Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Hedge Fund Investing / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Money_and_Markets
Monty Agarwal writes: Hedge funds and the managers who run them have been getting a lot of publicity lately — and not of the flattering kind.
We have massive Ponzi schemes, equally massive losses and outsized systemic risks that are enough to frighten away even the hardiest of investors.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
SPDR KBW Regional Bank Best Performing ETF / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Guy_Lerner
Sorry for the catchy headline, but the SPDR KBW Regional Bank ETF (symbol:KRE) has been my best performing ETF since I first highlighted the sector back on November 18, 2009. KRE is up about 16% since then while the S&P500 has remained flat.
I bring KRE up not because I want to pat myself on the back, but because CNBC's Maria Bartiromo made this comment last Thursday as she was going to a commercial break and I paraphrase:
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Forbes Wins Domain Name Lawsuit Against Russian Travel Agency / Companies / Corporate News
By: Pravda
Forbes magazine won by court action the right for forbes.ru domain name. The magazine may now receive a record large compensation for the violation of trademark rights on the internet. The compensation can be the largest in Russia’s judicial practice, The Vedomosti newspaper wrote.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
PALM Pullback Complete? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Palm (Nasdaq: PALM)’s violation of near-term support this morning at 12.40 triggered minor downside follow-through to 12.35 prior to a sharp rally to 12.93. The lack of downside extension beneath 12.40 followed by the sharp rally indicates to me that the stock has completed a significant near-term pullback off of the 1/19 high at 14.17.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Investing in Specialized Transportation ETFs 2010 / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
Today I’d like to tell you about a sector that is deeply intertwined with economic recovery.
I’m talking about transportation.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Stalking Japanese Small Cap ETF / Companies / Japanese Stock Market
By: Guy_Lerner
From a technical perspective, I seem to be much more enamored these days with Japanese equities as opposed to US equities, which are highly overbought and over subscribed too.
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Goldman Created Value Destroying Securitizations Now Pretends Not Responsible for Massive Systemic Risk / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Janet Tavakoli tells CNN Goldman and others created value-destroying securitizations and are trying to pretend they were not responsible for massive systemic risk.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Do Dividend-paying Stocks Outperform Non-dividend Paying Stocks Over Time? / Companies / Dividends
By: Sean_Brodrick
Many stock analysts will tell you the basic strategy in the market is to buy low and sell high. While I’ve done that successfully for years, it’s not as easy as it sounds. What’s more, it’s a lot more difficult in bear markets and markets bound in trading ranges, which are two distinct possibilities going forward.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
INTC/JPM On Deck... / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Jack_Steiman
The market has continued to move higher day after day in a slow grinding manner that is never on the nerves. As we move higher the moves up get smaller and smaller but they're still up moves. the question now becomes, can the market continue this grind higher or will it get stopped cold! The answer is likely in the earnings season that is truly upon us now. Intel (INTC) is huge as it is a major economic indicator as its chips are in everything. The news just came out and they blew away the numbers and it is somewhat higher after hours. Up 2-3% on top of nice gains during the day. It's on breakout if this holds and that can only be good for the markets.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
139 New ETF's and Hybrids Launched During 2009, Selection of the Most Interesting / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
You might think the wild markets of the last year would have made ETF sponsors slow down a bit, but they kept on cranking out new products — some great, some not.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Goldman Sachs The Giant Vampire Squid’s Journey To The East / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
Usury, once a venal sin, was now commonplace and bankers who live by the charging of interest were considered respectable. The hand of evil was everywhere as the end-times, the end of days, were upon them.
Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi’s description of Goldman Sachs as a Giant Vampire Squid which wraps itself around its victims draining them of their productivity and profits is chillingly accurate.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Watching Critical Support on Google / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
This morning, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), a major component of the Nasdaq 100, hit a corrective low of 573.90 off of its Jan 4 high at 629.51, prior to turning up for a rally into the 583-85 area. What is important technically is that GOOG pivoted to the upside from within 1% of its major up trendline from the March 2009 low, which cuts across the price axis at approximately 570.00. Let’s notice that the recent (yesterday) low at 45.43 came within around 40 cents, or 1%, of its Mar-Jan up trendline as well.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
It's Time For Shareholders to Squeeze Greedy Wall Street Bank Bonuses / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Wall Street bonuses are back in the news again, as the Obama administration scores cheap political points by bashing bankers.
Wall Street's investment-banking houses correctly claim that they are paying out a much-lower-than-usual percentage of their profits in the form of bonuses - in some cases, less than 50%.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Let The Corporate Earnings Season Begin... / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Jack_Steiman
We've had some good earnings reports prior to this evening but when Alcoa Inc. (AA) reports, that's the official kick off to the earnings season. There have been some great reports and some not so great reports thus far but all in all it has been pretty good. Of course, they're good based on lowered expectations but we have to adjust to how the market sees things, not how our hearts and minds see them.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Determining Oil and Gas Company Valuations / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Keith_Schaefer
How do valuations get set for oil and gas companies? I ask because I’m seeing very fast-rising valuations in the junior and intermediate oil sector that I cover. I have seen junior oil producers valued at $200,000 per flowing barrel recently – more than triple the peer group average.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Commodities and Stock Index ETF Trading, Working A Pivot Point Stop / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Bill_West
Hello Everybody
Trade Actions: Buy RJA ( Agriculture Commodities ) at 8 or better on a Limit Order Buy SBB ( Short SP 600 ) at 38.4 on a Buy Stop Buy PHO ( Water ) at 17.5 or Better on a Limit Order
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
The Utica, An Emerging Canadian Shale Gas Play / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Richard_Mills
Shale gas is natural gas that has been generated and trapped within the natural pores and fractures of shale. This natural gas has been accumulating because of the breakdown of high levels of organic carbon or kerogen within the shale. The right temperature, pressure and a lot of time - over millions of years - is needed to produce gas. Shale plays can hold enormous amounts of gas and once production has been stabilized gas wells from shales tend to have low decline rates and long production lives.
Friday, January 08, 2010
New Recovery High for Caterpillar CAT / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) just hit a new recovery high of 60.00 off of its Dec low at 55.40 and appears poised to continue higher to confront the Oct-Jan resistance line at 60.40 next. The resistance line is the next challenge for the bulls as they look to thrust CAT out of a three-month, high-level consolidation period, which projects upside continuation to 64.00-65.00 next. At this juncture, only a decline that breaks and sustains beneath 58.50 will delay the timing of the anticipated upside breakout.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
Which Financial Stocks ETF Is Best For You? / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Richard_Shaw
If you chose to supplement your sector-diversified core US equities stock holdings with a diversified financial stocks ETF, which one is best for you?
There are eight possibilities, four of which work for many investors, but only 2 (maybe 3) or 1 (maybe 2) of which work for large accounts. The fund that works for just about any account under $250 million is XLF. The other three funds are VFH, IYG and maybe IXG for some account. The four funds have more favorable profiles considering these three attributes in combination:
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Buffett Reminds Wall Street That Shareholders Come First / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: A decade ago, investing guru Warren Buffett helped torpedo a $15.3 billion Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) bid for Quaker Oats Cos., arguing that the terms were lousy and the proposed price way too high.