...Ken aime la pomme.

Kenneth Heebner, manager of one of the top-performing diversified U.S. stock mutual funds in the past 10 years, boosted his stakes in Apple Inc. (AAPL) and real estate companies in the first quarter and sold Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Heebner’s Capital Growth Management LP purchased 258,500 shares of Apple, the Cupertino, California-based maker of iPhones and iPads, to increase his stake to $111 million, according to a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He bought shares of real estate companies such as General Growth Properties Inc. (GGP) and cut his positions in some energy companies, including Schlumberger Ltd. (SLB) and Halliburton Co. (HAL).....

b o g ...b l o g

Hier et ce matin j'ai voulu mettre des nouveaux messages mais il y a eu des problèmes techniques sur blogger....et quelques messages ont été suprimés.

Merci à vous qui venez lire mes histoires chaques semaines

gerry.

The U.S. monetary authorities intervened in the foreign exchange markets to prop up the U.S. dollar against the Japanese yen, buying up $1 billion in greenbacks, on March 18, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday in its quarterly report to the Congress. The action was part of a coordinated G-7 intervention and was carried out in conjunction with officials from Japan, the European Union, Canada and the United Kingdom. During the first quarter, the U.S. dollar depreciated 5.5% against the euro but rose 2.5% against the yen.

WINN.q sort de son sommeil de 6 mois...

Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. operates as a food retailing company primarily under the Winn-Dixie banner. The company stores offer grocery, meat, seafood, produce, deli, bakery, floral, health and beauty, and other general merchandise items. Its stores also provide pharmacy, liquor, and fuel products. The company offers national brands, as well as its own private-label products in its stores. As of June 30, 2010, it operated 514 stores in 5 states in the southeastern United States; and 401 pharmacies, 80 liquor stores, and 5 fuel centers at its stores. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

Silver...va sûrement y avoir des aubaines

Chinoiseries

A Shanghai court has found Baidu.com Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU), China's most used search engine, guilty of copyright infringement when it offered free links to Cloudary, an online literature subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd (NASDAQ: SNDA). The court ruled Baidu should pay ¥500,000 in compensation. Baidu said it has appealed against the decision and declined to comment .
China Telecom Corp (NYSE: CHA, HKG: 0728) released its E-Surfing prepaid broadband Wi-Fi service that is available to both China Telecom and non-China Telecom customers. After verifying possession of a particular handset, users can purchase E-Surfing Wi-Fi prepaid credit via online banking, online payment platform Alipay or China Telecom calling credit, according to Zhang Xin, head of China Telecom's customer service department. Once the purchase has been made, users can sign up for a user ID and password for the service online or via SMS, allowing them to use E-Surfing Wi-Fi hotspots nationwide. China Telecom currently has 300,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across China and plans to increase the coverage to 700,000 by the end of this year, and to one million in 2012.
CNOOC Ltd (NYSE: CEO, HKG: 0883), China's biggest offshore petrol energy explorer, has confirmed its payroll averaged ¥386,700 per head in 2010, higher than the average of the petrochemical industry. The company currently has around 100,000 employees.
GreenTree Inns Hotel Management Group Inc, an American-funded budget hotel chain based in China, plans to raise $150 million from a US IPO in Q2 2011, IFR reported. The company started doing business in China in 2004, and was operating 477 hotels in the country by the end of 2010. It has a presence in 97 Chinese cities. Most of its room rates range between ¥160 and ¥220.
Sina Corp (NASDAQ: SINA), a leading Chinese portal, posted $100.2 million in net revenues and $15 million in net profits for Q1 2011, up 18% and down 24% respectively from the same period a year ago. Operating cost of its Weibo microblogging service pushed up total costs. Its Weibo had attracted over 140 million users by the end of April.
China New Borun Corporation (NYSE: BORN), a leading Chinese producer and distributor of corn-based edible alcohol, posted ¥571.8 million in revenues and ¥77.6 million in net profits for Q1 2011, up 47.1% and 32.8% respectively from the same period a year ago.
Canadian Solar Inc (NASDAQ: CSIQ), a Chinese solar company, posted $443.4 million in net revenues and $5.9 million in net profits for Q1 2011, up 31.6% and 292.5% respectively from the same period a year ago.
3SBio Inc (NASDAQ: SSRX), a leading Chinese biotechnology company, posted ¥118.2 million in net revenues and ¥22.2 million in net profits for Q1 2011, up 22.7% and down 16.7% respectively from the same period a year ago.

Health care products giant Johnson & Johnson on Wednesday saw its rating and price target boosted by analysts at Goldman Sachs. The firm said it upgraded JNJ from "Neutral" to "Buy" and raised its price target from from $64 to $77

“After two years of earnings and stock underperformance, JNJ may now be on the cusp of an accelerating earnings trajectory, driven by an emerging new product cycle in Pharma, signs of stabilization in MD&D, and a bottoming out in Consumer.”

Désastreux IPO...une aubaine pour l'Avenir ?

