SubscribeLinks and Reading for March 31st
March 31, 2011
Some of the more interesting and important items for March 31st :
- Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com – Brean, Murray, Caret & Co. analyst Wayne Chang today initiated coverage of four more solar stocks, adding JinkoSolar (JKS) and Renesola (SOL) at a Buy, and JA Solar (JASO) and Canadian Solar (CSIQ) at a Hold, to a long list that already includes First Solar (FSLR) and Trina Solar (TSL) at Buy, among others.
- Japan government may inject funds in Tepco – MarketWatch – TOKYO (MarketWatch) — The Japanese government is considering injecting public funds into struggling Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO), a spokesman from the national regulator said Friday.
- Libya-Owned Bank Drew at Least $5 Billion From Fed – Bloomberg – Arab Banking Corp., a lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a branch in New York to borrow at least $5 billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve as credit markets seized up in 2008 and 2009.
- China Manufacturing Grows at Faster Pace as Economy Withstands Tightening – Bloomberg – The Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 53.4 in March from 52.2 in February, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing said in a statement on its website today. The reading compared with the median forecast of 54 in a Bloomberg News survey of 17 economists.
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Links and Reading for March 30th
March 31, 2011
Some of the more interesting and important items for March 30th :
- Sands China Says Under Investigation by Hong Kong Regulator – Bloomberg – Sands China Ltd. (1928), controlled by Sheldon Adelson’s casino company, said it’s under investigation by Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission for alleged breaches of regulations.
- Hoenig Faults Fed for Higher Commodity Costs, Urges Tightening – Bloomberg – The Federal Reserve’s “highly accommodative” monetary policy is partly to blame for rapidly increasing global commodity prices, said Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig, who called on colleagues to raise the benchmark interest rate toward 1 percent soon.
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- Microsoft Is Said to Plan Mobile Payments Feature in Next Windows Phone – Bloomberg – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) plans to include mobile-payment features in the next version of its Windows Phone operating system, part of an effort to narrow Google Inc. (GOOG)’s lead in smartphone software, two people familiar with the plans said.
- Stocks gain as confidence falls less than feared – Yahoo! Finance – The fall comes after five straight months of gains, but some economists had expected the decline to be even worse. Goldman Sachs had forecast a drop to 60, believing that high gas prices would pinch spending. The University of Michigan confidence survey also took a steep fall last week.
March Market Madness: Exxon Mobil (XOM)
March 31, 2011
As we mentioned earlier, this month we are going to be looking at the stocks that make up the DJIA . Next up, Exxon Mobil (XOM).
Over the last few weeks we have started a discussion of some of the more important features of our “OneSheet” stock overviews. Now we are going to present the next few and allow you to make your own judgments about the merits of the fundamental and Read more
Important Support and Resistance Points for S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000
March 31, 2011
The “make it or break it” points for major indicies can provide vital information for investors looking to get buy, sell or short a market. More importantly, it can help to see what the trend is showing and this often will be the direction for many stocks.
It has been said that something like 80% of individual issues follow the trend of the Read more
30 Years and $12 Billion – The Latest Figures From Japan
March 31, 2011
This is really unfortunate. The numbers keep growing and the damage unimaginable.
(Bloomberg) — Damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Read more
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