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- Housing: Still A Broken Market
- Sony SmartWatch: Juggling A Handsfree Life
- Friday The 13th: Data Deluge
- TECO Energy & Chesapeake Make Deal
- FelCor Divests Non-Core Assets
- Textron Gets MEUAS II Contract
- Invesco’s March AUM Marginally Up
- Google Mixed, Announces 2-for-1 Split
- Whirlpool Opens New Plant
- NetApp Joins With Cisco
- Jacobs Holds A Balanced Stance
- FDA Approves Lilly’s Amyvid
- March First-time Foreclosures Jump 7%
- March Sales Spur TJX To Up Guidance
- Stocks Advance On Hopes For Global Growth, Hewlett-Packard
- Leap Partners T-Mobile
- Earnings Preview: JPMorgan
- Tenet Enters Civil Settlement Deal
- Workers Quitting Jobs Is Highest In Three Years
- PNC Financial To Redeem $500M TruPS
- BHP Billiton In News Again
- State Tax Revenues Rose In All States In 2011, Led By An Energy-Related Gain Of 44.5% In N. Dakota
- Foster Wheeler Wins Award
- Thermo Fisher’s Seoul Venture
- CAT Hives Aussie Distribution Biz
- Economist On The Street: Fundamentals & Friday The 13th
- The Trend Trader For Stock Trading On Friday, April 13, 2012
- The Trend Trader For ETF Trading On Friday, April 13, 2012
- The Trend Trader For Forex Trading On Friday, April 13, 2012
- The Trend Trader For Futures Trading On Friday, April 13, 2012
- SP500 Gann Angle Review, Will History Repeat?
| Housing: Still A Broken Market Posted: 12 Apr 2012 04:55 PM PDT Aside from everything else — including a still-massive overhang of properties for sale — the fact that ultra-cheap financing is not enough to induce a suffcient number of buyers to step up and take the plunge makes it apparent that we are nowhere near a bottom in the housing market.
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| Sony SmartWatch: Juggling A Handsfree Life Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:58 PM PDT 04/12/12 Sony launched its SmartWatch for Android owners who could use a helping hand to juggle technology and daily … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 10:20 AM PDT 04/12/12 It will be heavy on the global economic calendar with the release of China’s GDP and the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index. Earnings from JP Morgan and Wells Fargo will be closely … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| TECO Energy & Chesapeake Make Deal Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:04 PM PDT TECO Energy, Inc.'s (NYSE:TE) subsidiary Peoples Gas System has entered into an agreement with Florida Public Utilities Company ("FPU"), a wholly-owned arm of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE:CPK) for the distribution of natural gas to Nassau County and Amelia Island. This project has already received approval from the Florida Public Service Commission.
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| FelCor Divests Non-Core Assets Posted: 12 Apr 2012 03:04 PM PDT FelCor Lodging Trust Inc. (NYSE:FCH), a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns upper-upscale hotels, has recently decided to sell 6 non-core assets to an unnamed buyer for $103.0 million, representing a cap rate of 6.8% based on 2011 net operating income. About $3.9 million of the purchase price was paid in advance in cash, and the transaction is expected to close in second quarter 2012.
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| Textron Gets MEUAS II Contract Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, has won the competitive Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MEUAS) II award from the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The three-year award, valued at just under $600 million, includes support operations using AAI’s Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS). Total initial funding for these activities is $20 million.
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| Invesco’s March AUM Marginally Up Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT Invesco Ltd. (NYSE:IVZ) announced a 0.8% rise in its preliminary month-end assets under management (AUM) for the month of March 2012. The company's AUM for the reported month was $672.8 billion compared with $667.6 billion at the end of February 2012.
