Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Reports of BP Nabucco Pipeline's Death are Exaggerated / Companies / Oil Companies
By: OilPrice_Com
The refining director at BP caused a stir last week in Berlin when he was interpreted as saying the full version of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline was no longer an option for the consortium working in the Shah Deniz natural gas field in Azerbaijan. Wire services had reported that his statements meant Nabucco was effectively dead despite years of political maneuvering. Not so, said the European Commission, and several other players involved in the 2,149-mile project. It makes sexy headlines to sink a $10 billion ship, but there are plenty of reserves to keep Nabucco at least on standby.
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Monday, June 04, 2012
The Secret to Apple's Patent Wars / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
In a single stroke, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) could gain the upper hand in its seemingly endless patent wars with Samsung Electronics (PINK: SSNLF) and others.
Or the tech giant could blow its chance and wind up paying billions of dollars in licensing fees.
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Monday, June 04, 2012
SpaceX Rocket Opens the Door to a New Age / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes:
Commercial space travel was long confined to the realm of science fiction.
But no more.
With SpaceX's successful rocket launch on May 22, commercial space travel is now a concrete, viable reality... and one that will yield lots of investment opportunities in the very near future.
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Saturday, June 02, 2012
Is Microsoft About to Get Left in the Dust? / Companies / Microsoft
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Boy, Microsoft should have paid more attention to all those bright young hackers. A lot more.
Back in November 2010, when Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) unveiled its Kinect product to the public.
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Friday, June 01, 2012
My Best Investment Advice - Watch Your Fellow Investors Then Do The Opposite / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Charles_Carnevale
In my opinion, the recent selloff in stocks defies commonsense and logic, but in truth and fact it usually does. In other words, it's not uncommon to see investors selling at precisely the time they should be buying and vice versa. Moreover, when investor pessimism is at a high, like it is today, stocks become cheap causing people to panic and sell. Of course, the more people sell the worse it gets and simultaneously the cheaper stocks get.
Friday, June 01, 2012
Inside JPMorgan's Magical Fun Palace / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
The financial system wasn't fixed after 2008, and it won't be fixed anytime soon.
The unexpected $2 billion - or is it $5 billion? -- loss incurred by JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) "whale" trader Bruno Iksil shows only too clearly the flaws in Dodd-Frank and other regulatory activity.
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Friday, June 01, 2012
Facebook Thanks Heaven for Dumb Money! / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Bill_Bonner
Thank God for dumb money!
What would the world be without chumps? Suckers? Bagmen and patsies?
Who would buy a ladies handbag for $1,500? Or blue-jeans for $150? Who would buy an oversized show-off pickup…or a $4 million McMansion?
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
Facebook IPO Was a Success and Wall Street Got What It Deserved / Companies / Corporate News
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
Being politically correct has never been my strongest quality; therefore I’ll say this: I don’t feel sorry for Facebook’s new shareholders. Despite Nasdaq technical glitches and analysts sharing changes in estimates for the near quarter only with big clients, the Facebook initial public offering (IPO) was a success.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Why Apple is Too Rich For the Dow Jones Stocks Index / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Assuming the Dow Jones Industrial Average represents the biggest, most influential companies in America, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) easily qualifies.
With its massive market cap, trend-setting products, and global brand recognition, it is easy to argue Apple belongs as much or more than any of the current tech companies in the index.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
FaceBook Investors Zuckerberged, 36% Crash, Clueless Telegraph Implies Cheap at $38 But Expensive at $29 / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Facebook Investors have most definitely been Zuckerberged as the Facebook stock price has crashed by 36% since its first day trading high of $45, currently down about 25% on its $38 IPO with more losses to come.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
The 152-Year-Old Brain That Changed the Course of Science / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Money_Morning
Michael Robinson writes:
The most infamous man in the complex field of neuroscience died 152 years ago.
Yet just last week, railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage made headlines again, reaching out from the grave to offer crucial new insights about the how the brain works.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Five Ways Investors Not to Get "Facebooked" / Companies / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
On the heels of the Facebook IPO fiasco, many investors are wondering how they can find the next best thing and avoid getting "facebooked" in the process.
Tall order? Not really.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Warming up For the Battle Royale in Mobile Wallet Technology / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
The mobile wallet movement is inevitable. But so are the bumps in the road.
If there's anything that's going to delay the mobile wallet's future on a global scale rivaling, well, telephony itself, it's going to be because there are so many players and stakeholders tilling the same soil to sow what they hope to reap.
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Monday, May 28, 2012
Facebook - How Wall Street Really Works / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Bill_Bonner
Baltimore, Maryland – How do you like those wimpy, whiney investors? They lose money in Facebook. Do they take their losses like men? Nope.
They rush to sue everybody! The investment banks who were midwifes to the birth of FB into the public markets weren’t playing fair, they say. They gave their best clients more and better info than they fed to the public.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Who's Winning and Who's Losing from Facebook's Botched IPO / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Casey_Research
Adam J. Crawford, Casey Research writes:
In less than a week's time, the Facebook IPO has gone from the most-hyped technology event since Google went public into "blame-storming" mode. Details concerning the stock's sudden drop, the market's inability to process orders, and the (mis)behavior of insiders are starting to emerge. And it doesn't look good.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Facebook Stock Price Gravitates to Analysts’ Average Value Estimate of $28: But Which Valuation is Right? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Andrew_Butter
Post-IPO the experts are jostling for space on Prime Time; many are saying they all knew Facebook was outrageously overvalued; or as Barry Ritholtz and Peter Schiff put it, “It’s the Valuation Stupid”. None are saying $38 is cheap these days.
Some say they felt it in their bones. Some say it’s all about the alignment of Jupiter with Mars or perhaps the Fibonacci constellation; some are talking about Fair Value as is $38 just wasn’t “fair”. Theories abound but not many theorists were bold enough to put a number down that they might live to regret, even fewer shared their pristine ideas about what the future held in store, prior to the Big Day.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
What Facebook is Really Worth / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
Duh on you if you bought the Facebook IPO.
Double duh if you're thinking of buying Facebook stock now that it's fallen to $32 a share and lost $17.16 billion off its initial $104 billion valuation.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
The Facebook Fiasco / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Brady_Willett
Exactly whom are we supposed to feel sorry for?
Now that Facebook has done a faceplant the blame game has begun. Those that partake in this pursuit, U.S. regulatory authorities included, are dwelling in the land of futility. The real story is that had Facebook soared instead of slumped the same sleazy practices undertaken by Wall Street would have gone uncriticized, and the mob of greater fools would have been erroneously geniusized. Suffice to say, stock price should not be the determining factor when it comes to panting reality in the financial markets...and yet it is.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Grow Your Stocks Portfolio With The "Eye in the Sky" / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
G.S. Early writes:
Smile.... you're on the 21st century's version of Candid Camera.
Whether you're an Islamic troublemaker in North Waziristan, a rowdy football fan, or a hopeful immigrant trying to slip across the border, the eye in the sky sees everything.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Why You Shouldn’t Shun Tech Stocks / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Roger_Conrad
Technology stocks have performed well during the past five years, especially in fast-growing emerging markets, where consumers have been forming lines around the block to snatch up iPads, smartphones and a host of other tantalizing devices.
The chart below tells the story. The technology sector has outperformed the MSCI World Index (MXWO) by 26 percent. The stage is set for this outperformance to continue, as demand accelerates this year throughout the global supply chain for computers, consumer gadgets, data storage, and information technology (IT) infrastructure.