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Googles Stock Tops $600 for First Time
2007-11-24 02:47:00 Google Inc.'s stock price sailed past $600 for the first time Monday before slipping back to $597.13 in morning trading, extending a rally that has elevated the Internet search leader's market value by about $25 billion in the past month. Google shares have increased more than sevenfold from their initial public offering price of $85, leaving the 9-year-old company with a market value of $187 billion. Some analysts already are advising investors that Google's stock will hit $700 within the next year. The average target price for the More About: Technology , Tops , Time , Stock , First Time
Mastercard Decline is a Buying Opportunity
2007-11-24 02:47:00 On October 16th TraderMark saw the decline in Mastercard as a great buying opportunity. The shares continued to declined until the 22nd, where they are starting to move back up, but still well below the $163.21 price tag on October 12th. Why is it a buy, other than the fact that it has dropped in the last few weeks? half of its revenue is overseas and TraderMark expects that to continue to grow as the middle class of Brazil, China, India, et al gets up and running. As TraderMark points out, the stock is not cheap, but the reality is ther More About: Buying , Financial , Opportunity , Unit
Cash Still Flowing in Industrial Value Stocks
2007-11-24 02:47:00 Investors can generate investment ideas by using the Producer Price Index (PPI) report prepared monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; one industry where the price increases have been flowing is industrials. More About: Stocks , Industrial , Cash
Dress Barn cuts 2008 Outlook, Shares Drop
2007-11-24 02:45:00 Dress Barn 's first-quarter earnings fell below analysts' expectations due to unseasonably warm weather during September and October, and lowered its fiscal 2008 earnings outlook. The shares fell more than 7.5% after the news was released. For the first quarter, the company sees earnings of 30 cents to 32 cents a share due to comparable store sales decline in the low single digits. Analysts were expecting earnings of 35 cents a share, before items, according to Reuters Estimates. The weaker-than-anticipated comparable store sales and More About: Outlook , Consumer Goods , Dress , Shares
Kraft Shedding Post Cereals Business
2007-11-24 02:41:00 I am really impressed with Kraft. This is a story more about Private-Label Cereal Maker Ralcorp but what I see is a great job by Kraft's CEO Irene Rosenfeld. She has done what many big conglomerates fail to do, focus on their core competency. Irene Rosenfeld has launched a massive turnaround effort aimed at revitalizing sales of the company's brands and is shedding slow-growing divisions to better focus the portfolio of the world's second-largest food company. Kraft said if the deal is conducted through a spin off, it expects shares More About: Business , Post , Consumer Goods , Cereals , Sine
Chrysler looking to return to profitability by 2009
2007-11-24 02:40:00 Chrysler is looking to return to profitability by 2009 and is considering massive branding changes that would further simplify its product portfolio while helping cut as many as 1,000 dealers. A plan now being discussed calls for Chrysler dealers to sell all of the auto maker's passenger cars under the Chrysler name. Dodge dealers would exclusively offer pickup and commercial trucks, while Jeep dealers would sell Jeep and sport-utility vehicles, according to three dealers familiar with the discussions. Such a scenario would allow Chrysl More About: Chrysler , Consumer Goods , Return
Warren Buffett Buying Financials
2007-11-24 02:40:00 Todd Sullivan at ValuePlays wrote this article a few days ago, about Warren Buffett buying into the financial sector. He feels that it shows there is short term weakness in the financial sector, but not to be afraid as their is long term value there (as evidenced by Warren Buffett buying into Bank of America (BAC)). Todd wantes to remind is to not confuse "cheap" with "value". "A cheap stock is one that will not cost you much money to purchase. A value stocks costs what it costs to buy but it is worth much more, a significant diff More About: Buying , Financial
Dogs of the Dow - 2008 Preview
2007-11-24 02:40:00 The Dogs of the Dow is a fairly simple investment strategy, you pick the 10 highest yield shares in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and put an equal amount of money into each of them. Adjust the portfolio once a year so that it once again has equal amounts in the top ten shares by yield. This investment strategy has a decent track record. According to DogsoftheDow.com, the strategy has had a 17.7% average annual return since 1973 with the Dow Jones Industrial Average returning only 11.9% during that same period. Anyways, The Discipline More About: Preview , Investment Ideas , 2008
Teeny-Bopper Retailer, Tween Brands, Takes a Dive
2007-11-24 02:40:00 Shares of Tween Brands plummeted on Monday after the retailer released its third-quarter earnings report. "While our early November sales are encouraging, we believe it is prudent to moderate our earnings expectations for the holiday season based on what appears to be a challenging retail environment, " said Mike Rayden, the company's chief executive. "The competition for customer attention is already resulting in an increased level of promotion, exerting more pressure on operating margins." Tween Brands reduced its forecast fo More About: Consumer Goods , Dive , Retailer
EchoStar Surges on Takeover Talk
