Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Global M&A Boom Fueled by Global Currency War / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
A binge of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is being fueled by the global currency war, which has increased the value of emerging market currencies.
The value of worldwide M&A totaled $1.75 trillion during the first nine months of 2010, a 21% increase from comparable 2009 levels and the strongest nine month period for M&A since 2008, according to Thomson Reuters.
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Saturday, October 09, 2010
Leading Stocks To Consider Buying and Stocks To Forget / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
Time and time again we’ve said: “We do not chase buses around here as we’ve seen it time and time again where one jumps in thinking the short term trend is going to continue and then? WHAM 10-15 days worth of gains wiped out in 2 days. Those who like chasing stocks AFTER the fact? Good luck with that.”
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Alcoa Chart Points Higher Ahead of Earnings / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Let's have a look at the BIG picture chart analytics of Alcoa (AA) ahead of its initiation of the new earning reporting season starting tomorrow evening after the closing bell. I post the AA chart analysis merely as a way to gauge expectations in an otherwise very uncertain environment. Let's also be aware that earnings are one thing, but guidance once again might be the major challenge for investors during the upcoming weeks.
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010
The Backdoor Investor Play to Macau Casinos / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Tony_Sagami
The National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession over in June 2009, but don’t tell that to the American entertainment industry. 2010 has been a very difficult year for just about every sector of the entertainment business as cash-strapped consumers are looking for inexpensive ways to entertain themselves.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Dajin - Lithium and Potash / Companies / Metals & Mining
By: Richard_Mills
The Puna plateau sits at an elevation of 4,000m, stretches for 1800 km along the Central Andes and attains a width of 350-400 km. The Puna covers a portion of Argentina, Chile and Bolivia and hosts an estimated 70 - 80% of global lithium brine reserves.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Investment Opportunities Across the Energy Spectrum / Companies / Energy Resources
By: The_Energy_Report
When it comes to energy, Newsletter Editor Byron King likes to keep his fingers in a lot of pies. He doesn't limit his coverage to U.S. or even North American companies. He literally travels the world to find unique investment opportunities for his loyal subscribers. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Byron discusses his recent trip to Serbia and some his favorite uranium plays.
The Energy Report: Byron, you edit Agora Financial's Outstanding Investments and Energy and Scarcity newsletters. What's the difference between those publications?
Monday, October 04, 2010
Strong Potential Remains for Barrick Gold ABX / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Apart from the fact that Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX) is down 4% since last Thursday's high at 47.65, the overall pattern off of its July low at 39.67 still remains potentially extremely combustible -- as long as the series of higher pullback lows since last August remains intact.
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Monday, October 04, 2010
China Continues Game-Changing Energy Moves with Sinopec’s $7 Billion Brazil Buy / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Chinese state oil company China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) (NYSE ADR: SNP) said Friday that it would invest $7.1 billion in the Brazilian unit of Spain's Repsol YPF S.A. (NYSE ADR: REP) to form one of the largest private energy companies in Latin America.
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Doomsday for 30 Million Americans, Who Will Have to Move by 2013 / Companies / Water Sector
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: Earlier this week, the rain hammered down for two days straight here in Pennsylvania. But remarkably, rivers, streams and lakes haven’t risen one iota.
And my son, Noah, hasn’t had to mow the lawn in over a month (something he’s not entirely unhappy about.)
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Saturday, October 02, 2010
Bet on Junior Gold Mining Companies Management and Good Assets / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: The_Gold_Report
Pinetree Capital VP of Research Craig Stanley believes that, above all else, junior mining companies need solid management and good assets. And he believes management, in particular, trumps good assets. "We have been known to back management teams even before they have a project, based solely on their history," he says. Pinetree has positions in more than 400 companies and, in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Craig names some of his favorite gold and base metals plays in the lot.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Investors Buy This China Boom / Companies / China Stocks
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: "China is a bubble that will burst… "
Yeah, yeah, we hear that every day…
In the meantime, our paid subscribers are making a fortune buying China.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Small U.S. Regional Banks Fast Becoming Takeover Targets / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Sharks are circling the beleaguered financial services industry and the upshot may well be a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) that analysts say could lead to higher valuations, especially for smaller, regional banks.
Activity in the financial services industry has been subdued for the past three years as weak loan growth, shrinking profit margins, increased regulation and low valuations kept investors at bay. But now forces pressuring the industry to contract "will create more willingness to sell from bank management teams and board of directors over the next year," and drive consolidation, according to the report by Credit Suisse Equity Research.
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Friday, October 01, 2010
Silver Wheaton Corporation A Takeover Target? / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Bob_Kirtley
Exploration activity is moving at a fair old pace, however, the results are no longer startling, in fact discoveries of any significance are few and far between. In order for a producer to add to their pipeline of gold and silver reserves a friendly or even a hostile takeover appears to be the way go.
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Friday, October 01, 2010
Surprising Investment Opportunities in Cleantech / Companies / Energy Resources
By: The_Energy_Report
Cleantech goes far beyond solar power, according to Shawn Severson. As a managing director of cleantech research with ThinkEquity in San Francisco, he finds mainstream companies poised to cash in on common-sense technologies that save energy and money. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Shawn makes the case that cleantech is as much about saving money as it is about saving the environment.
The Energy Report: You recently joined ThinkEquity in San Francisco as a cleantech analyst after doing institutional sales for Robert W. Baird & Co. in London?
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Five Tech ETFs to Look at Now / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Ron_Rowland
You can always count on one thing in the technology sector: Change! The cutting-edge inventions that fascinated us so much back in the 1990s are de rigueur now. Where will we be in ten years? I can only imagine.
As I said last year in my Trade Technology with ETFs column, playing tech trends with individual stocks is a high-risk game. You never know where the next big breakthrough will originate. Even a portfolio of 15-20 tech stocks might not catch the big winners.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Investors, Stocks to Dump or Not Buy / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
With more than 8,790 publicly traded stocks on U.S. exchanges and another 7,000 or so listed on the OTC Bulletin Board and the pink sheets, it's not particularly difficult to find stocks you wouldn't want to buy. It's not even that hard to find stocks with numbers so bad they're good short-sale candidates.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The Lights Have Officially Gone Out In the US / Companies / Corporate News
By: Graham_Summers
Here’s a news story that summates the US economy’s problems rather well:
The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Expected Breakout for Barrick Gold Corp ABX / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Why did we add Barrick Gold Corp (ABX) into strength after it was up 3% from today's spike low at 44.76? Because the sharp intraday recovery rally occurred after what looks to me like the completion of a significant correction off of the 47.55 high from 9/22.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Cisco Breaking Out? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Purely from a technical perspective, we can make the case that with the series of higher-highs and higher lows since the August 31 low at 19.82, Cisco (CSCO) is in the process of completing a pullback from Friday's recovery high at 22.25 (into today's low at 21.86). If accurate that means that the rally off of this morning's low is the start of a new upleg that should hurdle 22.25 on the way to 22.50 next.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Three Junior Potash Developers Are Sitting on Big Assets / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Richard_Mills
The United Nations estimates that the world's population will reach 7.7 billion by 2020 and 9.3 billion in 2050. Another United Nations estimate says that only 30% of the arable land in use in the 1950's will be available per person in 2050.
"Just when we need more soil to feed the 10 billion people of the future, we'll actually have less -- only a quarter of an acre of cropland per person in 2050, versus the half-acre we use today on the most efficient farms." ~ David Montgomery, author of the 2007 book Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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