By Jason Schwarz: << Return to Part I From a big-picture perspective, Europe has become a region without a defined political or economic identity. For more than 60 years in Western Europe and 20 years in Eastern Europe, elected leaders have been given the charge to govern their respective nations in a form of democracy [...]
By Morningstar: By Robert Goldsborough The stock prices of companies engaged in exploring for or mining coal have been hammered in recent weeks. Since July, coal companies’ seesaw-like share prices have been more down than up, amid investor concern about broad macroeconomic uncertainty. In the last three months, a basket of coal industry companies found [...]
Shares of GameStop Corporation (GME: Charts, News, Offers) rose 0.39 or +1.74% to 22.75 in trading on Tuesday after an article appeared in Bloomberg suggesting the possibility of the company being a prime takeover target, according to some analysts…. This article was written by InvestorGuide.com.
By ETF Prophet: By Engineering Returns Traders seek to find the next BIG think ala Apple, Bidu and co. Often times this desire is founded by the underlying assumption that taking higher risk is rewarded with higher returns. Furthermore many traders believe in an efficient market where as one can outperform the market only by [...]
By Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the Lightning Round session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV Program, Tuesday November 29. Bullish Calls: Schlumberger (SLB), Ensco (ESV): “…I like Schlumberger and Ensco better than Halliburton.” SPDR Gold Trust (GLD): “I’m going to recommend that you buy the GLD.” Dow Chemical (DOW): “4% yield, incredibly well-run…I’ll take [...]
By Amit Chokshi: One of the challenges with non-stop economic news/noise is that it can be difficult to focus on the fundamental underpinnings of individual companies. While the broad economic outlook is admittedly poor, some stocks seem to have derisked significantly and carry valuations across a number of metrics that would suggest significant undervaluation. Lexmark [...]
By Scott Taylor: This post is a fuller analysis of my recent investment recommendation of TranSwitch Corp. (TXCC) (See Part 1 here). Most of the charts and slides below are from a presentation (.pdf) and webcast that Ali Khatibzadeh, the CEO, made recently at the Southwest IDEAS conference in Dallas. In this article, I am [...]
By Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the in-depth session of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money TV Program, Tuesday November 29. CurrencyShares Euro Trust ETF (FXE) The most accurate measure for U.S. stocks recently has been the euro. In fact 85% of the time, the S&P 500 and the CurrencyShares Euro Trust ETF (FXE) have been trading [...]
By Carl Dincesen: Jefferson County, Alabama’s widely reported filing for bankruptcy protection is the largest ever filed by a U.S. municipality. This action, threatened for almost two years, became reality when a refinancing deal at about 66% on the dollar collapsed. The system can generate only about half of the amount necessary to pay debt [...]
Q3 September 2011 results of movie theater operator/owner and real estate developer Reading International (RDI) (RDIB) (highlighted in this Just One Stock interview and these other Seeking Alpha articles) again showed continued growth in revenues, operating income and operating margin vs. prior year. Furthermore, Reading’s stock price trades at the biggest discount to book value/share [...]