Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Friday, December 10, 2010
AIG to Borrow from Treasury as Part of Exit Plan / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
The U.S. government and American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) on Wednesday announced a deal to accelerate repayment of taxpayer dollars and clear the road for the company to reclaim its independence.
Terms of the arrangement, which were outlined in September, call for the company to borrow funds from the Treasury Department to repay the remainder of its debt owed to the Federal Reserve, leaving the Treasury holding the bulk of the beleaguered company's common stock.
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Banking Sector Financial Crisis 2011, The Real Reason Why the Fed May Go For QE3 / Companies / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
Ben Bernanke has a secret. And it's a secret that very likely terrifies him and his policymaking brethren at the U.S. Federal Reserve.
That secret has to do with his latest round of "quantitative easing," a liquidity-push known as "QE2."
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
The Hidden Gem of Asia’s Android Smartphone Boom / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Tony_Sagami
It’s true. You have to be smart to use a smartphone. It is also true that my smartphone is a lot smarter than I am because I’ve yet to figure out how to use all of its bells and whistles.
Smartphones are the newest generation of mobile phones that can do a lot more than simply make phone calls and send/receive text messages. Besides offering advanced computing ability and connectivity, smartphones play music, take pictures, surf the internet, send/receive email, voice dial, have GPS services, synchronize with your PC, and have word processing and video game applications.
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
Follow the Trend with Small-Cap Growth ETFs / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
With exchange traded funds (ETFs), global stock markets can be sliced and diced in hundreds of different ways. You can invest by country, by geographic region, by industry sector, and by various combinations of all these.
Another way to look at the picture is by company style. Some stocks are more tilted toward growth and others toward value.
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
Asia's Surging Economic Growth Pushes Global IPO Market to Record High and Continue in 2011 / Companies / Emerging Markets
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Despite market volatility and a shaky economic recovery, the global initial public offering (IPO) market for 2010 is on track to hit a record high – and 2011 is poised to continue the hot streak.
A study by accounting group Ernst & Young yesterday (Wednesday) showed that funds raised through global IPOs are expected to surpass $300 billion in 2010, topping the 2007 record of $295 billion. IPOs in the first 11 months of the year collected $255.3 billion in 1,199 deals.
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
Russian Oil and Gas Sector Headed for Major Shakeup / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Money_Morning
Kent Moors, Ph.D. writes:
SURGUT CITY, Central Russia – Welcome to Surgut City, about 1,325 miles east of Moscow in the Surgut district, which in turn is the primary area of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region (KMAR).
I am here at the request of the Russian Ministry of Energy, to sit as an outside member on a task force reviewing production options for the next five years.
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
High Dividend Yield and Investor Shield Demand Underpinning MLPs / Companies / Dividends
By: The_Energy_Report
Master limited partnership (MLP) yields are down due to unprecedented investment demand in the space and the bullish distribution growth outlook, according to Raymond James Analyst Kevin Smith. Focusing on upstream MLPs, he says "consolidation is sure to continue." In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Kevin talks about one MLP he rates a strong buy, as well as some others with positive outlooks.
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Recovery Upleg for Cisco Tech Stock / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The most salient feature of the enclosed 4-hour chart of Cisco (CSCO) is the series of lower-lows from mid-November at 19.34 into last Friday at 19.00, which were not confirmed by my 4-hour RSI (momentum) gauge.
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Sunday, December 05, 2010
How You Can Profit From the Return of the American Consumer / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Investment_U
David Fessler writes: It didn’t take a genius to see how the situation would unfold…
Towards the end of 2009, with the U.S. economy mired in a deep recession, hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs, and many consumers counting the cost of excessive spending, the shift began.
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Sunday, December 05, 2010
The Best ETF for Your Portfolio / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: Jared_Levy
As a kid, some of my fondest winter memories were driving through the different neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia where I grew up admiring all of the ornate holiday light displays. Of course, being a geek at an early age, I always wondered what their electric bills looked like and how rich someone had to be to essentially fire up 10,000 small lamps every night for six to 12 hours.
