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Tom Konrad says owning a wind farm is about to become less risky. Wind power is cheap and clean and producers should now enjoy reduced variability of returns.
There are three essential follow up posts to the New York Times article that dropped like a bombshell on General Electric (NYSE: GE) when it claimed GE did not pay any income tax on its $5.1 billion in profits last year. First up, Allan Sloan and Jeff Gerth from ProPublica […]
Michael Arold, based in Germany, aims to exploit market inefficiencies using a momentum-based trading strategy. He has a strong engineering background and currently works in the software industry. Here’s how Michael’s Covestor model, Technical Swing, works: Using multiple technical indicators, this model surveys movements in the market and the sectors […]
January 27th, which fell to $20.20 on January 28th. CMCSA closed at $23.31 on January 27th, then fell to $22.84 on January 28th. In other MA news, Verizon
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the trade deficit dropped 13 percent–from $44.6 billion in September to $38.7 billion in October. The report (which you can view here) illustrates this increase in demand for U.S. goods, but also shows that the gap between imported goods and exported goods is still […]
While we have a slew of economic data coming this week, today gave us nothing but corporate acquisitions. Some of the major players in the merger and acquisition activity today included Cisco Systems Inc (NASDAQ: CSCO) who completed its acquisition of LineSider Technologies Inc., Dell Inc (NASDAQ: DELL) who announced […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Consumer Price Index Summary for September today (you can access the release here). The data shows a 1.1 percent unadjusted increase over the past 12 months and an increase of .1 percent during the month of September. The Census Bureau also released September […]
Author: Bob Gay, GEARS Disclaimer: Bob Gay owns FCS in his Covestor Earnings Surprise model. October 8, 2010: At GEARS we have developed unique tools to find improving fundamentals companies when their share price is depressed and identify deteriorating fundamentals companies when their share price is extended. To perform that […]
After impressive gains yesterday, U.S. markets were mixed on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 22.70 points to 10,967.42 while the Nasdaq fell 19.17 points to 2,380.66. The S&P 500 also closed lower, falling .83 points to 1,159.92. While we got some good news yesterday about the manufacturing […]
General Electric Co (NYSE:GE) announced today that they would be raising their dividend by 20%, motivating investors to bump their price by just over 3%. While this means their dividend is still lower than it was in 2009 before they were forced to reduce it, the increase indicates a positive […]
Earnings season got off to a great start today with the earnings announcement from Alcoa (NYSE: AA) and CSX Corp (NYSE: CSX) making headlines. Both companies recorded an earnings surprise pattern in their fundamentals last quarter. The Earnings Surprise model owns Alcoa (NYSE: AA). The positive surprise pattern in the […]