Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
The Rating Agencies Feel Heat – It’s About Time / Companies / Credit Crisis 2014
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Sometimes it’s all about time. Things take time. Time catches up to things.
In the case of the many crimes and misdemeanors that led up to the credit crisis, time seems to be finally catching up with some crooked institutions.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
Tesco Supermarket Death Spiral Accelerates as Customers HATE the Mega Brand / Companies / Corporate News
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Tesco stock price continues to slide as Britain's mega supermarket chain continues to haemorrhage market share and profits as the discount retailers like termites have been eating into its business as the too big to know what to do next super market chain's management has been sat in their bunker looking at artificial charts and graphs that deluded them into staying the course despite earnings report after earnings report revealing an accelerating crisis. Well now Tesco takes its first steps towards finally recognising that it has a destiny with extinction by ejecting its CEO Philip Clarke, YES it is that serious! Clarke over the past 3 years took one of Britain's strongest companies and turned it potentially into the next Woolworth's! And at best a lost in the wilderness for a decade plus Morrisons.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Why Microsoft Will Continue to Rebound, Huge Upside Potential / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: Just under a year ago, Capital Wave Forecast Editor Shah Gilani said it was time to buy Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqGS: MSFT).
It was a surprising call. The once-great software giant had become a moribund also-ran, and Wall Street clearly saw no future for the Redmond, Washington-based company.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Latest Subprime Scandal May Be Sitting in Your Driveway! / Companies / Credit Crisis 2014
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Back in April I wrote about the initial public offering from Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY). I told you about how they were loading up the truck with subprime auto loans, and how that lending game was too reminiscent of the subprime mortgage buildup and subsequent crisis to not warrant a déjà vu-all-over-again feeling.
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Monday, July 21, 2014
TransTech Digest: Super Battery Bio-Power vs. Dirty CleanTech / Companies / Technology
By: John_Mauldin
By Patrick Cox
Technological civilization runs on energy. Second only to health care in economic clout, energy accounts for slightly less than 10% of GDP depending on the actual fuel prices. Everything depends on energy, even the biological world inside and around us.
Energy is a cost component in all goods and services, from manufacturing to overhead and transportation. As such, the price and availability of energy is a major determinant of all price levels and, inversely, the standard of living.
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Monday, July 21, 2014
How Apple Has Launched Itself to the Top of My Favorite Stocks / Companies / Apple
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: Apple (NASDAQ/AAPL) may have finally come up with the killer apps that could vault the company ahead in the global race against Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ/GOOG) “Android” phones. Now, Apple could gain mobile supremacy, based on my stock analysis.
In an unexpected move, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, inked a valuable partnership with International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE/IBM) to co-develop apps that will focus on the lucrative enterprise segment.
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Monday, July 21, 2014
A Clear Way to Profit from a Graying Population / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Money_Morning
Ernie Tremblay writes: The Baby Boom generation, which includes everyone born from 1946 through 1964, is now entering retirement age (65) at a rate of 10,000 per day. That demographic wave is so big that in 2010, the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) predicted the elderly population in this country would double to about 71 million by 2030.
That presents a huge opportunity for bioscience investors. Here's why.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
Stealth Tech Stocks Rally Catalysts / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Just weeks ago, the mainstream media was still talking about an alleged “tech correction.”
However, I see things much differently. The tech-centric Nasdaq Composite Index has gained some 6.5% so far this year. That’s more than double the Dow Jones Industrial Average‘s 3% gain.
This is great news I just had to share with you.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
Malaysia Airlines Management Needs Overhaul After MH17 & MH370 / Companies / Corporate News
By: EconMatters
On Thursday a Malaysia Airlines flight crashed with 295 people on board over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border, there is a high probability that the conflict in this region caused this plane to be shot down by accident. There are a myriad of scenarios of how this could happen in the confusion of what essentially has been a war zone, an area that the FAA has banned all U.S. commercial flights from flying over since April of this year. These kinds of accidents happen all the time in the confusion of military hotspots if we look back at historical records, the US even shot down a commercial Iranian flight by accident, these things happen.
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
Artificial Intelligence and Genuine Stupidity / Companies / Technology
By: John_Mauldin
By Patrick Cox
Editor, TransTech Digest and Transformational Technology Alert
In the in-depth article below, I discuss the recent headlines about a supercomputer supposedly passing Alan Turing’s “Turing Test.” I also trace out complex questions regarding how little we still know about the human brain.
