Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, August 08, 2014
A Major Move in Venezuela Lands Me Back on Chinese TV / Companies / Investing 2014
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
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.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Big Banks - Don’t Believe a Word the GAO Says / Companies / Banksters
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
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.”
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Friday, August 01, 2014
Big Banks Shift to Lower Gear Banking Operations / Companies / Banking Stocks
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
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.
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Friday, August 01, 2014
Turning a Clinical Eye on Biotech Stocks with High Potential Investor Reward / Companies / BioTech
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.
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Friday, August 01, 2014
LLoyds Bank - Justice? Not When There’s This Much Money / Companies / Banksters
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
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
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
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
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.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Why Microsoft Will Continue to Rebound, Huge Upside Potential / Companies / Microsoft
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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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