Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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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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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Investing in Rare Earth Elements As China’s Exports Decline / Companies / Metals & Mining
By: Investment_U
Tony Daltorio writes: Bautou may look like a quiet, unassuming city in the middle of Inner Mongolia. But the home of two million finds itself in the middle of a global controversy all the same…
Right now, China controls the market for rare earths, a group of 17 key elements used in many of today’s modern technological devices. Precision-guided weapons, night vision, radar systems, hybrid cars and wind turbines: All rely, in part, on rare earth elements.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Russia's Oil Giant Lukoil to Hit Asian Markets / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Pravda
Lukoil, the second largest oil producer in Russia, wants to enter the Asian markets. Currently, the company's shares are traded in New York, London and Frankfurt. Recently, the company's management purchased a part of its holding of shares from ConocoPhillips. These shares may go to the Asian trading floor that picked up the interest of the Russian companies after the IPO of Rusal.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 7 Operating System for Smart Phones / Companies / Microsoft
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Microsoft plays catch-up by rolling out its Windows Phone 7 operating system for smart phones that aims to retake market share lost to Apple, RIM, Nokia and Google.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
What Happened To The Stocks On Cloud 9, Bearish First Thrust Down Patterns / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
Last week we saw a lot of damage done in this space, namely the most over loved and over owned names in the cloud nine computing space.
These names have for the most part all staged bearish First Thrust Down patterns by breaking major uptrends.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Is Android The Next Gold Mine For Google? / Companies / Google
By: Dian_L_Chu
After years of searching, developing, acquiring, plus a few flops along the way, Google seems to have finally found the next big revenue stream--in addition to its web search. Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, claims that Android is making money and that android-based phones already generate enough new advertising revenue already covered the cost of its development. And according to Newsweek:
Monday, October 11, 2010
Global M&A Boom Fueled by Global Currency War / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
A binge of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is being fueled by the global currency war, which has increased the value of emerging market currencies.
The value of worldwide M&A totaled $1.75 trillion during the first nine months of 2010, a 21% increase from comparable 2009 levels and the strongest nine month period for M&A since 2008, according to Thomson Reuters.
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Saturday, October 09, 2010
Leading Stocks To Consider Buying and Stocks To Forget / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
Time and time again we’ve said: “We do not chase buses around here as we’ve seen it time and time again where one jumps in thinking the short term trend is going to continue and then? WHAM 10-15 days worth of gains wiped out in 2 days. Those who like chasing stocks AFTER the fact? Good luck with that.”
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Alcoa Chart Points Higher Ahead of Earnings / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let's have a look at the BIG picture chart analytics of Alcoa (AA) ahead of its initiation of the new earning reporting season starting tomorrow evening after the closing bell. I post the AA chart analysis merely as a way to gauge expectations in an otherwise very uncertain environment. Let's also be aware that earnings are one thing, but guidance once again might be the major challenge for investors during the upcoming weeks.
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010
The Backdoor Investor Play to Macau Casinos / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Tony_Sagami
The National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession over in June 2009, but don’t tell that to the American entertainment industry. 2010 has been a very difficult year for just about every sector of the entertainment business as cash-strapped consumers are looking for inexpensive ways to entertain themselves.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Dajin - Lithium and Potash / Companies / Metals & Mining
By: Richard_Mills
The Puna plateau sits at an elevation of 4,000m, stretches for 1800 km along the Central Andes and attains a width of 350-400 km. The Puna covers a portion of Argentina, Chile and Bolivia and hosts an estimated 70 - 80% of global lithium brine reserves.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Investment Opportunities Across the Energy Spectrum / Companies / Energy Resources
By: The_Energy_Report
When it comes to energy, Newsletter Editor Byron King likes to keep his fingers in a lot of pies. He doesn't limit his coverage to U.S. or even North American companies. He literally travels the world to find unique investment opportunities for his loyal subscribers. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Byron discusses his recent trip to Serbia and some his favorite uranium plays.
The Energy Report: Byron, you edit Agora Financial's Outstanding Investments and Energy and Scarcity newsletters. What's the difference between those publications?
Monday, October 04, 2010
Strong Potential Remains for Barrick Gold ABX / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Apart from the fact that Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX) is down 4% since last Thursday's high at 47.65, the overall pattern off of its July low at 39.67 still remains potentially extremely combustible -- as long as the series of higher pullback lows since last August remains intact.
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Monday, October 04, 2010
China Continues Game-Changing Energy Moves with Sinopec’s $7 Billion Brazil Buy / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Chinese state oil company China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) (NYSE ADR: SNP) said Friday that it would invest $7.1 billion in the Brazilian unit of Spain's Repsol YPF S.A. (NYSE ADR: REP) to form one of the largest private energy companies in Latin America.
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Doomsday for 30 Million Americans, Who Will Have to Move by 2013 / Companies / Water Sector
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: Earlier this week, the rain hammered down for two days straight here in Pennsylvania. But remarkably, rivers, streams and lakes haven’t risen one iota.
And my son, Noah, hasn’t had to mow the lawn in over a month (something he’s not entirely unhappy about.)
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Bet on Junior Gold Mining Companies Management and Good Assets / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
Pinetree Capital VP of Research Craig Stanley believes that, above all else, junior mining companies need solid management and good assets. And he believes management, in particular, trumps good assets. "We have been known to back management teams even before they have a project, based solely on their history," he says. Pinetree has positions in more than 400 companies and, in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Craig names some of his favorite gold and base metals plays in the lot.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Investors Buy This China Boom / Companies / China Stocks
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: "China is a bubble that will burst… "
Yeah, yeah, we hear that every day…
In the meantime, our paid subscribers are making a fortune buying China.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Small U.S. Regional Banks Fast Becoming Takeover Targets / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Sharks are circling the beleaguered financial services industry and the upshot may well be a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that analysts say could lead to higher valuations, especially for smaller, regional banks.
Activity in the financial services industry has been subdued for the past three years as weak loan growth, shrinking profit margins, increased regulation and low valuations kept investors at bay. But now forces pressuring the industry to contract "will create more willingness to sell from bank management teams and board of directors over the next year," and drive consolidation, according to the report by Credit Suisse Equity Research.
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