Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Thursday, April 07, 2011
A Crack in the Great Wall-Mart: China Inflation, Watch Out for Rising Prices / Companies / Inflation
By: Jason_Kaspar
In a widely covered interview last Wednesday, the CEO of Wal-Mart, Bill Simon, warned that “U.S. consumers face ‘serious’ inflation in the months ahead for clothing, food and other products.” He noted: "We're seeing cost increases starting to come through at a pretty rapid rate." Given his purview, I accept Simon’s opinion as positively disconcerting, and if inflation is to hit home in the heartland of America, it will certainly begin at Wal-Mart.
Monday, April 04, 2011
Toyota Motor Corp Needs to Rebuild from Supply Chain Collapse / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Jack Barnes writes:
Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE ADR: TM), one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world, has offered strong periods of growth from which investors have profited.
However, today it is a "Sell" - and is likely headed toward a long-term redevelopment of its core company structure (**).
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Sunday, April 03, 2011
Buffettgate: Berkshire Hathaway's Problem at the Top / Companies / Corporate News
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Suppose I took a call from a banker-friend at Citigroup on December 13, 2010, and he informed me that he had just observed other Citi bankers meeting with David Sokol, an executive of Berkshire Hathaway and possible successor to Warren Buffett, the CEO. He discovered Sokol expressed interest in a company called Lubrizol and requested a meeting with the company's president.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Don't Let 'Zombie Banks' Terrorize Your Portfolio / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
In February 2009, I examined the top 12 U.S. banks and gave a generally bullish outlook for them, pointing out that at a fraction of net asset value, their shares were mostly good bargains.
Only a few banks had longer-term problems because of the poor qualities of their loan portfolios. I termed those "zombie banks," and warned that they might not emerge from public ownership.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
U.S. Companies Spending Record-High Cash Piles On Everything But Jobs / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
U.S. companies have started to spend their record high piles of cash, but most won't be using it to boost hiring.
Since the credit crisis, U.S. companies have collected about $940 billion in cash. Per-share profit surged 36% in 2010, the biggest jump since 1988, and companies cut capital expenditures 26% in 2009 to compensate for the ailing economy.
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Saturday, March 26, 2011
Completed Correction for Silver Wheaton (SLW) ? / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Silver Wheaton (SLW) plunged beneath yesterday's low at 43.38 to 43.19 this morning, but did not follow through to the downside. Instead, it has pivoted to the upside into a strong rally to 44.73 so far.
This is powerful initial evidence that the decline from yesterday's high at 46.00 into this morning's low at 43.19 (-6.2%) represented a completed correction within the current upleg from the 37.85 low on March 16.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Why Stock Exchanges Are Such Hot Properties / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
Stock exchange mergers are all the rage these days.
The NYSE Euronext Group (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse AG are attempting to merge and the London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc. are also getting together.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Japan Disaster Means Investors Should Beware of Insurance Stocks / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
The catastrophe-modeling company AIR Worldwide Corp. has estimated that insurance company losses from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami could reach $35 billion.
That has insurance analysts feeling bullish about insurance stocks: In their view, losses are good because it enables the insurers to ratchet up their premiums.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Corporate Tax Holiday Could Put $1.2 Trillion in Shareholders' Pockets / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Lawmakers in Washington are mulling a one-time corporate tax holiday on foreign earnings that could provide a bonanza to many U.S. multinational corporations.
If enacted, the holiday would allow U.S. corporations to bring home $1.2 trillion in profits they have stashed overseas at a much lower rate - about 5% as compared to the usual 35%.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Is it time to Buy Google? / Companies / Google
By: readtheticker
Some time ago I caught Reggie Middleton of BoomBustBlog.com on TV saying he was very bullish on Google (GOOG). The prime reason behind this was Google dominant positioning within the mobile advertising market via it acquisition of Admob (Androids mobile OS). Ok we believe him, but we required GOOG to sell off to let us in at a decent price. We have a sell off, but should we buy.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
The Japanese Earthquake and Insurance Companies / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
With estimates for insured losses from Japan's March 11 earthquake ranging from $12 billion to $35 billion, many investors have lost faith in reinsurance companies that have exposure to the stricken island nation.
