Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, February 17, 2014
Goldman Sachs' Most Dangerous Trade / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Here's something you probably don't know, and it will really tick you off.
You probably do know the biggest banks in the world have commodities businesses.
Those lines of business might include trading desks (trading everything from gold and copper to kilowatts), transportation (pipelines, railcars and tankers) and storage (warehousing) operations, mining operations, as well as production, refining, and raw and finished commodity distribution operations.
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Friday, February 14, 2014
TripAdvisor's Q4 2013 Corporate Earnings Review / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Submissions
Vikram Nagarkar writes: TripAdvisor (NASDAQ: TRIP), the online travel research company reported its Q4 2013 numbers post market hours at 5 P.M EST on the 11th of Feb 2014. Within minutes of the announcement, the stock price had plunged by close to 10%, eventually recovering and settling at $82.75, about 2% lower than the day’s closing price. We look at the key take-aways and TripAdvisor’s valuations post its Q4 2013 earnings release in which the company delivered many surprises, though not all of them were necessarily pleasant in nature.
Friday, February 14, 2014
The “Secret Ingredient” that Generates Solar Power at Night! / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: As solar power enthusiasts know all too well, renewable energy has the same problem that the “normal” generation of electricity does.
It’s how to store all of the energy produced so that it can be used when it’s needed. For solar power, that means even at night.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Why Wall Street Would Love to Bug Our Phones / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: Every month or so, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Shah Gilani or a few of the other editors here at Money Map Press will wonder aloud if the big Wall Street investment banks have secreted a bunch of listening-device "bugs" in our offices or on our phones.
They haven't, of course. And our comments were made in jest - and meant only as a joke.
But the coincidences that prompt these surveillance-by-Big-Brother quips can be quite remarkable.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Top-Yielding Dividend Stocks to Combat Low Interest Rates / Companies / Dividends
By: DailyGainsLetter
John Paul Whitefoot writes: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has confirmed what most already knew. The recovery in the U.S. jobs market is far from complete. Yellen noted that the unemployment rate has improved since the Federal Reserve initiated its last round of quantitative easing in late 2012, falling from 8.1% to 6.6%. Curiously, in 2013, the U.S. economy grew just two percent.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Where to Find the Best Stock Investing Opportunities in Emerging Markets / Companies / China Stocks
By: DailyGainsLetter
Mohammad Zulfiqar writes: There are a significant number of concerns regarding the emerging markets at this time. Investors are asking if emerging market stocks are a good buy right now; are the troubles over or are there still more to come?
As it stands, it seems further troubles are brewing in the emerging markets, as the Federal Reserve tapers its quantitative easing program. We have seen currencies in countries like Turkey, South Africa, Russia, and Argentina decline significantly.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Why I Love Amazon.com but Won’t Buy Its Stock / Companies / Internet
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
You should look at your portfolio and want to throw up a little — this is how one value manager described what a true, die-hard value investor’s portfolio should look like. The two stocks I wrote about in my latest article — American Eagle and Aéropostale — have a tendency to elicit that unpleasant reflex in many investors today.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Regenerative Medicine Finally Gets Some Respect / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Of the many themes that propelled the biotech sector to record returns in 2013, regenerative medicine and therapeutics targeting cancer were front and center. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Reni Benjamin, managing director and equity research analyst at H.C. Wainwright & Co., talks about two companies with impending catalysts that play on these themes, and offers his take on the prospects for the regenerative medicine sector going forward.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Where Stock Investors Can Find Stability in These Economically Unstable Times / Companies / Investing 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
John Paul Whitefoot writes: While most astute investors would point to a weak U.S. economy as the reason for the recent lackluster U.S. employment data, economists, in their infinite wisdom, point to Mother Nature. She seems to shoulder a lot of the economic blame in this country.
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Monday, February 10, 2014
How to Profit from the Dow’s “Dogs” / Companies / Investing 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: Small-cap stocks are faring the worst this year and are down nearly 10% from their record-high in late 2013; many would deem this to be an official stock market correction.
Given that small-cap stocks surged upward by more than 33% in 2013, it shouldn’t be a surprise to see this group get the brunt of the selling this year.
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Friday, February 07, 2014
Why the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Is a Game-Changer / Companies / Bitcoin
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Investing in Bitcoin isn't as easy as investing in stocks - right now.
