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  • Consider GE for its Immense Growth Potential

    By Jhumpa Sarkar - October 4, 2012 | Tickers: CAT, GE, JOY, PHG, SI

    After its suffering during the financial crisis in 2008, General Electric (NYSE: GE) has been changing its focus back to its core industrial business. The conglomerate has entered different emerging markets, with the Industrial arm driving growth and generating strong earnings in the past few years.

    Indicative of this growth is GE's recent announcement that it was raising its 2012 Industrial revenue growth forecast to 10%, while the other more »

  • It's Time to Buy This IT Company

    By Jhumpa Sarkar - October 1, 2012 | Tickers: CSCO, HPQ, IBM, JNPR, MSFT

    Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the leader in manufacturing and selling networking equipment. The company sells a diverse array of products, which comprise the hardware that enable data transmission across the Internet and other communication and IT products.  

    Currently trading at $18.58, Cisco is an inexpensive stock compared to the other major tech players in the industry. Over the years, Cisco has been growing consistently though at a slower pace more »

  • Amazon Kindle Dumped by Wal-Mart: Competition Soaring

    By Jhumpa Sarkar - September 27, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, TGT, WMT

    Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is likely to be hit as retail giant Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) announced that it will no longer be selling Amazon's Kindle products, once its current supply runs out. This highlights the competition between the online retailer and physical retail chains or the brick-and-mortar stores.

    Wal-Mart is not the first retailer to discontinue selling the Kindle line. Earlier in May Target (NYSE: TGT) announced the similar more »

  • Enhance Your Portfolio with This Energy Stock

    By Jhumpa Sarkar - September 24, 2012 | Tickers: BP, CVX, COP, XOM, RDS-B

    Everybody wants to invest in a good stock that is going to offer the best returns in both the near future and also long term. Energy stocks are lucrative choice for the investors given the fact that it is a limited resource with a huge global demand. ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), one of the world's largest companies in terms of both revenues and market capitalization engages in the exploration and more »

  • Housing Recovery: Numbers Indicate Signs of Rebounding

    By Jhumpa Sarkar - September 21, 2012 | Tickers: DHI, LEN, MDC, PHM, TOL

    The housing market has shown several signs of recovery over the last few months with sales of existing homes, new home sales and home prices all turning positive. Home prices are rising steadily nationwide. According to the National Association of Realtors, the existing home sales increased 7.8% in August to an annual rate of 4.82 million units last month. That was the fastest annual rate since May 2010 more »

  • Has AIG Managed to Get Itself Back on Track?

    By Jhumpa Sarkar - September 14, 2012 | Tickers: ACE, AFG, AIG, ANAT, MET

    American International Group's (NYSE: AIG) bailout worked well and the government and shareholders can claim hearty returns for now. I wonder what a Lehman Brothers bailout might have looked like, but it looks like AIG has managed to get itself back on track. This means the company is on solid footing. The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury not only rescued it from bankruptcy but also reported a profit more »