Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Apple, Google, NewsCorp and the Future of Content / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: John_Mauldin
Quick housekeeping note: IF I write an e-letter this week it will be earlier in the week. There will be no letter’s next week then we launch the first Saturday morning in January with my annual predictions letter. And just for fun, one of my readers said that the title of last week’s letter should have been “Kicking the Grenade Down the Road.” Better check that pin! Now, this week’s OTB.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Investors Bargain Shopping in Peru, Chile and Brazil / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Frank_Holmes
Global Strategist Jacek Dzierwa has just returned from another research trip to Latin America where he visited Peru, Chile and Brazil. Travel is important for our tacit knowledge because many of the world’s best opportunities aren’t discovered behind a Bloomberg terminal or an earnings report. We venture to visit as many companies as possible before investing in them.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Alternative Energy Forecast: Why Investors Will Finally Start to Profit in 2011 / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
For a long while now, we've heard a lot of talk about the potential for alternative-energy technology.
Investors take note: In 2011, that potential will start to be realized. And those who want to benefit from this emerging sector's projected long-term growth would do well to climb aboard.
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Carl Icahn's Dynegy Power Struggle and Coming Showdown at Chesapeak Energy / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Dian_L_Chu
It has been a literal power struggle between Dynegy, Inc. (DNY) -- the third-largest U.S. independent power producer--and its investors. With weak natural gas prices dragging down power prices, Dynegy booked a net loss of $1.25 billion in 2009 and another $70 million loss in the first nine months of this year.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Madoff lawsuits charge JPMorgan and HSBC with complicity in Ponzi scheme / Companies / Scams
By: Global_Research
Andre Damon writes: Two years after the arrest of Bernard Madoff, ample evidence has emerged that a substantial number of major financial institutions profited from and knowingly facilitated his Ponzi scheme.
Irving H. Picard, the trustee for the investors who were defrauded by Madoff, filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase on December 2 alleging that the bank knew that Madoff’s transactions were fraudulent but continued doing business with him.
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
Las Vegas Sands Corporation (LVS), Bright Future for this Well Positioned Entertainment Stock / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Jeff_Neal
Las Vegas Sands Corporation (LVS) develops multi-use integrated resorts worldwide. It owns and operates The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino, and The Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; and the Sands Macao, The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, and the Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip in Macau, the People's Republic of China. The company is also developing Marina Bay Sands, an integrated resort in Singapore; and Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, an integrated resort in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Las Vegas Sands Corp. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Earnings Upgrade Adds to Powerful Chart Picture for Applied Materials (AMAT) / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Applied Materials (AMAT) was the beneficiary of a Barclay's upgrade this morning and an upwardly revised target price to 17 from 12, which is having a positive impact on the stock price.
An upgrade to an already powerful chart picture and technical set-up aligns the fundamentals and the technicals, in this case both bullish.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Time To Take Another Bite Out Of Apple? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
One’s time today may be better spent in the malls working on that Christmas list given what we are seeing in the two charts below:
Friday, December 17, 2010
How to Profit From the Fast Emerging Mobile Banking Sector / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
With the emergence of handset-driven e-commerce technology, banks, mobile-phone sellers and telecom-service providers are working feverishly to cook up a profitable recipe for the fast-growing mobile-banking business.
But with so many players setting up shop - and so many potential new mobile-payment services on the menu - the safest profit play for investors may be the one that's able to deliver all these services to end -users.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Reveille For The American Nuclear Industry, Uranium Stocks Investing / Companies / Nuclear Power
By: Jeb_Handwerger
A few days ago the French upstaged the US mighty nuclear reactor construction industry under our very noses in broad daylight making us appear as Homer Simpson napping at the control plant of Mr. Burns’ atomic energy plant in Springfield. Most of the media never mentioned the event. Only one gave it token coverage hidden on pg. A13 without realizing its true significance. French President Nicholas Sarkozy signed a landmark deal with the Indian Government to sell billions of dollars of nuclear reactors and fuel for the next 25 years, while the US is battling in hard economic times, beset by unemployment to maintain a grip on India’s extremely profitable and growing nuclear industry.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Stock Investors Follow the Leaders / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
Leading stocks have pulled back to areas of support — offering investors and traders the opportunity to buy them at low risk entry points. Following are just a few of the leading stocks that we track — our complete list is available to our subscribers.
