Filed under: Competitive Strategy , Small Business Some of my all-time favorite movies are from James Cameron, such as the Terminator series and Aliens . And this week, Cameron’s latest creation, Avatar , has become the top-grossing movie worldwide (going beyond his 1997 blockbuster, Titanic ). So far, it has taken in $1.6 billion

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Entrepreneur’s Journal: Business Lessons from Avatar’s James Cameron

Filed under: Earnings Reports , Forecasts Humana Inc. ( HUM ), who’s shares (like other insurers’) received a nice bump from the outcome of the special election in Massachusetts, is scheduled to discuss its fourth-quarter 2009 financial results and 2010 guidance in a conference call Monday, Feb. 1, at 9:00 AM (ET)

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Humana Earnings Preview: A Signal of Strength in the Sector?

Filed under: Bad News The market is wildly overvalued given the trajectory of the economy and is being driven by traders. The trade of the day continues to be dollar/commodities/China, but more and more, individual stocks are being rewarded or whacked based on fundamentals, a good thing for stock pickers, but a bad thing for the vast majority of money managers who know little more than the movement of the indices. Continue reading Reason #5 to Short the U.S.: The Market Is Overvalued Reason #5 to Short the U.S.: The Market Is Overvalued originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:00:00 EST

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Reason #5 to Short the U.S.: The Market Is Overvalued

Filed under: Earnings Reports , Forecasts , Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) , MasterCard Inc’A’ (MA) , BP p.l.c.

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The Week in Preview: MetLife, BP, MasterCard, Dow Chemical, Toyota Earnings

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Filed under: Bad News , Goldman Sachs Group (GS) , Morgan Stanley (MS) Banks are the kink between the financial markets and the Main Street economy.

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Reason #4 to Short the U.S.: The Banks

Filed under: Next Big Thing , Initial Public Offerings The widely anticipated IPO for Tesla Motors is finally here.

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Tesla Revs Up for an IPO

Filed under: Bad News With reduced national income due to unemployment, reduced spending power due to tightened credit, reduced wealth due to falling home and stock market values and reduced confidence due to all of the above, we are seeing consumers take on new attitudes toward spending. This “New Frugal” will not be a fad that passes quickly. U.S.

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Reason #3 to Short the U.S.: The ‘New Frugal’

Filed under: Amazon.com (AMZN) , 3M Corporation (MMM) , Caterpillar (CAT) , Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) , Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) , Newell Rubbermaid (NWL) , Procter and Gamble (PG) , Verizon Communications (VZ) , EMC Corp (EMC) , Honeywell Intl (HON) , United Technologies (UTX) , General Dynamics Corp (GD) , Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (POT) Here are some highlights from this past week’s earnings coverage on BloggingStocks: Amazon.com Inc.

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Earnings Highlights: Amazon, Caterpillar, General Dynamics, Netflix, P&G, 3M, Verizon …

Filed under: Bad News , Housing The optimism on Wall Street about housing is surreal given all the public data on housing values, mortgage defaults, foreclosures and new home starts. Housing prices are going to fall nationally for another couple of years as foreclosures hit 6-7 million in the next 30 months, and the 600,00 to 800,000 homes foreclosed but not yet listed are added to housing inventory. The headwinds created by this will last until foreclosures peak and those homes hit the market in late 2011 to mid-2012

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Reason #2 to Short the U.S.: The Housing Market Isn’t Recovering

Filed under: Earnings Reports , Microsoft (MSFT) , Yahoo! (YHOO) , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Cisco Systems (CSCO) , Ford Motor (F) , Halliburton (HAL) , Boeing Co (BA) , Mattel, Inc (MAT) , US Airways Group (LCC) , Eastman Kodak (EK) , U.S. Steel (X) , QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM) , Texas Instruments (TXN) , Nintendo (NTDOY) Here are some highlights from this past week’s earnings coverage on BloggingStocks: Apple Inc.

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Earnings Highlights: Apple, Boeing, Cisco, Ford, Kodak, Microsoft, Yahoo! …