Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Standard Life Online Customer Account Access Offline for 24hours+ / Companies / UK Banking
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Standard Life's online banking operations have now been offline for a whole 24 hours.
Users attempting to log in to their online accounts are met with the following message -
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Constructive Signs for Ultra Oil & Gas ProShares ETF DIG / Companies / Oil Companies
By: Mike_Paulenoff
The Ultra Oil & Gas ProShares ETF (NYSE: DIG) popped above key Feb-Mar resistance at 34.40/50 to a recovery high at 35.05, after which it revisited the breakout level into this morning’s low at 34.25. This morning’s upside pivot reversal from 34.25 has propelled the DIG to a higher recovery high at 35.10 so far. The fact that the price structure is holding above the breakout plateau (34.25) within a larger base-like pattern that projects to 37.50 next is a very constructive sign. At this juncture, only a decline that breaks 34.25 will begin to compromise the developing bullish scenario.
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Four Dividend Stock Hotspots for Investors to Investigate / Companies / Dividends
By: Nilus_Mattive
Last year’s dividend numbers were the worst in more than half a century, as corporations large and small struggled with a lack of financing, weak economic conditions, and poor earnings. But now, things are finally looking up …
According to the latest data from Standard & Poor’s, February was a very solid month:
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
How to Profit From Investing in the “Fertilizer Wars” / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: There's nothing like scarcity and supply disruptions to fuel violent price spikes. And there's nothing like the basic human needs for food and water to light that fuse.
Today's world food supplies run on razor-thin inventories.
Monday, March 08, 2010
The Dividend Stock Recovery: Investors Get Ready for a High-Yield Bonanza / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Alexander Green writes: It's been a tough time for income investors lately.Ten-year Treasuries pay less than 4%. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index yields just over 2%. Money market fund returns are microscopic, paying an average of just 0.05%. (At that rate, it will take your money one thousand years to double.) Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 08, 2010
Which Stocks and Sectors Will Lead the Economic Recovery? / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: A lot of my commentary lately on the markets has been relatively short-term oriented. Today let's take a moment to pan back and consider the weekly perspective, which is rather benign, even positive.
From this point of view, stocks are broadly recovering from their most oversold condition since March of last year -- and the release of the energy stored up then persisted at near-full strength for three months.
Friday, March 05, 2010
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company BMY Thrust Off Neckline / Companies / Company Chart Analysis
By: Mike_Paulenoff
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) continues to act extremely well technically. Below is what I wrote three weeks ago, with BMY at 24.61. The big picture analysis remains unchanged, and this week's positive action -- especially today's surge from 24.45 to 25.30 -- argues strongly that the price structure has started the thrust off of the neckline retest (Jan low at 23.49). If such a scenario proves accurate, then BMY should be heading for 26.00-26.60 directly from here.
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Brazil, The Market Investors Cannot Afford to Miss / Companies / Brazil
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: In many ways, Brazil offers some of the best prospects among emerging markets and deserves to be a core holding in any international portfolio.
Brazil's economy had only a shallow recession and is now recovering nicely. Its market has been one of the best performing since Dec. 31, 2008, and both inflation and the budget deficit remain under control.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
List of Stocks Owned by Warren Buffett / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Marty_Chenard
The Oracle of Omaha's Annual Report was just released.
Last week, the much anticipated Warren Buffett Report was issued for Berkshire Hathaway. Like all his followers, I love reading his yearly report, especially for any insights that can be gathered from what he says.
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Why the Prudential-AIG Deal Contradicts Capitalism / Companies / Mergers & Acquisitions
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: To inattentive observers, the recent announcement that the British insurance company Prudential PLC (NYSE ADR: PUK) would pay $35.5 billion for American International Group Inc.'s (NYSE: AIG) Asian insurance operation, AIA, might seem like just another belated expansion of the old British Empire - a strange contrast to the sale of the premier British chocolate company Cadbury PLC (NYSE ADR: CBY) to Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) last month.
Monday, March 01, 2010
The Story of Palm Inc (PALM) / Companies / Tech Stocks
By: Submissions
Palm, Inc (PALM) is an interesting story. The stock has taken a beating in recent days due to an acknowledgement that they simply aren’t selling as many of their phones as analysts had hoped. I believe that PALM is not a good investment by any means, for a few raesons that I’m going to outline here.
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Friday, February 26, 2010
LLoyds TSB a Crippled, Customer Hated Bank Declares £6.3 Billion Loss / Companies / UK Banking
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The 41% tax payer owned Lloyds TSB bank continues to declare abysmal losses of £6.3 billion for 2009 against £6.7 billion for 2008 as a direct consequence of the HBOS cancer that continues to eat into the banks balance sheet. The balance sheet suffered a £24 billion bad loans impairment, against profits generated by the branches of £1.3 billion and against £20 billion of tax payer capital injected into the bank and a further £150 billion of tax payer loans and guarantees.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Targeting Toyota, U.S. Economic War Against Japan / Companies / US Politics
By: Mike_Whitney
Does anyone really believe that Toyota is being pilloried in the media for a few highway fatalities?
Nonsense. If Congress is so worried about innocent people getting killed, then why haven't they indicted US commander Stanley McChrystal for blowing up another 27 Afghan civilians on Sunday?
Thursday, February 25, 2010
ETFs Beat HOLDRS Hands Down! / Companies / Investing 2010
By: Ron_Rowland
If you’ve been reading my Money and Markets columns for any length of time, you know I’m a big proponent of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). And I think they’re one of the most exciting investment innovations in decades.
However, one consequence of innovation is that eventually the latest-and-greatest products go past their “sell-by” dates. For example, I remember getting my first IBM personal computer back in the 1980s. It was state-of-the-art! Today it would be considered an antique.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
RBS Makes £3.5 Billion Loss, Pays £1.3 Billion of Tax Payer Cash as Bonuses / Companies / Banking Stocks
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The tax payer bailed out and 84% owned RBS bank declared a loss for 2009 of £3.6 billion. The loss would have been infinitely larger had the government and the Bank of England had not bend over backwards to engineer a banking system that effectively funnels cash into the bankrupting banks balance sheets. Despite the headline loss and despite the fact that ALL earnings are directly as a consequence of the tax payers ,RBS STILL paid out a bonus of £1.3 billion which illustrates why nothing has changed amongst the bankster's that continue to hold the country to ransom at gun point.