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Posted
Oct 21 2009, 04:25 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Rich Smith.
It's every investor's worst nightmare -- buying a rocket stock just before it takes a nose dive.
MSN Money maintains a list of companies whose shares hit 52-week highs, and investors read this list and tremble -- some with greed, others in terror. These and other stocks with momentum usually enjoy favorable ratings at our MSN CAPS investing community; everyone loves a winner.
Listed below are five of the companies hitting 52-week highs in the past week. Which among them does the CAPS community consider most likely to continue to outperform? If your guess is Google, which has been setting 2009 highs since reporting last week that third-quarter profit was the largest in the company's 11-year history, well, thanks for playing along, but you're wrong.
Find on Bing: How to pick stocks
Turns out, the 140,000-plus investors comprising CAPS are far less bullish on the glitzy Internet pacesetter than they are toward an operator in the more prosaic world of oil and natural gas refining, transportation and storage.
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Posted
Oct 20 2009, 07:08 AM
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Kim Peterson
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 Investors should take a long, hard look at Apple (AAPL) shares before jumping into the stock, writes Brett Arends of The Wall Street Journal.
A better investment in smartphones might be in network operators, which are cheap, he writes. Those include Verizon Communications (VZ), AT&T (T) and Vodafone (VOD), which have dividend yields in the 5% to 6% range. Arends lists a number of reasons why, even after Apple's impressive earnings report this week, investors should tread carefully. "The case for or against investing in Apple has little to do with whether it's a good company (it is) or whether it makes good products (it does)," he writes. "It isn't even about whether the company can beat expectations. It's about whether the shares, priced at these levels, make for a sound investment."
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Posted
Oct 16 2009, 11:33 AM
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Jim Jubak
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 Google's (GOOG) strong earnings report indicates something, but just what?
On October 15th, after the market's close, Google reported earnings of $5.89 a share, 47 cents a share above the consensus estimate of $5.42. Revenue, after traffic acquisition costs, climbed 8.4% from the third quarter of 2008. That was about $160 million ahead of the Wall Street consensus of $4.24 billion.
But what do the numbers mean?
I know it's commonplace to put Google in the technology sector -- I do it myself -- but despite its huge technology footprint, the company's revenue still comes mostly from advertising.
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Oct 08 2009, 01:26 PM
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Tobin Smith
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
There’s no doubt about it. The fiercest battle in the corporate world today is being fought over smartphones. The latest salvo in this war comes from Google (GOOG) via its new Android mobile operating system. In recent weeks, Google has confirmed no less than nine new devices set to use Android. The pipeline for new Android-equipped smart phones is bursting, with handset makers Motorola (MOT) and Samsung firmly on board. Verizon Wireless (VZ) will be coming out with two new Google Android phones in the weeks ahead. Bing: More on Smart Phones
Hey, I’m a big fan of competition, and I love a heated fight for market share. And while I will be keeping a close eye on the impact Android is sure to have, according to the ChangeWave Alliance Research Network surveys, the really interesting battle in the smart phone wars still is being waged by industry titans Research In Motion (RIMM) and Apple (AAPL).
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Posted
Oct 07 2009, 11:48 AM
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Minyanville
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This article is written by Minyanville's Mike Schuster
Gourmands, harried fiancées, and dentist office waiting rooms were struck a blow on Monday when publishing giant Condé Nast announced the closure of four of its popular magazines after severe drops in ad revenue.
Elegant Bride and Modern Bride will be ceasing publication as well as the soccer mom handbook Cookie. Gourmet will be shuttered at the release of its November 2009 issue, but will live on with TV programming and online recipes.
See also, Who Needs Newspapers Anyway?
The closures see roughly 180 employees laid off and a collective circulation of more than four million issues stripped from shelves and mailboxes.
Despite the dedicated readership each magazine held, the publications were at the mercy of a three-month study by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. After its analysis, McKinsey advised several Condé magazines to cut 25% from their budgets, but no amount of cost-cutting initiatives was able to save the aforementioned few.
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Posted
Oct 06 2009, 07:49 AM
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Minyanville
Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This article is written by Minyanville's Josh Lipton
This week marks the start of the third-quarter-earnings season, as Alcoa (AA) reports earnings on October 7.
The Street is expecting corporate earnings to decline 24.8%, which would mark the first time the S&P 500 has recorded nine straight quarters of negative growth since Thomson Reuters began tracking the data in 1998.
