Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Gold Spikes for British Investors as Run On Northern Rock Bank / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Adrian_Ash
SPOT GOLD PRICES slipped against the US Dollar early Friday, bouncing off Thursday's low at $704.50 but testing the week's highs for British investors as long queues formed outside branches of Northern Rock, the UK 's fifth largest mortgage lender.
Despite having just 0.24% of its assets exposed to the subprime US housing market, Northern Rock's stock plunged by one quarter at the London Stock Exchange in early trade after it said the Bank of England is stepping in to support it with a short-term loan as "lender of last resort."
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Friday, September 14, 2007
Northern Rock 30% Share Price Crash / Companies / Financial Crash
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Northern Rocks Share price crashed by 30% today as the mortgage bank sought emergency funds from the Bank of England due to the credit freeze in the interbank money market which Northern Rock heavily relies upon. Panic gripped savers forming long lines outside Northern Rock Branches throughout the UK to withdraw funds. Investors dumping the stock on the market open where even unsubstantiated rumors of takeovers and white knights failed to halt the crash in the banks share price. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, September 14, 2007
Northern Rock Bank Seeks Emergency Cash From The Bank of England / Companies / Credit Crunch
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Northern Rock, one of Britian's largest mortgage banks is expected to receive emergency funding from the Bank of England today for possibly more than £4 billion ($8 billions), as the mortgage bank runs out of cash and is unable to obtain credit on the interbank money market due to the ongoing liquidity squeeze and the banks own sizeable subprime mortgage book risks. As with the earlier emergency funding of barclays, the rate charged by the Bank of England is expected to be significantly higher than the 5.75% base rate, possibly around 6.75%. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
A Hidden Asian Investment Gem / Companies / Investing
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes: I run at a pretty fast pace when I'm in Asia. Every day is packed with factory tours … meeting with company executives … pestering government and university leaders for their local knowledge.
I hit the streets to see things with my own eyes because that's the only way I can know if the zealous investor relations departments are feeding me overly optimistic projections. I'm also willing to shift my entire focus when something really makes my eyeballs pop out.
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Thursday, September 06, 2007
Newmont Mining in Double Bottom Pattern / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
We highlighted Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) 8 days ago at 41.72. Aside from the fact the NEM has climbed 6% since the 8/28 read, let's notice that today's thrust from 43 to over 44 occurred immediately after the price structure hurdled the 200 DMA (42.82), which also has propelled NEM above its prior rally peak of 44.05 on 7/24…leaving behind a big "W" pattern (Double Bottom). A sustained climb above 44 will trigger upside potential off of the Double Bottom towards the 48-50 target zone.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Another Domino Falls as US Electric Power Deregulation Roll Back Continues / Companies / US Utilities
By: Roger_Conrad
When California passed its long awaited electricity deregulation law in 1996, it was supposed to signal the start of a revolution.
Proponents had argued for years that breaking up utility monopolies would trigger an explosion in generating capacity.
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Stock Market Investmenting - Watch What the Chinese Are Buying! / Companies / Investing
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes: Do you remember the gasps when the Japanese were snapping up some of America's most-loved landmark properties during the 1980s?
Back then, the business news almost always included a segment about the Japanese buying an American icon, whether it was Pebble Beach, Columbia Pictures, or the Rockefeller Center.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Communications Stocks Look Strong Despite Market Turbulence / Companies / Telecoms
By: Roger_Conrad
It's tough to keep in mind during times of turbulence, but market moods and trends come and go. The only constant is businesses. And the performance of those in your portfolio is what's ultimately going to determine whether your wealth expands or contracts.
This week, the markets returned to a relative state of calm. The key was the aggressive action by the Federal Reserve and the world's other central banks to pump liquidity into the global system and prevent the ongoing credit crunch from becoming an economic calamity.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Drilling Down : Crude Oil Stocks Buying Opportunity / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Elliot_H_Gue
Investors swamped my email when news hit that some oil crews were “fleeing” the advance of Mean Dean in the Gulf of Mexico.
These investors have seen some hard bounces of late on the Street's “mechanical” bull, looking for good buys to the upside. Most readers asked me the same question: “I'm tempted by the bargains out there, but this is hurricane season. Should I invest in the energy patch right now?”
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
MPTrader - Citigroup Should Hold Here for a Rally / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Either today's swoon in Citigroup (NYSE: C) is a retest (so far successful) of the August 6 low at 45.02 or the continuation of a new downleg that started at the establishment of the August 8 rally peak at 49.88. If it turns out to be the former, then C should pivot to the upside with some power in an effort to re-probe resistance at 49-50.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Surviving Financial Contagent by Focusing on Company Results / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Roger_Conrad
The subprime mortgage/high-yield meltdown continues to dominate the markets and financial media. There's a good reason for that: The world's financial markets are intimately connected in myriad ways, and none of us has a firm grip on all of them.
