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Hot Stocks (Sept 14, 2009): S, ETFC, AES, GT, CNX

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:25:00 GMT

US stocks were modestly higher on Monday as investors overlooked the growing trade dispute between US and China.[More...]

The Best Way To Play Upcoming Senate Brawl Over Cap & Trade May be Loading Up On Coal

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:32:00 GMT

Posted: For the Week of August 16-22, 2009 At the rate things are going, the best way for investors to play the upcoming brawl in the U.S. Senate over cap-and-trade may be to buy shares of the very companies this carbon-busting legislation is intended to squeeze out of business. We’re talking the ...[More...]

Biggest Declines Among S&P

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:05:02 GMT

The following is a list of the S&P 500 firms where the analysts have been cutting their expectations for the current fiscal year the most over the last month. Most likely these firms reported disappointing earnings or gave negative guidance on their conference calls. Historically, you have not wanted to be invested in companies where the analysts who follow them most closely see the earnings prospects diminishing. Also, estimates in motion tend to remain in motion. The first bit of bad news is rarely the last (the cockroach theory). This means that the current expectations, even though down from last month, are probably still to high for these firms. To weed out anomalies, only those firms that are currently expected to earn more than $0.50 in 2009 are included and only those firms where there are a minimum of three estimates in the system. If you have these stocks in your portfolio, you might want to reconsider[More...]

Boone Pickens' Hedge Fund BP Capital: Licking Wounds (13F Filing Q1 2009)

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:18:00 GMT

This is the 1st Quarter 2009 edition of our ongoing hedge fund portfolio tracking series. Before reading this update, make sure you check out the Hedge Fund 13F filings series preface. Next up, we have BP Capital. With all the commotion surrounding energy these days, it never hurts to track[More...]

One Stop Shopping For 'Energy' Exposure: Blackrock Energy And Resources

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:34:18 GMT

Let me preface this piece by saying I stole this specific instrument from Jeffrey Saut, who mentioned it in his weekly missive. Long time readers will know I've mentioned this market has become all about asset allocation, and sectors - I noticed this late in 2007 when we were hiding out in commodities while many other sectors were imploding but other than a few periods when "everything" is going down (or up) it appears a lot of individual stock selection is going out the window and "sectors" are more important. Some themes are broad like "China" or "commodities" (which in many ways are now the same theme), where others are narrower such as "casual dining restaurants". I don't know if its the dominance of program trading or the growing popularity of ETFs but this seems to be a secular change in the[More...]

What's Your Stock's Price Target?

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:10:28 GMT

I wrote about this back in February when the market was putting in its lows and everyone was wondering what their stock's price target was or how low it was going to go. Today, after a pretty big run up, people are still wondering what their stock's price target is, but now they're wondering how high it's going to go. Either way, it's important for everyone to know how to calculate their stock's price target. You can do this by using either technicals or fundamentals. Today, I'm going to focus on fundamentals. And we're going to use the P/E ratio to calculate it. Many people use P/E ratios to determine a company's perceived undervaluation or overvaluation. But you can also use the P/E ratio to determine a stock's upside and downside price targets as well. The[More...]

Market Vectors Coal (KOL) Red Hot

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:48:00 GMT

Coal was one of our best performing sector groups in latter 2007 through summer 2008. While much of the focus of late has been on natural gas, the coal stocks have been ripping in even larger magnitude. I was a bull on coal over natural gas (although the market in its student body left trading simply moves all commodities together) because of the portability of coal over natural gas. We were early on this theme as the market was so focused on oil stocks at the time, and made a lot of money (Dec 6, 2007: Coal Stocks Quietly in Bull Market) I wrote a bevy of pieces about this 1.5 years ago... but again, the market is not very granular nowadays; it likes big sweeping themes that are simple: i.e. commodities good. I have a litany of posts on just about[More...]

Recovery Derailed?

Tue, 19 May 2009 04:13:00 GMT

Highlights include Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC), Union Pacific Corp. (UNP), Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (BNI), CONSOL Energy Inc. (CNX) and Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU). One way to keep track of economic activity is to look at just how much stuff is moving around. In this case, the data from Railfax shown below is not very reassuring. Total rail traffic last week was down 24.4% from a week ago, and the decline is very broad-based across all of the major types of goods carried on the rails. [More...]

