Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Friday, January 08, 2010
New Recovery High for Caterpillar CAT / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) just hit a new recovery high of 60.00 off of its Dec low at 55.40 and appears poised to continue higher to confront the Oct-Jan resistance line at 60.40 next. The resistance line is the next challenge for the bulls as they look to thrust CAT out of a three-month, high-level consolidation period, which projects upside continuation to 64.00-65.00 next. At this juncture, only a decline that breaks and sustains beneath 58.50 will delay the timing of the anticipated upside breakout.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
Which Financial Stocks ETF Is Best For You? / Companies / Investing 2010
If you chose to supplement your sector-diversified core US equities stock holdings with a diversified financial stocks ETF, which one is best for you?
There are eight possibilities, four of which work for many investors, but only 2 (maybe 3) or 1 (maybe 2) of which work for large accounts. The fund that works for just about any account under $250 million is XLF. The other three funds are VFH, IYG and maybe IXG for some account. The four funds have more favorable profiles considering these three attributes in combination:
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Buffett Reminds Wall Street That Shareholders Come First / Companies / Corporate News
Martin Hutchinson writes: A decade ago, investing guru Warren Buffett helped torpedo a $15.3 billion Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) bid for Quaker Oats Cos., arguing that the terms were lousy and the proposed price way too high.
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
The Biggest Financial Deception and Scam of the Decade / Companies / Credit Crisis Bailouts
Enron? Bear Stearns? Bernie Madoff? They're all big stories about big losses and have hurt a lot of employees and investors. But none come close to getting my vote for the decade's most dastardly deception...
First came Enron, with $65.5 billion in assets, going belly-up and becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history at that time. Chairman Kenneth Lay said that Enron's decision to file bankruptcy would "stabilize the company," but over the next five years the company was completely liquidated. The stock went from a high of $84.63 in December 2000 to a whopping 26¢ one year later.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Dividend Reinvestment and Compounding Interest / Companies / Investing 2010
When we were first planning our trip to India, my wife — and all her family members — insisted that I make an effort to go see the Taj Mahal.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Junior Oil Buyout Validates all Cardium Players-Valuations Moving Higher / Companies / Oil Companies
Junior oil producers with land packages in the Cardium formation are jumping up today after Berens Energy (BEN-TSX) was bought out today by Petrobakken for $2.70 a share. Berens’ stock price had moved up from 50 cents to $2 over the last six months as its Cardium land position became more widely known.
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
ConAgra Foods (CAG) Food Producer Stock Positioned for a Boost! / Companies / Investing 2010
Trading Approach
Identifying fundamentally stellar stocks poised technically to breakout for big profits.
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Monday, January 04, 2010
New Upleg for General Electric GE / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
My work continues to indicate that all of the action in General Electric (GE) off of its 12/04 high at 16.49 into Thursday’s low at 15.09 represents a correction of the prior advance from 14.15 (11/4) to 16.49 (12/4). Today’s powerful advance argues strongly that the corrective period is over and that GE has pivoted into a new upleg, which if accurate means that 1) the stock should head for a retest of 16.49 on the way to 18.00 and 2) that prices should NOT break below 15.09 again anytime soon.
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Friday, January 01, 2010
Which Materials ETF Investing 2010 / Companies / Investing 2010
If you chose to supplement your sector-diversified core US equities stock holdings with a diversified materials stocks ETF, which one is best for you?
There are nine possibilities, of which three, and maybe four, make sense at this time for our purposes and possibly for yours. Those exchange-traded funds are XLB, IYM, VAW and maybe MXI. They have more favorable profiles considering these three attributes:
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Falling Dollar to Benefit Foreign Dividend Stocks During 2010 / Companies / Investing 2010
While a lot of folks were spending December 25 opening presents, my family and I were hurriedly packing our bags and running off to the airport.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Bullish Consolidation for JP Morgan / Companies / Banking Stocks
JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) has been treading water for the past few sessions, and just may continue to do so into Thursday's year-end close. That notwithstanding, the pattern suggests strongly that another upleg is approaching in the upcoming hours/days. For the past week all of the action in JPM appears to have taken the form of a bullish consolidation period in the aftermath of the recent upleg from 40.03 to 42.24. Let’s notice that the consolidation has found resistance just above 42.00 while support resides around 41.50.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
BBD Emerging Market Bank Poised for Huge Growth During 2010 / Companies / Investing 2010
Trading Approach - Identifying fundamentally stellar stocks poised technically to breakout for big profits.
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
American Capital Agency Corp Dynamic Dividend Stock Investing / Companies / Dividends
Our indicators are calling for a top to come as early as tomorrow. However, well still recommend a stock a week as good stocks will perform better than the market.
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Response to Goldman Sachs Expose / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
The New York Times published a Christmas Eve expose of Goldman Sachs’s so-called “Abacus” synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). They were created with credit derivatives instead of cash securities. Goldman used credit derivatives to create short bets that gain in value when CDOs lose value. Goldman did this for both protection and profit and marketed the idea to hedge funds.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
The Top Five Natural Gas Companies to Watch During 2010 / Companies / Natural Gas
Kent Moors, Ph.D writes: NEW YORK - I've briefed Wall Street before. This time, however, the 57th floor conference room is packed. Some heavy hitters invited me to explain why natural gas is the upcoming energy play.
By the size of the crowd, it seems the word is getting around.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Research in Motion (RIMM) Transitioning to New Upleg / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
The stairstep decline in Research in Motion (RIMM) from last week’s high at 72.08 into this morning’s low at 66.45 has the right look of a completed correction of the prior upleg from 61.50. If my work proves accurate, then RIMM should be “in the turn” period now, transitioning into another upleg that will revisit 72 on the way to 74-75. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
ETFs Yielding More than 3% With Liquidity and Size / Companies / Investing 2010
We are in a yield hungry world. Here is a list of the 66 of 861 ETFs that yield over 3% and also trade over $1 million per day and have at least $100 million in market-cap as of December 14, 2009.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Four Ways to Profit From the World’s Shrewdest Government / Companies / Investing 2010
Martin Hutchinson writes: Three powerful investment trends will separate the winners from the losers in the new year.
- Global commodities prices will continue to move higher.
- Emerging economies will outgrow their richer, more-mature counterparts.
- And the countries that were stingy with their monetary and fiscal bailout plans will now reap the benefits; they will outpace the countries that slashed their interest rates to zero and allowed their deficits to soar.
Monday, December 21, 2009
HSBC (HBC) to Become First Non Chinese Company Listed in Shanghai / Companies / UK Banking
In early fall we had mentioned China potentially listing its first "outside of the country" company [Sep 11, 2009: China Opens Door to Foreign Listings] as the country takes baby steps in becoming a full fledged international monetary exchange of every sort (this will take many years). Banking giant HSBC (HBC) noted it would want to be all over this...
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Monday, December 21, 2009
U.S. Economic Recovery Presents New Investment Profit Opportunities For 2010 / Companies / Investing 2010
Jon D. Markman writes: Do you hear a rumbling, a honking, the smell of new carpet in the air? If so, it's all a result of the biggest surprise of the past month: the rise of U.S. vehicle sales, which was supposed to have ended with the "Cash for Clunkers" deal over the summer.
And it's a very positive surprise.