Renren Inc. RENN.nyse was one where being cautious almost looked and felt silly going into the IPO. After all, it was supposed to be “The Facebook of China” and anything tied to social networking was supposed to be hot.
The problem is that the company previously overstated its growth rates in its prospectus. Then, to add insult to injury, the head of its audit committee resigned. These were two huge red flags (no pun for China) in this IPO. Still, investors wanted these shares no matter what. We even gave the name for Renren’s IPO pricing as “Issues Be Damned!” but the shares still were massively higher after its shares began trading.
Now we have a situation where “China IPO” is tarnished. Look at Renren now… Shares hit $14.00 this morning, which is now exactly where the Renren pricing went out. The offering was some 53.1 million ADSs at $14.00 per share. The stock’s IPO-date opening price was listed as $19.50 and the official post-IPO high was $24.00. Then shares closed at $18.01 versus a low of the day of $18.00. Sadly, that means that anyone who bought shares in the secondary market and decided that they wanted to own a piece of “The Facebook of China” got crushed.
Then you can throw some irritants on your cuts by seeing how poorly this one has done. Shares closed down each day since the IPO… $16.87, $16.80, $16.03, and then ultimately at $14.75 just yesterday.
Now we have shares after more than 40 minutes down another 6% at $13.15 and the new trading low is listed as $13.04 today. That implies that Renren has become a busted-IPO

BGC analyst Colin Gillis today initiated coverage of Cisco Systems CSCO.q with a Buy rating and a $24 price target, arguing that investors who can stomach the risk should buy the shares ahead of the fiscal Q3 earnings report tomorrow, which he thinks could beat estimates. Gillis is modeling $10.9 billion in revenue and 40 cents in EPS for Q3, versus the consensus $10.8 billion and 37 cents.
Cisco has a history of surprising “over delivering,” he argues:
Despite the 13% YTD decline in share price and concern over gross margins, Cisco is a company with a rare combination of market share leadership, a diverse geographical revenue base, participation in the ever expanding needs of the network, and trades at a discount valuation. Management has an established history of under promising and over delivering on financial results, and the company recently scored 4.9 out of 5 with its top customers, its highest rating in a decade

100 milliards

Facebook attire de plus en plus d’annonceurs. Les revenus publicitaires du réseau social en ligne devraient presque doubler cette année, à 3 ,5 milliards de dollars, contre 1,8 milliard en 2010, selon les prévisions du cabinet Enders...
Facebook était privilégié jusqu’à présent par des annonceurs low-cost. Mais, avec ses quelque 600 millions de membres, le réseau social commence à intéresser des grandes marques, souligne Enders Analysis. Signe de cette popularité, le site aurait augmenté le prix de ses encarts pub de 40% au premier trimestre comparé aux trois derniers mois de 2010, selon le cabinet Efficient Frontier.
De quoi alimenter un peu plus les spéculations en vue d’une future introduction en Bourse, qui devrait avoir lieu cet automne...au plus tard début 2012. Selon le Wall Street Journal, la croissance des bénéfices serait supérieure aux attentes cette année et justifierait une valorisation de plus de 100 milliards de dollars.

Research in Motion...muchos problemas

J'en reviens pas !...RIMM a fini sa journée le cul assis sur son avant dernier support à

45$us ...La dernière "station" du chemin de croix est à 35.$....après c'est le désert...la mort...le buyout à rabais. Dans la dernière année j'ai dit plusieurs fois que je ne recommandai pas le titre .....pourquoi ?.....RIMM ne fait pas assez profit "par appareils"...les ventes augmentent...les profits baissent.....mais ça c'est pas l'avis d'un ANALyste...ça viens d'un vendeur de pizza.

Voilà que d'autres merdeux pensent comme moi....

http://wallstnation.com/node/3598

New research is providing some of the first scientific evidence that a controversial gas drilling technique can contaminate drinking water.
The study published Monday found potentially dangerous concentrations of methane gas in water from wells near drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania, although not in central New York, where gas drilling is less extensive.
But in an unexpected finding, the team of Duke University scientists did not find any trace of the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process in 68 wells tested in Pennsylvania and Otsego County in central New York.
In hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, water, sand and chemicals are injected underground to crack the rock and get natural gas to flow into a well. Critics of the technique have worried more about the chemicals since companies have refused to make public the proprietary blends used and some of the ingredients can be toxic.
On average, water from wells located less than a mile from drilling sites had 17 times more methane than water tested from wells farther away, according to the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Methane is not known to be toxic, but in high concentrations it can be explosive and cause unconsciousness and even death, since it displaces oxygen needed to breathe.
Of the 60 wells tested for methane gas, 14 had levels of methane within or above a hazard range set by the Department of Interior for gas seeping from coal mines -- all but one of them near a gas well. In nine wells, concentrations were so high that the government would recommend immediate action to reduce the methane level.

noir ou blanc ? BLANC !!

Hundreds queue for the chance to buy a white iPhone 4 on the first day of sale at the Sanlitun Apple Store in Beijing, April 28, 2011. Apple stores in China have had trouble keeping the white iPhone 4 in stock.

Chinese consumers’ appetite for Apple products has grown substantially over the past year as the company has opened a number of new stores and made an effort to release new products more quickly in the country. In January, Apple reported that its China sales in its fiscal first quarter, which ended Dec. 25, quadrupled to $2.6 billion.

Ku6 Media Co., Ltd. operates as an online video company in the Republic of China. It operates ku6.com, an online video portal that provides a video platform for sharing and watching user-generated contents, as well as offers online video news, reports, and other interactive entertainment programs for its users. The company also operates juchang.com that provides copyright compliant contents, such as movies, television series, and other video programs sourced from it content partners. In addition, it involves in online audio business. The company is based in Beijing.

CROCS Inc. NASDAQ: CROX has its annual analyst meeting on Monday. This is going to be treated much differently because shares have risen some 150%… The stock closed at $21.00 on Friday and the 52-week range is $8.53 to $21.59. This one is no longer “cheap” but the average analyst price target is above $25.00 now. We’ll look for many new long-term estimates to be altered by analysts on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.