Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the Financial Sector’s Profit Powerhouse of the Future / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: If Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s (NYSE: GS) blowout second-quarter earnings demonstrated one thing, it’s that the new “equity-merchant-banking model” - the replacement for the Wall Street investment bank of pre-financial-crisis days gone by - is where financial-sector investors will make their money for years to come.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
This 'Unknown' Big Bank Could Go Bust, Making the US Recession Worse / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: MoneyWeek
David Stevenson writes: Until very recently – perhaps just this week – you probably hadn't heard of CIT.
The company is one of the biggest lenders to American businesses. But despite all the flak that's been flying around financial firms over the last two years, it's hardly a name that trips off the tongue.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Reasons Why China Will Continue To Gobble Up Natural Resources / Companies / China Stocks
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Tony Sagami writes: Alcoa is always one of the first companies to report its quarterly earnings, so the Wall Street crowd is typically very eager to hear what the aluminum giant has to say.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Trolling for High Quality Equity Dividend Income / Companies / Dividends
By: Richard_Shaw
Equity income has the potential to grow. Bond income does not. Investors with an income orientation should have at least some level of equity income to supplement fixed income from bonds to keep up with the cost of living. Inflation is the inevitable long-term outcome of monetary and fiscal policy (current deflation notwithstanding).
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Weak Fundamentals Mean U.S. Retaliers Will Continue to Struggle / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: In last week’s column, I gave you some ideas on the kind of companies I currently favor … namely those firms that have strong brands, economically-insensitive products, and strong finances that allow healthy dividend payments.
I also said (again) that it was a good time to take money out of more cyclical stocks, particularly those that have run up recently.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Goldman Sachs Expected to Post “Blowout” Quarter Amid Run of Lackluster Corporate Profit Reports / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Staff Report: The shrewdest U.S. investors understand that future profits will come from overseas.
But Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is apparently getting those profits now.
Monday, July 13, 2009
New Upleg for Goldman Sachs / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) once again is pushing 150, and it looks like today's thrust started a new upleg in the aftermath of a month-long pullback from 151.17 to 135.23. If GS has started a new upleg, then tomorrow's earnings could well be a catalyst for upside continuation that commenced today with Meridith Whitney's upgrade ahead of the opening bell. A hurdle of the prior high of 151.17 will trigger a next optimal target of 155-157.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Nokia to Unveil its First Google-based Smartphone / Companies / Google
By: Pravda
Nokia will unveil its first smartphone on the base of Google Android in September of the current year, Lenta.ru website reports with reference to The Guardian. Nokia’s first Google Android-based device is to be announced at Nokia World conference. The technical details of the new phone are not known yet.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Comparing DELL to MSFT When Added to Goldman Buy List / Companies / Microsoft
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Friday, Goldman Sachs raised Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to its Conviction Buy List, which could have a meaningful impact on the technology sector, and possibly the overall market.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
This Company is About to Clean Up in China / Companies / China Stocks
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
You’ve heard a lot about the Cap and Trade bill working its way through Congress. I have no doubt that some variation of this Tax and Kill legislation will ultimately pass.
And somebody is going to make a bundle by helping companies deal with the new legislation. There may be several winners. One that I particularly like is a small pollution-control company operating in China.
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Saturday, July 04, 2009
British Telecom Offers Staff a Year Off Work at 25% of Pay / Companies / Corporate News
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The recession is forcing British Telecom, Britians largest telecom provider to offer some of its staff the option of taking a year off work at 25% of full time pay, as an alternative to further redundancies in an attempt to cut costs and ride out the recession which follows a heavy first quarter loss of £1.3 billion, with similar projected loss for the 2nd Quarter of 2009.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Listen to Citigroup Analysts at Your Own Peril / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Shedlock
Citigroup analysts appear to be a hopeless lot. Please consider this July 1, analyst recommendation: Citi tells clients to buy Bank of America.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Which Tek Stock is a Better Investment, Apple vs. RIMM / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: INO
A little over six weeks ago I produced a video on the relationship between Apple and RIMM.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Ford: Playing Its Last Hand? / Companies / US Auto's
By: Mike_Stathis
An article from the Huffington Post on June 24, 2009 claims that Ford is "secretly" in talks to sell Volvo.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
IKEA fed up with Russia's Bureaucracy / Companies / Russia
By: Pravda
Sweden’s Ikea intends to freeze new investment projects in Russia over bureaucratic problems. The problems with the opening of the huge Mega Mall in the city of Samara became the last straw: the company has not been able to open the complex for two years already, The Vedomosti newspaper wrote.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Kodak to Take Kodachrome Away / Companies / Corporate News
By: Mike_Shedlock
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Kodak to Take Kodachrome Away.
Kodachrome, the storied camera film that has documented historic events and everyday lives since the Great Depression, is about to fade into oblivion.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Filtered Equity Income Stock Growth Prospects / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
We are increasingly asked about low risk individual stocks that may be suitable for an equity income allocation within a portfolio. This is a general response to that question.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
How to Profit From TARP / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: A total of 10 U.S. banks have now repaid the preference share investments in them made by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), thus demonstrating that the government thinks they are sound. A number of others have yet to pay back that federal infusion.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Top List of Companies with Greatest Financial Strength / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
This list of companies selected for top financial strength characteristics could be valuable to do-it-yourself, conservative, risk averse individual stock or bond investors, as a starting place to begin looking for suitable opportunities.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Phoenix of Renewable Energy Out of the Ashes of General Motors / Companies / US Auto's
By: Global_Research
Dr. Ellen Brown writes: It may be prophetic that among the brands GM chose to kill was the Pontiac Firebird, a classic hot car of the 1960s sporting the fabled Phoenix on its hood. In mythology, the Phoenix was a colorful bird that incinerated itself in its nest, then rose from the ashes as its own offspring. GM too, says Michael Moore, could be reborn as something else. In a June 1 eulogy of sorts, he wrote: