsky is the managing partner at Chapwood Investments. He's a good guy. And we often cross paths during our appearances on cable finance programs.
During our most recent get-together, we got into a spirited debate about one of my favorite tech stocks: Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL).
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Monday, September 08, 2014
Renegade Currency - Bitcoin Stock System to "Wipe Out" Wall Street / Companies / Bitcoin
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Could a Bitcoin stock trading system be the cure for the many transgressions of Wall Street?
Overstock.com (Nasdaq: OSTK) CEO Patrick Byrne thinks so.
Last month he created a wiki page on the Internet to solicit help in creating a decentralized, purely digital stock trading system that would use Bitcoin's blockchain - the mechanism that records and verifies all the transactions - as its foundation.
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