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Stocks In Focus On Russell Global Index

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:44:26 GMT

IndexUniverse had an article up yesterday about the rebalancing at Russell Investments that occurs every June and was just implemented for 2009. IU seemed most interested in the increasing presence of Chinese stocks. The five largest stocks in the Russell Global Index (I'm not familiar with this one) in order are; Petrochina (PTR) ExxonMobil (XOM) Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (IDCBY) China Mobile (CHL) a client holding Walmart (WMT) We are all much more aware of China as an investment destination than we were seven years ago. I seem to remember that the first Chinese stock on the NYSE was Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical (SHI), but I may have that wrong, and then it seemed like most people knew[More...]

Credit Market Overview 6.30.2009

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:05:18 GMT

One of the truly fascinating things about the market and by "market" I mean the sum of the equity, fixed income and commodity markets, is that at any given point in time a set of factors can be considered bearish and at another point in time the exact sam[More...]

Wall Street Gains As Crude Oil Rallies, HP (NYSE: HPQ) Jumps

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:28:41 GMT

US stocks finished higher on Monday after investors cheered a rally in energy stocks..[More...]

Alternative Energy Investments: Three Scenarios For Clean Energy

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:21:01 GMT

Alternative Energy Investments: Three Scenarios For Clean Energy by Jim Stanton, Contributing Editor, Sector Watch When oil prices moved to over $30 a barrel in the mid 1980s, it was considered a significant event. It also signaled the birth of small ethanol companies in the Midwest. Many of them managed to hang around long enough to get a second wind when Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War pushed oil prices past $40. But the renewed interest in ethanol proved to be short-lived, as oil retreated below $20 a barrel just four months later. As a result, many of those smaller ethanol companies couldn’t survive as profitable alternative energy investments. Flash[More...]

Is Cisco Spreading Itself Too Thin?

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:59:26 GMT

Through the 90’s, Cisco Systems (CSCO: 18.91, -0.12 (-0.63%)) was known as one of the “4 Horsemen of IT” and was even the largest company by market cap ($500 B) at the peak of the tech bubble in early 2000. The web is the driver of all information worldwide over the past two decades, thus all recent tech trends revolve around the internet: mobilization, cloud computing, virtualization, social networking and much more. Consequently enough, Cisco is the dominant provider of the networking gear that runs the internet. More specifially, Cisco’s bread and butter has been the ethernet switches and overall routers markets with approximately 70% and 50% of the market share, respectively. To sustain[More...]

Wall Street Ends Mostly Lower, Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) Soars

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:50:44 GMT

US stocks finished mostly lower after a government release showed that savings rate jumped to a 15-year high of 6.9% in May.[More...]

Wall Street Rallies On Bernanke Testimony, Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Jumps

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:39:07 GMT

US stocks finished mostly higher after a rally in retail and commodity stocks boosted sentiment. Shares also rallied after as investors breathed a sigh of relief over Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony on the Fed's role in Bank of America's[More...]

Parsing The Fed's Statement

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:24:23 GMT

Contraction Slowing, Inflation Not Immediate The Fed's statement from this month's meeting is presented below, along with its previous statement from the April meeting and my interpretation and commentary interspersed. "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April suggests that the pace of economic contraction is slowing. Conditions in financial markets have generally improved in recent months. Household spending has shown further signs of stabilizing but remains constrained by ongoing job losses, lower housing wealth, and tight credit. Businesses are cutting back on fixed investment and[More...]

Largest Stock Buybacks For First Quarter Of 2009

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:59:06 GMT

In a previous article I outlined the reasons why I consider stock buybacks to be inferior to dividends. Nevertheless it pays to know which the largest repurchasers of their common stocks are. I am also a[More...]

Dividends Versus Share Buybacks/Stock Repurchases

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:45:41 GMT

Companies have several means through which they share their prosperity with shareholders. Dividends are the portion of corporate profits paid out to stockholders in the form of cash. Share buybacks on the other hand distributes cash to existing shareholders in exchange for a fraction of the company’s outstanding equity. While both methods have their pros and cons, when used carefully, they could strongly add to the total returns of long-term[More...]

BP-Led Group Wins Right to Produce Iraqi Oil

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:52:00 GMT

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's government on Wednesday approved a BP-led consortium's offer to develop a giant oil field in the south, moving forward with the only deal struck during a much-hyped but ultimately disappointing international oil auction.
Iraq, which is desperate for cash to fund its reconstruction efforts, had put six oil and two gas fields on offer Tuesday to foreign firms in the country's first international oil licensing round in over three decades.
BP and its Chinese consortium partner CNPC walked away from the auction with development rights for the 17.8 billion barrel Rumaila field.

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Stocks In Focus On Russell Global Index

Credit Market Overview 6.30.2009

Wall Street Gains As Crude Oil Rallies, HP (NYSE: HPQ) Jumps

Alternative Energy Investments: Three Scenarios For Clean Energy

Is Cisco Spreading Itself Too Thin?

Wall Street Ends Mostly Lower, Palm (Nasdaq: PALM) Soars

Wall Street Rallies On Bernanke Testimony, Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Jumps

Parsing The Fed's Statement

Largest Stock Buybacks For First Quarter Of 2009

Dividends Versus Share Buybacks/Stock Repurchases

BP-Led Group Wins Right to Produce Iraqi Oil

Iraqi Oil Licensing Auction Not Well Received

Iraqi Cabinet approves BP's offer on Rumaila

Iraq's Oil-Field Auction Falls Short

A CONSORTIUM Led By BP [...]

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Exxon Agrees to Pay Exxon Valdez Bill

Iraqi oil licensing round runs into trouble

Iraqi oil licensing round runs into trouble

Stocks Finish Solidly Higher

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ExxonMobil Chemical to Increase Polypropylene Compounding Capacity at Lillebonne Facility

EGPI Firecreek, Inc. Completes Evaluation for Acquisition of Three Well Work Program; Approximately 266 Acres in West Central Texas for Rehabilitation and Future Development

ExxonMobil Supports Rwanda Malaria Outreach Program

ExxonMobil Awards $300,000 to SECME to Bolster Future Math, Science Workforce

KILL ExxonMobil and Electrovaya Launch Car Program in Baltimore

Paradigm Tactical Products, Inc. Completes Reverse Acquisition of Zenergy International, Inc. Spearheaded By Robert Luiten Distinguished Chemical Commodity Executive

ExxonMobil and Electrovaya Launch Car Program in Baltimore

Article Released Regarding Impact of Iranian Elections on Oil Stocks CGCA, PNRC, BP, CVX, TOT, XOM, COP

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