These days, Apple is worth about $375 billion, with shares up about 25 percent, to $403, this year. If the stock gains an additional 12 percent, Apple will have the world’s largest market value, surpassing ExxonMobil. In the last 11 years Apple has risen from low tens to the current levels.
Many are wondering am I late to the party, has the stock risen too high and you might buy at the top?
Analyst interviewed by Businessweek magazine think, Apple best days are still ahead and the stock is still rated a buy.
White isn’t worried about Apple’s abruptly coming down to earth. If anything, he and a handful of other analysts think Apple watchers on Wall Street may be substantially underestimating the potential of the company, which still only has a single-digit market share in mobile phones and personal computers. “I don’t remember a company of this size growing at this pace,” says White, who recommends the stock and predicts it could be worth $617 billion within a year—the Street’s highest target. “We can’t even model out some of the possibilities: an Apple TV set, huge growth in China, businesses racing to buy Apple laptops. It’s like a religion. It sounds crazy, but it could still be early for Apple.”
To understand the confidence don’t look at the raw number, look at the fundamentals. While Apple shares have soared higher, they’ve become cheaper in relation to earnings. The reality is, Apple profits have been growing faster than the share price.
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Meredith Whitney, the banking analyst who won fame for predicting that Citigroup would be forced to cut its dividend in 2008, says in businessweek/bloomberg article, she predicts and forecasts as many as 100 municipal defaults in 2011, adding up to “hundreds of billions” in debt.
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The best way to play the stock market is to seek information that you can help you understand more about companies, industry and economy. Seeking only tips will not get you far because chances are you may act on a bad tip.
I like the following websites for investment advice. They are parked with information that I use to better understand the markets.
Businessweek Online.
I have been a subscriber since I first opened my good old yahoo email account. I have never been disappointed. The recent merger with bloomberg will only make them stronger.
UK Financial Times Online.
To access the full articles you need you need to be a paid up member. They have free account that limits you to read 10 articles a month. But they will send you headlines of all top business news.
Wallstreet Journal Online.
The biggest business publication in the world. With such a large financial support you can be assured they will find business information that matters.
Yahoo Finance.
The beauty of Yahoo Finance is syndicated feed they run on the site. They have articles written from top finance blogs.
Google Finance.
This is not a single site but an aggregator of business news. They have fabulous charts that can help you track trends over a period of time.
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Gold has swung from $328 in 2002 to over $1,400 in 2010. That rise can be attributed to SPDR Gold Trust.
December issue of Businessweek has an article that shows the rise of gold is solely being driven by demand from ETFs.
SPDR Gold trust was created with the sole purpose of drumming up the price of Gold.
“Our primary mission was to find every button we could push to stimulate demand,” Burton, 59, said in an interview in London.
Who Benefits from the rise in Gold Price?
The Gold miners. In early 2000s the World Gold Council(a group of gold miners) were fed up with the falling price of Gold, previous attempt to stimulate demand of Gold as jewellery had failed. They came up with the idea creating a financial instrument that would drive up the price of Gold. They created SPDR Gold Trust.
The fund, SPDR Gold Trust (pronounced Spider), now holds 1,299 metric tons of gold valued at about $57 billion, more than the Swiss central bank.
Other funds have since emerged. The funds buy the physical gold and sell shares to investors.
The money flowing into these funds is what is driving the Gold frenzy.
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Goldman Sachs analysts Allison Nathan and Jeffrey Currie forecast in a December. 13 2010 report that gold will rise to $1,690 in 12 months.
From Businessweek / Bloomberg Gold article.
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Businessweek has a story about investment funds that have invested in Facebook. This funds are providing retail investors with a means to invest indirectly into facebook.
Facebook Funds
EB Exchange Funds, based in San Francisco, along with New York firms Felix Investments and GreenCrest Capital, have opened Facebook funds.
Since you cant buy facebook stock directly you instead buy into the fund just like you buy a mutual fund.
Read the full story at businessweek facebook.
There is no doubt facebook is the biggest story since Google. Those investors who were lucky to get in early are smiling all the way to facebook IPO date. Funds such as EB exchange have given retail investors another window to get a piece of facebook.
Although Facebook is still a private company investors have been able to buy stock of the company. Stock of Facebook trade on a private-company stock market. The market is known as Secondmarket.
Although there is a secondary market it is extremely hard for outsiders to even get a single stock. The funds have provided another window to get into facebook.
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Initial public offerings that are successful initially are often the worst investments long term. From 2010 November Issue of Bloomberg/Businessweek.
The article had some good tips on what you need to know about IPO investing.
IPOs that have strong investor interest tend to perform very well during the early days after listing.
It’s easy to get IPOs that no one else wants to buy, and it’s very difficult to get IPOs that there is strong demand for. So if your application is easily successful be careful.
According to research by IPO experts, IPOs that are most successful initially often under perform over the long term.
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According to some analyst, a barrel of oil could top $100 in 2011. A businessweek /bloomberg article gives some compelling arguments.
Four Reasons Why the black gold will hit $100 in 2011.
- The continued falling dollar, there is a link between the dollar and oil. They move in opposite directions. as Dollar goes down, the price of oil goes up.
- The US Fed Bank continues printing dollars. The past few years have shown that the more cheap money in the system, the more money flows into commodities, in particular energy.
- The OPEC will continue protecting their cash cow. The cartel members may seek a higher price by as the depreciation of the greenback erodes the profitability of their dollar-denominated oil export.
- Growth in Emerging markets means demand for oil will remain strong going forward.
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The latest information on Soybeans is that demand continues to out pace supply. For commodity traders interested in Soybeans all indications are Soybeans price trend on a Soybeans price chart show an upswing.
Factors Driving the Rise in Soybeans Prices.
- Demand remains strong, especially from China
- concerns about the future Brazilian harvest, tighter supply.
- Rise in price of corn. farmers are using more land for corn because its more profit. This will further reduce Soybeans supplies
Source businessweek article.
With these factors in mind it is easy to understand why many commodity analysts forecast / predict the price of Soybeans will rise.
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If you dont want to shell out money to subscribe to a high end investment newsletter then you can take the option of free investment newsletters. Just because these investment newsletters are free doesn’t mean they are junk, some like the ones owned by news organization are resource rich considering they are backed by a team of seasoned journalist & financial experts.
I have benefited alot by using some of these investment newsletters. They provide a doze of daily news, investment tips & market analysis.
1. New York Times Daily Investment Newsletter.
The New York Time online edition providers subscribers with daily email newletter. The newsletter contains various categories of news, among them business, investing and technology. Subscribers get access to all section of the papers.
2. Businessweek / Bloomberg Magazine Newletter
I have been a subscriber since 2002. Although it is not a source of breaking news it is a valuable source of deep research and analysis.See Businessweek/bloomberg
3. Forbes Investment Newletter
Love the Ken Fisher columns, currently ranked as one of the most accurate stock market forecasters.See Forbes.
4. MSN Money Investment Newletter
The site has plenty of resources. free investment newsletters provided by MSN Money’s regular writers. Check MSN Money
5. Motley Fool Investment Newsletter
This site has been around for a long time. I have always used them for research purposes. You just provide the site with your email and they will provide you with numerous newsletter and alert options. Check Motley Fool
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