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| Google Mixed, Announces 2-for-1 Split Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT As search engine king Google, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced 1st quarter earnings results after the bell Thursday and market bloggers grabbed our calculators to check whether the company topped the Zacks Consensus Estimate on earnings and revenue, Google subsequently sprung unexpected news of a 2-for-1 stock split of GOOG shares. Diluted earnings per share reached $8.75 for GOOG’s Q1 results (excluding traffic acquisition costs, or TAC), on $8,140 million in revenues. Thus, it amounts to a mixed … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE:WHR) has opened a million-square-feet facility in East Tennessee that will manufacture premium cooking products. The new facility, replacing a 123-year-old plant at the same location, will add 130 jobs to the company's 1,500 people workforce.
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT Networking major Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) joined hands with NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP), to introduce a new cloud product, which is expected to help more customers accelerate their transition to the cloud. The companies recently announced plans to extend the FlexPod with a series of new pre-validated design architectures priced and sized for smaller workloads.
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| Jacobs Holds A Balanced Stance Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT We reiterate our Neutral recommendation on Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC). While the company's growing international exposure is impressive, rising construction and labor costs are the expected dampeners.
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:55 PM PDT The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Eli Lilly and Company's (NYSE:LLY) radioactive diagnostic agent, Amyvid (florbetapir F 18 Injection). Amyvid has been designed to help detect the density of beta-amyloid plaques in patients (with cognitive impairment) who are being evaluated for Alzheimer’s disease and other causes of cognitive decline.
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| March First-time Foreclosures Jump 7% Posted: 12 Apr 2012 02:00 PM PDT 04/12/12 According to data from RealtyTrac Inc., the number of homes that received first-time foreclosure notices rose 7% in March from the previous … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| March Sales Spur TJX To Up Guidance Posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:35 PM PDT The off-price apparel and home fashions retailer The TJX Companies Inc. (NYSE:TJX) posted a 10% increase in comparable-store sales for the five-week period ended in March 31, 2012. Total sales for the month moved up 14% to $2.3 billion from $2.0 billion in March 2011.
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| Stocks Advance On Hopes For Global Growth, Hewlett-Packard Posted: 12 Apr 2012 08:30 AM PDT 04/12/12 Encouraging signs from China and Europe drove the US stock market Thursday to one of its best days this … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:20 PM PDT In order to combat the issue of spectrum limitation, Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ:LEAP) recently entered into a strategic relationship with T-Mobile to swap their spectrum in major cities in the U.S.
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:10 PM PDT JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) is scheduled to report its first quarter 2012 results before the market opens on Friday, April 13. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the quarter is $1.17 per share, representing a year-over-year slump of about 9%.
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| Tenet Enters Civil Settlement Deal Posted: 12 Apr 2012 01:04 PM PDT Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE:THC) has opted for a $42.75 million civil settlement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia and the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services in connection with over-billing of Medicare. The company was facing allegations that it admitted several Medicare patients to 25 of its inpatient rehabilitation facilities during May 2005–December 2007, even though the patients did not qualify for such treatment.
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| Workers Quitting Jobs Is Highest In Three Years Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:57 PM PDT In another sign that the labor market is slowing recovering, the number of workers quitting their jobs is rising (see chart above). In February, almost 2.1 million Americans quit their jobs, and it was the sixth month out of the last eight months that more than 2 million workers voluntarily left their job. The February count was the highest number of monthly quits since November 2008, more than three years ago. From a related Wall Street Journal article: “Strategists at ConvergEx … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| PNC Financial To Redeem $500M TruPS Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:50 PM PDT On Tuesday, The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE:PNC) has announced that it will redeem trust preferred securities (TruPS) further. These include redemption of 6.625% preferred securities worth $500 million issued by National City Capital Trust III.
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:50 PM PDT Two conflicting events placed BHP Billiton Ltd (NYSE:BHP) on a delicate ground this week. On the positive, the company received funding approval for a spar facility project. Undermining the optimism was the closure of its Norwich Park coal mine.
