Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Tuesday, May 05, 2009
GM Shareholders Wipeout as Option Players Hold Gigantic Risk Reward "Put" Lottery Tickets / Companies / Options & Warrants
GM is preparing to do a 100-1 reverse split after issuing up to 60 billion new shares to pay down debt.
Please consider GM details plans to wipe out current shareholders.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Intel Chart Breakout to Above $16 Per Share / Companies / Tech Stocks
On March 13, we wrote how a rally in Intel's stock would lead us to believe things were getting "less bad" in the world.
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Don't Get Suckered into Swine Flu Biotech Stock Trades / Companies / Global Pandemic
Rob Fannon writes: Every time a news story about SARS, avian influenza – and now swine flu – hits the headlines, a handful of biotech executives swap high-fives.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
General Motors Becomes Government Motors: Only the Beginning / Companies / US Auto's
William L. Anderson writes: The news that Chrysler is going to file for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a small dose of reality in a cycle of Alice-in-Wonderland reports that have been filtering from Washington over the "restructuring" of the American automobile industry. Unfortunately, even a real-live bankruptcy is going to be so politicized that the outcome will be pretty much what the Obama administration has been demanding all along: a government-union partnership of domestic automobile companies.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
McDonald's: From Stock Market Leader To Market Laggard / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Let's flashback to January and February, 2009 when the market was in a swoon and McDonald's Corporation (symbol: MCD) was the market leader. The CEO was on CNBC, and Jim Cramer was doing his (usual) "buy, buy, buy" thing. For the cheerleaders at CNBC, McDonald's was that go to stock - the beacon of light in a sea of ugliness.
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Friday, May 01, 2009
Don’t cry for them - Exxon / Companies / Oil Companies
Big oil companies like Exxon Mobil and Marathon Oil are likely among those most appreciative that sectors of the economy, like the car industry, have dominated news in recent months. While the Big 3 automakers have come under fire for poor corporate management, credit problems, and use of bailout funds, Exxon and others are basking in the glow of relative silence.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Three Strongest "Bank Stress Test" Banks / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
Martin Hutchinson writes: wait for the U.S. Treasury Department’s bank stress test when Money Morning can highlight the four secrets that will let you separate the winners from the losers in the U.S. banking system?
Call it the “Money Morning Bank Stress Test.”
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Liquidate General Motors / Companies / US Auto's
General Motors and the U.S. government have several characteristics in common. Both are unwieldy behemoths which have become debt-laden, wealth-destruction machines. Their workers are overpaid and under-productive (for Federal employees, counterproductive is a more apt description). Foolish creditors have kept these monstrosities afloat and will eventually end up regretting ever having lent these debt addicts a dime. Yet, each one is a public-relations machine preaching to the citizenry that it is indispensable.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
i-cloud The Worlds First Free Online Computer for Everyone / Companies / Tech Stocks
The world’s first absolutely free online computer was launched on April 23, 2009. Swedish company Xcerion announced the launch of the unique system icloud in New York.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Capitalizing on Swine Flu, Winners as well as Losers / Companies / Global Pandemic
As the world gears up once again for a flu pandemic that may or may not arrive (it actually seems possible this time), we might want to remember some of the lessons of the last flu scare. One of these is that there are winners as well as losers in every high-profile outbreak of infectious disease. First and foremost among them, of course, is Big Pharma, which can always be counted on to have its hand out wherever human misery presents an opportunity to rake in some cash.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sirius Satellite Radio: Seriously Down and Going Lower / Companies / Corporate News
It’s a bit funny to see that the SIRI stock pumpers are still at it, despite facing nothing but absolute humiliation after making ridiculous claims and clinging onto their delusions of grandeur as the stock collapsed by over 95% after merger with XM.
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
E-tailers Share Mixed Corporate Earnings Reports / Companies / Corporate Earnings
While earnings in the credit sector have garnered much of the attention the last couple weeks, there have been several important earnings announcements from some big name online-only retailers. The results so far have been mixed with some companies apparently weathering the economic storm, and others suffering along with brick-and-mortars stores and multi-channel retailers during the downturn.
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Bank of America’s Ken Lewis: Another Scapegoat / Companies / Banking Stocks
The news of Andrew Cuomo's letter to Congress revealing that former Treasury Secretary Paulson threatened to fire Bank of America's CEO Ken Lewis and oust the board if they tried to block the Merrill Lynch deal is not at all shocking to me. Nor is it a surprise that Bernanke “requested” this from Paulson. If you’ve been reading my articles, you know that the Treasury Department is the subordinate of the Federal Reserve.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 25, 2009
An Inside Look at One of the Biggest Scams in America / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
Doug Casey writes: I don't feel I've said enough about the class of professional American corporate executives in the past, partly because it's impossible to say enough about this generally despicable class of empty suits.
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Are Investment Banks Obsolete? / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
Martin Hutchinson writes: It’s time to restructure the wheeler-dealers of Wall Street – the U.S. investment banks. Just over a year ago, there were five major investment banks. Now there are only two – or none, depending on how you define the term.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Bank Sector Positive Earnings Reports- It’s Time to Face the Facts, Part 1 / Companies / Banking Stocks
For anyone who believes any positive earnings reports from the banks, you probably also believe there will be a real recovery in the economy. These “earnings” are even less credible than those reported by the banks during the height of their Ponzi scheme in 2007. Earnings? From the banks? It’s laughable. Let me now state what I consider to be facts related to the bigger picture of this economic fiasco.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Adsense Earnings Down Sharply 2009, Google Cuts Payout to Publishers / Companies / Google
Many website publishers across the internet as illustrated by many articles and several hundred forum postings are experiencing a cut in adsense earnings of between 50% and 75% both as a consquence of cuts in advertising spend in the wake of the global recession and Googles attempts to bolster its own bottom line at the expense of publishers.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Citigroup Stock Price Spread Market Manipulation Conspiracy or Free Market? / Companies / Market Manipulation
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: BEIJING, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA - From my vantage point here in Beijing this week, I find my mind drifting this morning closer to home and specifically back to Citigroup Inc. (C).
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Monday, April 20, 2009
$400 Billion More Bank Losses On the Way / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
Another day, another glowing financial headline. Here is the ridiculous headline of the day: Bank of America posts first-quarter profit, surpasses view.
Read full article... Read full article...Bank of America Corp. posted strong first quarter results today, as higher revenue from the purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co. help offset a surge in credit costs.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Rising ETFs and Stocks > 200-day Av / Companies / Investing 2009
In prior ETF and stock screens, we did computerized quantitative filtering of the 183 largest ETFs and the 8000+ largest US listed stocks to find those with attractive price patterns using the close, the 20-day average and the 50-day average. Now that so many stocks have passed their 200-day average, we have added one more criterion (close > 200-day average) to the original criteria that searched for short-term upward slant to price patterns.Read full article... Read full article...