Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Monday, April 20, 2009
This Weeks Corporate Earnings Will Impact on Stock Market Trend / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III writes: it comes to the U.S. stock market right now, the story continues to be about earnings. And this week will be no exception. Bank of America Corp. (BAC), which reports today (Monday), remains among the last financials of note that has yet to announce its first-quarter performance, and the big bank figures to get a lot of attention as investors look to see how well Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. (formerly known as “The Bull”) and Countrywide Financial Corp. have fit into the BofA family fold.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Investors Profiting From the One Thing Which Has Not Changed / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Q1_Publishing
For better or worse, we’re living in a world of change. It’s no secret. There’s going to be a lot of changes in the next few years. Regulations, accounting rules, taxes, money supply, healthcare tech, and on and on – it’s all changing. And it’s changing faster than ever.
Change, while creating opportunity for prudent long-term thinkers, has created a lot of uncertainty in the short term. The markets have reacted the same way they always do to increased uncertainty - negatively.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Now Is a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity for Dividend Income Investors / Companies / Dividends
By: DailyWealth
Dan Ferris writes:
Not one investor in a hundred realizes this, but now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for income investors.
Most people will never recognize this opportunity because they don't know what a truly great income investment is. Most income seekers like to buy things like commercial real estate stocks (REITs) to collect rents.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
GM Bankruptcy Feared Imminent as Shares Slump / Companies / US Auto's
By: Pravda
Shares in General Motors Corp slumped more than 17 percent in Frankfurt on Tuesday amid growing concern the automaker might file for bankruptcy.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, April 13, 2009
How High Can Apple Go? / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: INO
In this short video, I will take a look at Apple, Inc (NYSE_AAPL). I have to admit I love Apple products. I have an iPhone, an iMac and an iPod touch and several other Mac add-ons.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Difficult Times for Dividend Stock Investors / Companies / Dividends
By: Richard_Shaw
In theory, equity income investing creates a reasonably steady and growing income stream from stock investments — a good chance of maintaining real purchasing power of the stream. That contrasts with bonds which create a more reliable, but constant income stream that has no chance of maintaining real purchasing power (inflation protected Treasuries and perhaps some variable rate bonds excepted). Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Learning to Profit: K12 Inc. (NYSE:LRN) Flagged For Breakout / Companies / Investing 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
K12 Inc. (LRN) is one of those companies you salivate over. It's a beaten down stock with fundamental attributes that just make sense. Even the technical crowd would like a piece of the action. But before we get into the nitty gritty details, it would probably serve you well to tell you a bit about the company itself in case you've never heard of it before. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 04, 2009
GM's Opel to be Rescued by the Russians / Companies / US Auto's
By: Pravda
Auto giant General Motors Corp which includes its German unit Opel is on the brink of bankruptcy. Some experts say that GM may become bankrupt already in May.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Deflationary Depression Hits News Print Mainstream Media / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Shedlock
Deflationary news continues to hit the newsprint industry. Please consider New York Times threatens to shut Boston Globe . The New York Times Co has threatened to shut The Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions quickly agree to $20 million in concessions, the Globe reported on Friday, quoting union leaders.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Citibank to Investors: We Suggest You Bet Against Us / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Mike_Shedlock
In a statement that ought to scare the hell out of the bears Citigroup Says Buy Bank Puts Because Rally Will Fade . March 31 (Bloomberg)
Investors should buy put options on financial companies because derivatives-market trading suggests the industry will retreat after a 43 percent surge since March 6, Citigroup Inc. said.
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
General Motors has Two Months Left Before Bankruptcy / Companies / US Auto's
By: Pravda
The White House keeps the promise to wait for another plan to reorganize General Motors until June of this year. However, it seems that the US government already has a solution for the problems of the automaker. President Obama believes that an efficient bankruptcy would be the most desirable alternative for GM, Bloomberg reports. Many officials of Obama's administration also believe that a quick and surgical bankruptcy of the huge corporation is inevitable.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Slow Death of General Motors / Companies / US Auto's
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: U.S. President Barack Obama's firing of General Motors Corp. ( GM ) Chief Executive Officer G. Richard Wagoner Jr. may be the beginning of the final act of a long and sad drama - the slow death of GM. The company nameplate may soldier on in some form, but it seems increasingly likely that unless Ford Motor Co. ( F ) can forever avoid government intervention, the once-unique capabilities of the U.S. automotive industry will be forever lost. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
IBM's Secret Formula for Offshoring Jobs and Maximising Tax Breaks / Companies / Corporate News
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are noting IBM files for patent on offshoring jobs .As IBM was firing thousands of American workers last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Big Blue's application to copyright a computerized system that calculates how to offshore jobs while maximizing government tax breaks.
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Monday, March 30, 2009
U.S. Banks Operating Without Reserve Requirements / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Eric_deCarbonnel
Banks typically have 3% of their assets in cash in order to meet customer needs. Since 1960, banks have been allowed to use this “vault cash” to satisfy their reserve requirements. Today, bank reserve requirements have fallen to the point where they are now exceeded by vault cash, which means lowering reserve requirements to zero would have virtually no impact on the banking system. US banks are already operating free of any reserve constraints. The graph below shows reserve requirements falling to zero over the last fifty years. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Nationwide Buys Up Dunfermline Best Assets, Leaving Toxic Assets for the Tax Payer / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Nationwide building society stepped in to buy the profitable assets of the 140 year old Dunfermline building society, as Scotland's biggest building society effectively went bust under the weight of bad loans primarily made to the commercial and buy to let real estate sectors, with toxic debts estimated at some £1.5 billion now dumped onto the British tax payers. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Profit From Obama's Next Campaign- Energy / Companies / Renewable Energy
By: Q1_Publishing
President Obama promised change. Now he's delivering it.
Some of us are getting the change we want to believe in. Others are getting change we don't want to believe at all.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Grandmother Scores Huge Victory over Monsanto / Companies / Agricultural Commodities
By: Robert_Singer
We are having trouble figuring out why Monsanto made Percy Schmeiser a hero for the growing movement against GMOs, but we don't have to look very far to find out why Monsanto director of public affairs Brad Mitchell is debating Linn Cohen-Cole, a Grandmother on Opednews.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
IBM's Continued Path of Expansion / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Oxbury_Research
On Wednesday, shareholders of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) saw their investment surge more than 75% as reports surfaced that the company is in talks to potentially be acquired by International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM). Shares of IBM moved up 2.8% on the news. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, March 19, 2009
GE and Berkshire Credit Rating Downgrades / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Nilus Mattive writes: Last week saw two publicly-traded companies lose their AAA credit ratings. That might not sound like a lot … until you realize that there were only seven to start with!
First, Standard & Poor's downgraded General Electric on March 12. Then, later the same day, Fitch took Berkshire Hathaway down a notch, too.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Two Bank Stocks to Buy Right Now / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Although we're still in the middle of the worst financial crisis in decades, a few select banks are positioned to make a boatload of profits. And if you pick the right ones, gains of 100% or more are easily within reach.
The U.S. Federal Reserve's actions in cutting short-term interest rates to almost zero - together with a gentle rise in U.S. Treasury bond yields since the start of the year - have given us a steeply sloping yield curve, where long-term rates are about 3% above short-term rates.
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