From Gannon On Investing Yesterday, I concluded my post "On Calculating Normalized P/E Ratios" with this graph of the percentage difference between the Dow’s actual earnings and its 15-year normalized earnings for each year…
From Gannon On Investing So far, I’ve referenced normalized P/E ratios in four of my posts: "On 15-Year Normalized P/E Ratios for the Dow", "On Normalized P/E Ratios and the Election Cycle", "On Normalized…
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by H.S. AyoubBioHealthInvestor.com Unless you have been under a rock, and not under a bed cover, you have probably heard of Pfizer’s (PFE) Viagra and ICOS’s (ICOS) Cialis, the erectile dysfunction blockbuster drugs that…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas ChangeWave Research shows that consumers have been very resilient. I’ve posted a few images below of overall spending patterns and summary of key findings which will…
What happens when the inconceivable becomes the possible? The Linux open source group and several allies asked the Supreme Court to invalidate all software patenets. Every last one. The group has its motives. There…
Can Google keep growing at 50%? Perhaps, but its initiative in newspaper and radio will have to do well to buttress internet sales. And, Google’s new ad platform’s are still untested, at least across…
Accoding to Reuters, Toyota and Ford did not discuss a tie-up at a meeting of their senior management in Japan. Reuters writes that McClatchy sold the Minneapolis Star Tribune for $580 million to a…
Stocks: (CAJ)(FUJ)(HIT)(HMC)(NTT)(NIPNY)(SNE)(TM)(CHL)(CN)(PCW)(HBC) Asian markets rose with the Hang Seng up sharply. The Nikkei was up .3% to 17,223. Canon was up .4% to 6710 Fuji Film was up .2% to 4910 Hitachi was up…
DaimlerChrysler has about $190 billion in revenue per year. At last quarter’s run rate, Chrysler was about $49 billion of that. But, last quarter Chrysler lost about $1.5 billion. Some of Daimler’s shareholders would…
Stocks: (TM)(AMZN)(MSFT)(INTC)(SIRI)(AMAT)(TWX) As dusk settled on Wall St., the markets closed up. The Dow rose .56% to 12,412. The Nasdaq rose .51% to 2,414. The S&P rose .48% to 1,418. There were reports that…
Late word out of Japan is that Ford’s CEO met with top management at Toyota. The reports says that Ford is intererested in Toyota’s hybrid technology and sourcing of less expensive parts. The only…
Amazon said it had its best holiday season ever. Period. One one day, December 11, customer orders topped four million items. The company even announced its best sellers. In consumer electronics, the iPod. In…
China has announced that it is going to slow outside investment in the nation’s car industry. Sales of cars in China will grow about 22% this year to seven million and 15% next. It…
By Yaser Anwar, CSC of Equity Investment Ideas One quick thing- Starting from today which ever stock I pick I’m going to include a link to Stock Pickr which shall reveal which institutions are…
Verizon Wireless has decided that ads on cell phone are the next big way to make money in the wireless business. Advertising on mobile devices is in its infancy. Revenue from the marketing source…
The day after Chritmas, the market opens anew. Holiday retail sales were poor, rising only 5.5%. Stores must now hope that after-holiday sales drive better numbers. Oil prices increased because of strained relationships with…
Microsoft thinks it has come up with a way to out-Google Google. Target display ads by consumer behavior. The big software company is going to track the interests of its 263 million Hotmail users…
Stocks: (XOM)(COP)(CVX) Between November and December, the short interest in Exxon rose 5.9 million shares to 58.5 million. Over at Chevron, shares short were up 5.1 million to 32.6 million. At Conoco shares short…
Short interest in Pfizer rose 6.8 million shares to 51.1 million in December. Market fears that generics will eat away at revenues at Big Pharma is not helping. But, Pfizer is unique now. Its…