Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
AIG Cancer - Benmosche Has 9 Months to a Year to Live / Companies / Insurance
By: Bloomberg
Bob Benmosche told Bloomberg Television's Betty Liu that he decided to step down as CEO of AIG earlier than he'd planned after his cancer worsened. Benmosche spoke with Liu during an interview at his home near Dubrovnik, Croatia, where he will spend his retirement. He said, "I knew that the cancer had begun massive mutations. I knew that there's no drug yet on the market. I knew there were studies. And so I'm back - they reset the clock [in May] - nine months to a year."
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Big Solar Energy Breakthrough We've Been Waiting For / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Besides its environmental advantages, solar power has always had one great benefit: It's hyper local. Solar panels make it possible to generate electricity on-site, precisely where it's needed. Like a portable generator powered by the sun, solar energy promises power wherever the sun shines.
What began as backup to more conventional grid-networked sources of power has quickly blossomed into a separate profit center.
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Saturday, August 23, 2014
Oxaloacetate Feeds and GROWS Brain Cells - Alzheimers Cure? / Companies / BioTech
By: John_Mauldin
By Patrick Cox
Oxford Paper Shows Oxaloacetate Feeds and Grows Brain Cells
The headline above is good news for those of us who want to proactively protect our health and extend our lives. I remain pretty cynical about the vast majority of supplements that claim life-extension benefits, but this compound is one of the rare exceptions. Before describing this important paper, published by in the Oxford journal Human Molecular Genetics, let me explain a bit about oxaloacetate, which John Mauldin and I both take several times a day.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Medical Tech Shifts from High Gear into Overdrive / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: TLSReport
Rapid growth in the medical device industry and changes in the regulatory environment have propelled valuations in the medtech sector to the high end of the range. But new technologies create new investment opportunities. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, William Plovanic of Canaccord Genuity highlights investment opportunities in medtech companies with innovative products targeting high-impact areas such as obesity, diabetes and wound care.
The Life Sciences Report: Canaccord Genuity is an investment banking firm focused on growth companies. Can you comment generally on the outlook for medical devices?
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Inside the Stunning Deal That Put Apple and IBM on the Same Side / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Business rivalries come and go. But not many end up the focus of an iconic TV commercial that aired once during Super Bowl XVII – and never again.
You probably remember the famous “1984″ commercial introducing Macintosh personal computers. In the ad, “Apple” is an iconoclastic young heroine who hurls a hammer at a giant screen broadcasting “Big Brother” (IBM) lecturing to a legion of followers.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Stop Investing in Leveraged ETFs / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Casey_Research
By Andrey Dashkov
Bigger, faster, better. That’s the turbocharged investment we all want. Miller’s Money Forever subscribers who pay close attention to our portfolio, though, will notice that we don’t hold leveraged ETFs—those with “2x” or “inverse” or “ultra” in their names, which some investors mistake for “better.”
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Why Tesla Stock Price Will Double in the Next 12 Months / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: I believe Tesla Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) stock will double within the next 12 months.
Bold? You bet. I know it's not a popular opinion. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the disdain for TSLA's bull run is only surpassed by the herd's disdain for the overall bull market itself.
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Sunday, August 17, 2014
Are You Ready for The Greatest Technology Revolution Yet? / Companies / Internet
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll out this month shows that American optimism is at an all-time low.
When asked if "life for our children's generation will be better than it has been for us," only 21% of respondents said yes. That was the lowest ever recorded.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
The Single Best Investment for the Semiconductor Tek Stock Boom / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: At first glance two of the major trends reshaping the semiconductor industry seem like polar opposites....
On the one hand, the industry is in the midst of a major boom. On the other, it's also contracting.
For tech investors these conflicting indicators raise two questions:
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Friday, August 15, 2014
Newsflash: Everyone Shops Online These Days! / Companies / Internet
By: EconMatters
Antiquated Retail Sales Reports
It is obvious that retail sales numbers are going to be awful for eternity because they are antiquated reports that fail to adequately capture the changing consumer trend of shopping online. Practically nobody is going to waste their leisure time going to a physical store when they can save time, gasoline, and easily search for the best price in a matter of minutes versus spending hours driving all over town in search of the best price or deal with mall parking. The Physical store business is dead, unless one needs to get a haircut, or a good grocery delivery business hasn`t yet arrived in your area.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
The Biggest Lesson from Microsoft’s Recent Battle with the US Government / Companies / Microsoft
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno, Senior Editor, InternationalMan.com
A court ruling involving Microsoft’s offshore data storage offers an instructive lesson on the long reach of the US government—and what you can do to mitigate this political risk.
