Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Government Subsidizes Corporate Failure and Penalizes Success / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Tony Sagami writes: Since the market topped in 2007, I’ve written over and over about the major causes of the implosion — the multi-billion-dollar trade deficits, the tanking U.S. dollar, the lax lending practices, and the Fed’s low interest rate policy.
All of these factors and more led to overpriced U.S. stocks and a massive U.S. real estate bubble that popped hard.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
How to Buy Banks Leaving Tax Payers with All the Risk / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: The financial Barbarians are at the gates of the U.S. banking sector.
“Regulatory arbitrage” – sometimes called “regulatory shopping” – has emerged as the favorite strategy for these Barbarians, otherwise known as private equity firms, to get around the federal rules that kept them from owning banks.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Lloyds TSB Sends Cheltenham & Gloucester into Banking Oblivion / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Lloyds TSB the bailed out mega-bank that was brought to the brink of bankruptcy as a consequence of the shot gun wedding with HBOS, has announced that it will be closing down all of the 160 branches of the 100 year old Cheltenham and Gloucester by November of this year resulting in some 1,500 job losses.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Stock Market Warning- Get Out of Higher Risk Stocks Now! / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: The stock market’s rally has been impressive. The major indexes are now up about 40 percent from their recent lows, give or take a few percentage points. And for anyone who scooped up more speculative shares on weakness, the profits could be even higher.
Personally, I don’t ever recommend purchasing shares of companies with shoddy business models, consistently unprofitable operations, poor track records of caring about their shareholders, etc.
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
FSA Clarifies UK Banks Stress Tests / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Submissions
FSA writes: The publication in the US of the results of bank stress tests has provoked considerable interest in the use of stress testing by authorities in other countries, in particular in Europe. Stress testing can and has been used in a variety of different ways, and the appropriate degree of disclosure varies according to the purposes of the tests.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Screening for Dividend Yielding, Growing, Rising Stocks / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
What do you get when you want yield that is growing along with sales and earnings over a period of years, less than sky high valuation, and evidence of a rising price pattern?
The answer today is not very many stocks, and not necessarily the most exciting names. Not every exploration finds gold. Some of the results of this search are interesting, but we aren’t crying eureka.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
What Now for Apple AAPL? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: INO
In this week's video we are revisiting Apple, Inc (NASDAQ_AAPL). I last looked at Apple on April 9th, when it was trading at considerably lower levels than where we are right now. At that time I made some projections using MarketClub's Fibonacci tool, as to where I thought Apple was headed.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Russia Becomes Co-owner of German Car Giant Opel / Companies / US Auto's
By: Pravda
The Russian government did not take a direct part in the deal between Russia’s Sberbank, Canada’s Magna and USA’s General Motors to purchase a shareholding of German car-maker Opel. However, Prime Minister Putin hopes that the deal will fit into the strategy of Russia’s car industry development, Itar-Tass news agency reports. Putin welcomed the participation of one of Russia’s largest state-run banks, Sberbank, in the deal.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
GM’s Bankruptcy and Changes to the Dow Jones Stock Market Index / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: The bankruptcy of General Motors isn’t surprising … in fact, Martin repeatedly warned Money & Markets readers — for years — that it was coming.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Are Bailed Out Banks Reporting Fake Profits? / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Remember the infamous leaked Vikram S. Pandit memo we wrote to you about awhile back that suddenly saw Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) turn a profit on nothing more than vapors?
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Stock Markets Cheer GM's Inglorious Conclusion / Companies / US Auto's
By: Mike_Shedlock
At long last GM has gone bankrupt and was booted from the DOW along with Citigroup. The world did not end as former CEO Wagoner suggested would happen. Indeed the markets seemed to be cheering the news. Let's take a look at some headlines.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Santandar Rebrands Bailed Out Banks, Bradford & Bingley, A&L / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Santandar has announced that it will rebrand banks that it took over in the midst of the financial collapse of the UK banking sector, namely Bradford and Bingley and Alliance and Leicester. Also to be rebranded is the Abbey which it took over some 5 years ago.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Success in Kurdistan Could Give This Oil and Gas Company a Second Coming / Companies / Oil Companies
By: FleetStreetInvest
Last week, the Oil Ministry of Baghdad quit arguing with the Kurdish government and agreed to permit the export of 100,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Kurdistan. While Baghdad has been stalling, the Kurds have got on with the job of granting licenses to bold, foreign oil prospectors. And now, the latter seem to have the upper hand. While Baghdad may still be refusing to acknowledge the legality of these arrangements, the awkward truth is that Iraq is seeing its oil revenues fall through a combination of lower world prices and its failure to develop its own industry. In short, it needs the money.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Breaking Market News: General Electric (GE), Verizon Communications (VZ), American Express (AXP), Bank of America (BAC) / Companies / Corporate News
By: Oakshire_Financial
General Electric Co. (GE) says that it has no need to raise additional capital in the debt markets for the remainder of the year. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt, who is head of the largest U.S. conglomerate, hinted that funding needs in 2010 could also be established within the year as well.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Wave of Small Bank Failures Following Commercial Real Estate Losses / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Wall Street Journal Study of 940 Lenders Shows Potential for Deep Hit on Commercial Real Estate. Please consider Local Banks Face Big Losses.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, May 18, 2009
Nasdaq Tech Stock Ciena Corp, Buy, Sell or Hold? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Horacio Marquez writes: In last week's Buy, Sell or Hold I recommended Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW), based on three factors:
Monday, May 18, 2009
U.S. AutoMakers, Chrysler, GM Slash Dealerships / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: Just days after Chrysler LLC said it would be cutting one quarter of its auto dealerships, 1,100 General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) dealerships have reportedly been told not to expect a relationship with the embattled U.S. carmaker after October 2010.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
First the Mortgage Defaults Crisis Now the Credit Card Crash / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Credit card defaults are soaring, with double digit rates at Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and American Express.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Wal-mart Struggles Sign of Economic Recovery? / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: LiveCharts
This week has been known as the retail earnings reports week on Wall Street as many top retailers have reported earnings already this week. With a mixed bag of earnings and compiled data still showing struggles in retail sales, it is tough to figure out what direction retailers are providing for the economy and investors.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
JPM “Tentative” On Balance Volume Sell Signal / Companies / Technical Analysis
By: Brian_Bloom
In terms of Joseph Granville’s original argument, an On-Balance-Volume sell signal needs to manifest as a saw-tooth pattern, i.e. There needs to be a lower low following on from falling highs. This has not yet happened. (See second chart)Read full article... Read full article...