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Good Stocks To Watch For 2012: Crude Oil to Drop 10%?
Tweet U.S. equity markets, currencies and commodities alike, have been trading very wildly, most bearish, during Thursday trading session. Some of the market swings came from the 25 basis point rate cut by the European Central Bank to 1 percent, in-line with estimates. However, most of the volatility came during ECB’s President Mario Draghi press conference afterwards. Draghi stated that he did not foresee further bond purchases. He went on to say that comments he had made last week might have been misinterpreted. Draghi explained that current treaties made debt monetization illegal, and the ECB was forced to respect the legality of these agreements. These comments in-turn caused equity markets and commodities like gold, crude, RBOB, and copper to all fall on heavy volume. Since the end of September, crude oil has been trading in a fairly tight channel. The commodity gained 37% from the October low of $74.95 to the November ... … Read entire article »
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Good Stocks To Watch For 2012: It’s Lights Out For Utilities Investors
Tweet While 2011 had most investors muttering to themselves over debt standoffs here and in Europe, shareholders of utility stocks were riding a bolt of lightning to supercharged returns. The industry, known for stability and high dividends, was the best-performing of the Dow sector indexes. The Dow Jones Utility Average returned 14%, not including dividends, and some of the biggest players in the industry performed even better. Source: YCharts. Source: YCharts. As you can see from the chart above, when the market tanked in August, utilities hardly flinched. And since then their outperformance has only increased. Equity returns of 20% plus dividend yields near 5% had shareholders’ hair standing on their heads in an otherwise flat year. Lights outThose investors still holding electric companies may want to keep a couple of candles and a book of matches handy. Utility stocks are looking more and more overpriced, driven by investors seeking shelter in high-yielding dividends away from ... … Read entire article »
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Good Stocks To Watch For 2012: Saab calls it quits
Tweet NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Swedish automaker Saab has filed for bankruptcy after months of struggle to stay alive. Saab’s owners have turned the company’s assets over to a Swedish court-appointed receiver. General Motors (GM, Fortune 500), Saab’s former owner, had objected to a recently proposed deal under which the company would have been sold to Chinese investors including carmaker Zhejiang Youngman Lotus Automobile. The deal required GM’s cooperation because it still supplies parts, designs and engineering for Saab products. China is one of GM’s largest markets and the U.S. automaker was reportedly concerned that its technology could end up in competing vehicles. GM still maintains an ownership stake in Saab. Saab’s greatest hits (and misses) The Board of Saab Automobile subsequently decided that without further funding the company will be insolvent, and that filing bankruptcy was in the best interests of its creditors. There is a chance that Saab could be purchased, in whole ... … Read entire article »
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Good Stocks To Watch For 2012: Irregular Volume of Tempur-Pedic International Inc – NYSE -TPX
Tweet Tempur-Pedic International Inc (NYSE:TPX) witnessed volume of 2.54 million shares during last trade however it holds an average trading capacity of 1.83 million shares. TPX last trade opened at $53.16 reached intraday low of $48.60 and went -7.97% down to close at $48.93. TPX has a market capitalization $3.23 billion and an enterprise value at $3.91 billion. Trailing twelve months price to sales ratio of the stock was 2.61 while price to book ratio in most recent quarter was 35.26. In profitability ratios, net profit margin in past twelve months appeared at 15.60% whereas operating profit margin for the same period at 24.28%. The company made a return on asset of 26.41% in past twelve months and return on equity of 250.56% for similar period. In the period of trailing 12 months it generated revenue amounted to $1.34 billion gaining $19.81 revenue per share. Its year over year, quarterly growth of revenue ... … Read entire article »
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