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Friday, July 11, 2014
Banco Portuguese Bank’s Newfound Clarity Just Makes Things Foggier / Companies / Credit Crisis 2014
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: So what there was some momentary panic over some bank in Portugal yesterday?
So what if contagion fears spilled out across the globe and markets tanked?
It’s all better now. Everything has been cleared up. Really, it was nothing.
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Wednesday, July 09, 2014
Why GM’s Auto Recalls Are Worse Than You Think / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: I can still remember driving around as a kid in my dad’s Chevrolet sedan, one with tail fins. Later, we had a Pontiac Ventura, and my mom drove a Chevrolet Malibu.
My first car in high school was a 1966 Pontiac Le Mans that I rebuilt myself. And my brother drove a Pontiac Firebird - all General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) cars.
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Monday, July 07, 2014
U.S. Oil Export Ban Is a Windfall for These Companies / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: After more than four decades, it looks like America is getting back into the oil export business again.
For the first time since the 1970s, Washington has opened the door to sending more U.S. crude abroad.
Of course, the United States has been exporting oil products for some time now.
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Friday, July 04, 2014
How Clash of the Tech Titans Could Make You Rich / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Instead of a suit and tie or my Silicon Valley uniform of button-down shirt and zippered v-neck sweater, today I’m donning black and white stripes. That’s because I’m refereeing a boxing match between two of the biggest tech legends around.
I’m calling it the Clash of the Tech Titans.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2014
The BioScience Stocks Profit Outlook for the Rest of 2014 / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Ernie Tremblay writes: With just six months left on my 2014 bioscience "profit calendar," things are really starting to look promising for the second half of 2014. There are huge opportunities in several subsectors of the bioscience market in particular.
That said, some bioscience analysts are saying there's a bubble. And it's scaring a lot of bioscience investors out of great positions in the market.
That's why last week I shared my complete bioscience market outlook for the rest of 2014 with my paid members - to help them see the real market story.
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014
The New Normal of Healthcare Spending / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: John_Mauldin
A rather interesting shockwave came across the newsfeeds this week. I was actually doing a TV interview when the host announced that GDP was down 2.9% for the first quarter. There was not much else I could do but note that that was a really bad, ugly, terrible, not very good number. But I had no real basis, without any facts in front of me, by which to understand why the revision was so extreme. Sure, we were all expecting a pretty large revision, but what we got was the worst decline in five years and the largest downward revision since recordkeeping began. Later, a quick perusal of the data on the BLS website revealed the culprits: exports and healthcare spending.
Monday, June 30, 2014
How to Tap Big Profits in That "Other" Bioscience Niche / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Ernie Tremblay writes: At first glance, it may seem like bioscience investing is so complicated and risky that it's hardly worth your time and money to invest, at least if you don't have someone knowledgeable to guide you.
And it's true. Putting your money behind new, experimental drugs, without some guidance, is a crapshoot.
But there's an approach to making profits from this sector that doesn't rely on breakthrough discoveries, expensive drug trials, or constant cash infusions through dilutive public offerings to fuel its engine.
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Thomas Edison’s Dream Smashed / Companies / Technology
By: Casey_Research
By Adam J. Crawford, Analyst
The incandescent light bulb was invented in the very early 1800s, but at that time was a device too crude and impractical for mass adoption. Over the next 80 years, at least 20 inventors contributed to its improvement, until, in 1880, Thomas Edison developed and patented a bulb that would last a miraculous 1,200 hours. Edison’s product was the first to offer the levels of functionality, durability, and affordability necessary for widespread commercial appeal. That’s why he gets credit for inventing the light bulb, even though he was decades late to the party.
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Stock's Forgotten Muscle / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: We've talked a lot about the importance of targeting growth stocks as a great way to become financially independent.
In fact, growth is one of the five rules that my tech-wealth-building strategy uses to identify the best profit opportunities.
But you can't ignore "value" stocks - especially since "special situation" plays such as corporate turnarounds can generate windfall gains for your portfolio.
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
Dark Pools Pervade Wall Street / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: I’m not usually the kind of guy to say, “I told you so.”
But you know what? I’m saying it.
I told you so.
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