Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Friday, August 15, 2014
The Single Best Investment for the Semiconductor Tek Stock Boom / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: At first glance two of the major trends reshaping the semiconductor industry seem like polar opposites....
On the one hand, the industry is in the midst of a major boom. On the other, it's also contracting.
For tech investors these conflicting indicators raise two questions:
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Friday, August 15, 2014
Newsflash: Everyone Shops Online These Days! / Companies / Internet
By: EconMatters
Antiquated Retail Sales Reports
It is obvious that retail sales numbers are going to be awful for eternity because they are antiquated reports that fail to adequately capture the changing consumer trend of shopping online. Practically nobody is going to waste their leisure time going to a physical store when they can save time, gasoline, and easily search for the best price in a matter of minutes versus spending hours driving all over town in search of the best price or deal with mall parking. The Physical store business is dead, unless one needs to get a haircut, or a good grocery delivery business hasn`t yet arrived in your area.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
The Biggest Lesson from Microsoft’s Recent Battle with the US Government / Companies / Microsoft
By: Casey_Research
By Nick Giambruno, Senior Editor, InternationalMan.com
A court ruling involving Microsoft’s offshore data storage offers an instructive lesson on the long reach of the US government—and what you can do to mitigate this political risk.
A federal judge recently agreed with the US government that Microsoft must turn over its customer data that it holds offshore if requested in a search warrant. Microsoft had refused because the digital content being requested physically was located on servers in Ireland.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Trouble in the Global Economy? McDonald’s, Wal-Mart Say So / Companies / Corporate News
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: Think all is well—or at least OK—with the global economy? Don’t relax too much, as that doesn’t seem to be the case. As we all know, spending drives economic growth, whether it’s from consumers, businesses, investments, or governments. Without one part or another, there would be added pressure on other areas.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
The Email System the NSA Can’t Access / Companies / Internet
By: Submissions
Ted Baumann writes: It’s been a busy month on the privacy front.
For starters, word got out on August 5 that Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion user names and passwords across several kinds of websites. Then Facebook got into hot water — again — when it decided to force its risky Messenger app on unwilling users. Meanwhile, a U.S. senator warned that users of wearable fitness-tracking devices are unprotected by any privacy law, putting them at serious risk. And the European Union is poised to counter a U.S. court order demanding Microsoft hand over data stored inside its Irish servers.
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Monday, August 11, 2014
Profit from the World's Largest E-Commerce Market / Companies / Internet
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: Mainland China has leapfrogged the United States to become the biggest e-commerce market on Earth.
We wanted you to hear about some of the best new opportunities.
So you can reap the biggest payoffs...
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Friday, August 08, 2014
Connecting the Bankster Dots on the DOJ’s Latest Moves / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Two things hit my radar today, and they’re both interesting, for different reasons.
On the surface, you might think they’re not connected, but they might be.
First of all there’s Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). That poor wee bank was too-big-to-fail even before it bought Countrywide (ground zero for the mortgage crisis) and Merrill Lynch (which was itself TBTF).
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Friday, August 08, 2014
A Major Move in Venezuela Lands Me Back on Chinese TV / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: Sometimes my TV appearances happen on very short notice. Like the one yesterday, for example.
Twelve minutes into my routine at LA Fitness, my phone rang. Chinese television wanted to do a segment ASAP.
So I rushed back home for a quick shower, a change of clothes and a limousine ride to the studio in downtown Pittsburgh.
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Thursday, August 07, 2014
New Growth Ideas for Biotech Stock Investors / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Medical technology is intimately linked to regenerative medicine. You could say these industries have a thunder-and-lightning relationship—you can't have one without the other. Mark Landy, director of research for medical technology and regenerative medicine at Summer Street Research Partners, has staked out the intertwined sectors as his universe of coverage. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Landy discusses three companies with very distinct capabilities that could bring extraordinary rewards to investors who understand the value propositions.
