Category: Sector Analysis
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, November 05, 2010
Seven Ways to Profit from the GOP’s Pledge to Sustain Defense Spending / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
Investors typically hate it when a stock bombs, but there are also times when bombs can make for good investments - and right now could be one of them.
With the Republicans seizing control of the U.S. House of Representatives and making gains in the Senate in Tuesday's mid-term elections, it now seems far more likely that the GOP will be able to honor its pledge not to cut defense outlays as it seeks to rein in discretionary government spending.
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Outstanding Investor Profit Opportunity as China Goes Gaga for Gaming / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Doug_Horning
Doug Hornig, Editor, Casey’s Extraordinary Technology writes: Developing nations are playing technological leapfrog.
In the developed world, when we think of technology, the roots of much of what we do today were born decades, or even a century, ago. While the evolution has been fast paced, the progression from there through today is a straight line from the technologies that preceded them. A television program is still a television program. A phone call is still a phone call. The devices might look different and certainly do more, but the lineage is obvious.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
The Backdoor Investor Play to Macau Casinos / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Tony_Sagami
The National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession over in June 2009, but don’t tell that to the American entertainment industry. 2010 has been a very difficult year for just about every sector of the entertainment business as cash-strapped consumers are looking for inexpensive ways to entertain themselves.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Stock Market Sector Strength Indicates Returning Confidence / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Donald_W_Dony
Analysts and economists often refer to the strength or weakness in certain key industrial groups as evidence of a recovering or declining economy. During the recovery phase of a typical business cycle, there is usually greater buying emphasis on industry sectors that reflect a more optimistic stance. This wave of confidence can shift short-term to a more defensive approach.
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
An In-depth Look at U.S. Retail Stocks / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Nilus_Mattive
While Americans haven’t completely abandoned their spendthrift ways, there’s no doubt that the typical shopper is thinking a lot more about their purchases … and in general, our nation is revisiting the idea of saving for a rainy day.
I’ll discuss the broad implications of this shift some other time. Today, I’d like to talk about the specific companies most affected by our nation’s newfound frugality — the retailers.
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
Biotech, the Genetics of Investing / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Doug_Horning
Doug Hornig, Editor, Casey’s Extraordinary Technology writes: If you had a previously incurable genetic condition and scientists came up with a treatment for it, you’d jump at the chance to take advantage. That’s a no-brainer. But what if you had the opportunity to invest in a company deeply involved in just such cutting-edge research?
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Consumer Debt Financed Demand Deleveraging Reality Check for Retailers / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: James_Quinn
Having worked for a big box retailer for 14 years, I understand the dynamics of a high growth rollout of stores as a key to increasing market share and profits. Some of the best retail names in the US have practiced the identical strategy of concentrating many stores in each market to drive the small competitors out of business. This strategy worked wonders for Lowes, Wal-Mart, Target and Kohl's during the early part of this decade. The combination of solid same store sales and opening new stores is a fantastic combination during good times. The results actually make the CEOs of these companies think they are brilliant. Their store expansion models based on rosy assumptions are followed like they can't go wrong.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Asian Airlines: Taking Off and Flying High / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Tony_Sagami
I’m beat!
From door to door, it took me 35 hours to fly to Seattle via Bangkok, Manila, and Seoul. These trips were hard enough when I was a young man, but they are like a death march now that I’m in my 50’s.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
MLPs High Yield With High Risks / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes: With bank and money market rates bumping along between 1% and 2%, 30-year Treasury yields barely edging above 4%, and many old standby companies having slashed or eliminated their dividends, it's been a rough year or two for income-oriented investors.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
How to Find Recession Proof Stocks / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Nilus_Mattive
Isn’t it amazing how quickly the mainstream media talk has turned from green shoots and recoveries to double-dip recessions and a whole laundry list of new economic worries?
The whimsical nature of the news aside, there certainly are plenty of reasons for concern as some of my colleagues have been pointing out in their recent Money and Markets columns:
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
What Stock Market Sector Charts Say About Economy / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
This week we look at the sectors of housing, retail, basic materials, transportation that reflect economic growth or contraction to see what they’re telling us about the economy and if there’s any reason or area in which to get aggressive in this market.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Great Insight Into The Consumer And Retail Stock Sector / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Guy_Lerner
I had the privilege yesterday of receiving an email from Richard Davis of the Consumer Metrics Institute, Inc. Mr. Davis had read my blog post on the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (symbol: XRT), and he has graciously allowed me to post his email below with some very interesting data and insights with regards to the consumer.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Retailers Make a Surprising Comeback / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: You may be hearing a lot of bearish commentary centering on the premise that the market's advance is unsustainable because it has benefited so much from government spending.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Ford and Toyota, A Tale of Two Car Companies / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Richard_Shaw
It’s spring time and we’re thinking about maybe getting a new car. That and the recent problems at Toyota, plus the strong sales at Ford, and the not to distant bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler, got us wondering how the car company stocks are doing — not that we are hot to own car company stocks (although we are hot to own a new car).
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Stock Market Sector Rotation Points to Continued Economic Recovery / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Donald_W_Dony
Analysts and economists often refer to the strength or weakness in certain key industrial groups as evidence of a recovering or declining economy. During the recovery phase of a typical business cycle, there is usually greater buying emphasis on industry sectors that reflect a more optimistic stance.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Retail Stocks XRT ETF No Signs of Peaking / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The SPDR Retail ETF (XRT) is one heck of a bullish chart, which includes names like Whole Foods (WFMI), Sears (SHLD), OfficeMax (OMX), HSN (HSNI), Netflix (NFLX), Dress Barn (DBRN), and Family Dollar Stores (FDO). Purely from a pattern perspective, the XRT shows no sign of peaking, and is poised to hurdle Wed.'s high at 42.64. If the price structure moves vertically higher into a new upleg, it COULD make a run at its upper channel resistance lines in the 44.50- 45.50 target zone, or 5% to 7% more upside.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
Get Aboard the Consumer Spending Trend with Stock Sector ETFs / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Ron_Rowland
I’m a consumer. You’re a consumer. In fact, just about everyone you know is a consumer. But in these tough economic times, we often have to prioritize.
On the other hand, not everyone is closely watching every penny they spend. Some people are making — and spending — more money than ever! So today I’m going to tell you how to use exchange traded funds (ETFs) to take advantage of a recovery in consumer spending.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
New Stock Sector Leadership Ahead / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Francois_Soto
We just added new tools to analyze sector allocation on our U.S. Economics Monthly research. As of March 2010, the four sectors with highest momentums are consumer discretionary, industrials, technology and financials but that last one is starting to lose some steam (1 to 4). Can we expect these market outperformers to keep being the winners of the next 12 months? What is history telling us?
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Three Ways to Profit From an Insurance-Sector Rebound / Companies / Sector Analysis
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes:
Regional banks, investment bankers and insurance companies will be key winners in the next phase of an advance that will be characterized by very lukewarm participation by the average private investor.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
US Retail Stocks Sector Surges. Consumer Confidence Returns / Stock-Markets / Sector Analysis
By: Donald_W_Dony
In the February newsletter I highlighted the consistent upward strength of the S&P Retail Index. This leading indicator of consumer confidence and thus economic health, had consistently outperformed many industry sectors throughout 2009 and also the broad-based S&P 500. Fundamental data generally looked unimpressive last year and many market watchers doubted the return of this important industry.