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Nokia Beats but Outlook Weak - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 5:31pm | 967Nokia Corp. (NOK), the largest mobile phone manufacturer of the world, declared its fourth quarter 2010 financial results, which beat both the top line and bottom line of the Zacks Consensus Estimates. Favorable product-mix biased toward converged mobile devices (smartphones & mobile...
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Nokia Beats but Outlook Weak - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 5:20pm | 967Nokia Corp. (NOK), the largest mobile phone manufacturer of the world, declared its fourth quarter 2010 financial results, which beat both the top line and bottom line of the Zacks Consensus Estimates. Favorable product-mix biased toward converged mobile devices (smartphones & mobile...
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Oil & Gas Industry Outlook - Jan. 2011 - Zacks Analyst Interviews
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 4:31pm | 2471OUTLOOK Crude Oil The improving economic scene, both here in the U.S. as well as worldwide, had been the main driver of the oil rally that saw the commodity zoom past the $90 per barrel level earlier this year. However, apprehensions about high U.S. crude stocks and worries that China might tighten...
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Oil & Gas Industry Outlook - Jan. 2011 - Industry Outlook
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 4:31pm | 2471OUTLOOK Crude Oil The improving economic scene, both here in the U.S. as well as worldwide, had been the main driver of the oil rally that saw the commodity zoom past the $90 per barrel level earlier this year. However, apprehensions about high U.S. crude stocks and worries that China might tighten...
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Oil & Gas Industry Outlook - Jan. 2011 - Industry Outlook
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 4:31pm | 2471OUTLOOK Crude Oil The improving economic scene, both here in the U.S. as well as worldwide, had been the main driver of the oil rally that saw the commodity zoom past the $90 per barrel level earlier this year. However, apprehensions about high U.S. crude stocks and worries that China might tighten...
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Oil & Gas Industry Outlook - Jan. 2011 - Industry Outlook
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 4:08pm | 2471OUTLOOK Crude Oil The improving economic scene, both here in the U.S. as well as worldwide, had been the main driver of the oil rally that saw the commodity zoom past the $90 per barrel level earlier this year. However, apprehensions about high U.S. crude stocks and worries that China might tighten...
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Solid 4Q10 for Motorola Solutions - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 4:01pm | 492Today, Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) reported its fourth quarter 2010 financial results. It was the company's first earnings report after it separated from former Motorola Inc. In the reported quarter, both top and bottom lines of Motorola Solutions saw sharp rises. The fourth quarter 2010...
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Civilian Aircraft Orders Nosedive - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 4:01pm | 1556New Orders for Durable Goods fell 2.5% in October. That was much worse than the consensus expectations for an increase of 1.5%. However, the bad news can be pegged on the extremely volatile Transportation Equipment side, and more specifically, from the Non-Defense Aircraft component, which is often...
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Civilian Aircraft Orders Nosedive - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 3:49pm | 1556New Orders for Durable Goods fell 2.5% in October. That was much worse than the consensus expectations for an increase of 1.5%. However, the bad news can be pegged on the extremely volatile Transportation Equipment side, and more specifically, from the Non-Defense Aircraft component, which is often...
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Solid 4Q10 for Motorola Solutions - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 3:42pm | 492Today, Motorola Solutions Inc. (MSI) reported its fourth quarter 2010 financial results. It was the company's first earnings report after it separated from former Motorola Inc. In the reported quarter, both top and bottom lines of Motorola Solutions saw sharp rises. The fourth quarter 2010...
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Options Brief: Tyco International (TYC)
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 12:12pm | 78Shares of Tyco International (NYSE: TYC) are higher on the session by 0.63%, trading at $44.91. Overall put volume is now running at 4.61x the daily average, with 30% of all puts traded being purchases on the offer. 2,560 contracts have traded on the session so far. Tyco International Ltd. is a...
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3M Unveils New Center in Dubai
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 11:42am | 62Today, 3M (NYSE: MMM) unveiled its new Innovation Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The opening of the Dubai center will provide 3M with an expanded facility in the Middle East to better support customer needs across the region resulting in more cost-effective customer centric solutions...
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Cooper Matches Estimates - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 10:31am | 856Cooper Industries plc (CBE) reported fourth quarter 2010 earnings per share from continuing operations of 85 cents, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Earnings in the quarter increased by 12% year over year. For 2010, earnings per share were $3.20, an increase of 30.1% year over year....
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Cooper Matches Estimates - Analyst Blog
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 9:45am | 856Cooper Industries plc (CBE) reported fourth quarter 2010 earnings per share from continuing operations of 85 cents, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Earnings in the quarter increased by 12% year over year. For 2010, earnings per share were $3.20, an increase of 30.1% year over year....
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Making Use Of All Tools Available.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 9:26am | 1571Long time readers will know about some of the building blocks I believe in for portfolio construction which include a mix of different tools, a higher dividend than the S&P 500 (most of the time), building a portfolio at the sector level and a lot of foreign exposure. Every now and then I like...