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Four Breakout Stocks To Buy Today
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 10:10am | 218Originally posted by Mark M. on Hedge Fund Live - The trend is stocks are moving higher and as the saying goes the trend is your friend. When a stock breaks out from resistance, the initial push is usually strong, then the momentum fades but as long as the stock stays above that last resistance...
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Iconix Ticks Higher After CEO Appearance On CNBC (ICON)
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 2:07pm | 25Iconix Ticks Higher After CEO Appearance On CNBC (NASDAQ: ICON). Shares last traded 2.8% higher than yesterday's close.
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Calls Purchased on Skechers U.S.A. (SKX)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 1:57pm | 133Shares of Skechers U.S.A. (NYSE: SKX) are lower on the session by 0.47%, currently trading at $18.88. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past six months and is currently trading below the 200-day moving average. Options traders are buying calls on the name today. A short while ago...
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Wedbush Securities Comments On Skechers USA
Monday, March 28, 2011 - 8:16am | 138According to Wedbush, one of the few bright spots on Skechers (NYSE: SKX) Q4 conference call was the relatively stronger international gross margin vs. the domestic gross margin. Management intimated that international margins were in the “high 40's,” however, upon review of the 10-K, total...
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Benchmark Initiates Coverage Of ICON
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 8:47am | 133Benchmark has initiated coverage of Iconix Brand Group (NASDAQ: ICON) with a Buy Rating and a $25 PT. According to the report, "We contend that the shares have upside potential given the Company's growth opportunities through acquisitions, international expansion, and domestic organic growth. We...
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3 Stocks For March Madness (CBS, PEP, NKE)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 8:08am | 2633 Stocks For March Madness (CBS, PEP, NKE) March Madness is fully upon us, and is down to the Sweet 16, which starts on Thursday. Here's a few stocks that will benefit in their earnings reports from March Madness. CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS) shares have benefited from the tournament, and will...
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Benchmark Initiates Iconix Brand Group At Buy With A $25 PT
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 7:58am | 25Benchmark has initiated coverage on Iconix Brand Group (NASDAQ: ICON) with a Buy rating and $25 price target.
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Goldman Sachs Comments On Nike's Risks Following Earnings Report
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 7:31am | 172While some of Nike's (NYSE: NKE) issues are likely unique, their results last week point to inflation risk beyond whether shoppers ultimately accept planned price increases. Despite being Global with a strong product cycle and less cotton/china exposure, NKE surprised Goldman with a very negative...
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Top 4 NYSE Stocks In The Textile-Apparel Footwear & Accessories Industry With The Highest EPS Estimates (NKE, COH, TBL, WWW)
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 1:05am | 158Below are the top textile-apparel footwear & accessories stocks on the NYSE in terms of earnings estimate for the next year. The earnings estimate for Nike Inc (NYSE: NKE) for the next year ending May, 2012 is $5.03 per share. NKE's trailing-twelve-month ROE is 21.22%. Coach Inc (NYSE: COH)...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Advises Investors To Buy Starbucks (SBUX, SLB, HMC, A, LLNW, MCP, PBI, SKX)
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 1:03am | 296On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) “might be three down, 10 up. I like that ratio." He said that Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) is a “winner, but it's also a wild trader. I'd buy some in stages." Jim said that Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) “holds...
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Weekly Review 03/20/2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 11:56pm | 1204It has been a (long) week since I posted, I have been swamped, sorry. This has been a hectic week and the market only multiplied the amount of work. Our last post was the Saturday after the Earthquake/Tsunami in Japan. I mentioned that I was still worried, and that I felt the US stock market...
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Weekly Review 03/20/2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 11:56pm | 1204It has been a (long) week since I posted, I have been swamped, sorry. This has been a hectic week and the market only multiplied the amount of work. Our last post was the Saturday after the Earthquake/Tsunami in Japan. I mentioned that I was still worried, and that I felt the US stock market...
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Central Banks Intervene to Weaken Yen 03-18-2011
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 2:56pm | 981Cusick's Corner The Japanese yen set a record high against the dollar yesterday. The Federal Reserve and the other G7 central banks took action – they coordinated plans to intervene in the currency markets to help weaken the yen in order to reverse part of the rally that has happened since the...
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UPDATE: Goldman Sachs Color On NKE Downgrade
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 9:21am | 137Goldman Sachs, which downgraded shares of Nike (NYSE: NKE), is providing some color on the stock. “3Q11 EPS of $1.08 missed $1.12 consensus, with sales and gross margin falling short,” Goldman Sachs writes. “Drivers (timing of cost pressures vs. price increases, normalization of cancellation rates...
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Cost Pressures Begin to Filter their Way into Impacting Margins - Nike (NKE) an Early Example
Friday, March 18, 2011 - 9:20am | 680It was just a matter of time when commodity cost pressures began to impact margins - you just never know when exactly due to the length of contracts and type of pricing, but record corporate profit margins at U.S. corporations are beginning to take a hit. Oil is the most obvious issue as it's...