But the arrival of the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF - an exchange-traded fund developed by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss - will change that.
The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF will make investing in Bitcoin as simple and straightforward as buying shares of any other exchange-traded fund.
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Thursday, February 06, 2014
US Global Defensive Consumer Franchises Stock Investing Theme / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Rory_Gillen
Having your cake and eating it too!Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it! In investing that means buying stocks with good defensive growth characteristics. In May 2010, GillenMarkets introduced the US Global Defensive Consumer Franchise Theme for subscribers and the theme included eight US companies at that time—Coca Cola, McDonalds, Proctor & Gamble, Colgate, Johnson & Johnson, Wal-Mart, Kellogg and Kraft. The European equivalents—Unilever, Diageo, Reckitt Benckiser and Kerry—were added to the theme in 2011. Kraft has since de-merged and we have substituted Mondelez (the spin off from Kraft) in Kraft's place.
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Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Apple, Ebay and Visa - Stocks to Watch as Activist Investors Unlock Value / Companies / Investing 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
Sasha Cekerevac writes: One of the most hotly debated topics these days is the role of activist investors. Some people have the impression that an activist investor is not a positive factor when it comes to long-term investing. I disagree, as many times, the investment strategy recommended by these activist investors ends up benefiting all shareholders.
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
The Perfect Profits Storm / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Terry Weiss writes: Michael Robinson has been following the auto sector since 1980 when he was a young analyst living in Detroit.
And over the last 34 years, he’s seen a lot of changes come to this iconic industry – both good and bad.
But he’s never seen anything like what’s happening now.
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Tuesday, February 04, 2014
We Just Found The New King Of The Computer Industry / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: During the Depression-ridden 1930s, with the United States circling the financial abyss, an American industrialist named Thomas J. Watson Jr. gambled the future of his business-equipment company on an expansion plan that included wholesale hiring, investments in technology, and the construction of new factories.
For six years, Watson had his factories at full bore – churning out tabulating equipment there were no buyers for. But he believed in his plan and stayed with his strategy.
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Sunday, February 02, 2014
China Tech Stocks - The Hottest Investment Market on Earth / Companies / China Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: China has been dominating the headlines in recent days... And not in a good way.
Since late last week, worries about slowing growth, financial-system shenanigans, and the potential for an "Asian Contagion" type spillover have whacked global stocks - and have left folks wondering if the Chinese Miracle is over.
But China's kind of like a still-young tech venture: There are going to be reversals, it's going to be volatile, and it's normal to expect this kind of whipsaw market action.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Business Development Companies Investing / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Casey_Research
By Andrey Dashkov
Business Development Companies (BDCs) are publicly traded private debt and equity funds. I know that description isn’t terribly sexy, but keep reading and you’ll find there’s a lot to be excited about.
BDCs provide financing to firms too small to seek traditional bank financing or to do an IPO, but at the same time are too advanced to interest the earliest-stage venture capitalist. These companies are often near or at profitability and just need extra cash to reach the next milestone. Filling this void, BDCs provide funds to target companies in exchange for interest payments and/or an equity stake.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Triple Threat Firms Will Deliver Your Best Stocks Returns in 2014 / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Robert Hsu writes: As readers of my Permanent Wealth Investor know, alternative money management firms are some of my favorite securities for investors to own.
After a great run in 2013, those firms will have a hard act to follow in 2014.
But, here's the thing: the same sources that drove income last year for these companies are firmly in place. And will be throughout 2014.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The Secret to Unlocking Huge Auto-Tech Stocks Profits / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: As a tech investor, I pay a lot of attention to the key trends reshaping our world and setting us up for massive gains.
I've also found that sometimes you can boil down great investment opportunities into a number. In this case its 11.4...the average age of a car on U.S. roads today.
Compared with the new connected car, that's like driving something out of the Flintstones.
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Monday, January 27, 2014
How This IBM Will Outlast the PC’s Extinction / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: DailyGainsLetter
John Paul Whitefoot writes: The first raft of first-quarter earnings reports are in…and they’re not a total surprise. Against the backdrop of a weak U.S. economy and waning consumer confidence, some big go-to stocks are beginning to show signs of distress—few more (right now) than makers of personal computers (PC makers).
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