But despite having to make some significant payouts, reinsurers ultimately may prosper from the disaster.
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Saturday, March 19, 2011
Excellent Investment Opportunities In Nuclear And Uranium Stocks / Companies / Uranium
By: Jeb_Handwerger
There's an old saying in investing: Buy a winter coat in the summer. Uranium stocks are certainly out of season and deeply discounted. Media coverage has shifted from the destruction of the earthquake to the negative aspects of nuclear energy. Nothing puts fear into the public more than green men in radiation outfits. The media has taken this opportunity to capitalize on the fear of the masses. This has resulted in devastating sell-offs in the uranium mining sector such as in uranium (Global X Uranium ETF (URA)) and nuclear energy ETFs (Market Vectors Uranium+Nuclear Energy ETF (NLR)), which has seen its most severe decline in its short history.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Japan Quake Stock Market Crash, Is it Time to Buy? / Companies / Japanese Stock Market
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
With a magnitude of 9.0, the March 11 earthquake in Japan was the worst in that country's 300-year history and was the fifth-worst the world has ever seen.
That trembler, coupled with the devastating tsunami that followed, ignited a flurry of fears and caused a two-day sell-off that sent Japanese stocks down 17%. The sell-off wiped out more than $650 billion in shareholder wealth.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Healthcare Stocks Taking Off as Tech Companies Tumble / Companies / Healthcare Sector
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman wrtes:
Technology and commodities companies have been among the hardest hit over the past few weeks, as major players move from cyclical stocks to more defensive areas like healthcare stocks.
In the technology sector, the worst of the sell-off has been in the optical stocks. That's a shame because many of these stocks finally looked like they were on the verge of emerging from long bear markets. But the optical stocks - so popular during the tech bubble - were kicked in the head whenFinisar Corp.(Nasdaq: FNSR) issued a very weak outlook for its April quarter.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Always a Bull Market Somewhere - Today it is Solar / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: Trader_Mark
Except for the darkest of days, the speculator class can find a theme and run up stocks in that sector. Today the theme is "away with nucelar, and into solar!" Shaw Group (SHAW) which is the infrastructure company most affiliated with nuclear is being bludgeoned to the tune of a 20% loss (higher earlier today), and Cameco (CCJ) which is a uranium play is down 16%. Meanwhile, hile solars of all stripes are running to the moon as a wave of solar projects surely will begin in earnest in weeks. ;) Boo yah hot money....
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Facebook Valued More than Russia's Largest Oil Company / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Pravda
Investment firm General Atlantic is going to purchase 0.1 percent of world's largest social network Facebook. The deal may push the price of the network up to $65 billion, but the transaction requires approval from Facebook at first. The company has been showing an impressive growth during the recent years. In the middle of 2009, the deals with its shares were concluded on the base of the company cost of $10 billion.
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Bank of America (BAC) Coil Price Pattern May Resolve to Upside / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The most salient feature of the big picture pattern in Bank of America (BAC) is the triangle or coil pattern that has been developing since the Jan 14 high at 15.31, which has the right look of completion now.
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Amazon Threatened by Sales Tax Dilemma / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: If state legislatures across the country get their way, Amazon.com Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AMZN) 16-year holiday from collecting sales tax will come to an end - with unpleasant consequences for the online retailer.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 1992 established that only retailers with a physical presence (called "nexus") in a given state are required to collect a sales tax from their patrons. But with state budgets being squeezed, more and more legislatures are trying to rope in online retailers - especially Amazon, a company that was specifically engineered to profit from the Supreme Court's ruling.
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Stock Charts, First Thrust Down, Snapback Rally, Bombs Away / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
One of the best change in trend patterns is the First Thrust Down short-sell pattern. The saying goes:
“First Thrust Down, Snapback Rally, Bombs Away”
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Amazon Stock Basing Pattern / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My near-term technical work in Amazon (AMZN) argues that all of the recent action is carving out a base-like formation that represents the ending phase of a downleg off of the 191.40 high established on Feb 14.
If such a scenario is unfolding, then AMZN will have to hurdle key resistance between 168.00 and 169.75 to trigger near-term buy signals that will project target zones of 172-173 and then 176-177.
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