However, that 24.8% drop is still slightly better than the 27.3% fall in the second quarter. In fact, analysts say earnings should show signs of improvement over for the short term, due to cost control, inventory restocking, and easy comparisons against a terrible 2008 -- particularly among the financials.
“Things get less bad this quarter, with smaller year-over-year losses than in the first quarter and second quarter,” S&P equity analyst Alec Young tells us. See also What to Expect for Stocks in October. Looking further ahead, for 2010, the crystal ball of professional forecasters becomes much cloudier and, frankly, your guess is as good as that of any bow-tied CFA working on Wall Street: Nobody really knows how this struggling economy will perform once it’s weaned off Uncle Sam’s massive federal subsidies.
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Posted
Sep 24 2009, 09:20 AM
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Minyanville
Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This article is written by Minyanville's Laurie Petersen
Watching TV on a PC is so last century. The future of media is all about size, according to Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban, who is also chairman of HDnet.
He’s talking screen size.
As Cuban sees it, the obsession with PCs and the small screens of handheld devices is looking at things all wrong. He foresees a future of media where people watch content, including YouTube (GOOG), on oversized public TVs and even pay for the privilege to do so with their friends.
Cuban’s inspiration was last weekend’s Cowboys-Giants game, the one where the Giants pulled it off at the very last moment. But everyone was talking about the new stadium’s seven-story tall screen from Mitsubishi Electric, he says.
“That screen (the one in the new Cowboys stadium), you can’t take your eyes off it,” Cuban said. Just as we’ve watched screens get smaller, faster, and cheaper, soon we’ll be seeing bigger, better, and cheaper, he predicts.
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Sep 16 2009, 07:26 AM
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Minyanville
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This article is written by Minyanville's Sean Udall
Listening to CNBC yesterday morning I was struck by two key things: First, there are obvious factors/evidence that many are choosing to ignore. Second, we should always be mindful of what may not be obvious and try to skate to where the puck is going to be. However, sometimes the obvious meshes with where the puck is going. I find this especially true during times of great collective doubt. Read Our Marionette Economy for an opposing viewpoint.
Post 1991, it was very popular to doubt the rally. We were at war and the S&L crisis was far from being declared dead. It was an incredible time to believe that stocks deserved to be pushed higher -- especially in light of numerous signs of profound growth in many industries.
Moreover, when I hear that the market price is "unjustified" by "current fundamentals," I simply know we're going higher in the intermediate term and longer.
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Posted
Sep 14 2009, 02:19 PM
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InvestorPlace
Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post was written by InvestorPlace.
Many newspaper stocks are down over 90% from five years ago. Some public companies in the industry, most notably the Journal Register Co., have gone bankrupt. The combination of huge debt taken on for acquisitions of other newspapers and profit margins undermined by a sharp drop in advertising have put the newspaper industry on the brink of extinction.
Bing: Can Newspapers Be Saved?
The troubles of newspapers are old news. Most Wall Street analysts expect that the most profitable revenue for most papers -- namely, classifieds -- won’t bounce back at all after the recession. Sites like Cragslist have taken too much of the market. That leaves large metropolitan papers with expensive staffs and the cost of printing and distributing huge numbers of newspapers.
The news about newspapers is what is being done to save them. Most large papers have moved a great deal of their content online. According to comScore, The New York Times' (NYT) properties are among the 15 most visited families of sites on the Web in the U.S. Online advertising is down this year, but not nearly as much as print.
Several companies have been formed to help newspapers make money on the internet. The most well-known of these is Journalism Online, started by a group of partners including the former publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
Google (GOOG) is the newspaper industry’s latest white knight. It has the software capacity to help index content to make it easier to search. Google’s AdWords program offers publisher the chance to sell ads next to the search results on their online newspaper editions
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Posted
Sep 03 2009, 03:47 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 Google’s (GOOG) YouTube may finally come up with a way to raise revenue. It streamed nine billion videos last month, but, by some estimates loses $300 million a year.
The quality of the video on YouTube is usually so low that advertisers don’t want to put their high-quality TV messages on the service. That leaves YouTube with limited options to make money. Bing: The best movies of all time
The video-sharing service is in the final stage of a process to set up a movie rental business with most of the largest studios, including Lions Gate and MGM. Many other companies in the industry will probably join if the program works well. YouTube would offer films for streaming at a price of $3.99. Its audience is large enough that the program could actually work.
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