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| State Tax Revenues Rose In All States In 2011, Led By An Energy-Related Gain Of 44.5% In N. Dakota Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:44 PM PDT 1. CNBC — “Tax collection rose in all 50 states in fiscal 2011, and in nine states increased by more than 10 percent, according to U.S. Census data released on Thursday that marked the end of a severe revenue collapse. Tax collections rose the most in North Dakota, 44.5 percent, followed by oil giant Alaska, 22.4 percent. They were up 17.4 percent in California, 15.3 percent in Illinois and 15.1 percent in New Mexico. Wyoming, also a state that produces energy sources, had revenue … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:35 PM PDT Foster Wheeler AG (NASDAQ:FWLT) received the International Headquarters Award from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). The prestigious award was conferred to Foster Wheeler Asia Pacific, a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler's Global Engineering and Construction Group. For over 40 years, Foster Wheeler Asia Pacific has been working on various projects in Singapore and other regions.
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| Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:20 PM PDT With the objective of further strengthening its operations in the emerging markets, Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE:TMO) has opened a new demonstration laboratory and training center in Seoul, South Korea. The 1,800-square-foot facility will showcase the company's portfolio of analytical instrumentation, software and consumables.
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| CAT Hives Aussie Distribution Biz Posted: 12 Apr 2012 12:10 PM PDT Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) is selling the distribution and support unit, formerly operated by Bucyrus International Inc. in Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. The business will be bought by WesTrac Pty Limited of South Guildford, Western Australia, for $400 million. The sale of the unit is part of its integration of Bucyrus. WesTrac is a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven Group Holdings Limited and is one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in the … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| Economist On The Street: Fundamentals & Friday The 13th Posted: 12 Apr 2012 11:47 AM PDT 04/12/12 Meridian Equity Partners’ Stephen Guilfoyle talks about global fundamentals and what to expect from Friday’s earnings and economic data … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| The Trend Trader For Stock Trading On Friday, April 13, 2012 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT By ForexMansion.com The Trend Trader for the Dow 30 Stocks In alphabetical order by symbol Close 3×1 7×5 AA – Alcoa Inc Bullish AXP – American Express Company Bullish BA – Boeing Co Neutral BAC – Bank of America Corporation Neutral CAT – Caterpillar Inc
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| The Trend Trader For ETF Trading On Friday, April 13, 2012 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT By ForexMansion.com The Trend Trader for ETFs The top 40 ETFs by net assets Close 3×1 7×5 AGG – iShares Lehman Aggregate Bd Fd Neutral BND – Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF Neutral DBC – DB Commodity Index Tracking Fd Neutral DIA – SPDR DJ Industrial Average ETF
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| The Trend Trader For Forex Trading On Friday, April 13, 2012 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT By ForexMansion.com The Trend Trader for Forex THE BIG SIX Close 3×1 7×5 AUDUSD – Aust Dollar / US Dollar Bullish EURUSD – Euro / US Dollar Bullish GBPUSD – British Pound / US Dollar Bullish USDCAD – US Dollar / Canadian Dollar Bearish USDCHF – US Dollar / … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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| The Trend Trader For Futures Trading On Friday, April 13, 2012 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 05:02 AM PDT By ForexMansion.com The Trend Trader for Futures INDICES Close 3×1 7×5 S&P 500 – Jun ESM2 Neutral Dow Jones – Jun YMM2 Neutral Nasdaq – Jun NQM2 Neutral Russell – Jun TFM2 Neutral INTEREST RATES US T-Bond – Jun ZBM2
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| SP500 Gann Angle Review, Will History Repeat? Posted: 10 Apr 2012 03:33 PM PDT After 3 months of nothing more that 1% decline, the SP500 is playing catch up and is down 4.2% (mid day April 10th 2012). The Gann Angle study has become very interesting. Here is a quick catch up.UPDATE1 The Gann Angle 1×2 (time by price) has been an excellent lock in profits line on the juice rallys since March 2009. However when they break, the downside gets a little more serious. This market was pumped up for selling, therefore a sell off from 142 to 136 (-4%) is heaps better than a … [visit site to read more] or compare Credit Card Rewards and Best Credit Cards
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