Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Global Middle-Class Growth Boosting These Stocks Worldwide / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: The current drama surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been riveting and indicative of how the superlative growth in travel in the airline sector has encompassed Asia along with the world.
For years now, since the recession hit in 2008, I have been increasingly bullish on the airline sector across the globe, but especially in the emerging markets like China, India, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Helping to drive up the demand for travel in the airline sector has been the upward push in wealth creation in many of these regions, which has given more people the ability to afford air travel.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Apple Stock Price Setting Up For a Big Pop or Hard Drop / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Joseph_Russo
A quick technical heads up for Apple traders and investors
Following its 45% fall from grace last year, Apple has been on the rebound since printing its 385.10 low in April 2013. Since then, despite rallying more than 38%, and retracing nearly 62% of its bearish decline, the stock price remains almost 200-pts away from its all time high.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Berkshire Hathaway: The Insurance Float & Intrinsic Value / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Rory_Gillen
Warren Buffett often says that he considers Berkshire Hathaway’s balance sheet value (or net asset value) to be just a convenient proxy for the intrinsic value of Berkshire’s shares, but that their intrinsic value is a good deal higher. Here, we explain what Buffett means by this statement, we provide a range estimate for their intrinsic value and we place into context Berkshire’s 2012 commitment to buy back shares at a 20% premium to net asset value (book value).
Monday, March 17, 2014
Wells Fargo “Too Big to Fail” Bank Is Going Down / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Last week I told you about “The Coming Curse of Zombie Foreclosures.”
I described how folks – who thought they were foreclosed on – are suddenly finding out they are actually still on the hook for mortgage payments, taxes, and all kinds of maintenance on abandoned homes.
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Investors Big-Time Profit Play For a Scary Stock Market / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: U.S. blue chips suffered their biggest drop in five weeks yesterday and are down nearly 3% so far this year because the latest round of economic reports are fostering a lot of uncertainty about the prospects for continued global growth.
For most investors, it’s been that kind of year.
But I continue to believe that the tech sector – especially here in the U.S. – still has a lot of fuel left in its tank.
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Friday, March 14, 2014
Corporate Capex Fallacies and Why You Shouldn’t Rely on CNBC / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: F_F_Wiley
We get experts on everything that sound like they’re scientific experts … They’ll sit at a typewriter and make up all this stuff as if it’s science and then become an expert … Now, I might be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things. But I don’t think I’m wrong. You see I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something … how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know what it means to know something. And therefore, I see how they get their information and I can’t believe that they know it. They haven’t done the work necessary. They haven’t done the checks necessary. They haven’t done the care necessary … and they’re intimidating people. -Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Thursday, March 13, 2014
How to Profit Now from Canada's Overlooked Tech Market / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Many investors think of Canada as the land of mining stocks, and not without good reason.
It's resource-rich and home to a legion of mining firms that produce everything from gold and silver to iron ore. Canada ranks among the world's top five producers of 14 mineral commodities and is the world leader in the production of potash and uranium.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Investors Grab These Shares… Before Google Does / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes:As I've mentioned many times in Private Briefing, resident technology expert Michael Robinson and I talk by telephone at least once every day - and often two or three times.
On more than one occasion, in fact, Michael has joked that we could save a lot of time if we were capable of the "Vulcan Mind Meld" technique that Mr. Spock regularly used in the classic sci-fi TV show Star Trek.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Staples Store Closings Part of an Ugly Retail Sector Trend / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: The news that Staples Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) plans to close 225 stores illustrates a grim trend in retail that will accelerate over the next couple of years.
The store closings are expected to save Staples $500 million by the end of 2015 and represent 12% of the office supply chain's 1,846 North American stores.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
How to Play the Surging Uranium Bull / Companies / Uranium
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: Back in November we took a close look at the uranium market.
That's because the end of a 20-year milestone agreement was fast approaching...
From 1993 to 2013, the Megatons to Megawatts program saw highly enriched uranium from 20,000 Russian warheads converted into nuclear fuel, supplying American utilities.
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Saturday, March 08, 2014
Why This Tech Stocks Merger Means Huge Profits / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: My smartphone plays a vital role in my life.
And I’ll bet the same is true for you.
My two teenaged daughters are active in school, and have busy social lives. My wife is a successful professional. And with my own frenetic schedule – headlined by the work I do here for you – the text messages I send and receive using my Apple iPhone are often my only link to family and friends.
