Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Metals and Mining Corporate Earnings Critical Crystal Ball for November 2010 / Companies / Metals & Mining
By: Anthony_David
The global steel industry has had to bear the brunt of the uneven global economy and quite unlike the upbeat expectations harbored at the beginning of the year, both sale and price of steel is on the decline while raw material cost is on the upswing. The failure of the construction industry to regain its pre-recession status is adversely affecting the steel market although the auto and appliance industries have reflected a surge in growth. Global leader ArcelorMittal’s Q3 results reported a drop of 21% from Q2, although it reflected a 48% jump in profits YoY. The company expects steel shipments to increase in Q4 but selling prices are expected to fall.
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Molycorp CEO Treads Carefully In Regards To Chinese Rare Earths Monopoly / Companies / Metals & Mining
By: Anthony_David
Rare earth metals company Molycorp, Inc. (MCP) owns the largest deposit of rare earth minerals outside of China and its Mountain Pass deposit in California is the only deposit of any significance in the western hemisphere. MCP is one of the two companies that plan to operate rare earth mines within the next two years in an effort to meet the huge demand expected. MCP’s announcement to reopen its mines has more than doubled its share prices over the second half of this year.
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Monday, November 01, 2010
China Growth and Wall Street Upgrade Propel Arch Coal / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Some of the metals and mining names that will benefit from renewed growth (in excess of 9%) in China are moving this morning, including Arch Coal (NYSE: ACI).
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Hit And Run Trades Give Good Stock Trading Profits / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
Elections, QE2. Do news driven events like this matter?
From a technical standpoint they don’t. Although those events are most likely going to get us unstuck from the current trajectory of our current trend channel that we will say.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Stock Traders Eye on Qualcomm and Microsoft / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Qualcomm (QCOM) is up about 2.5% today and after nearly a month of sideways digestion off of its Sep 30 high at 45.75 into Tuesday's low at 43.21 appears to have finally resumed its underlying uptrend from the July low at 31.51.
If such a scenario continues to unfold, then QCOM should be in the early portion of a new upleg that projects to the 48.00 area next. At this juncture, only a decline that breaks the Oct 26 low at 43.21 will invalidate the bullish scenario.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Investors Get Down Under With Australia ETFs / Companies / Austrailia
By: Ron_Rowland
See if you can guess the country …
• Straddles two different oceans
• Part of the British Commonwealth
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) Takes Pole Position Among Automakers / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes: Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) yesterday (Tuesday) furthered its lead among U.S. automakers, reporting record-breaking third-quarter profits.
The world's most profitable automaker reported record third-quarter net income of $1.69 billion, up 68% over the same period a year ago. The company also said it is paying down debt faster than planned as new models boost its U.S. market share.
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited: Record Quarterly Net Income of $121.5 million / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Bob_Kirtley
Another record performance by Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (AEM) on the back of high gold prices along with the completion of a number of quality projects should render the Eagle more than desirable in this sector of the market. And as the trend is to acquire more ounces on Bay Street through merger and acquisition activity, its a surprise to us that this company has not been the target of a take over move by one of the large caps.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
How Investors Can Profit From Asia's Sparkling Luxury Goods Market / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Tony_Sagami
I should be used to it by now, but I am always amazed at the conspicuous display of wealth whenever I travel to Asia. The signs of wealth are everywhere.
I see more people drinking $3 cups of Starbucks coffee in Shanghai than I see in Seattle. I see more ladies clutching expensive Louis Vuitton handbags in Beijing than in Boston. I see more iPods and iPhones in Hong Kong than in Houston. And I see more $200,000 Bentleys on the streets of Wuhan than in Palm Beach, Florida.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Upside Reversal for Bank of America BAC / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The 4% upmove today in Bank of America (BAC) after it hit lows not seen since May 2009 (on the way up) so far looks technically significant.
My daily and hourly pattern and momentum work on BAC suggest strongly that the most recent downleg from the 14.00 area ended this morning at new multi-month lows at 11.03. The upside reversal (so far) has the "right look" of a significant upside reversal and recovery rally within the 14.00-11.00 price move.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Windows Phone 7 Will Give Microsoft a Boost / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes: Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled a lineup of smartphones that use its revamped Windows Phone 7 mobile-operating system in its boldest move yet to return to prominence in the mobile business.
The new operating system, which it spent two years developing, is the software giant's latest assault on the crowded smartphone market, where it has struggled to gain a foothold.
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Apple’s iPad Continues to Lead Its Rivals / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Investment_U
Tony Daltorio writes: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) reported sales of only 4.2 million units in its most recent quarter. That disappointed some investors, who then took it out on the stock.
But they forgot that iPad sales still look decent for an item only unveiled in January and introduced in April.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
EWH, The Sexiest ETF Chart of the Week / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Jared_Levy
I spend most mornings trolling my wheelhouse of sites for charts that look interesting, giant cup of coffee in hand.
I tend to look over a large spread of different sectors, to really get a good lay of the land. This morning I found a chart that just can't be ignored... and what I liked about it even more than its technicals was where it's based.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
How To Buy Stocks Ahead Of Corporate Earnings / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
NFLX reported earnings this week. There’s no secret that this stock is a leading stock and it was likely to move sharply one way or the other immediately following their earnings announcement.So do we just blindly buy ahead of earnings and hope for the best? No. It’s all about what the chart is telling us to do and having a game plan where we prepare for the worst and expect the best. Here’s how we analyzed NFLX to make trading decisions prior to the release of their earnings announcement.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Uranium Price Uptrend Forecast to Continue and Natural Gas Severely Depressed / Companies / Energy Resources
By: The_Energy_Report
Some analysts talk the talk, but Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp walks the walk and kicks the rocks to find undervalued mining stocks. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Mickey forecasts a continuing uptrend in the uranium price and weeds out the true rare earth contenders in a market full of pretenders.
The Energy Report: The media is abuzz about energy, but it seems none of the individual energy sectors is really breaking out. What's your take on the energy sector as a whole?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Leading Stocks Forecasted Today’s Sell-Off / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
When looking at the following chart, we see the classic “Nice uptrend, puts in a double top, then gets rolled to the downside” bearish pattern.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Banking Giants Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley To See Revenues Decline / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) spurred a big run in financial stocks yesterday (Monday) after the commercial-banking giant beat Wall Street estimates by reporting a huge surge in quarterly profits.
Don't expect the same exuberant response to U.S. investment bank earnings reports.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Investment Bank Earnings Highlight Wall Street’s New Vulnerabilities / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: The collapse of The Bear Stearns Cos. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (OTC: LEHMQ), the forced takeover of Merrill Lynch and the decisions by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) to get commercial-banking licenses seemed to signal that the investment-banking business model was dead.
Since then, however, Goldman Sachs, in particular, has posted an astonishing run of profitability, earning gigantic sums even while the rest of the U.S. economy languished.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Apple's Chart Ahead of Earnings / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Apple (AAPL) releases earnings tonight after the close. If the stock pops 3-5% in reaction to earnings, the next upside target window is somewhere in the vicinity of 335-340, which will be well above the upper channel line off of its January 2009 low at 79.31.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
EMC Retraces After Plunge / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) has hit a high of 20.52 today, which represents a complete retracement of the plunge in prices last Wednesday and Thursday in sympathy with disappointing results from the cloud computing sector.
From a technical perspective, the ability of EMC to hold above 20.50 increases the likelihood that the current upleg from 19.39 will climb towards my next optimal near-term target zone of 21.00/15.
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