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Revenues and Earnings Growth Over 100%
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 12:41pm | 369If you like to trade growth stocks, you probably want stocks with strong earnings growth and significant revenue growth. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to have a high return on equity. And it would be nice if the stock paid a decent dividend. A search of companies with revenue and earnings growth over...
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U.S. Steel On Fire (X, VALE, BHP, CLF)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 11:19am | 171United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) continues its incredible run as it hits another 52-week high in early morning trading today. Shares of the Pittsburgh-based company are up $1.14, or 1.65%, to $70.10. Shares earlier hit a 52-week high of $70.84 before pulling back to current levels. U.S....
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Stock Market News for April 6, 2010 - Market News
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 9:30am | 442After a long weekend investors came back rejuvenated and sent the Dow Jones industrial average within striking distance of psychologically important 11,000 mark. Investors, in their first reaction to Friday’s release of the jobs report, turned to stocks in increasing numbers as the employment...
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Monday's Hot Stocks on Heavier Volume
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 9:28am | 1936Today's breakout report is for Monday April 5, 2010. If this is your first time reading one of my breakout reports you'll want to read the section below, however if you are familiar with my daily breakout report you should skip ahead to the list of stocks. To reiterate previous blog posts like...
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Jon Najarian Likes AKS
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 7:24pm | 157Jon Najarian said on CNBC's Fast Money that he sees AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS) as a buy. He explained that for the last 40 years iron ore producers have been fixing the price of the iron ore right at the beginning of the year, for the annual basis. This was good for the steel makers...
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U.S. Steel Shares Hit New 52-Week High In Pre-Market (X)
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 9:30am | 76Shares of U.S. Steel (NYSE: X) touched a new 52-week high in pre-market trading Monday. Shares traded at a high of $66.96, eclipsing their previous 52-week high of $66.45. U.S. Steel has been on a tear in the last month as shares have risen 20.62% compared with a 4.99% gain for the Dow Jones...
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Healthcare Reform and Wellpoint (WLP): Options Strategies for the Bullish and Bearish
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 9:06am | 1955WellPoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) has gained ground over the past several months after a sharp plunge from its early-2008 highs. With the healthcare legislation overhaul in its final stages in Washington, we’ve seen a bit of the “buy the rumor, sell the news” phenomenon … in reverse. Following months,...
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Reliance Steel & Aluminum (RS) Well-Positioned To Benefit From An Economic Recovery; Barron’s
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 8:33am | 304According to a report by Barron’s, Reliance Steel & Aluminum (NYSE: RS) is well-positioned to benefit from a recovery in the U.S. economy. Barron’s says that there are already signals that the economic recovery may present a surprise on the upside. On Friday, the U.S. Labor Department released...
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US Steel (X) Continues To Climb
Saturday, April 3, 2010 - 11:35am | 160What sector stands to benefit the most from a robust economic recovery? The answer to that question is the steel sector. Rising industrial production and consumer demand mean that steel stocks may continue their upward charge. One steel company that has bounced back nicely from its recent drop is...
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SINLetter – April 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010 - 9:19am | 4684Welcome to edition 52 of Suria Investment Newsletter (SINLetter), a free monthly investment newsletter. The objective of this newsletter is to provide you with unbiased initial research and basic facts about individual stocks and other financial instruments so that you can research them further...
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FedEx And Alcoa Gain Favor: CNBC (FDX, AA, X)
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 11:48pm | 129Scott Wren, senior equity strategist at Wells Fargo Advisors, expects this year to be volatile. In an interview with CNBC, Wren gave his insights on the market movements. Wren said, “This year is going to be much more volatile. We’re not going to see the big progress in the markets we saw in 2009...
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52 Stocks Returning 50%+ in 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 3:18pm | 3836It has been a while since we've posted one of these tally sheets, but I thought it useful in light of the previous post to figure out where all the hot action has been. Here are the filters used Market capitalization >$300M (to keep out the very small stocks) Stock price >$10 Average volume >...
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Top Performing Industries For April 1 (CDE, CGR, PBM, GPOR, MTL)
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 3:01pm | 259At 2:17 p.m., Dow gained 49.20, or 0.45%, to 10,905.83, while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.63, or 0.48%, to 1,175.06. The Nasdaq composite index lost 2.54, or 0.11%. The industries that are driving the market today are: Silver: The top gainer of the day, this industry added 3....
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Cowen and Company Upgrades Carpenter Technology (NYSE:CRS) To Outperform
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 10:26am | 187Analysts at Cowen have upgraded Carpenter (NYSE: CRS) from Neutral to Outperform based on “powerful de-stock turnaround potential, C13 earnings power of $4 (+/- $0.50; ex pension exp.) & EPS upside from cash deployment.” They add, “We see >20% upside potential relative to the market over 12...
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Peabody’s Bid Rejected By Macarthur (BTU, PKX)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 10:05am | 128An A$3.3 billion takeover bid by U.S. miner Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) for Macarthur Coal Ltd. has been turned down by the Australian coal producing heavyweight, according to MarketWatch. Analysts felt the bid was far too low to entice Macarthur and might have been made to simply block the...