2007-11-24 02:40:00 EchoStar surged $10.35, or 26%, to $50.18 on renewed buyout rumors. Citigroup upgraded the company to "buy" from "hold" Monday based on valuation as well as "ongoing conviction" about a deal with the telecommunications provider. "We assign a 65% probability that AT&T acquires Echostar over the next 12 months," analyst Jason Bazinet said in a research note. "While we also think sub-prime mortgage issues are influencing Echostar's churn rate, which was 1.9% in 3Q07, we think churn is more than priced in to the stock at current le More About: Technology , Takeover , Talk , Urge
Hewlett Packards Profit Rises 28 Pct
2007-11-24 02:40:00 Hewlett-Packard's quarterly profit rose 28%, boosted by strong shipments of personal computers, especially in China and emerging markets. Overall revenue rose 15% for the quarter to $28.3 billion from $24.6 billion last year. About two-thirds of H-P's business came from outside the U.S. Adjusting for foreign exchange rates, H-P said sales rose 11% from a year ago. "While we still have more work to do, H-P is well positioned to make further progress in the marketplace," said CEO Mark Hurd in a press release. Looking ahead, H-P esti More About: Technology , Profit
Global currency imbalances
2007-11-21 19:33:00 Although I believe a revaluation of China's currency is important to unwind global imbalances, I don't think it is in our best interest to continue complaining about a lack of fairness or competitive disadvantage. More About: Currency , Global
19 Principles of The Intelligent Investor
2007-11-21 19:33:00 David Merkel put together a list of 19 lessons from the famed book, "The Intelligent Investor ", by Benjamin Graham. If you are new to the investing world, or are a long time stock traded, these lessons will help everyone. I won't list them all, but here are a few of my favorites: 6. Purchase bargain issues on a net asset value basis when you can find them, but be careful of quality issues. 7. Volatility of stock prices can be your friend if you understand the underlying value of a well-financed corporation. 12. Pay attention to the bal More About: Investment Ideas , Principles , Gent
Why I Am Adding Sandisk & Ceragon To My Portfolio
2007-11-21 19:33:00 Shlomi Cohen believes now is the time to get into SanDisk and Ceragon. He doesn't believe that we will witness a global recession hitting the thriving computer, and handset markets, and in effect anything related to the "industrial revolution" of the current century, i.e. the Internet industry. He is bullish on SanDisk for a few reasons: director Michael Marks bought $2 million worth of shares at around $40 each on the open market at the end of October, Goldman Sachs reiterated its "Buy" rating for SanDisk with a target price of $65, a More About: Technology , Portfolio , Sandisk
ArvinMeritor Narrows Loss
2007-11-21 19:33:00 ArvinMeritor, which makes axles, brakes, emissions systems, and door and roof systems for cars and heavy trucks, managed to narrow its quarterly loss to $62 million, or 86 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $274 million, or $3.89 a share, in the year-earlier period. ArvinMeritor is in the middle of a restructuring plan that affects 13 plants and 2,800 employees in North America and Europe and is expected to cost $325 million through 2012. The company expects to save $150 million in 2009 from the changes. "We are encouraged by ou More About: Consumer Goods , Loss
Stocks Losses Quickly Accelerating
2007-11-21 19:33:00 Stock losses accelerated Monday morning as worries about the banking sector and another spike in oil prices gave investors a reason to bail out of equities. The Dow Jones industrial average lost over 1% over an hour into the session. The S&P 500 index lost 1.2%. The Nasdaq composite declined 1%. Small cap stocks were hit harder with the Russell 2000 falling 2.1%. Market breadth was negative. On the New York Stock Exchange, losers topped winners five to one on volume of 390 million shares. On the Nasdaq, decliners topped advancers by m More About: Stocks , Accelerating , Losses
Alberta Royalty Law comment
2007-11-20 22:29:00 Everyone by now knows of the Alberta Royalty Review Panel's report released in September and the negative effect it had on the shares of companies working in the oil sands sector. Buried within the report is an important fact which should be noted. Syncrude (Canadian Oil Sands underlying asset) may have legal recourse if the royalty rate is raised due to its having signed a ?Crown Agreement' which fixes royalties until 2015. More About: Comment , Ty Law
The Nikkei and Hang Seng
2007-11-20 18:26:00 2007 has been a year to be long Hong Kong and short Japan. Investment advisors are now seeing value in Japan with sentiments similar to last year. Hong Kong has had a very nice run in 2007 but will the gains continue? More About: Investment Ideas , Hang , Nikkei , Hang Seng
Chart of the Week - COPY
2007-11-20 17:14:00 This week's Char t of the Week is COPY, a stock that has been in the process of breaking out over the last two weeks. The initial breakout occurred on November 5th, and after a brief pull-back and consolidation, the stock broke out to a new high on Friday. (Read the full story at http://trade4cash.blogspot.com/2007/11/ch art-of-week-copy.html) More About: Investment Ideas , Copy
Och-Ziffs not-so-zippy IPO
2007-11-20 17:14:00 "As the saying goes on Wall Street: 'You're only as good as your last deal.'" Amazingly, Och-Ziff was able to raise $1.15 billion in its offering yesterday after alternative investment manager IPOs have not faired so well (see Fortress Investment Group (FIG) and Blackstone (BX). This deal is actually one of the largest IPOs for the year. Revenues have been growing quite well. For the first nine months of 2007, revenues were $731.8 million, up from $661.5 million in the same period a year ago. Assets under management are about $30 More About: Financial , Zippy
