Why Its Time To Be A Bear
Financials SlideGoldman Sachs Group (GS). on Tuesday gave a cautious outlook for Wall Street in 2008 because of the ongoing credit crisis, even as the world’s largest investment bank chalked up another record-breaking year. During Q4, Goldman’s $3.17 billion profit was fueled by higher investment banking fees, one-time asset sales, and surprisingly strong debt trading [...]
Why The Dow Kept Going Up ?
Dow Jones finally fell nearly 150 points. The reason for the fall was blamed at higher oil prices, weak economic indicators and lackluster retail sales. A variety of gold, silver, steel and oil stocks slumped. Home builders, health care and a variety of tech stocks sank too. However before this fall, stocks have gained over [...]
Earnings Trends: Positive and Negative Surprises
Here is an interesting chart displaying the earnings trend of S&P 500 companies. Column 1 represents 10 basic sectors.Column 2 represents Q1 median growth year-over-year.Column 3 represents Q2 median projected growth year-over-year.Column 4 represents 2006 median growth.Column 5 represents 2007 median projected growth.Column 6 represents the % of the companies, that have reported earnings in [...]