Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
It's Time For Shareholders to Squeeze Greedy Wall Street Bank Bonuses / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Wall Street bonuses are back in the news again, as the Obama administration scores cheap political points by bashing bankers.
Wall Street's investment-banking houses correctly claim that they are paying out a much-lower-than-usual percentage of their profits in the form of bonuses - in some cases, less than 50%.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Let The Corporate Earnings Season Begin... / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Jack_Steiman
We've had some good earnings reports prior to this evening but when Alcoa Inc. (AA) reports, that's the official kick off to the earnings season. There have been some great reports and some not so great reports thus far but all in all it has been pretty good. Of course, they're good based on lowered expectations but we have to adjust to how the market sees things, not how our hearts and minds see them.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Determining Oil and Gas Company Valuations / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Keith_Schaefer
How do valuations get set for oil and gas companies? I ask because I’m seeing very fast-rising valuations in the junior and intermediate oil sector that I cover. I have seen junior oil producers valued at $200,000 per flowing barrel recently – more than triple the peer group average.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Commodities and Stock Index ETF Trading, Working A Pivot Point Stop / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Bill_West
Hello Everybody
Trade Actions: Buy RJA ( Agriculture Commodities ) at 8 or better on a Limit Order Buy SBB ( Short SP 600 ) at 38.4 on a Buy Stop Buy PHO ( Water ) at 17.5 or Better on a Limit Order
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
The Utica, An Emerging Canadian Shale Gas Play / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Richard_Mills
Shale gas is natural gas that has been generated and trapped within the natural pores and fractures of shale. This natural gas has been accumulating because of the breakdown of high levels of organic carbon or kerogen within the shale. The right temperature, pressure and a lot of time - over millions of years - is needed to produce gas. Shale plays can hold enormous amounts of gas and once production has been stabilized gas wells from shales tend to have low decline rates and long production lives.
Friday, January 08, 2010
New Recovery High for Caterpillar CAT / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) just hit a new recovery high of 60.00 off of its Dec low at 55.40 and appears poised to continue higher to confront the Oct-Jan resistance line at 60.40 next. The resistance line is the next challenge for the bulls as they look to thrust CAT out of a three-month, high-level consolidation period, which projects upside continuation to 64.00-65.00 next. At this juncture, only a decline that breaks and sustains beneath 58.50 will delay the timing of the anticipated upside breakout.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
Which Financial Stocks ETF Is Best For You? / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Richard_Shaw
If you chose to supplement your sector-diversified core US equities stock holdings with a diversified financial stocks ETF, which one is best for you?
There are eight possibilities, four of which work for many investors, but only 2 (maybe 3) or 1 (maybe 2) of which work for large accounts. The fund that works for just about any account under $250 million is XLF. The other three funds are VFH, IYG and maybe IXG for some account. The four funds have more favorable profiles considering these three attributes in combination:
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Buffett Reminds Wall Street That Shareholders Come First / Companies / Corporate News
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: A decade ago, investing guru Warren Buffett helped torpedo a $15.3 billion Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) bid for Quaker Oats Cos., arguing that the terms were lousy and the proposed price way too high.
Thursday, January 07, 2010
The Biggest Financial Deception and Scam of the Decade / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Jeff_Clark
Enron? Bear Stearns? Bernie Madoff? They're all big stories about big losses and have hurt a lot of employees and investors. But none come close to getting my vote for the decade's most dastardly deception...
First came Enron, with $65.5 billion in assets, going belly-up and becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history at that time. Chairman Kenneth Lay said that Enron's decision to file bankruptcy would "stabilize the company," but over the next five years the company was completely liquidated. The stock went from a high of $84.63 in December 2000 to a whopping 26¢ one year later.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Dividend Reinvestment and Compounding Interest / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Nilus_Mattive
When we were first planning our trip to India, my wife — and all her family members — insisted that I make an effort to go see the Taj Mahal.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Junior Oil Buyout Validates all Cardium Players-Valuations Moving Higher / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Keith_Schaefer
Junior oil producers with land packages in the Cardium formation are jumping up today after Berens Energy (BEN-TSX) was bought out today by Petrobakken for $2.70 a share. Berens’ stock price had moved up from 50 cents to $2 over the last six months as its Cardium land position became more widely known.
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
ConAgra Foods (CAG) Food Producer Stock Positioned for a Boost! / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Jeff_Neal
Trading Approach
Identifying fundamentally stellar stocks poised technically to breakout for big profits.
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Monday, January 04, 2010
New Upleg for General Electric GE / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
My work continues to indicate that all of the action in General Electric (GE) off of its 12/04 high at 16.49 into Thursday’s low at 15.09 represents a correction of the prior advance from 14.15 (11/4) to 16.49 (12/4). Today’s powerful advance argues strongly that the corrective period is over and that GE has pivoted into a new upleg, which if accurate means that 1) the stock should head for a retest of 16.49 on the way to 18.00 and 2) that prices should NOT break below 15.09 again anytime soon.
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Friday, January 01, 2010
Which Materials ETF Investing 2010 / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Richard_Shaw
If you chose to supplement your sector-diversified core US equities stock holdings with a diversified materials stocks ETF, which one is best for you?
There are nine possibilities, of which three, and maybe four, make sense at this time for our purposes and possibly for yours. Those exchange-traded funds are XLB, IYM, VAW and maybe MXI. They have more favorable profiles considering these three attributes:
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Falling Dollar to Benefit Foreign Dividend Stocks During 2010 / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Nilus_Mattive
While a lot of folks were spending December 25 opening presents, my family and I were hurriedly packing our bags and running off to the airport.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Bullish Consolidation for JP Morgan / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Paulenoff
JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) has been treading water for the past few sessions, and just may continue to do so into Thursday's year-end close. That notwithstanding, the pattern suggests strongly that another upleg is approaching in the upcoming hours/days. For the past week all of the action in JPM appears to have taken the form of a bullish consolidation period in the aftermath of the recent upleg from 40.03 to 42.24. Let’s notice that the consolidation has found resistance just above 42.00 while support resides around 41.50.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
BBD Emerging Market Bank Poised for Huge Growth During 2010 / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Jeff_Neal
Trading Approach -
Identifying fundamentally stellar stocks poised technically to breakout for big profits.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
American Capital Agency Corp Dynamic Dividend Stock Investing / Companies / Dividends
By: Jay_DeVincentis
Our indicators are calling for a top to come as early as tomorrow. However, we’ll still recommend a stock a week as good stocks will perform better than the market.
Friday, December 25, 2009
Response to Goldman Sachs Expose / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Janet_Tavakoli
The New York Times published a Christmas Eve expose of Goldman Sachs’s so-called “Abacus” synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). They were created with credit derivatives instead of cash securities. Goldman used credit derivatives to create short bets that gain in value when CDOs lose value. Goldman did this for both protection and profit and marketed the idea to hedge funds.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
The Top Five Natural Gas Companies to Watch During 2010 / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
Kent Moors, Ph.D writes: NEW YORK - I've briefed Wall Street before. This time, however, the 57th floor conference room is packed. Some heavy hitters invited me to explain why natural gas is the upcoming energy play.
By the size of the crowd, it seems the word is getting around.