There are many major stocks to watch this coming week as The Unusual Suspects… We tried to refrain from many earnings previews as earnings season still has too many players to single out just a few. This week’s installment of The Unusual Suspects includes Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU), American Apparel, Inc. [[ This is a content summary only.
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2010 may be a directionless year for the stock markets so far, but shares of conglomerates are outperforming and more upside is expected. The five largest conglomerates we follow are all higher for the year. We took a look at General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), 3M Co
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is all over the news. It has the highly awaited iPad launch coming out and now it has a new iPhone coming that is supposed to run on the CDMA network that would allow it to sell the phone through Verizon. And Apple keeps putting in new 52-week highs and new [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
This week’s list of UNUSUAL SUSPECTS for stocks to watch is actually much different than what we have seen in other reports. Earnings season is finally over, so we only have two earnings we gave previews and color in for H&R Block Inc. (NYSE: HRB) and Tivo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO). Apple Inc.
McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has enjoyed the status of being the greatest restaurant story in history. In our lifetime, or in any for that matter, the company grew from a start-up to a Dow Jones Industrial Average component with over 32,000 restaurants in its global empire. But what gets interesting is that McDonald’s is not just [[ This is a content summary only.
A deal for UK insurance company Prudential to buy AIG’s (AIG) large Asia insurance firm for $35.5 billion will be announced today. That should be a relief for US taxpayers who have invested $182 billion in the AIG bailout.
Top 2010 Stock Picks from… Everyone (AAPL, GE, CMCSA, MRVL, BIDU, DRYS, POT, LVLT, C, CVX, HPQ, KBH)
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2009 is over, for better or worse. Now it is time to look ahead. We wanted to look for the best top stock picks for 2010 from our partners and from key financial websites. We compiled all of these 2010 stock picks into grouped lists with links directly to each, but there was one standout [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is going to soon be out of the TARP. The report was first out by CNBC’s Charlie Gasparino right after 5 PM that Bank of America is about to do a large capital raise to exit out of the TARP. The the Wall Street Journal reported that Bank of [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
There is still some conversation about the federal government restricting short-selling activity in certain stocks. The counter-argument to these restrictions is that short selling plays an important role in the valuation of securities by efficiently allowing investors to bet that a stock will fall as readily as they can bet that they will rise. Short [[ This is a content summary only.
