Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, July 13, 2009
New Upleg for Goldman Sachs / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) once again is pushing 150, and it looks like today's thrust started a new upleg in the aftermath of a month-long pullback from 151.17 to 135.23. If GS has started a new upleg, then tomorrow's earnings could well be a catalyst for upside continuation that commenced today with Meridith Whitney's upgrade ahead of the opening bell. A hurdle of the prior high of 151.17 will trigger a next optimal target of 155-157.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Nokia to Unveil its First Google-based Smartphone / Companies / Google
By: Pravda
Nokia will unveil its first smartphone on the base of Google Android in September of the current year, Lenta.ru website reports with reference to The Guardian. Nokia’s first Google Android-based device is to be announced at Nokia World conference. The technical details of the new phone are not known yet.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Comparing DELL to MSFT When Added to Goldman Buy List / Companies / Microsoft
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Friday, Goldman Sachs raised Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to its Conviction Buy List, which could have a meaningful impact on the technology sector, and possibly the overall market.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
This Company is About to Clean Up in China / Companies / China Stocks
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
You’ve heard a lot about the Cap and Trade bill working its way through Congress. I have no doubt that some variation of this Tax and Kill legislation will ultimately pass.
And somebody is going to make a bundle by helping companies deal with the new legislation. There may be several winners. One that I particularly like is a small pollution-control company operating in China.
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Saturday, July 04, 2009
British Telecom Offers Staff a Year Off Work at 25% of Pay / Companies / Corporate News
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The recession is forcing British Telecom, Britians largest telecom provider to offer some of its staff the option of taking a year off work at 25% of full time pay, as an alternative to further redundancies in an attempt to cut costs and ride out the recession which follows a heavy first quarter loss of £1.3 billion, with similar projected loss for the 2nd Quarter of 2009.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Listen to Citigroup Analysts at Your Own Peril / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Shedlock
Citigroup analysts appear to be a hopeless lot. Please consider this July 1, analyst recommendation: Citi tells clients to buy Bank of America.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Which Tek Stock is a Better Investment, Apple vs. RIMM / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: INO
A little over six weeks ago I produced a video on the relationship between Apple and RIMM.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Ford: Playing Its Last Hand? / Companies / US Auto's
By: Mike_Stathis
An article from the Huffington Post on June 24, 2009 claims that Ford is "secretly" in talks to sell Volvo.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
IKEA fed up with Russia's Bureaucracy / Companies / Russia
By: Pravda
Sweden’s Ikea intends to freeze new investment projects in Russia over bureaucratic problems. The problems with the opening of the huge Mega Mall in the city of Samara became the last straw: the company has not been able to open the complex for two years already, The Vedomosti newspaper wrote.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Kodak to Take Kodachrome Away / Companies / Corporate News
By: Mike_Shedlock
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Kodak to Take Kodachrome Away.
Kodachrome, the storied camera film that has documented historic events and everyday lives since the Great Depression, is about to fade into oblivion.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Filtered Equity Income Stock Growth Prospects / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
We are increasingly asked about low risk individual stocks that may be suitable for an equity income allocation within a portfolio. This is a general response to that question.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
How to Profit From TARP / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: A total of 10 U.S. banks have now repaid the preference share investments in them made by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), thus demonstrating that the government thinks they are sound. A number of others have yet to pay back that federal infusion.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Top List of Companies with Greatest Financial Strength / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
This list of companies selected for top financial strength characteristics could be valuable to do-it-yourself, conservative, risk averse individual stock or bond investors, as a starting place to begin looking for suitable opportunities.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Phoenix of Renewable Energy Out of the Ashes of General Motors / Companies / US Auto's
By: Global_Research
Dr. Ellen Brown writes: It may be prophetic that among the brands GM chose to kill was the Pontiac Firebird, a classic hot car of the 1960s sporting the fabled Phoenix on its hood. In mythology, the Phoenix was a colorful bird that incinerated itself in its nest, then rose from the ashes as its own offspring. GM too, says Michael Moore, could be reborn as something else. In a June 1 eulogy of sorts, he wrote:
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Government Subsidizes Corporate Failure and Penalizes Success / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Uncommon_Wisdom
Tony Sagami writes: Since the market topped in 2007, I’ve written over and over about the major causes of the implosion — the multi-billion-dollar trade deficits, the tanking U.S. dollar, the lax lending practices, and the Fed’s low interest rate policy.
All of these factors and more led to overpriced U.S. stocks and a massive U.S. real estate bubble that popped hard.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
How to Buy Banks Leaving Tax Payers with All the Risk / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: The financial Barbarians are at the gates of the U.S. banking sector.
“Regulatory arbitrage” – sometimes called “regulatory shopping” – has emerged as the favorite strategy for these Barbarians, otherwise known as private equity firms, to get around the federal rules that kept them from owning banks.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Lloyds TSB Sends Cheltenham & Gloucester into Banking Oblivion / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Lloyds TSB the bailed out mega-bank that was brought to the brink of bankruptcy as a consequence of the shot gun wedding with HBOS, has announced that it will be closing down all of the 160 branches of the 100 year old Cheltenham and Gloucester by November of this year resulting in some 1,500 job losses.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Stock Market Warning- Get Out of Higher Risk Stocks Now! / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: The stock market’s rally has been impressive. The major indexes are now up about 40 percent from their recent lows, give or take a few percentage points. And for anyone who scooped up more speculative shares on weakness, the profits could be even higher.
Personally, I don’t ever recommend purchasing shares of companies with shoddy business models, consistently unprofitable operations, poor track records of caring about their shareholders, etc.
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
FSA Clarifies UK Banks Stress Tests / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Submissions
FSA writes: The publication in the US of the results of bank stress tests has provoked considerable interest in the use of stress testing by authorities in other countries, in particular in Europe. Stress testing can and has been used in a variety of different ways, and the appropriate degree of disclosure varies according to the purposes of the tests.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Screening for Dividend Yielding, Growing, Rising Stocks / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Richard_Shaw
What do you get when you want yield that is growing along with sales and earnings over a period of years, less than sky high valuation, and evidence of a rising price pattern?
The answer today is not very many stocks, and not necessarily the most exciting names. Not every exploration finds gold. Some of the results of this search are interesting, but we aren’t crying eureka.
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