Profits from top major technology companies like IBM and the finance sector heavyweights like Goldman Sachs Group next week will push markets forward and there will be plenty of room for more profit growth.
Better than expected results Thursday from Intel failed to lift the market Friday as loan losses reported by JPMorgan Chase dragged down the market [...]

It is traditional that at this time of the year for us to look at what we think the new year will bring in terms of market movements.
At Ebeling Heffernan we have developed some core strategies, but as always it is crucial to remain flexible enough to effectively trade the market as the year develops.
Firstly we need to [...]

USA futures are all trading lower today after Earnings Data and a sell off in Shanghai, but we feel with better than expected financial data due Thursday, this might be a good day to be looking to buy in, today we are long HSI futures, and setting up for long Dow futures in Europe.
HSBC looks [...]

“Clearly the economy is on the mend,” Abby Joseph Cohen, a senior investment strategist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio. “We do think that profit growth will be more substantial going forward.”
“The bottom line looks pretty good,” she said. “The companies that are still in business are showing that they [...]

News Corp (NYSE:NWS) Former Aussie Rupert Murdoch whose company News Corporation owns more than 70 media outlets around the world including Fox News, Fox Studios, the New York Post, Dow Jones, MySpace, PhotoBucket, Hulu, and The Wall Street Journal just in the U.S.—announced that he will start charging for online media content.
In total Rupert controls a lot [...]

(LTN Exclusive) — As far as product demand goes it has been a great week for Fuel Cells.
The US government on Friday said it is now accepting applications for some US$3B in government grants to boost development of renewable energy projects around the country.
The money, from the economic stimulus package, will provide direct payments to [...]

A short week in the USA this week with no real economic data until Tuesday. This is certain to be a rally week, with a falling USD and rising Gold and Oil Prices. The Dow may well approach 9000 this week so the index sensitive stocks should be your main target for trading. Tuesdays News [...]

(LTN) — Neptune Orient Lines’ (NOL) container arm APL, which has about 10 percent of the Vietnam-US trade, looks set to build on its market-leading position with yesterday’s launch of the first direct service from Vietnam to the US, Business Times Singapore reported.
The new weekly service was initiated by the 4,700-TEU APL Denver, which called [...]

Archer Entertainment Media Communications Incorporated www.archeremc.com has been awarded the role of Phuket Co-Ordinator for the World Comedy Film Festival 2009. Representing Archer at the event will be Issaree Sutida Suwunnavid Chairwoman of Buzz Inc and the Co-President of Foreign Affairs for Zonta International Bangkok. Zenniesha Opakul well known TV Personality and Photograher will be [...]

The bulls are depending on incremental improvement in the ISM manufacturing index. After continued strength in the market everyone is now looking to reassurance from the numbers, We do not believe they will find that in Auto Sales, so expect a sharp dip after those numbers. Construction spending may help but going on estimates, it [...]