Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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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.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Opportunity in the Rejuvenation of Canada's Iron Ore Sector / Companies / Metals & Mining
By: HRA_Advisory
The Iron Ages began over three thousand years ago and a major expansion of iron's use is the earliest of waypoints on the road to industrialization. The market for iron is far larger than that of the other heavy metals and it is essential for creating our modern network of bridges and skyscrapers. Despite this, the metal is not the stuff of daily news like "Dr." copper. The heavy growth in Asia generated a massive expansion of global iron ore production in the last decade.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
New Upmove for U.S. Steel / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The correction in U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) from the Feb 4 high at 61.40 likely ended at last Thursday's low of 56.35, and a new upmove has emerged within the larger upleg off of the October low at 39.78.
In addition, we can still view the past 10 months as a large, double-bottom pattern that broke out to the upside above 52.00 in December and still points to 65.00 to fulfill its optimal upside target.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Global Investing 2011, Five Foreign Revenue Stocks That Will Boost Your Profits / Companies / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:"Globalization" has become one of the top financial buzzwords in recent years - and with good reason. The economies of many developing-market countries have achieved an important critical mass, meaning they're now growing a lot faster than much more-"mature" counterparts as the United States, Europe and Japan.
The upshot: Investors who ignore these opportunities in favor of a "U.S.-only" investment regimen face a future marked by lackluster returns.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Cisco, The Story That Wall Street Missed / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes:
It was another good week for U.S. stocks, despite the whipsaw-trading that resulted from alternating good news/bad news/good news developments on the earnings and geopolitical fronts throughout the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.5% for the week, while the Standard & Poor's 500 Index advanced 1.4%. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite Index only managed to edge up by 0.7%, having been held back by Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO).
Monday, February 14, 2011
Huffington Post Alone Won’t Rescue AOL, A Case Study into Failure / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Stathis
Recently, I reminded readers of a very lucrative (and what I felt was a very obvious) long-short equity strategy I discussed that would have yielded huge returns to those who opted to take on this risky maneuver.
I normally don’t recommend that everyday investors take short positions because it’s extremely risk for many reasons. Most non-professional investors fail to recognize the risks involved with shorting securities because taking a short position is just a mouse click away if you have an online brokerage account. That in itself is an entirely different issue that needs to be addressed by the SEC.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Russian Banks Earned Record Profits in 2010 / Companies / Corporate Earnings
By: Pravda
2010 was a successful year for Russian banks. Their profit in 2010 made up 573.4 billion rubles, which was three times as much as in 2009. Experts believe that such a growth has been achieved owing to the recovery of the reserves created during the crisis. Nevertheless, banks continue to accumulate reserves for their further work in 2011.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
The Next Big Trades From Leading Stocks / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: David_Grandey
When looking at the indexes:
In the S&P 500 chart above we said:
So what happens when we pullback to either the 50 day average, the blue support line or the green trend channel support line to names like AAPL, NFLX, BIDU, APKT and FFIV?
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