Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Friday, February 21, 2014
WhatsApp With Facebook? / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Peter_Schiff
Two pieces of business news announced this week provide a convenient frame through which to view our dysfunctional and distorted economy. The first (which has attracted tremendous attention), is Facebook's blockbuster $19 billion acquisition of instant messaging provider WhatsApp. The second (which few have noticed) is the horrific earnings report issued by Texas-based retail chain Conn's. While these two developments don't seem to have much in common, together they shed some very unflattering light on where we stand economically.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Be Relentless With Your Business Startup Finances – How To Easily Save Money / Companies / SME
By: Submissions
Running a successful startup is not just about the idea that you have, logistics and making sales. There are many different things that need to be taken into account. One of them is saving money. Budgeting helps out a lot but there are always thing that can go wrong. You can do all that can be done in order to be prepared and still fail. That is why every bit of extra cash that you can generate is important. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Nuclear Fusion Power Breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility / Companies / Nuclear Power
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: An incredible breakthrough happened last week that took me back to my early fascination (and education) in theoretical physics.
It revolves around the most famous physics formula ever written: E=mc2.
As Einstein posited in his now famous 1905 paper, “Does the Inertia of an Object Depend upon Its Energy Content?” energy and mass are different forms of the same thing.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Why EBay, PayPal Split is a Bad Move / Companies / Corporate News
By: Bloomberg
John Donahoe, CEO of eBay, spoke with Bloomberg Television's Trish Regan and Matt Miller about investor Carl Icahn's proposal that the company's PayPal online payments unit be split off and EBay's competition and strategy.
On how eBay and PayPal can be most successful, Donahoe said: "I continue to believe the best way is together, that eBay makes PayPal stronger. And it makes PayPal stronger by helping it grow faster, it provides more data, and it provides a strong financial foundation that will ultimately make PayPal more successful as part of eBay than separate."
Monday, February 17, 2014
Goldman Sachs' Most Dangerous Trade / Companies / Banksters
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Here's something you probably don't know, and it will really tick you off.
You probably do know the biggest banks in the world have commodities businesses.
Those lines of business might include trading desks (trading everything from gold and copper to kilowatts), transportation (pipelines, railcars and tankers) and storage (warehousing) operations, mining operations, as well as production, refining, and raw and finished commodity distribution operations.
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Friday, February 14, 2014
TripAdvisor's Q4 2013 Corporate Earnings Review / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Submissions
Vikram Nagarkar writes: TripAdvisor (NASDAQ: TRIP), the online travel research company reported its Q4 2013 numbers post market hours at 5 P.M EST on the 11th of Feb 2014. Within minutes of the announcement, the stock price had plunged by close to 10%, eventually recovering and settling at $82.75, about 2% lower than the day’s closing price. We look at the key take-aways and TripAdvisor’s valuations post its Q4 2013 earnings release in which the company delivered many surprises, though not all of them were necessarily pleasant in nature.
Friday, February 14, 2014
The “Secret Ingredient” that Generates Solar Power at Night! / Companies / Solar Energy
By: Money_Morning
Dr. Kent Moors writes: As solar power enthusiasts know all too well, renewable energy has the same problem that the “normal” generation of electricity does.
It’s how to store all of the energy produced so that it can be used when it’s needed. For solar power, that means even at night.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Why Wall Street Would Love to Bug Our Phones / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes: Every month or so, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Shah Gilani or a few of the other editors here at Money Map Press will wonder aloud if the big Wall Street investment banks have secreted a bunch of listening-device "bugs" in our offices or on our phones.
They haven't, of course. And our comments were made in jest - and meant only as a joke.
But the coincidences that prompt these surveillance-by-Big-Brother quips can be quite remarkable.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Top-Yielding Dividend Stocks to Combat Low Interest Rates / Companies / Dividends
By: DailyGainsLetter
John Paul Whitefoot writes: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has confirmed what most already knew. The recovery in the U.S. jobs market is far from complete. Yellen noted that the unemployment rate has improved since the Federal Reserve initiated its last round of quantitative easing in late 2012, falling from 8.1% to 6.6%. Curiously, in 2013, the U.S. economy grew just two percent.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Where to Find the Best Stock Investing Opportunities in Emerging Markets / Companies / China Stocks
By: DailyGainsLetter
Mohammad Zulfiqar writes: There are a significant number of concerns regarding the emerging markets at this time. Investors are asking if emerging market stocks are a good buy right now; are the troubles over or are there still more to come?