Soros Cuts Petrobras, Picks Up Retail And Nuclear

Mon, 18 May 2009 05:35:40 GMT

The fund filings are out. If you're wondering, these are the funds I like to track, and sometimes follow by buying the same stocks: -George Soros (Soros Fund Management) -Seth Klarman (Baupost Group) -John Paulson (Paulson & CO.) -Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) -David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital) -Bill Ackman (Pershing Square Capital Management) -Steve Cohen (SAC Capital Advisors) Today, I'm going to take a quick look at Soros' holdings. Soros Fund Management LLC, the investor’s hedge-fund firm, sold 5 million U.S. shares of Petrobras, as the Brazilian company is known, according to a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The New York-based firm’s remaining 32 million shares of the[More...]

How To Profit From The War On Greenhouse Gases

Wed, 13 May 2009 21:45:25 GMT

The EPA recently ruled that too much carbon dioxide is threatening the planet. What this does is make it a lot easier to regulate and tax emitters of this gas. So here we are in a shaky economy tottering on a ledge and along comes the EPA ready to shove it right off. As The Wall Street Journal reported: “The landmark decision lays the groundwork for federal efforts to cap carbon emissions - at a potential cost of billions of dollars to businesses and government.” In other words, the war on the so-called greenhouse gases is officially under way - and it is going to be expensive. Each passing month brings us closer to capping, taxing or cutting the gases thought to cause global warming. I don’t think investors appreciate how far-reaching such efforts could be. And there will be definite winners and losers as a result. Some of these are far from obvious and some are in plain[More...]

Coal in good shape, companies say

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:46:00 GMT

Nov. 5--Read more in
-- Despite complaints from industry lobbyists and coalfield politicians about an impending permit crisis, most major Appalachian coal producers are telling their shareholders that increased federal environmental reviews are not likely to disrupt production or cause layoffs anytime soon.
And two major producers -- Massey Energy and CONSOL Energy -- told industry analysts that they have more than adequate permits in place and could benefit if their competitors see new permits held up by the Obama administration.

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Hot Stocks (Sept 14, 2009): S, ETFC, AES, GT, CNX

The Best Way To Play Upcoming Senate Brawl Over Cap & Trade May be Loading Up On Coal

Biggest Declines Among S&P

Boone Pickens' Hedge Fund BP Capital: Licking Wounds (13F Filing Q1 2009)

One Stop Shopping For 'Energy' Exposure: Blackrock Energy And Resources

What's Your Stock's Price Target?

Market Vectors Coal (KOL) Red Hot

Recovery Derailed?

Soros Cuts Petrobras, Picks Up Retail And Nuclear

How To Profit From The War On Greenhouse Gases

Coal in good shape, companies say

Coal profits mask lack of US economic activity

Energy Leadership Center Sees No Energy Shortage

Consol Energy Q3 Net Income Decreases

Dunkard Polluters Need to Be Punished

Manufacturing Sector Remains Important to Pittsburgh Region

'Green Jobs' Supported at Senate Hearing Held Here

Recycling of Waste Water to Be Norm for Gas Wells

After Rough Year, Coal Exports Look to Rebound

Climate Bill Stokes Business Debate

State to Announce Funding for CO2 Capture Project

BenchmarkJournal.Com Free Analyst Review for ANF, HNT, LCC, DPS, CNX and KBH

CONSOL Energy Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend of $0.10 Per Share

CNX Gas Reports Record Quarterly Production of 22.5 Bcf

CONSOL Energy Reports Net Income of $113.3 Million

CNX Gas Leases 40,000 Acres with Marcellus Shale Potential

CONSOL Energy Inc. and CNX Gas Corporation Announce Second Quarter Results Conference Call

CONSOL Energy Executive Urges Senators to Reexamine Climate Change Legislation

CONSOL Energy Will Restart Buchanan Mine

CONSOL Energy to Participate on the Carbon Cap Implications Panel at RBC Capital Markets Global Energy & Power Conference on June 1

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