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Start of New Upleg for AMAT / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My intermediate-term work on Applied Materials (AMAT) indicates that the Aug 31 low at 10.27 ended the correction of the upleg from the Nov 21, 2008 low at 7.80 to the Jan 11, 2010 high at 14.94. At that time, a new upleg commenced that hit its first high on Nov 9 at 13.08.
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Friday, December 03, 2010
ETF Stock Market Sectors Investing for 2011 / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Chris_Ciovacco
In a recent Bloomberg article, S&P 500 to Defy ‘New Normal’ and Rally, money manager Brian Barish of Cambiar Investors made a few important comments relative to asset allocation:
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Fed Data Shows Foreign Banks and Hedge Funds Huge Beneficiaries of Tax Payer Bailouts / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Washingtons_Blog
Fed Data Shows Foreign Banks Huge Beneficiaries of Emergency Lending Programs, Hedge Funds, McDonald’s, Harley-Davidson and Others Also Bailed Out
Under orders from Congress pursuant to the Dodd-Frank financial legislation, the Fed has finally released details of its emergency lending starting in 2007.
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Thursday, December 02, 2010
Investors Alert, Does Your ETF Own Derivatives? / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Ron_Rowland
What’s in your exchange traded fund (ETF)? The obvious answer is “stocks” if it is a stock ETF, and “bonds” if it is a bond ETF. That’s not always the case, though.
Some ETFs use derivative instruments like futures, options, and swaps. So is there any reason to worry?
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
New Upleg for Newmont Mining (NEM) / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The form exhibited by the decline in Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) from its September 22 high at 65.50 into Monday's low at 57.31 has the right look of a completed correction into the area of the sharply rising 200-day moving average (57.18) amidst a glaring positive momentum (RSI) divergence.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
U.S. Companies That “Get” China’s Consumer Boom / Companies / China Stocks
By: Tony_Sagami
I did a little shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend, but everything I bought — a few electronic doodads, video games and clothes — was over the internet.
Three years ago I made the mistake of standing in line with a bunch of other shopping diehards at Best Buy at 5:00 a.m. Let me tell you, standing in a line in late November in Montana is something I’ll never do again.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Stocks Insider Selling, What Does It Really Mean? / Companies / Market Manipulation
By: Dudley_Baker
Resource shares have risen substantially in price over the last many months and it is not unusual to see insiders reporting substantial sells and taking some profits. If you see insider selling in a company that you own what should you do?
Corporate insiders would be defined as officers, directors and 10% plus shareholders of a company. They are a group that investors love to love and love to hate.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010
M&A Set to Accelerate in 2011 After a Late November Surge / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
A flurry of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in late November could presage the biggest surge in deals since the economy tanked three years ago.
In just the last week, nearly $25 billion in M&A deals were announced. BP PLC's (NYSE ADR: BP) sale of its majority stake in Pan American Energy, which went for $7.1 billion, was at the top of the list. With that sale, BP will have secured about $21 billion of the $30 billion it hoped to raise from asset sales to help cover damages from its oil spill disaster.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Uranium Price Hits 2 Year High, URZ Doubles in a Month / Companies / Uranium
By: Jeb_Handwerger
In 1883, an historic cataclysm of 10 days that shook the world and vaporized Krakatoa, an island between Java and Sumatra. An umbrella of ash rose 50 miles high and sent sonic reverberations 7 times around the world. Deaths numbered 120,000. Scientists of that time were awed by the magnitude of nature’s forces that were being unleashed. They speculated that one day ways would be found to harness this energy.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Charts Analysis Focus on U.S. Auto Makers, Ford, Toyota and Honda / Companies / US Auto's
By: Mike_Paulenoff
In our Webinar last night we reviewed some of the automakers, beginning with Ford (F), which is a beautiful chart.
Since the beginning of last year Ford has emerged out of the bottom of a head and shoulders pattern that has taken it from around 1 1/2 to 17 1/2. Would I buy it here (Monday’s close at 16.06)?
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