There is one industry out of the 230, which StockDiagnostics.com’s computer and I follow that is head and shoulders above all health care related industries. It’s the Health Care Facilities and Services Industry. In looking among all of the industries within the Health Care Sector to write this column, I [...]
Friday’s (December 4, 2009) stock market action was ominous because the market reacted negatively even though the unemployment data for November 2009, was much better than anticipated. After it was announced that unemployment fell to 10.0% in November from 10.2% in October the major stock market indices including the Dow 30 Industrials and the S&P [...]
Two of the biggest acquisitions of Computer Services Industry members, Affiliated Computer Services and Perot Systems occurred during the month of September of 2009. The acquisitions of these two respectively by Xerox and Dell indicate that a major shift is going on as those companies who manufacture and sell computers and office equipment are seeking [...]
Dow Industrials up 85 points yesterday. The shares of only six of the 30 were down; BA, JNJ, KO, MRK, WMT, XOM.
Volatility in the markets is picking up. China’s benchmark index fell by 4.3% overnight and is now down 20% from its 2009 peak, which occurred two weeks ago. The Chinese market fell by 70% [...]
Dow up 83 points yesterday. The shares of 5 out of the 30 Dow companies were down. Dow stocks led by GE up 7% and AA, BAC, CAT, DD, each up by 4%.
Dow member Chevron reported it results for its second quarter this morning.
Sales and other operating were $40 billion, compared with $81 billion in [...]
Two of the companies, which were featured on the “Bear Market Boot Camp” show on LiveStream.com on July 28, 2009, were analyzed because they made StockTrendNews.com headlines. Both were selected for the show because they have cash flow fundamentals for their quarter just ended June 30, 2009. They are Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [...]
The major indices closed on their highs for the week ending Friday July 24th. The big week was propelled by the failure of the Obama administrative to get new health care legislation passed before the August recess.
On Friday the Dow 30 Industrials composite was led by the three drug stock components, Merck, (NYSE:MRK), Pfizer, (NYSE:PFE) [...]
Dow down 35 points on Friday. Now two consecutive weeks of declines for the Dow. 20/30 Dow stocks down on Friday. Biggest losers down more than 1% were AXP, BA, CVX, HPQ, MSFT, WMT, XOM, Biggest gainers BAC and MRK.
VOLUME is drying up and this spells the end of the bear market rally.
For E*TRADE’s twelve months ended March 31, 2009 Free Cash Flow was $2,714,386,000, compared with $201,503,000, a more than 1,000% increase over the comparable year earlier twelve months. Free Cash Flow for the most recent twelve months also reached a nine year high. Share price and company valuation has not yet reflected a significant turnaround because [...]
All Dow stocks up yesterday. The big news is that two of the members of the Dow 30, C and GM were both removed. GM was the second oldest member of the Dow since 1925. The oldest Dow member is GE.
The two replacements are CSCO and TRV. Travelers inclusion into [...]