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Disney: Riding The Success Of ‘The Avengers’ To Future Earnings Growth
It’s safe to say that the last week and a half have been huge for the House of Mouse. As everyone knows, The Avengers shattered the record for domestic box office sales at $ 207 million, and this past weekend it became one among a handful of films to gross over $ 1 billion internationally. While setting a new standard in opening weekend sales, The Avengers also became the first substantial vindication of Disney’s (DIS) purchase of Marvel Comics, announced in 2009. I have mentioned this before, but Paramount retained the distribution rights to Marvel movies up to this point, which included the first two Iron Man movies, Captain America, and Thor. But from here on out Disney will hold these rights and the prospect of such is very encouraging.
In other big news, Disney announced their second quarter earnings last Tuesday at $ 0.58/share. This was significant because it was an 18%
PNC, Huntington, and US Bancorp: Banking on the Future
Execution is no foreign word for financial services such as PNC (PNC) and Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) as both performed well in their first quarter of the year. Increasing investor confidence in each company has led to upped price targets and positive analyst reports throughout the past week and it won't stop there if the banks can help it. Following earnings reports released on April 18 PNC and Huntington Bancshares both gave competitors something to talk about. PNC reported a first quarter income of $ 811 million while Huntington Bancshares flaunted a 21% income increase that resulted in $ 153.3 million. For
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The Future of America
One of the things I have taught myself to do over the years was to think in different time frames. This includes very long geological epochs and astronomical eons.
Maybe it was an interest in dinosaurs and astronomy as a kid, but historical time frames was a concept I was familiar with. Perhaps that was the basis of this week’s time frame discussion of Trading vs Investing. Understanding the very l o n g term is an important concept, in terms of getting what the long cycles can look like as well as crowd psychology.
These days, the crowd is suffering from a malaise. They are fearful of losing their jobs, not interested in buying homes, deeply concerned about the future. Following a Great Recession, this is to be expected. So too is the rise of the End of Worlders and the Zombie Bears. These folks are best ignored, as they are money losers who can damage your outlook.
I bring all of this up, because I spent this weekend looking at new start ups. I had lunches and dinners with young entrepreneurs and techies, and their angel funders. (Josh describes all of the start ups here). The ideas, the people, the energy, the competencies are just astounding. It is impossible to be long term negative when you see what is coming down the pipe.
If you want to understand the future of America, if you want to grasp why we are not doomed, then you MUST spend some time with entrepreneurs like these. The creativity, business acumen, technological insights are uplifting, energizing, empowering. We have a fertile crescent of ideas, not just in Silicon Valley but in pockets throughout the United States, like NY, Boston, Miami, San Diego, Denver, Atlanta. That is where economic growth will come from.
YOU CAN SEE THE FUTURE FROM HERE AND ITS NOT REMOTELY BLEAK.
Echelon Could Hold The Key To A ‘Green’ Future
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By David Sterman
The global energy picture is changing so fast that it’s getting hard to keep up. In just the last five years, we’ve seen:
- Crude oil briefly spike above $ 140 a barrel in 2008
- A number of governments – especially in Europe and China – subsequently rush to deploy solar and wind power
- The United States find ways to tap into vast reservoirs of natural gas
- The Chinese, Indian and Brazilian economies grow so fast, that their energy needs threaten to alter the current global balance between energy supply and demand.
If there’s one thing for sure, it’s that more neck-snapping moves in the global energy market will take place anew in the next few years. And investors will need to be prepared to act accordingly.
The rush to embrace wind and solar power now seems to have been a bit hasty. Key countries such as Germany and
Future of Retirement: Surprisingly Optimistic
BOSTON (TheStreet) — Americans’ perceptions and desires surrounding retirement planning are evolving rapidly.
In response to the recession, many Americans — in word, if not deed — have readjusted their expectations for where retirement income will come from. They are planning to live longer, work longer and have more modest expectations about their quality of life.
Living longer means new challenges and strategies for your retirement.
A 2010 Gallup survey of nonretired Americans showed more people expect to rely heavily on Social Security and fewer expect 401(k)s or IRAs, home equity and pension plans to be major funding sources. Overall, nonretirees still most commonly say IRAs and 401(k)s will be a major source of retirement income (45%), followed by Social Security (34%), work-sponsored pension plans (23%), saving accounts or CDs (22%), home equity (20%) and individual stock investments (20%).
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Apple Keeps Its Moat, and Its Future, Firmly Intact
The company from Cupertino brings the textbook into the 21st century and keeps its innovative edge sharp as a razor.
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Cramer: Our Future Linked to EuropeThe Future Of NeuroMetrix
NeuroMetrix (NURO) has been through a lot since becoming a public company. The share price skyrocketed with the initial success of the NC-Stat testing device only to fall with it over the past five years.
Today, this once highflyer is sitting under two dollars with a market cap of around $ 7 million, and $ 11.7 million in the bank. What caused this collapse and what is new today?
NeuroMetrix was once a Robin Hood story: the company stole from the neurologists, gave to the family practitioners, and made awesome margins in doing so. NeuroMetrix took a nerve velocity test; a standard neuropathy test for a neurologist called NC-Stat, and made it less invasive. The company then introduced it as part of GP (general practitioners) office visit. The test helped the GPs make better diagnoses for a broad assortment of neurological problems, as well as increase profit margins; it was a win-win.
