Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, October 01, 2009
The Biggest Banking Heist in World History: Washington Mutual / Companies / Market Manipulation
This September 25th 2009 marked the one-year anniversary of Washington Mutual’s seizure, by the Office of Thrift Supervision (supposedly) as a result of insolvency (supposedly).
Last year, on October 7th, I sent the SEC a (rushed) formal complaint highlighting my concerns regarding insider trading and other illegal activities associated with WaMu.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Wall Street Is About To Make A Fortune From Rigging the Market and So Can You / Companies / Renewable Energy
Stock stories just don’t get better than this.
What if I told you I’ve found a relatively small company shaping up to be one of the future leaders in the lithium/hybrid car battery industry?
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Russian Oil and Gas Industry Surprises Analysts / Companies / Oil Companies
Renaissance Capital oil and gas analyst Alex Burgansky, who ranks at the top of the list of sector analysts in Russia, shares his insights on the industry and its issues in this exclusive Energy Report interview. Russia's 2009 oil production is up a bit—contrary to the collapse many commentators had predicted—but issues remain. Alex expresses some worries that Russia's oil production will decline, for instance, unless its tax regime stops discouraging investment that taps into the strong reserve base in core producing areas. He also talks how Europe's infrastructure affects the gas it imports from Russia and other parts of the world.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
U.S. Automaker Ford (F) Poised to Run Higher / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
For the past seven weeks, Ford (NYSE: F) has been correcting its prior upmove from the July pivot low at 5.24 to the August high at 8.86. On Monday the stock traded down to 6.75 prior to recovering to the 7.00/10 area. In pre-open action today, F was trading up at 7.21/22, largely due to a very favorable article in today’s WSJ entitled, “Ford Makes Push to Boost Asian Presence.”
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
U.S. Trade Spat with China Unlikely to Escalates Into Trade War / Companies / Global Economy
Jason Simpkins writes: Shortly after U.S. President Barack Obama announced hefty import duties on Chinese-made tires, China's Ministry of Commerce over the weekend said it would explore possible sanctions against U.S. automobile and chicken imports.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Investors Connecting With China's Profit Pathway / Companies / China Economy
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: XIAN, People’s Republic of China – During the politically charged period in the late 1980s and early 1990s – when China believed it really needed friends – a small number of Western companies ignored the controversies and refused to abandon the market.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
How to Profit from Three Desperate Companies / Companies / Investing 2009
I heard an interesting story last week from the CFO of an insurance company I follow...
This company had insured a restaurant in Miami last year. It's a modest restaurant with a property value of $1.5 million. It's located six miles from the coast, which makes it "zone one" in terms of hurricane risk.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Russian Oligarchs Escape from Russia Leaving Ruined Companies Behind / Companies / Russia
As soon as air castles built on oil money start crumbling, Russian businessmen run to escape behind the thick walls of their oversea mansions. There they are unreachable for their creditors and police authorities. Unfortunately, debunking of mediocre management only results in the redistribution of property and does not lead to punishment.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Amazon, Breakout Stock Treasure Hunt / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Trading Approach: Identifying fundamentally stellar stocks poised technically to breakout for big profits.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Banking Stocks Index BKX Going Down, Shorting Opportunity XLF ? / Companies / Banking Stocks
On September 4th, Wilbur Ross said that he expected 500 more banks to fail between then and the end of 2010.
This morning, economist Nouriel Roubini told CNBC that he was predicting that "more than 1,000 financial institutions could fail before all is said and done".
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) Is Poised to Top Earnings Estimates Over the Next Two Quarters / Companies / Corporate Earnings
Horacio Marquez writes: Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) is a cyclical company. That is, its stock does extremely well when the economy is ready to accelerate, and does poorly when the economy decelerates. So it's no wonder that last year the stock fell more than 50% from the record-high of $27.78 a share it reached December 2007. However, the company has rallied more than 50% from its Feb. 23 low of $12.08 a share. It closed Friday at $19.64.
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Sunday, September 06, 2009
Google Granted Patent for Home Page / Companies / Corporate News
Google the arch sharer of everyone else's intellectual property is not so keen to share its own ideas as a patent of its home page was approved on 1st of September.
The patent filed 5 years ago specifically covers the 2004 home page layout.
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Sunday, September 06, 2009
One Sixth Of All Construction Loans In Trouble / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
The New York Times has an interesting article about construction loans that Inquiring minds will want to read. Please consider Construction Loans Falter, a Bad Omen for Banks.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Global Financial Crisis Catalysts Stock Prices Triple this Month / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
William Patalon III writes: Three of the financial institutions that were key catalysts to the global financial crisis and that owe the federal government billions of dollars as a direct result of those problems have seen their shares triple in price so far this month.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Why NRG Energy Inc is the Energy Sector's "Triple-Threat" Profit Play / Companies / Energy Resources
Horacio Marquez writes: If NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) were an athletic prospect, scouts would rate it as a triple threat. That's because the Princeton-based wholesale power generator is involved in all three of the key energy sources of the future: Solar, wind and nuclear.
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Credit Crisis Bailouts Mean Survival Of The Biggest Banks / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
On account of Fed sponsorship, Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Trade Technology Stocks with ETFs / Companies / Tech Stocks
Ron Rowland writes: For many investors, tech stocks are the only stocks. Everything else is “the old economy.” Technology is where it’s at.
I spent a big part of my early career at IBM — the original tech stock — so I know the sector well. Not to mention that I live in the “Silicon Hills” of Austin, home to hundreds of technology start-ups.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Critically Under-Capitalized Banks Direct Result of "Wonderful Chain of Stupidity" / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
Last week the Wall Street Journal ran an article about how trust securities sank Guaranty Financial Group and six family-controlled Illinois banks in early July.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
The Fraud Of The Federal Reserve Bank / Companies / Banking Stocks
Far too many look for easy ways to get rich quick these days, only to be disappointed or shocked when reality bites in the end. Because of this there are no shortage of Ponzi like schemes characterizing the financial landscape, one by one being found out to be frauds, with Bernie Madoff at the top of the list in history thus far. The public was shocked when they discovered the size of the Ponzi scheme he was able to put together and perpetuate for so long, as usually, operations like this fall apart much quicker.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Explosive Stock Market Alert, Where and What to Buy? / Companies / Investing 2009
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