Monthly Archives: July 2015

Is Amazon Going To Soar To New All-Time Highs?

Amazon (AMZN) reports its FQ2 ’15 results after the closing bell tonight. Currently, the Estimize community have 106 estimates and are predicting an EPS figure of -$0.07 compared to Wall Street which predict -$0.17. Estimize are also predicting higher revenues of $22.422B relative to Wall Street’s $22.308B consensus.   Amazon has been a fantastic investment year-to-date…

Dow Chemical Q2 Earnings Outshine, Currency Dents Sales

Dow Chemical (DOW – Analyst Report) comfortably beat earnings expectations in second-quarter 2015 and saw a healthy rise in its profits, thanks to strong margins in its performance plastics business. But its sales missed expectations, hurt by currency headwinds stemming from a stronger greenback and lower oil prices. The U.S. chemical kingpin recorded profits of $1,135 million or…

Busiest Day Of Q2 Earnings Season

Earnings remain front and center on the busiest day of the Q2 reporting session thus far, with more than 50 S&P 500 index members reporting results. A few positive reports notwithstanding, the overall tone coming out of this morning’s long line-up of results is negative. Of this morning’s releases, Caterpillar’s (CAT – Analyst Report) weak numbers are…

Semi Leadership Intact

Well folks, they never make it easy do they?  As of now the SOX is firm as apparently the Intel hype could not break the chart (though it did put a dent in it with the downside over throw).   I had been holding a preferred chip company through what was a paper loss yesterday,…