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The "Earnings Beat" That's Perfect for This Market

By , Executive Editor, Money Morning • @privatebrief -

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Editor's Note: Bill Patalon's readers enjoy inside access to his regular consultations with Money Map Press editors. We're sharing this conversation with you today because the subject happens to lie at the intersection of several high-profit trends now. Here's Bill...

Last Wednesday, the Milpitas, Calif.-based SanDisk Corporation (Nasdaq: SNDK) reported first-quarter results that smashed analyst expectations, and the company's shares shot up 6% in after-hours trading.

But our Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald saw that beat coming and put readers out in front of it.

Tech Stocks Are the Real Indicator of the Markets

By , Money Morning -

Tech stocks have been hit hard in the last week, and the Nasdaq Composite is down nearly 4% in the month of April. The index took another dive today, down 2.7% by 1 p.m.

Big names in the tech sector have been hit particularly hard. Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) is down 4% this month, Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) has dropped 5% in April, and Tesla Motors Co. (Nasdaq: TSLA) has dipped almost 6% this week.

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The Best Play in a Trillion-Dollar Market

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

In the go-go 1980s - back when the hit movie Wall Street told us that "Greed Is Good" -Carl Icahn was known as a "corporate raider"... and was revered for his windfall-producing decisiveness.
Icahn is still around. And he's still active. Only now - in the politically correct 2000s - he's known as an "activist investor" who's gone up against the likes of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY).
I don't really care what we call him. I just know that Icahn has done us a big, big favor.
You see, Icahn the Great has just cleared our path to a big profit - a company in a hot new market whose shares could surge 50% in the next two years.
And today I'm going to tell you a tale that shows how Icahn did this - and show you the stock that's ready to run. Full Story

Be Ready When This Tech Spin-Off Hits Wall Street

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

Most investors don't think of Rayonier Inc. (NYSE: RYN) as a high-tech firm.
This 85-year-old forest products company operates as a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) after being first acquired, then later spun-off, by ITT Corp. (NYSE: ITT).
It owns some 2.7 million acres of timberland and is one of the largest landowners in the United States and New Zealand.
That sounds like a pretty low-tech operation - turning forest lands into lumber, pulp, and paper products.

Stocks to Buy: We Just Found the New King of the Computer Industry

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

During the Depression-ridden 1930s, with the United States circling the financial abyss, an American industrialist named Thomas J. Watson Jr. gambled the future of his business-equipment company on an expansion plan that included wholesale hiring, investments in technology, and the construction of new factories.

For six years, Watson had his factories at full bore - churning out tabulating equipment there were no buyers for. But he believed in his plan and stayed with his strategy.

His strategy could make this computer king one of the best investments...

This Ingenious Company Will Soar, Despite "Analyst" Claim

By , Biotech Investing Specialist, Money Morning -

When it comes to the bioscience sector, the amount of misinformation some so-called "analysts" spread around the blogosphere on any given day is nothing less than breathtaking.

And frankly, I'm not sure whether most of the nonsense comes from ignorance - they just don't understand the science, the regulatory gauntlet, or the doctors who will be prescribing new products.

Or worse - trying to manipulate the market to help out friends holding positions in the stocks they "analyze."

But their misinformation can have a very real market impact, and that's why it's so important to point out when it's wrong...

Market Alerts: eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and Carl Ichan; IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Lenovo

By , Money Morning -

Activist investor Carl Icahn's proposal to split up eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) from its payment unit PayPal makes no sense to Money Morning's Defense & Tech Specialist Michael Robinson.

Robinson joined FOX Business' "Varney & Co." today (Thursday) and discussed why he thinks this proposed plan is crazy, and what it means for eBay - and eBay stock holders.

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Today’s Best Investments: I Found a Tech "Pot of Gold"

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI -

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Early each January, CES is the place to go to ferret out new companies, new products, or innovative new services that could create entire new businesses - spawning windfall-level profits for investors who are able to decipher the high-tech "tea leaves" emanating from this massive trade show.

And this year three trends emerged that will generate huge payoffs...

Nasdaq at 4,000: It's Not Tech Pushing the Index Higher

By , Contributing Writer, Money Morning -

On Monday, the Nasdaq index topped 4,000 - its highest level in 13 years. But unlike the last time this happened, during the notorious dot-com boom, tech stocks are not the prime driving force. The sector that's been pushing the Nasdaq higher this time around is soaring because the companies in it are making gobs of money - and have the potential to make much more.

This is where you want to be invested in right now..

Will Snapchat Be the Next Social Media IPO?

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Money Morning Capital Wave Strategist Shah Gilani joined Stuart Varney of FOX Business' "Varney & Co." today (Tuesday) to talk about the latest potential social media IPO on the horizon - Snapchat.

Snapchat is a social network that emphasizes privacy; compare it to Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), which touts the benefits of openness. Snapchat finds benefits in keeping conversations and pictures from spilling over to your entire list of contacts.

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Is This Man the Next Microsoft CEO?

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There's a shake-up brewing in the business world. Al Mulally, CEO of a rejuvenated, refocused, and red-hot Ford Motor Company, may be heading over to Microsoft, where CEO Steve Ballmer is retreating under fire. Under Mulally, Ford went from the brink of bankruptcy and irrelevance to one of the the most solid performers on Wall Street. Can Mulally do the same thing for Microsoft and move it back into the "Buy" column? Keith Fitz-Gerald joins FOX Business' Neil Cavuto to tackle this question, along with McDonalds' newest strategy and the effect of the looming government shutdown on Wall Street.

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