Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Eight Semiconductor Tek Stocks To Charge Up Your Investment Portfolio / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: I moved from the Midwest to Sunnyvale, California in 1974 - just about the time that city earned the moniker "Capital of Silicon Valley."
It got that name from the material that's primarily used to make semiconductors - even though few people at the time knew exactly what a semiconductor was. By contrast, today's world literally runs on semiconductors.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Professor Klein on Beating the Business Investing Odds / Companies / Business
By: Douglas_French
Entrepreneurship has been a hot buzzword recently. Classes in entrepreneurship are being taught at both the high school and college levels. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: The Foundation of Entrepreneurship has big fancy websites advertising that its President and CEO will give a "State of Entrepreneurship Address." There are global entrepreneurship conferences being held in far-flung places like Dubai. Learning programs are offered to test your "Entrepreneurial IQ." The US government even has an entrepreneurship website, advertising a Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Law, and a Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Energy Stocks Investing, Cash is King, Cash Flow is Queen / Companies / Energy Resources
By: Richard_Mills
Saskatchewan Cash Flow & Australian Bluesky
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
There are three things every energy investor needs to know about oil:
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Smartphones Equal Smart China Tek Stock Investments / Companies / China Stocks
By: Tony_Sagami
I was on my way to Akihabara, a district of Tokyo also known as Electric Town, on the JR Line of the Tokyo subway system. In Akihabara, you can find just about every electronic gadget imaginable: Computers, cell phones, video games, TVs, software, digital cameras … you name it.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
U.S. Mortgage REITs, The Best Place for 12% Dividend Yields Right Now / Companies / Dividends
By: PaddyPowerTrader
Tom Dyson writes:
This might sound strange, but I'm leery of high dividend yields...
As a full-time dividend stock analyst, I regularly screen the market for high-yield stocks. My searches usually bring up hundreds of results. Right now, for example, 95 stocks are yielding over 10%.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Investor Equity Market Re-Entry Prices for EEM, EFA and SPX / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Richard_Shaw
If you are out of the equity markets as a result of stops last week. The question of re-entry
conditions arises.
The US futures are up strongly this morning as a result, no doubt, of the nearly $1 trillion European bailout package for Greece and other contingent country credit problems (Spain, being the largest economy of concern). We take note of the fact that the US stock market continued to fall after enormous bailout packages. However, each time has a different fact set.
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Monday, May 10, 2010
BP Bites the Bullet: Analyzing the Full Cost of the Gulf Oil Spill / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes: The Exxon Valdez dumped 260,000 barrels of oil off the coast of Alaska, and ExxonMobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) ended up spending about $4 billion in the wake of that disaster. That means Exxon spent nearly 600 times more on cleanup and litigation than what the oil was actually worth at that time.
So how much will BP PLC's (NYSE ADR: BP) Gulf oil spill, which is significantly greater, set it back?
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Solar Energy in Asia / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: OilPrice_Com
The Asian Development Bank launched a $9 billion solar power initiative to develop projects generating 3,000 megawatts by 2012.
The announcement, which came at the regional lending agency’s annual meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, said that Central Asian countries would be prime candidates for siting the projects.
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Steel Companies Approaching Key Intermediate Support / Companies / Steel Sector
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Our mid-day minute chart today looks at some select names in the steel sector: United States Steel (X), AK Steel (AKS), Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) and Nucor (NUE). While there are not-so-subtle fundamental differences between the various steel companies, from an intermediate-term technical perspective every one of them appears to have ended a multi-month recovery rally and is approaching a test of important support, the success or failure of which could have serious implications for the prices of these names, but for the prolongation of the global economic expansion.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill, Why Not Feel Sorry for BP? / Companies / Oil Companies
By: LewRockwell
It was 21 years ago that the Exxon-Valdez leaked oil and unleashed torrents of environmental hysteria. Rothbard got it right in his piece "Why Not Feel Sorry for Exxon?"