With luck, this situation won't develop into a full-scale financial meltdown along the lines of 1998. The economy, for example, is clearly healthy despite some weak spots, as this week's employment figures and the recent gross domestic product (GDP) growth and low inflation indicate. But until we see clear signs that it's winding down—and not spreading to other higher risk areas—investors are going to keep reacting, and strongly, to the various straws in the wind that appear.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
US Car Sales Slump - Perhaps Detroit Would Welcome A Strike? / Companies / US Auto's
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
Despite hefty incentives, light motor vehicle sales in July were down month-to-month for the seventh consecutive time this year. Sales crept along at an annual pace of only 15.54 million units. Excluding Katrina-dampened September 2005, this was the weakest monthly sales rate since June 2004. In the first seven months of 2007, light motor vehicle sales are down an annualized 12.03% -- the weakest July-over-December sales rate since 2003 (see table below).
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Checking on Apple from Japan to Hawaii / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes: Although the Dow posted its second-biggest one-day loss of the year last Thursday, one U.S. company's stock rose more than 6% by the end of trading.
I'm talking about Apple — a stock that my Elite Stock Trader subscribers have owned for some time, and a company that I've told you about before right here in Money & Markets.
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Vodafone Quarter 1 Results Show Company is Reducing Loss of Contract Customers / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Submissions
Commenting on Vodafone's Q1 results*, Rob Barnes, head of mobiles at moneysupermarket.com, said: “Vodafone's Q1 results for 2007 show that so far this year the group has achieved a number of its objectives. In particular they have focused heavily on international and emerging markets.
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
Stock Market Investments - Hanging In There / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Roger_Conrad
I'm a glass-half-full guy. I always look for the bright side. And when things look their blackest, my every instinct is to buy, buy, buy.
I've also been in the investment business long enough to know that things don't always work out. Many times, where's there's smoke, there's a raging blaze that will scorch anyone who gets too close.
Businesses as cash-rich as investing do attract criminals. And you can't always trust the numbers.
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Barclays ABN Amro Bid Seeks Cash from China and Singapore State Investors / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Phillipa_Green
Barclays revealed earlier today that it was seeking to issue new shares to China and Singapore state investors worth £10 billion in cash, so as to enable Barclays to increase its offer for the dutch bank ABN Amro and thus beating the rival bid lead by RBS Bank.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
National Champions as Key to Success for Utilities Companies / Companies / US Utilities
By: Roger_Conrad
Regulatory support: That's the key to prosperity for energy, communications and water utilities all around the world.
If relations with the home country government are good, all will be well with the utility. Investment in infrastructure will be rewarded with competitive returns. Major challenges will be hurdled with minimal disruption or financial instability. And the company's investors will be rewarded with strong long-term total returns.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
For Nintendo, It's Not Raining, It's Pouring Profits! / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_and_Markets
Tony Sagami writes : I'm here in Japan with my two sons, and I'm reminded of something my mother used to say — Ame futte ji katamaru . Translated, it means "Rained-on-ground hardens." It was her way of saying adversity builds character.
In just the last few days, the country has had to deal with both a powerful earthquake in the northwest and a gale force typhoon hitting its eastern coast.
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
US Energy Policy Changes and Potential Profits / Companies / US Utilities
By: Roger_Conrad
Talking policy is cheap. Creating and implementing something that works is an entirely different matter. Just ask the army of politicians, bureaucrats, industry executives, academics, consumer advocates and analysts now working on major potential regulatory changes in the energy and communications industries.
The newly installed Democratic Congress has stated two goals for energy policy: promoting US energy independence from the increasingly volatile Middle East and curtailing emissions of greenhouse gases that produce global warming.
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Where Are All The Homebuilder Bargains? / Companies / US Housing
By: Brady_Willett
Brady Willett & Todd Alway write: With U.S. homebuilder confidence slipping to a 16-year low in June and subprime contagion fears omnipresent, no one seemed to notice when Toll Brothers reported a 93.5% increase in its ‘Provision for inventory write-downs/write-offs' for the six-months ending April 2007. However, as the losses and/or inventory write-downs at Toll and other builders mount in the coming quarters, the carnage could prove difficult to ignore. After all, following more than a decade of truly spectacular gains, the good times for U.S. homebuilders are over.Read full article... Read full article...