As it stands, it seems further troubles are brewing in the emerging markets, as the Federal Reserve tapers its quantitative easing program. We have seen currencies in countries like Turkey, South Africa, Russia, and Argentina decline significantly.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Why I Love Amazon.com but Won’t Buy Its Stock / Companies / Internet
By: Vitaliy_Katsenelson
You should look at your portfolio and want to throw up a little — this is how one value manager described what a true, die-hard value investor’s portfolio should look like. The two stocks I wrote about in my latest article — American Eagle and Aéropostale — have a tendency to elicit that unpleasant reflex in many investors today.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Regenerative Medicine Finally Gets Some Respect / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Of the many themes that propelled the biotech sector to record returns in 2013, regenerative medicine and therapeutics targeting cancer were front and center. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Reni Benjamin, managing director and equity research analyst at H.C. Wainwright & Co., talks about two companies with impending catalysts that play on these themes, and offers his take on the prospects for the regenerative medicine sector going forward.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Where Stock Investors Can Find Stability in These Economically Unstable Times / Companies / Investing 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
John Paul Whitefoot writes: While most astute investors would point to a weak U.S. economy as the reason for the recent lackluster U.S. employment data, economists, in their infinite wisdom, point to Mother Nature. She seems to shoulder a lot of the economic blame in this country.
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Monday, February 10, 2014
How to Profit from the Dow’s “Dogs” / Companies / Investing 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
George Leong writes: Small-cap stocks are faring the worst this year and are down nearly 10% from their record-high in late 2013; many would deem this to be an official stock market correction.
Given that small-cap stocks surged upward by more than 33% in 2013, it shouldn’t be a surprise to see this group get the brunt of the selling this year.
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Friday, February 07, 2014
Why the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Is a Game-Changer / Companies / Bitcoin
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes: Investing in Bitcoin isn't as easy as investing in stocks - right now.
But the arrival of the Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF - an exchange-traded fund developed by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss - will change that.
The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF will make investing in Bitcoin as simple and straightforward as buying shares of any other exchange-traded fund.
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Thursday, February 06, 2014
US Global Defensive Consumer Franchises Stock Investing Theme / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Rory_Gillen
Having your cake and eating it too!Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it! In investing that means buying stocks with good defensive growth characteristics. In May 2010, GillenMarkets introduced the US Global Defensive Consumer Franchise Theme for subscribers and the theme included eight US companies at that time—Coca Cola, McDonalds, Proctor & Gamble, Colgate, Johnson & Johnson, Wal-Mart, Kellogg and Kraft. The European equivalents—Unilever, Diageo, Reckitt Benckiser and Kerry—were added to the theme in 2011. Kraft has since de-merged and we have substituted Mondelez (the spin off from Kraft) in Kraft's place.
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Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Apple, Ebay and Visa - Stocks to Watch as Activist Investors Unlock Value / Companies / Investing 2014
By: DailyGainsLetter
Sasha Cekerevac writes: One of the most hotly debated topics these days is the role of activist investors. Some people have the impression that an activist investor is not a positive factor when it comes to long-term investing. I disagree, as many times, the investment strategy recommended by these activist investors ends up benefiting all shareholders.
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
The Perfect Profits Storm / Companies / Investing 2014
By: Money_Morning
Terry Weiss writes: Michael Robinson has been following the auto sector since 1980 when he was a young analyst living in Detroit.
And over the last 34 years, he’s seen a lot of changes come to this iconic industry – both good and bad.
But he’s never seen anything like what’s happening now.
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Tuesday, February 04, 2014
We Just Found The New King Of The Computer Industry / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: During the Depression-ridden 1930s, with the United States circling the financial abyss, an American industrialist named Thomas J. Watson Jr. gambled the future of his business-equipment company on an expansion plan that included wholesale hiring, investments in technology, and the construction of new factories.
For six years, Watson had his factories at full bore – churning out tabulating equipment there were no buyers for. But he believed in his plan and stayed with his strategy.
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Sunday, February 02, 2014
China Tech Stocks - The Hottest Investment Market on Earth / Companies / China Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: China has been dominating the headlines in recent days... And not in a good way.
Since late last week, worries about slowing growth, financial-system shenanigans, and the potential for an "Asian Contagion" type spillover have whacked global stocks - and have left folks wondering if the Chinese Miracle is over.
But China's kind of like a still-young tech venture: There are going to be reversals, it's going to be volatile, and it's normal to expect this kind of whipsaw market action.
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