After the BP-hired drilling rig exploded last week, the environmentalists went nuts yet again, using the occasion to flail a private corporation and wail about the plight of the "ecosystem," which somehow managed to survive and thrive after the Exxon debacle.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Prosecutors Should Investigate Goldman Sachs on Baidu Trading / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Static_Chaos
In light of the fact that Baidu stock is now valued at $700 instead of $27 asserted by Goldman Sachs as the “fair value” (by the way, Goldman has never been so wrong on price targets.), and the fact that Goldman actively trades against its clients, it is now high time for the U.S. federal prosecutors probe into Goldman’s trading practice of Baidu IPOs as well.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Smallcap Stocks Bubble is Ripe to Burst / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Graham_Summers
I’ve been pounding the table that stocks have entered “bubble-mode” for months now. All the generalized signs are there, including:
- Investor sentiment creeping back to 2007 levels
- The eight week average insider “sell to buy” ratio at late July 2007 levels
- Stocks overextended, overvalued, and overbought
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY Correction Appears Complete / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The price pattern and my near-term intermediate-term momentum work argue strongly that Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) finished a corrective downleg at this morning's low of 24.07 off of its Mar 29 high at 27.07. As long as key support between 24.10 and 23.50 contains any acute (forthcoming) selling pressure, the larger base pattern from Sept 2008 remains intact and dominant.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Double-Top in UltraShort Financial SKF ETF / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
I have no idea where the ProShares UltraShort Financials ETF (NYSE: SKF) might close, but the chart structure below argues strongly that a significant double bottom at 16.68 and 16.94 is in full development, and is now putting upward pressure on the key resistance plateau between 18.30 and 18.60. If and when hurdled, this will trigger upside projections of 19.50-20.00 and then 21.60-22.00. Such a scenario will indicate that the financial sector has established a significant near-term top (SKF bottom) formation.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Goldman Sachs History Suggests Its Vulnerability in Periods of Negative Social Mood / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: EWI
Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud: Who Could Have Guessed?
In the November 2009 issue of Elliott Wave International's monthly Elliott Wave Financial Forecast, co-editors Steven Hochberg and Peter Kendall published a careful study of Goldman Sachs history -- and made a sobering forecast for its future.
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Friday, April 23, 2010
An Update On Philip Morris: Earnings, Buybacks, Dividends / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Kevin_Duffey
PM Earnings -
Philip Morris International, Inc. (PM) reported earnings and scored a “miss” according to most analysts. I typically could care less about whether it was a “beat” or “miss” so that’s all I’m going to say about that. The bottom line is that PM has reiterated that it is on track to achieve earnings growth of at least 10% and bring in EPS of $3.75 to $3.85 for 2010. Based on 2010 EPS of $3.75, a $50 stock price means a price-to-earnings ratio of 13.3.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 22, 2010
U.S. Companies Profiting from China's Economic and Consumer Boom / Companies / China Economy
By: Tony_Sagami
March 24 was the last time I told you that the Wall Street experts have been and still are underestimating the strength of the Chinese economy. Here is what I said:
“I’ve been regularly and consistently telling you that the Chinese economy is doing much better than the mass media and Wall Street ‘experts’ have been telling you.”
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Goldman Sachs Fraud and ETFs / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
Last week the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit against Goldman Sachs (GS) alleging fraud. And the news hit Wall Street like a volcano!
Of course the SEC sues companies all the time. Goldman Sachs isn’t just any company, though. Goldman is big — very big — a financial Godzilla with unmatched power and vast political influence.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Goldman Sachs "Financial Fraud!" What a Happy Noise. Revenge is Sweet / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Mike_Whitney
Schadenfreude. The pleasure derived from watching someone else suffer. It's human nature and it's what's what's driving the Goldman pile-on. SEC Enforcement director Robert Khuzami had barely uttered his statement on Friday, before the the yelps of joy arose from every corner of the country. "Fraud!" What a happy noise. Revenge is sweet. Suddenly the prospect of subpoenas, indictments, and long prison sentences didn't seem so remote. But don't get your hopes up. Goldman was picked for a reason, and that reason has nothing to do with its shady business transactions. It's politics.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Double Top for Goldman Sach's Stock / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
We discussed the near- and medium-term chart work on Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) during last evening's live Webinar. In a nutshell, GS has carved out a potentially lethal Double Top formation between last Oct. (193.60) and last week (186.41), with the critical breakdown plateau at 150-147.80. Should GS violate and sustain beneath the support plateau, the measured downside target is 110-100.
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