Carnival of Stocks and Options #4
Welcome to the November 5, 2012 edition of Carnival of Stocks and Options Carlos Sera presents A Transformative Tale; Financial Tales posted atFinancial Tales, saying, “In this tale, A Transformative...
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McKesson Benefits as the Population gets Older
An aging population unfortunately means a sicker one. No matter how far the boundaries of human life expectancy the final years of life tend to be ones of greater disease. Also, it seems to be easier...
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One Stop Shops Costco and Wal-Mart Will Be Ascendant for Years
The internet may be chipping away at most retailers, even some clothing stores will lose ground. Clothing is not in any apocalyptic danger so don’t go pressing the eject button on anything. Some big...
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Carnival of Fundamental Analysis #4
Welcome to the November 12, 2012 edition of Carnival of Fundamental Analysis. stefanz presents Successful investors: Sir John Maynard Keynes – Investing: Strategy, Risk, Tools, and more… – Skuzet...
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Options 101 – What is an Option Premium?
An option premium is the value of an option contract. I wish that were the end of it, but understanding a premium is critical to understanding options. At its purest form premium only refers to that...
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Natural Gas the Fossil Fuel of the Near-Future
There is no way that natural gas can remain as cheap as it is in the United States without demand catching up eventually. Natural gas is not a cheap inferior fuel. It is a fantastic fuel that is...
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Westport Innovations has an Audacious but Potentially Accurate View of the...
I admire Westport Innovations Inc. (Nasdaq: WPRT) for going out on a limb in the earnings call. It really was nothing that special, but it stuck with me. The CEO stated without qualification that the...
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Activision-Blizzard’s Pattern of Success Will Continue
The first 24 hours of Call of Duty: Black Ops II raked in half a billion in its first 24 hours. The record it broke was set by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 one year ago. Activision-Blizzard, Inc....
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Electronic Arts Needs to Remove the Chaff to Fatten Profits
I know there has been a bit of a video game slump due to various reasons, such as a drop in consumer spending or mobile gaming. For those in love with mobile gaming, the proliferation of these free...
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Disney is the Movie-Making Powerhouse for the Next Five Years
The Marvel cinematic universe really hit it out of the park. The quality of movies and the integration managed to work out really well. Obviously, some movies were better than others, but overall I...
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Natural Gas Distribution is a Growth Industry
English: A liquefied natural gas storage facility in Massachusetts. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There is so much buzz about the move to a natural gas economy. If a natural gas economy even relegated to a...
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General Motors Looking to the Future with Natural Gas
There are doubts about the future viability of natural gas. The reason for that exuberance right now is the price of natural gas. However, if natural gas is what everyone uses in their cars the price...
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Has Nvidia Run Out of Ways To Use Its Cash? Not Yet, but be Wary
English: NVIDIA Tegra T2 based Embedded Computer Module in SoDIMM format by Toradex, Switzerland (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If you were to ask someone high up in any company if they were out of good...
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Oil’s Dominance is Secure Far Into the Future
English: A Chevron Station with a White Spot inside of it on Vedder Road in Chilliwack. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What would the world be like without us The last few weeks I have been reading a lot...
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Tasty Fast Food Companies Worth Waiting For
A food court in the UAE. We are in the post-health craze world and fast food restaurants are still around. I suppose the healthy eating trend still exists, but it is not as red-hot as it was at the...
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Are there any Salvageable Computer Makers?
I used to own one of these. Notebooks did serious damage to desktop PCs, and now tablets are doing serious damage to notebooks. The cloud is adding salt to the wounds. Is the PC truly gone in either...
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Moving Natural Gas Fuel Distribution Inside the Home
English: Clean Energy natural gas station in Denver, Colorado in the Stapleton neighborhood. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are times when the world is so unimpressive, because the big innovations...
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Government Belt Tightening Creating Opportunity for Defense Stocks
The election is history and now we have a Democratic president amid fiscal cliffs, deficits, national debts, and a weak economy. Cutting defense spending is anathema to the public consciousness, or...
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New Direction for the Market Archive
Most of what I have posted at the Market Archive recently is available elsewhere, which does not give people much incentive to visit this site. I think I will try making occasional shorter posts with...
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Activision-Blizzard (ATVI) Set to Deliver Over Next Year
Activision-Blizzard (ATVI) has got to be one of my favorite stocks. It is partially because I can understand the stock really well. Video games are something I have been dealing with for a long time,...
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