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Thursday, March 06, 2014
Apple and Tesla Motors Might Have a Secret Plan / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: now appears that rumors Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) had an acquisitive eye on Tesla Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) were just that - rumors.
But the two companies have been talking, and almost surely about the planned Tesla Gigafactory, an enormous rechargeable battery production plant projected to open in 2017 and cost at least $5 billion.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Cyprus - The Time of Maximum Pessimism Is the Best Time to Buy / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno
“The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.”—Sir John Templeton
As you may have heard, Doug Casey and I traveled to Cyprus in search of crisis-driven bargains… and we found them. This has been previously outlined in the articles here and in our specific investment picks in Crisis Investing in Cyprus.
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Monday, March 03, 2014
Should You Invest in the Marijuana Boom? / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Casey_Research
By Dan Steinhart, Managing Editor, The Casey Report
I was planning to explore the investment landscape of the burgeoning marijuana industry today, but it looks like the party’s already over.
Appearing before the Maryland Legislature, Annapolis Police Chief Michael Pristoop testified that 37 people died in Colorado on the first day of legalization from overdosing on marijuana.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Investors Should Evaluate Biotech Stocks with Cynicism / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Biotech investing is a risky business, so investors should thoroughly examine a company's vital statistics before taking the plunge. That's the recommendation of Managing Director Debjit Chattopadhyay of Emerging Growth Equities, who brings a strict scientific discipline to stock analysis. As a former medical researcher, Chattopadhyay comes by his skepticism honestly, and in this interview with The Life Sciences Report, he brings five exciting—but critically scrutinized—growth names to investors' attention.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Four Top High-Momentum Stocks to Watch / Companies / Investing 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: There is a lot of money trading the stock market each day, and this is especially true with the momentum stocks that are making many traders rich.
While anyone can trade momentum stocks; to make the real big money, you need to be trading big positions on these momentum stocks and be willing to assume the risk that the trade could go the other way. The key to trading momentum stocks is to make sure you are closely monitoring the price action and the volume on the bid side, especially. A major upward push in bids could foreshadow a pending upward move in the stock. The same can be said for rising volume on the ask side that could suggest traders are exiting the stock.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
WhatsApp - 'I Don't Think [Facebook] Made a Big Mistake' / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Bloomberg
David Rubenstein, CEO of Carlyle Group, joined Bloomberg Television's Cristina Alesci to discuss WhatApp, Facebook and the tech sector at the SuperReturn International Conference in Berlin.
Rubenstein told Bloomberg TV: "I don't think that they made a big mistake. If that price hadn't been paid by Facebook, it would have been paid by Google or somebody else in my view."
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Tesla Soon to Be the Biggest U.S. Automaker? / Companies / US Auto's
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: Every time I drive my SUV, especially when I have to fill up the tank with premium gas, I quiver and think about downsizing to a smaller gas-efficient vehicle or some sort of hybrid.
I remember back more than a decade ago when Canadian upstart Ballard Power Systems Inc. (NASDAQ/BLDP) was all the rage on Wall Street, with traders driving up the stock price to above $100.00 in early 2000 on anticipation the company could develop the first hydrogen-powered cell for vehicles. Of course, as my stock analysis indicates, that failed, as Ballard was unable to develop a battery small enough to power the everyday car. The rest is history. Ballard is still hanging around, but it’s a non-factor in the alternative power sector for vehicles, based on my stock analysis.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
WhatsApp With Facebook? / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Peter_Schiff
Two pieces of business news announced this week provide a convenient frame through which to view our dysfunctional and distorted economy. The first (which has attracted tremendous attention), is Facebook's blockbuster $19 billion acquisition of instant messaging provider WhatsApp. The second (which few have noticed) is the horrific earnings report issued by Texas-based retail chain Conn's. While these two developments don't seem to have much in common, together they shed some very unflattering light on where we stand economically.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Be Relentless With Your Business Startup Finances – How To Easily Save Money / Companies / SME
By: Submissions
Running a successful startup is not just about the idea that you have, logistics and making sales. There are many different things that need to be taken into account. One of them is saving money. Budgeting helps out a lot but there are always thing that can go wrong. You can do all that can be done in order to be prepared and still fail. That is why every bit of extra cash that you can generate is important. Read full article... Read full article...