A federal judge recently agreed with the US government that Microsoft must turn over its customer data that it holds offshore if requested in a search warrant. Microsoft had refused because the digital content being requested physically was located on servers in Ireland.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Trouble in the Global Economy? McDonald’s, Wal-Mart Say So / Companies / Corporate News
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: Think all is well—or at least OK—with the global economy? Don’t relax too much, as that doesn’t seem to be the case. As we all know, spending drives economic growth, whether it’s from consumers, businesses, investments, or governments. Without one part or another, there would be added pressure on other areas.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
The Email System the NSA Can’t Access / Companies / Internet
By: Submissions
Ted Baumann writes: It’s been a busy month on the privacy front.
For starters, word got out on August 5 that Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion user names and passwords across several kinds of websites. Then Facebook got into hot water — again — when it decided to force its risky Messenger app on unwilling users. Meanwhile, a U.S. senator warned that users of wearable fitness-tracking devices are unprotected by any privacy law, putting them at serious risk. And the European Union is poised to counter a U.S. court order demanding Microsoft hand over data stored inside its Irish servers.
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Monday, August 11, 2014
Profit from the World's Largest E-Commerce Market / Companies / Internet
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: Mainland China has leapfrogged the United States to become the biggest e-commerce market on Earth.
We wanted you to hear about some of the best new opportunities.
So you can reap the biggest payoffs...
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Friday, August 08, 2014
Connecting the Bankster Dots on the DOJ’s Latest Moves / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Two things hit my radar today, and they’re both interesting, for different reasons.
On the surface, you might think they’re not connected, but they might be.
First of all there’s Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). That poor wee bank was too-big-to-fail even before it bought Countrywide (ground zero for the mortgage crisis) and Merrill Lynch (which was itself TBTF).
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Friday, August 08, 2014
A Major Move in Venezuela Lands Me Back on Chinese TV / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Sometimes my TV appearances happen on very short notice. Like the one yesterday, for example.
Twelve minutes into my routine at LA Fitness, my phone rang. Chinese television wanted to do a segment ASAP.
So I rushed back home for a quick shower, a change of clothes and a limousine ride to the studio in downtown Pittsburgh.
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Thursday, August 07, 2014
New Growth Ideas for Biotech Stock Investors / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Medical technology is intimately linked to regenerative medicine. You could say these industries have a thunder-and-lightning relationship—you can't have one without the other. Mark Landy, director of research for medical technology and regenerative medicine at Summer Street Research Partners, has staked out the intertwined sectors as his universe of coverage. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Landy discusses three companies with very distinct capabilities that could bring extraordinary rewards to investors who understand the value propositions.
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Big Banks - Don’t Believe a Word the GAO Says / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Last week the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report titled “Large Bank Holding Companies: Expectations of Government Support.”
And wouldn’t you know it – all the too-big-to-fail banks broke out their crack pipes.
The highly anticipated report didn’t surprise anybody. After all, we all already know that big banks are government bootlickers… when they need to be.
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Monday, August 04, 2014
Boycott Marks and Spencers Historic Supporter of Zionism, Israel's Killing of Palestinian Children Consequences / Companies / Corporate News
By: Submissions
Boycottisrael writes: Historically, Marks & Spencer has made statements in support of Zionism. Lord Sieff, chairman and founder of M&S who died in 2001, made several statements in support of Israel’s military policies. In 1941, Sieff said that “large sections of the Arab population of Palestine should be transplanted to Iraq and other Middle-Eastern Arab States” (Jewish Chronicle, 21/09/1941). In 1990, Sieff, in a book entitled On Management: The Marks and Spencer Way, wrote that one of the fundamental objectives of M&S was to “aid the economic development of Israel.”
Friday, August 01, 2014
Big Banks Shift to Lower Gear Banking Operations / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: John_Mauldin
For today’s Outside the Box, good friend Gary Shilling has sent along a very interesting analysis of the big banks. Gary knows a lot about what went down with the big banks during and after the Great Recession, and he tells the story well.
After the bailout of banks during the financial crisis, many wanted too-big-to-fail institutions to be broken up. Big banks resisted and pointed to their rebuilt capital, but regulators are responding with restraints that strip them of proprietary trading and other lucrative activities and push them towards spread lending and other traditional commercial banking businesses. The fiasco at Citigroup, JP Morgan's London Whale, and BNP Paribas's sanctions violations have spurred regulators as well.
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