Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Opportunity Knocks For Mobile Computing Stocks / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: Stocks swung from the rafters over the past week with a sense of drama that has been missing for the several months as bulls and bears battled over the 1,300 level of the S&P 500.
Like many round numbers of the past three years, this level is the dividing line between the view of optimists and pessimists, and it looks to me like the optimists are on the verge of another big win.
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Friday, February 25, 2011
The Power Of Buying Stocks At The 50-Day / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
When the S&P 500 and the OTC Comp were both in nosebleed levels hugging trend channel resistance we talked about what happens to leading names when the markets pullback. We talked about the power of the 50-day average and sure enough that’s exactly what happened to them — they tagged the 50 day and POW ZOOM TO THE MOON ALICE.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Anticipating BP's Breakout / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Although crude is circling unchanged today, BP plc (NYSE: BP) acts well technically. The stock continues to carve out a series of higher lows off its recent February upleg rally peak at 48.28.
The most recent pullback lows at 46.90 (Feb 22) and at 47.40 (Feb 24), followed by rallies into the 48.20/30 area, continues to put intense upward pressure on the 48.00-48.30 Jan-Feb resistance plateau. If and when hurdled, this should trigger upside acceleration towards a full-fledged retest of the Jan high at 49.50 next.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Good Relative Strength for RIMM / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Research in Motion (RIMM) exhibits relative strength today despite overall market weakness. Let's take a fresh look at its big picture chart pattern.
From a relatively near-term pattern perspective, RIMM hurdled key 8-month resistance at 62.70-63.30 in early Feb and followed through to its Feb 18 high at 70.54. Since then, RIMM has pulled back about 8.5% right to the top of the prior resistance plateau -- which is now important and substantial support.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Extraordinary Technology, Robotics - Where Are We Today? / Companies / Technology
By: Doug_Horning
Doug Hornig, Editor, Casey’s Extraordinary Technology writes: In the field of robotics, we have no Newton. No one who, assisted by a falling fruit, cried out, “Eureka, I have it, and it is called a… I know… a robot.”
No, the concept of a robot first occurred to some unknown person in some far distant time, as he or she, engaged in a grinding, repetitive task, dreamed of a mechanical contrivance that could do some of the dirty work. We know that moment was more than five hundred years ago, because we have sketchbooks from the incomparable Leonardo da Vinci, dated 1495, that contain detailed plans for one.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Morningstar's Top Takeover Targets in 2011 / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Dian_L_Chu
Hedge Fund Live writes: The spreadsheet below gives you the up-to-date internals for the top take out names identified by Morningstar. Before getting to the spreadsheet let me tell you what these companies do and what the rumor mill has been saying over the last few months.
ACTELION (ALIOF.PK): In mid-November, Bloomberg reported that Amgen (AMGN) was preparing an approach that could come within days, while the usual big pharma suspects have all been touted as potentially interested.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
NetFlix, Butterflies and Option Expiration / Companies / Options & Warrants
By: J_W_Jones
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning” Lt Col Bill Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
One of the opportunities available to the knowledgeable options trader is the ability to capitalize on major price movements while maintaining an acceptable risk profile. These opportunities are particularly attractive when they occur late in the options cycle because of the rapidly accelerating decay of the time premium of options. In appropriately structured positions, this time decay can be a wind at your back as the time premium relentlessly goes to zero at the closing bell on options expiration Friday.
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Could Disaster Be Brewing Inside These Popular ETFs? / Companies / Exchange Traded Funds
By: Jared_Levy
I feel it's our duty here at Smart Investing Daily not only to help you discover new and unique investment opportunities and tactics, but also to warn you of impending potential disasters.
Looking at the financial markets on the surface, many experts are saying that it seems a little "overbought." There is no doubt I am in that camp, but now I am gaining more conviction. Experts use things like price/earnings multiples and technical formations to make these determinations. They also look at the past to make future forecasts.
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Stock Price Recovery Rallies for GM, Ford / Companies / US Auto's
By: Mike_Paulenoff
General Motors (GM) and Ford (F) present very different near-term chart structures, with GM exhibiting a more constructive near term pattern than Ford. Nonetheless, both names are in different phases of recovery rallies off of their early February lows.
Reviewing the 60-minute comparison chart on both, we see that Ford's Jan double-top at 18.97 and 18.88 ended the upleg off of the June 29 low at 9.75. Ford has come off the Feb 3 low at 15.10 and is flagging in the mid-15 range.
Friday, February 18, 2011
More Mega-Deals to Come as M&A Activity Returns to Pre-Crisis Levels / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Jason Simpkins writes:
A flurry of early-year deal making has helped drive global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity to its highest level since before the financial crisis. And the M&A market still hasn't hit full stride.
Cash rich companies and greater confidence in the overall economy are two big reasons for the turnaround. But international, cross-border deals have offered another catalyst for the spectacular growth.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Apple Stock Bounces Off Low / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Two conflicting stories today that Steve Jobs has been seen coming out of a cancer/chemo clinic looking very thin and gaunt. On the other hand, the press keeps reporting that President Obama will meet with technology executives on the West Coast today, including Jobs, Zuckerberg and Schmidt.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
China's Trade Surplus Goal Signals Time Investors Danced With the Dragon / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
China's economic model has long been dependent on exports. Over the past several decades, the country has been the world's manufacturing floor, turning the "Made in China" stamp into a common fixture of goods sold in the United States and Europe.
But now China has made a new goal: It will double its imports by 2015, reducing the trade surplus to zero and releasing itself from an export-reliant economy. Beijing this year made this goal a key part of China's 12th Five Year Plan.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Investing in iPhone Technology: It's Like Buying "B" Shares In Apple Inc / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
This technology spent 20 years as a humdrum subset of the industrial microchip business - until its consumer-product potential was realized when Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) made it a centerpiece of the must-have iPhone.
The sector's overall revenue is already projected to advance by 60% in the next three years.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Will Egypt End the "Obama Arms Bazaar?" / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: While many investors are focused on the roles that Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Twitter played during Egypt's recent turmoil, I immediately zeroed in on all the American-made military hardware that exists in that region - and began to analyze the risk that investors face if the U.S. defense industry quite literally bet on the wrong horse.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Crude Oil Stocks Investing / Companies / Oil Companies
By: The_Energy_Report
In 2010, some of the best-performing companies in the E&P space transitioned to a heavier focus on oil, which has been strong, and away from natural gas where prices are weak. That trend is likely to continue this year, according to Rodman & Renshaw Senior Analysts Jeff Hayden and Chad Mabry who remain bullish, even though they're not betting on sustained prices above $100/Bbl. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Jeff and Chad bring some growth and value ideas into sharp focus.