While scrolling through these names a lot of them have little green circles in the mid-November time frame. What we want you to key in on from an educational standpoint is that in almost everyone of the follow the leaders that WAS the right time to pick them all off while the market was “In A Correction” as IBD would put it.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Chinese IPOs Making Waves in the Market, but Beware of Bubbles / Companies / China Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Record fundraising activity in the market for initial public offerings (IPOs) is pushing valuations for Chinese companies to sky-high levels, raising concerns about a possible bubble.
IPOs are likely to raise more than $300 billion for issuers worldwide in 2010, exceeding the previous record of $295 billion in 2007, despite the sluggish economic recovery in Western markets.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
U.S. Companies Hoarding $1.93 Trillion in Cash / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
U.S. corporations are piling up cash at the fastest rate in half a century. But instead of signaling a new wave of spending, that cash pile may mean tough times ahead.
Non-financial companies in the United States had stacked up $1.93 trillion in cash and other liquid assets at the end of September, up from $1.8 trillion at the end of June, the U.S. Federal Reserve said Thursday. Cash made up 7.4% of the companies' total assets -the largest chunk since 1959.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Smoking Hot China IPOs / Companies / China Stocks
By: Tony_Sagami
What do you end up with when you combine “China” and the “internet?” You get a smoking-hot IPO. For example, Chinese search engine Baidu.com (BIDU), the Google of China, is up by 160% so far this year.
A total of 35 Chinese companies have gone public in the United States this year, raising $2.2 billion and creating a windfall of gigantic profits for many investors.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Consumers on a Shopping Spree … Five ETFs to Help You Profit / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
If you’re like most Americans, you know December as the “Season of Shopping.” So today I’ll give you some ideas on how you can make money to replace what you’ll spend this month.
Consumers lost some of their enthusiasm when the economy went south in 2008. But this year the madness is back!
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Buying Stocks Pullbacks to the 50-Day Average / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
One successful investing/trading strategy to consider for the New Year is buying leading stocks when they pullback to the 50-day moving average.
We recently featured OPEN and CMG on our watch list:
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Dell Compellent Deal Shows the Sky is the Limit for Cloud-Computing M&A / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
In an indication of how far cloud computing has come - and more importantly where it's headed - tech companies have committed some $5 billion to cloud-related mergers and acquisitions (M&A) since mid-April.
Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) on Monday made the latest move - snatching up data storage company Compellent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: CML) for $960 million in cash. The acquisition will help Dell expand its offerings of data-center products - cloud computing.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
U.S. Retailers Canary in the Coal Mine / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: James_Quinn
Some people have contested my statement that there are thousands more retail stores in the US today than there were in 2007. Yes, many mom and pop stores have gone out of business, but the big boys continued to expand in the face of reality. The mall based mega-retailers dominate the retail landscape in this country. Here is a partial list of the biggest retailers in the US and their store counts.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Buy these 8 Junior Gold Miners on Dips / Companies / Gold & Silver Stocks
By: Submissions
Michael Campbell writes: Michael Campbell: David could we just start and give the broad brush first of all where you see sort of that precious metals a complex. I’m talking now the bullion itself and then we’ll move to the stocks.
David Coffin: Basically I think right now the factors are consolidating after a long run. I try not to fix a date on that, but with January approaching it is profit taking time for a lot of people and institutions. We think you have to assume the consolidation for the metals continues into January.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Eurozone Forecast 2011, How to Profit From the Hidden "Good News" in Europe / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
If you wanted to describe how most of the European nations fared in 2010, you would do so quite easily by citing the old adage: "If it wasn't for bad luck, they'd have no luck at all."
Truth be told, Europe was in the news for most of 2010 - but for all the wrong reasons. A series of financial panics hit the weaker Eurozone countries hard, forcing draconian austerity measures in many countries and igniting concerns that the euro may not survive as a currency.
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