Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Energy Stocks Sector and XLE ETF Watch / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Today we're going to discuss the energy sector. It has lagged the overall market, but it's poised to move higher based on recent technical action and Friday's close as well as geopolitics that could impact the oil industry.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Going After Goldman: A Crackdown on Financial Crime or a Kabuki Play Maneuvre to Avoid Bringing Criminal Charges / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Danny_Schechter
Fox Business News was engrossed in interviewing a blonder than thou reality TV bimbo when the news that the Securities And Exchange Commission was filing fraud charges against Goldman Sachs broke on Friday afternoon.
The breaking news bulletins were already flying through cyberspace before the Fox Means Business network got around to moving from a snickering interview with a starlet confessing to commodifying and monetizing her appeal to the biggest story in months on the Street beat. Corporate fraud allegations seem to make free market boosters nervous.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Goldman Sachs Lost $90 Million on Paulson’s CDO And Saved Themselves $1 Billion / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Andrew_Butter
Goldman Sachs is “vigorously” protesting their innocence against the SEC complaint; here is their second press release:
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Ford and Toyota, A Tale of Two Car Companies / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Richard_Shaw
It’s spring time and we’re thinking about maybe getting a new car. That and the recent problems at Toyota, plus the strong sales at Ford, and the not to distant bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler, got us wondering how the car company stocks are doing — not that we are hot to own car company stocks (although we are hot to own a new car).
Saturday, April 17, 2010
The End Game for the Goldman Sachs (GS) "Crisis" / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Trader_Mark
If you are new to the market and think today was some sort of game changer... please don't worry. Malfeasance is now the root of the US casino, we go through one of these episodes every 3-5 years and come back stronger and more malfeasant! (I made that word up) That said, days like today are for enjoyment since they break up the normal - any day Goldman stock falls and Cramer gets exposed by a man never to see the CNBC light of day ever again is a day to cherish. But it changes nothing.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Investing in Small Cap Stock Sectors With New ETFs / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
The exchange traded fund (ETF) menu is getting bigger all the time. Many of the new ETFs you hear about are just “me-too” clones of existing funds. But every once in a while something truly innovative comes along. When it does, I try to tell you about it.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
JPMorgan Posts Big Gains but Financial Reform Threatens Profitability / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes: JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) posted a 55% rise in first-quarter net income led by fixed-income trading and investment banking. But to ensure its profits remain in tact, the bank continues to fight against proposed financial reform.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Killing You with Drugs: Legally / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Mike_Stathis
Is there any reason why Pfizer shares are down today?
Just yesterday, shares were trading at ~ $17.30. Today, with the DJIA up by 0.7%, Pfizer is down by nearly 1%.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Ford Hurdles Key Resistance Level / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Today's strength in Ford (F) has hurdled key near-term resistance at 12.95, which triggered additional buying (short covering too?) that has propelled the stock to an intraday high at 13.30 so far. To the extent that F can hold and extend its early gains, my next immediate target is 13.45/55.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
iPad Proves It’s Not What Apple Sells, It’s How Apple Sells It / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes: Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPad has lived up to the hype, garnering rave reviews and meeting sales expectations. That success is particularly impressive because previous attempts by other companies to launch similar products were met with abject failure.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
New UpMove for Halliburton / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Within the larger Jan-Apr coil pattern that we discussed yesterday in Halliburton (HAL), let's have a look at the hourly chart from the most recent pivot low (within the coil) at 29.25 from Mar 26. The weight of my technical work is telling me to regard the upmove from Mar 26 at 29.25 to the Apr 6 high at 32.43 as the start of a new upleg that should revisit the Jan high at 34.87. All of the action in HAL since the 32.43 high represents a sideways consolidation that is digesting the 11% upmove.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Industry Insider Explains “Green” Fracking Technology / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: Keith_Schaefer
One of the “insiders” in the fracking fluid industry said that his company – along with entire industry – is still needing to get completely green. But Dale Dusterhoft, CEO of Trican Well Services in Calgary, Canada, says “we’re to a point now where we can offer a completely green fluid in some cases. We do “microtox” testing, which is very stringent. If a fluid passes that you can drink it, and we have fluids like that.”
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Is Your Bank a Failure Waiting to Happen? / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Graham_Summers
Yesterday I explained the TRUE underlying cause of the Financial Crisis (derivatives). Today, I’m going to show you which institutions are most vulnerable to this massive, unregulated market.
Now, the most common derivatives are based on typical financial entities/ issues: commodities, stocks, bonds, interest rates, etc. However, the vast bulk of them (84%) are based on interest rates:
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Monday, April 12, 2010
How to Protect Yourself from a Bank Run / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: DailyWealth
An elderly woman was panicking...
"It's my life savings we're talking about, my pension. I'll have nothing left if they go under," she said.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Eye on the Energy Sector Stocks XLE ETF / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Today we're going to discuss the energy sector. It has lagged the overall market, but it's poised to move higher based on recent technical action and Friday's close as well as geopolitics that could impact the oil industry.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Retail Stocks XRT ETF No Signs of Peaking / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The SPDR Retail ETF (XRT) is one heck of a bullish chart, which includes names like Whole Foods (WFMI), Sears (SHLD), OfficeMax (OMX), HSN (HSNI), Netflix (NFLX), Dress Barn (DBRN), and Family Dollar Stores (FDO). Purely from a pattern perspective, the XRT shows no sign of peaking, and is poised to hurdle Wed.'s high at 42.64. If the price structure moves vertically higher into a new upleg, it COULD make a run at its upper channel resistance lines in the 44.50- 45.50 target zone, or 5% to 7% more upside.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
How to Profit from the Coming Plague of Busted Bankrupt Banks / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: DailyWealth
Tom Dyson writes: Hundreds of banks are about to fail...
Three banks failed in 2007. Twenty-five banks failed in 2008. One hundred and forty banks failed in 2009. Forty-one have failed already this year... and hundreds more will fail soon.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Did Tiger Woods Trash $12 Billion of Brand-Value; or Hand Over a $17 Billion Gift? / Companies / Stock Market Valuations
By: Andrew_Butter
So far Nike has spent $60 million on Tiger Woods.
If you invest in companies that spend that sort of money on hype, the skill of management in distilling out bang for buck is an important consideration. That of course is the problem with advertising, only half of it works (if you’re lucky) and you never know which half, and more to the point, working out the value of the brand is just as hard.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
Get Aboard the Consumer Spending Trend with Stock Sector ETFs / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Ron_Rowland
I’m a consumer. You’re a consumer. In fact, just about everyone you know is a consumer. But in these tough economic times, we often have to prioritize.
On the other hand, not everyone is closely watching every penny they spend. Some people are making — and spending — more money than ever! So today I’m going to tell you how to use exchange traded funds (ETFs) to take advantage of a recovery in consumer spending.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Buying Opportunity in Ford? / Companies / US Auto's
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Today's spike low at 12.34 in Ford (NYSE: F) looked and felt like near-term panic liquidation, which sometimes creates meaningful buying conditions. Thus far, since the opening hour of trading, such a scenario appears to be developing -- that F completed a significant correction from its 3/18 high at 14.54 into the 12.34 low (-15%).
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