The move prompted speculation that telecoms shares have become so cheap that investors are now ready to step in with opportunistic bids, a move which may reverse the recent trend of plunging telecoms stock.
The issue of concentration will also be big, as the hostile bid would go against the trend of fragmentation in the stock market.
There is a bit of a nick upwards at the end but in the context of the dominant trend its hard to put a lot of stock in that.
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One of the most important things that you like to see in a stock is a trend of rising earnings estimates from analysts.
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Some follow the traditional approach of looking at stock charts and moving averages to identify the trend of different players (technical analysis).
The most important factor in producing a major trend change in the price of a stock, outside of economic conditions, is a change in the company.
The awards fit the trend toward giving executives stock instead of stock options, which have been blamed for spurring managers into taking excess risks or even tinkering with the books, Enron-style, to drive up the share price in the short term and make for a big cash payday.
This includes an in-depth study of the volume patterns that I use to determine the strength of a stock's trend.
Many individual investors are also frustrated with the inability of the stock market to sustain an upward trend and the historically low yields offered by bonds.
Since the cold war gave way to the drug war, the Coast Guard's stock has risen, and against the trend of military cutbacks its budget has actually grown in real terms.
There could be an upside of around 10% to our estimate for Qualcomm stock, if the royalty rates continue its upward trend to reach around 4% by the end of Trefis forecast period.
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The breaking down of the dollar-risk asset correlation is a trend stock market investors should begin topay attention to, Nordvig suggests.
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For value investors, the fundamental stock drivers and how they are likely to trend is of utmost importance.
But, the rebound in the price of the underlying stock today may not be a lasting trend according to some options players initiating bearish stances on Caterpillar today.
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In Asia, most markets edged lower, although Japan's Nikkei Stock Average bucked the trend, surging 3% ahead of a policy announcement by the Bank of Japan on Thursday where additional easing measures are expected to be announced.
Indeed, the three-year decline of stock markets around the world has effectively frozen the consolidation trend, according to James Angel, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.
Compensation of Lime executives falls in the middle of the pack, although the generally rising trend of compensation at Lime is not what we would expect given the poor stock performance, but it could be accounted for because of various timing issues.
Just a few thoughts to ponder as the stock market tumbles, and big-picture analysis extends the trend of the last couple of years of dysfunctional politics in Washington, predicting dire long-term consequences, even as there is increasing evidence of work being done to reach a compromise and end the dysfunction.
There is a generous selection of daily Hot Picks conveniently categorized by industry or type of stock and five e-analysts with names like Cautious Dr. Trend and Consensus Joe.
As best as I can remember, a bullish trend in the stock market typically come to an end after investors have moved large amounts of money from cash and bonds into stocks.
That means he doesn't put much stock in all the hype at the Consumer Electronics Show around the almighty trend of convergence: systems that can shuttle your movies, songs and photos from the Internet to the set-top box to the PC and back without calling an IT specialist.
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