Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, June 27, 2011
Facebook, Twitter, From Tech Bubble to Tech Bubble, Dust to Dust / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Bill_Bonner
So far, this century has been a delight. From tech bubble to tech bubble in scarcely 10 years.
On our recent trip to China, all of a sudden we felt 10 years younger. For in the coffee bars of China’s futuristic cities were entrepreneurs, dreamers and lunatics who still thought it was 1999. A group of young techies filled us in: “We don’t worry about profitability. We can worry about that later. We want traffic. Because we know we can monetize the traffic on the stock market.” Here were people who still believed they could take eyeballs to the bank.
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Trader_Mark
The fall of MySpace over the past 3-4 years has been stunning in nature, probably only rivaled by that of Yahoo (YHOO) mid decade. Both were usurped by a competitor who has become a household name - in MySpace's case we are speaking of Facebook, while Yahoo was taken out by Google (GOOG). BusinessWeek's cover story details the rise and fall of MySpace who 4 years ago was the dominant social network.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Asian Gambling Hotspot That's Set to Overtake Las Vegas / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes: First it was Macau that leapfrogged Las Vegas as the No. 1 global gambling destination in 2006.
Now another Asian powerhouse is set to push Sin City down to third on the list of global gambling hotspots.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Why Facebook Subscribers Should Get a Piece of the IPO the Action / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes:
Mark Zuckerberg... you need to share the wealth from the Facebook IPO.
During a Wednesday morning appearance on the FoxBusiness "Varney & Co." program, Money Morning's Shah Gilani said the Facebook Inc. founder and CEO should reserve 20% of the potential $100 billion initial public offering (IPO) for some of the company's 600 million subscribers - since they're the folks who really made Zuckerberg the king of social networking (as well one of the youngest billionaires in history).
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Toyota Motor Corp. Won't Be Back on Track Any Time Soon / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Don't count on Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE ADR: TM) to regain its place as the leader in global auto sales any time soon.
Because even though the company is ahead of schedule as it looks to bounce back from the horrible wave of disasters that engulfed Japan in the spring, it now faces another roadblock in the strengthening yen.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
What the 200 Day Moving Average Could Mean For Leading Stocks / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
There are numerous leaders that have tagged the 200 day average and holding. This is typical in market corrections. What we’ll want to see is if these names can now go range bound and build all new bases over the next 3-6 months.
So lets take a look at a few examples of this from the past as to why we are interested in the 200 day moving average.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Stock Investors Don't Get Burned by the New Tech Bubble / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Is there still any doubt about whether or not we're seeing a new tech bubble?
LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) is down some more than 30% from since its initial public offering (IPO) and Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P), which had a strong debut just last week, has dropped 35%.
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Friday, June 17, 2011
Stock Projection Using Computer Aided Learning / Companies / Trading Systems
By: Submissions
William (Bill) Licata writes: This article is an introduction into independent research I’ve conducted into stock price forecasting using computer learning algorithms and stock historical data available from several websites on the internet. The algorithms have been programmed into C language and runs under windows requiring only a couple of inputs (in its simplest application).
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
U.S. Steel Near End of Bear Phase? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The euro is collapsing and taking US equities with it. Nonetheless, let's have a look at the pattern that is developing in U.S. Steel (NYSE: X).
The most salient aspect to the enclosed chart of X is the week-long, bottoming-type price action between 42.00 (roughly) and 44.00. This is occurring 35% beneath the Feb high and after a stair-step decline that has the requisite number of legs to be deemed complete.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Four Socially Responsible Investment Funds To Consider / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
I look around, and I'm appalled - and not just by the banking crises, financial follies, threats of sovereign-debt default or spikes in food or gasoline prices that dominate the daily headlines.
Those problems come and go. What bothers me is the almost-total abandonment of professional judgment and ethics in Washington and on Wall Street - and the absolute lack of urgency that these problems should be attacked and fixed, once and for all.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Investors Don't Get Fooled by Groupon IPO / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Groupon Inc. will try to get you to jump on its initial public offering (IPO) by touting its extreme growth and its profit potential - but don't believe it.
Even though Chicago-based Groupon, an e-commerce player that offers daily discounts to subscribers via e-mail, has exploded since it entered the online coupon world in 2008, that growth is threatened by the company's competition and mounting losses.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Exxon Oil Stock Under Pressure / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The big kahuna of integrated oils is looking very toppy and very heavy. As we speak, Exxon Mobil (XOM) is under pressure that is probing key support between 80.00 and 78.80, which if violated should trigger downside continuation towards a test of its sharply rising 200 DMA, now at 75.54.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Bank of America House of Cards on the Verge of Collapse / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes: Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is one of the largest banking complexes in the United States. But its strategy of growing through acquisitions has left the company terribly vulnerable to an economic downturn.
That's why it's time to "Sell" Bank of America Corp. (**).
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Low Risk High Reward Middle East Investments / Companies / Middle East
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
As I mentioned yesterday (Thursday) in Part One of this story about Middle East investments, instability makes investing in this tumultuous region fairly tricky. But that doesn't mean you ought to avoid it entirely.
After all, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its World Economic Outlook that the region's economy would expand at a 5.1% pace in 2011, outpacing the United States and Europe.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
A Brief View: Some Of Wall Street’s Big Players / Companies / Corporate News
By: LiveCharts
Today Wall Street celebrates an abrupt end to the declines across all markets. Mainly this was due to the increase in exports that were reported, however many commentators had stating it was due a bounce at some point. With that bounce in mind let’s take some time to review a few of our favorite big fish and their statistics.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, June 09, 2011
Investing in the Middle East: The Best Plays to Make / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
Periodic eruptions of violence and instability make investing in the Middle East fairly tricky. But that doesn't mean you ought to avoid the region entirely.
Indeed, investing in the Middle East can be extremely profitable, as the region currently is one of the world's bright spots for economic growth.
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
A Natural Gas Company Floating in Profits / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
David Fessler writes:
Australia, like America, is awash in natural gas. But Australia's gas isn't conveniently located under terra firma, near existing pipelines. We have that luxury and advantage.
Most of the gas Down Under is in giant underwater deposits, located more than 100 miles from Australia's shores. Developing some of its largest fields, far from any landmass, has been a problem without a solution... until now.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Goldman Subpoena, Investigation Add to Pressure on Bank Stock Prices / Companies / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Big bank stock prices, already suffering from an avalanche of difficulties, suffered another setback when news broke last Thursday that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) had received a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney for records relating to its role in collapse of the mortgage market.
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
The Death of Nuclear Power, Moves Investors Need to Make Now / Companies / Energy Resources
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Nuclear power was gaining a lot of momentum prior to the terrible disaster at Japan's Fukushima powerplant in March.
But since then, atomic energy has come under increased scrutiny and once again drawn the ire of environmentalists who were just warming up to its carbon-free emissions.
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Monday, June 06, 2011
U.S. Automakers Throttle Past Japan Quake Supply Chain Problems, While Others Stall / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
While Japan's March 11 earthquake did not damage the global supply chain as badly as initially feared, the world's automakers - particularly those based in Japan - have faced a tougher road to recovery.
Thanks to a smaller reliance on Japanese parts and a quick response to the crisis, U.S. automakers have weathered the disruption to their supply chains well, with minimal impact on production.
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