Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
HITECH, Your Medical History in the Machine / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Doug_Horning
By Doug Hornig, Senior Editor, Casey’s Extraordinary Technology
In the future, a visit to your family physician, or any specialist, will begin with a quick scan of the computer screen, where a few keystrokes will tell the doctor everything he or she needs to know about you – all the way from how much you weighed at birth, to X-rays of that bone you broke when you flipped your motorcycle thirty years ago, to how much you spent on blood work last year, right up to the hypertension pills you took after dinner yesterday (and maybe even what you ate, although hopefully not).
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
US Ponzi Scheme Economy Continues with a New Bailout of GMAC / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Trader_Mark
The Wall Street Journal reports of a new round of bailouts for GMAC. If you are not familiar on how the full Ponzi scheme economy is working, I touched on this in a June piece (this was well before Cash for Clunkers) - let's review.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Goldman’s Lies of Omission on AIG Implosion / Companies / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Janet_Tavakoli
In my opinion, David Viniar’s (CFO of Goldman Sachs) comments in the fall of 2008 were a lie (see endnote), and for that matter, Lloyd Blankfein’s (CEO of Goldman Sachs) later comments to the Wall Street Journal were disingenuous. In the context of what was happening near the time of AIG’s implosion, the key question was “What is going on between Goldman and AIG?” Their rhetoric surrounding this issue is a deft dodge. They may claim they didn’t “technically” lie, but Goldman’s business exposure to AIG posed both credit risk and reputation risk. They seem to overlook elements of the former and put insufficient value on the latter.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Russia's Gazprom Investing $36 Billion in European Gas Pipeline / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Pravda
Gazprom’s most ambitious political projects - Nord Stream (along the bottom of the Baltic Sea) and South Stream (across the Black Sea) – are worth billions of dollars. The first one of the projects is to be launched in September 2011, whereas the second one does not even have the final construction schedule: the works on the projects started in 2007. However, the second project has all chances to be realized first.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Near-Term Rally Peak for Automaker Ford / Companies / US Auto's
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My near and intermediate term work are warning me that Ford (NYSE: F) hit a significant near-term rally peak at 7.98 on 10/21, which ended the upleg from the 10/02 low at 6.61. If my workproves correct, then F should correct into the 7.40/20 area in the upcoming days, where it will test important support, in particular, against the Mar.-Oct. up trendline.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
CMKX Shareholders Coalition for Justice announces the commencement of legal action against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) / Companies / Market Regulation
By: Submissions
The CMKX Shareholders Coalition for Justice announces the commencement of legal action against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in both Canada and the United States. The action follows complaints filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Nevada and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, Canada. These complaints and the accompanying evidence allege that the SEC facilitated the counterfeiting of multi-millions of publicly traded stock shares by brokerage firms, many of which were implicated in Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) felony crimes including counterfeiting and money laundering with organized crime.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Using CO2 to Expand Low-Carbon Oil Production…and Other Developments / Companies / Energy Resources
By: The_Energy_Report
S&A Resource Report editor Matt Badiali covers a broad expanse of ideas as well as geography in this exclusive interview with The Energy Report. He discusses the immense potential of Iraqi oil, and the smaller but surer resurrection of old oil fields in Illinois. In addition to sharing views about areas within the oil industry worthy of investors' attention, he talks about the promise—and problems—associated with major oil finds that have been making the news. These discoveries may postpone peak oil by a decade or two, but they will take a long time to bring to production, too. Matt also points out how data reporting metrics (BOE) manage to hide the extent of dwindling oil production.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Looking for Potential Sinkers in the S&P 1500 Stocks Index / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
This is a practical follow-up to our recent article on volume as an indicator, and on divergence between volume and price action in particular.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Why It’s Almost Time to Buy These Left for Dead Stocks / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
The last time this happened investors made 10 to 20 times their money.
Now an opportunity for similar gains is fast approaching.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Apple Record Profits on iPhone / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Pravda
Apple Inc is expected to report quarterly profit later during the day. If so, Microsoft’s No. 1 competitor will top Wall Street estimates. Steve Jobs has returned, and the maker of world’s most popular players and phones smashed profit expectations two years running.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Goldman Sachs Earnings and Bonuses, Where's the Outrage? / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
The number of articles and opinions on Goldman Sachs earnings, bonuses, and influence pedaling over the past several days is quite stunning.
Many have pointed out the problems; few have expressed outrage over what is happening in general, not just at Goldman Sachs. Let's take a look.
Monday, October 19, 2009
WaMu Insider Trading and Naked Short Selling / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Mike_Stathis
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece discussing allegations of insider trading and illegal naked short selling of Washington Mutual, involving the banking cartel and potentially their hedge fund clients.
In this piece, I provided a link to the SEC complaint I submitted on October 7, 2008.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Sky+, HD+ and Digital TV Recorders are Killing UK Broadcast TV Advertising / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
More than 50% of Sky's 10 million customers now subscribe to Sky+ or HD+ coupled with several million more digital TV recorders used by free to air users poses a serious and growing threat to the advertising revenues of all of the broadcast TV channels.
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Bank of America Losses Fuel Stock Market Selloff / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: BrewerFuturesGroup
U.S. equity markets are tumbling this morning after Bank of America reported a loss and General Electric posted less than stellar results. Failed loans at Bank of America triggered the loss which served as a reminder that some U.S. consumers and businesses are having a hard time paying back debt.
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Nokia Reports Quarterly Losses for the First Time in 10 Years / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Pravda
Nokia, the largest maker of mobile phones, said Thursday that it suffered quarterly losses of 559 million EUR for the first time in ten years. The Finnish company reported a 20 percent reduction in sales. The company's share price plummeted 6.6 percent to 9.62 EUR ($14.32) in Helsinki.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Ride the Financial Sector Rally Using ETFs / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
I’ve had great success with sector-based exchange traded funds (ETFs) over the years. And that’s because — despite whatever problems the broader stock market may be having — usually one or more niches are still doing well.
This year one of the leading niches has been financial services. That definitely wasn’t the case last year at this time, when many banks were teetering on the edge of failure. They survived (most of them, anyway) thanks only to government bailouts.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
All Eyes on Intel Earnings / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The major feature of today's trading will be the release of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) earnings after the close. Mr. Market might grind higher all afternoon in anticipation of a good report from INTC. Judging by the intermediate- and near-term pattern, additional upside should be forthcoming in the coming hours.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Oh Goldman Sachs / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Danny_Schechter
Daily Finance.com: “Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) faces a gargantuan public relations headache when it reports third quarter results Wednesday. Investors will be angry if the New York-based bank fails to hit Wall Street's consensus of earnings of $4.24 per share on revenue of $11.02 billion, or if it does not give bullish enough guidance. The Obama administration and members of Congress, on the other hand, will be furious if Goldman Sachs' earnings are too good. …. Legal challenges are possible from bankers as government pay czar Kenneth Feinberg reviews the practices of banks that have received bailouts.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Ford Motoring! / Companies / US Auto's
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Ford (F) is up substantially this morning on rumors floating around that one of the rating agencies is about to upgrade the company's credit rating, which could save Ford billions of dollars in refinancing costs in the upcoming months. Looking at the daily chart, to trigger upside acceleration F has to hurdle 7.40, which should propel prices above 7.60 on the way towards 8.50. We added it to our model portfolio last week at 7.09. Only a decline that breaks the October low at 6.61 will compromise the current positive technical set-up.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Looking Beyond Bankrupt Banks At These Zombie Free Zones / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Quantum Fund co-founder George Soros had it right on Monday, when he said the U.S. recovery would be held back by "basically bankrupt" banks and companies.