links for November 19th

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I truly love my iPhone

My iPhone is one of the coolest things I have ever bought. It is a really amazing device. It holds so much power. For example, a month ago I downloaded Wikipedia on the iPhone. The whole thing. I now have the sum of all human knowledge literally at my fingertips - even without an internet connection. Isn’t it amazing? Only 15 years ago you had to travel to a library and then look up books...

Bottom Fishing

Fedspeak! Paulson locks horns with lawmakers over rescue fund The risk of Bernanke's cash injections It isn’t a TARP without troubled assets to cover CPI + PPI = Deflation Year's defaults soar past a quarter-trillion S&P 500's Q3 earnings fall 22% from last year An interesting look at quarter EPS beat rates S&P 500 2009 estimates are all over the map Worst recession since 1930s is possible Depr...

Liberty Stages ISH Coup

International Shipholding Corporation (NYSE: ISH) may be charting a new course after an activist investor took aim at the board. Liberty Shipping Group owns a 9% stake in the firm and previously made an offer to acquire the company. The board established a "special committee" to review the proposal, but failed to take action on the offer. This prompted Liberty to take matters into its own hands...

More Data To Chew On

Good morning. Stock futures indicate a lower open today as U.S. CEOs urge at least $300 billion in stimulus and concerns continue that no bailout of the auto manufacturers will doom the economy. Markets overseas were again under pressure. Turning to this morning's economic data, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell a more than expected 1%, housing starts declined 4.5% while building permits drop...

Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM): Added to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is adding Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) to Conviction Buy List with a $68 tgt, representing 44% upside.RIMM is down 62% in the last 3 months compared to 51% for firm's coverage median and 32% for the S&P 500, on concerns of slowing demand and margin compression as a result of competitive offerings from Apple and others.Goldman believes that following its sharp pullback, the...

For technical traders: 4 strategies, 4 stocks

The technicals are working again. That's not to say this is an easy market to trade - it's almost impossible - but the recent technical moves suggest the price action isn't totally random. Looking ahead, four viable approaches come to mind: * Trade the range. Buy S P 820, sell S P 1,010, and maintain tight stops. This represents a massive 23% range, and the markets are habitually tr...

Tortoise Energy (TYG): Steady path to high returns

MLPs offer myriad tax advantages for investors. MLPs pay no corporate-level taxation and simply pass through their profits to unitholders. This is why you’ll sometimes hear MLPs called pass-through securities. For most MLPs, somewhere between 80 and 100% of the distributions you receive will be taxed as return of capital (ROC) payments. This portion of the distribution isn’t immedia...

Cliffs Calls Off Merger Plan

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) shares fell sharply after the proposed with rival Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) fell through toady. This didn't come as a surprise to many shareholders as the value of the deal fell from $8.3 billion when announced to just $2.9 billion right now. However, the failure marks a victory for Philip Falcone's Harbinger Capital who faught the merger agre...

links for November 18th

The End of Wall Street’s Boom - National Business News - Portfolio.com - stocks