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Big Banks - Don’t Believe a Word the GAO Says / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Last week the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report titled “Large Bank Holding Companies: Expectations of Government Support.”
And wouldn’t you know it – all the too-big-to-fail banks broke out their crack pipes.
The highly anticipated report didn’t surprise anybody. After all, we all already know that big banks are government bootlickers… when they need to be.
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Monday, August 04, 2014
Boycott Marks and Spencers Historic Supporter of Zionism, Israel's Killing of Palestinian Children Consequences / Companies / Corporate News
By: Submissions
Boycottisrael writes: Historically, Marks & Spencer has made statements in support of Zionism. Lord Sieff, chairman and founder of M&S who died in 2001, made several statements in support of Israel’s military policies. In 1941, Sieff said that “large sections of the Arab population of Palestine should be transplanted to Iraq and other Middle-Eastern Arab States” (Jewish Chronicle, 21/09/1941). In 1990, Sieff, in a book entitled On Management: The Marks and Spencer Way, wrote that one of the fundamental objectives of M&S was to “aid the economic development of Israel.”
Friday, August 01, 2014
Big Banks Shift to Lower Gear Banking Operations / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: John_Mauldin
For today’s Outside the Box, good friend Gary Shilling has sent along a very interesting analysis of the big banks. Gary knows a lot about what went down with the big banks during and after the Great Recession, and he tells the story well.
After the bailout of banks during the financial crisis, many wanted too-big-to-fail institutions to be broken up. Big banks resisted and pointed to their rebuilt capital, but regulators are responding with restraints that strip them of proprietary trading and other lucrative activities and push them towards spread lending and other traditional commercial banking businesses. The fiasco at Citigroup, JP Morgan's London Whale, and BNP Paribas's sanctions violations have spurred regulators as well.
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Friday, August 01, 2014
Africa: New Land of Investor Opportunity? Pointing to the Positives / Companies / Oil Companies
By: The_Energy_Report
Oil and gas plays in Africa are no day at the beach, but they are more promising than the press would suggest, says Ashley Kelty, oil and gas equities analyst at Cenkos Securities Plc. Africa has locals with oil patch skills, abundant, accessible reservoirs and less volatile fiscal regimes than investors might think. In a wide-ranging interview with The Energy Report, Kelty riffs on shale in the U.S., basement reservoirs throughout the world and the news out of Africa. The investment opportunities are many.
Friday, August 01, 2014
Turning a Clinical Eye on Biotech Stocks with High Potential Investor Reward / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
A biotech analyst could play it safe, and stick with mid-, late- and commercial-stage companies that offer higher odds and decent returns on good news. Christopher James, on the other hand, recommends that investors willing to diversify their holdings and take on informed risk hold a short list of companies with huge potential. James, a senior analyst and managing director at Brinson Patrick Securities, is a neurosurgeon by training, and examines new platforms and proposed therapies with a clinician's eye. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, James turns that eye on three names with dramatic, paradigm-changing technology platforms that could energize portfolios.
Friday, August 01, 2014
LLoyds Bank - Justice? Not When There’s This Much Money / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Here’s something to tick you off today, something that you may not have figured out.
Lloyds Banking Group PLC (NYSE: LYG), the United Kingdom’s biggest mortgage lender, had to pay another fine yesterday.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
We Just Found “The Future” / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes:
Hewlett-Packard Co. calls it “The Machine.”
I call it the future of computing.
And it’s just one reason why I think HP (NYSE: HPQ) is among the smartest plays in tech right now.
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Why Microsoft Old Tech Stock Is Relevant Again / Companies / Microsoft
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: The other day I talked about my growing optimism toward Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL) under the stewardship of CEO Tim Cook.
Now, I’ve noticed that a similar situation appears to be unfolding at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ/MSFT), which is currently under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella is transforming the former Wall Street darling into an enterprise-driven company that’s focused on capitalizing on new technologies, rather than simply on operating systems, as my stock analysis indicates.
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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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