Thain to Take Top Post at Merrill
2007-11-20 17:14:00 John Thain , CEO of NYSE Euronext, has agreed to take the top post at brokerage house Merrill Lynch & Co., according to a person familiar with the matter. The move is somewhat unexpected as many insiders on Wall Street were speculating Merrill Lynch's board would tap BlackRock Inc. CEO Larry Fink. Mr. Thain was also rumored to be considering the top job at Citigroup to fill the spot of former Chairman and CEO Chuck Prince. But Mr. Thain has remarked in the past that he wasn't that interested in the Citi job, viewing it as a very difficu More About: Financial , Post
13 Ways to Invest in Turkey
2007-11-20 16:35:00 Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com came up with 13 stocks, in one of the fastest growing economies in the world, that you need to invest in or at least diversify your portfolio with these stocks. This list of stocks are all trading in the country of Turk ey (not Thanksgiving picks), and mostly Pink Sheets in the US. I wont go into the list in detail (you will have to check out Stockerblog.com) but here is some interesting facts on Turkey that Fred did have on the blog: 1. It is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. 2. It is ranked 16 More About: Investment Ideas , Invest
Mid-week Global Stock Market Commentary
2007-11-20 00:20:00 In the US, the NYSE advance-decline line is showing continued weakness. If one compares the NYSE and NASDAQ advance-decline charts over the past 3 year period you see a real dichotomy. As the NYSE moved up the NASDAQ moved down. More About: Commentary , Stock Market , Market , Global , Stock
FedEx Hits 2 Year Low as Fuel Prices Increase
2007-11-19 22:44:00 FedEx shares fell as much as 5%, touching their lowest level since early 2006 as oil prices have shot the fuel prices up dramatically. "Since we provided earnings guidance for the second quarter in September, our fuel costs have increased more than 8 percent, or $85 million," Alan Graf, executive vice president and chief financial officer, said in a statement. Unfortunately, that is the only thing that is effecting the bottom line. Another economic problem is hurting the shipping company, the Housing Market. "Like the rest of the More About: Services , Fuel , Hits , Year , Prices
Green Tech Investing - Todd Woody Profile
2007-11-19 22:43:00 Profile for Todd Woody, who runs the Green Wombat blog and is a senior editor at Fortune and reports breaking news about green tech investments and research. More About: Technology , Tech , Investing , Profile
Sectors to watch as China Raises Oil Processing 12% to Meet Demand
2007-11-19 17:55:00 I believe this piece of news should be followed for possible beneficiaries off this move. I'm not a commodity trader, so I won't pretend to be able to call oil going to $50 or going to $100, but refined petroleum products in this case might benefit refiners and oil shippers. Refiner capacity is not just shorthanded in the U.S. where we haven't built a refiner in decades, but not enough refiners are being build worldwide to keep up with demand. According to comments made in the past by Valero, this means oil might be refined on one conti More About: Watch , China , Basic Materials , Meet , Demand
ELEMENTS Platform Launches Dow "Dogs" ETN
2007-11-19 17:55:00 The ELEMENTS ETN platform added another ETN to its lineup with the launch of the ELEMENTS Dow Jones High Yield Select 10 Total Return Index ETN, bringing its total to seven products. For those unfamiliar with an ETN, Exchange traded notes (ETNs) are debt securities issued by a financial institution, listed on a stock exchange, and traded in the secondary market. Like anything traded on the secondary market, it is priced by supply and demand, the current performance of the index, and the credit rating of the ETN issuer. The methodology More About: Dogs , Elements , Investment Ideas , Platform , Element
S&P 500, 1150 by the 2008 elections
2007-11-19 16:34:00 Alan Brochstein of AnalystforHire is predicting the Dow drops to 1150 by the 2008 elections. His thought is that we are in a bear market after an impressive five year run. He doesn't think it will last long, but it will hit hard, retracing at least ½ of the gains in the S&P 500. From trough to peak, the rally was about 800 points over those 5 years. He expects to see a total decline of 400 points or so over the next year and change. So far we have given up just over 100. The big catalyst for this drop, the housing market. Check out his a More About: Elections
Gold On the Move Sooner Than We Predicted
2007-11-19 16:34:00 Patience is called for at the risk of missing a buying opportunity as we still have little doubt that gold, silver at the other precious metals are on an upward trend to the end of the decade. More About: Gold , Basic Materials , Move
Corning Lifts Outlook and Cramer Says, "Buy, Buy, Buy"
More articles from this author:2007-11-19 03:58:00 Corning, the maker of fiber-optic equipment and liquid-crystal-display glass, boosted its fourth-quarter outlook just weeks after projecting results below analysts' expectations. They now expect earnings of 38 cents to 40 cents a share on sales of $1.53 to $1.56 billion. Last month, the company projected earnings of 36 cents to 38 cents a share on revenue of $1.5 billion to $1.55 billion. The gross margin outlook was also increased to 48% to 49% from 47% to 48%. The President and Chief Operating Officer Peter F. Volanakis attributed the in More About: Technology , Outlook , Cramer , Cram 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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