Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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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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Monday, September 08, 2014
Loongson: China’s answer to Intel/AMD / Companies / China Stocks
By: Maninder_Batra
I will give a brief here.Loongson is the Chinese microchip maker whose main markets are servers,supercomputers and desktops for Chinese govt using its indigenous chips. Loongson uses MIPS architecture instead of the x86 architecture that Intel,IBM and AMD use. Currently Loongson is marketing its latest 6 core,32 nm chip whose performance is 192 Gflops while consuming 40 watts.While Loongson has to still catch up with Intel and other western semiconductor manufacturers ,but due to the Snowden leaks that proved that US corporation manufactured hardware products have NSA back doors in them has sent shockwaves to Govts and major non-US industrial conglomerates.
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Sunday, September 07, 2014
The Battle for Trade Sanctions Against Russia / Companies / GeoPolitics
By: Investment_U
Tom Sandford writes: Would you like “despise” with that?
Like a delicate slice of cheese between two meat patties in a Big Mac, American and European companies in Russia are watching as trade sanctions take a bite out of business.
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Sunday, September 07, 2014
Your “Last, Best” Chance to Buy Apple Stock at a Bargain Price / 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. (NasdaqGS: AAPL).
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Friday, September 05, 2014
Don’t Wait for the Next Apple Hack – Get off the Grid Now / Companies / Apple
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: There’s no stopping the march of technology.
But are we all marching over a cliff?
Whether it’s photos of nude celebrities hacked from the iCloud, hacked credit cards at Home Depot, hacking attacks on JPMorgan Chase, or the National Security Agency‘s hacking all of us, the truth is that we’re all hackable – because we’re all on servers somewhere.
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Thursday, September 04, 2014
The Stock That Will Capitalize on Apple's Next Big Move / Companies / Apple
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: As the launch of the Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPhone 6 careens our way, we're seeing more and more speculation that the iDevice king wants to add digital payments to its "ecosystem."
And that's going to further supercharge the business of NXP Semiconductors NV (Nasdaq: NXPI), the specialized chipmaker whose shares are up 195% since we recommended them back in May 2012.
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Thursday, September 04, 2014
For Big Tech Stock Profits, Just Go “Back to the Future” / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: It will certainly go down as one of the strongest business alliances in the history of technology.
And one of the most profitable as well…
At their peak, these two companies dominated the personal-computing market, accounting for roughly 95% of sales.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Apple Stock to Reach a $1 Trillion Market Cap by 2018 / Companies / Apple
By: Money_Morning
As incredible as it seems, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is on track to become America's first $1 trillion company by 2018.
That means the Apple stock price will need to get to about $167 a share, a fair distance from its current $102.50 a share and market cap of about $613.5 billion.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014
The Best Way to Invest in Google's 3D Printing Breakthrough / Companies / Google
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: The 3D printing field has been around for many years now, yet it remains relatively young in its potential for handing tech investors outsized gains.
This is one of the tech sector's most exciting fields, one I believe offers plenty of long-term upside.
Indeed, I believe there is one company poised for a fresh breakout.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2014
Bank Mortgage Settlements - There’s a Cost to All This Good News / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Too-big-too-fail banks are paying record amounts to settle mortgage-related malfeasance dating back to the financial crisis, and everyone seems to think that’s good news.
It is… and it isn’t.
Not including legal costs and other lawsuits, Bank of America Corp. just settled for $16.65 billion, which beats the previous record $13 billion JPMorgan Chase & Co. paid.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Tesco Supermarket Death Spiral Latest Profits Warning and Dividend Slashed / Companies / Corporate News
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Tesco, Britian's giant supermarket chain continues in its death spiral trend towards eventually becoming a mere fraction of its former self where each quaretly report is accompanied with a new profits warning that in its latest statement cut forecast earnings further to £2.5 billion, 25% lower than last years £3.3 billion.
Friday, August 29, 2014
The One Tech Stock Investment You Should Never Sell / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Earlier this week, the producers at CNBC asked me to appear on one of their programs to explain why tech is once again leading the market to record highs.
That’s kind of ironic.
When I appeared on the popular financial channel in early June, I was peppered with tough questions about why tech stocks were lagging the market.
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Friday, August 29, 2014
AAPL Apple Stock About To Get sMACked / Companies / Apple
By: Austin_Galt
iPads and iPhones. Fad or fashion? I’m not sure. What I am sure about is the company that invented these devices has hit the jackpot! With that in mind, I thought I would investigate the charts of this company, Apple Inc.
Let’s first take a look at the big picture using the yearly chart.
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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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