The Yuan reached an all-time high trading against the dollar and appears that it will appreciate 4% for the year 2011 according to traders. The currency will probably continues to appreciate in 2012 as China continues with large trade surpluses and despite American pressure to allow the Yuan to rise in order to balance bilateral… Continue Reading
GNC Holdings Inc.’s stock has been rising since its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in April 2011. It started off at $16.75 and has risen to 28.65 over the past 8 months. That’s a 75% gain in 8 months. Could be worse! GNC Holdings is a retail marketer of health and wellness products. GNC markets minerals,… Continue Reading
CDI Corp. (CDI) may be planning to improve its business but its stock has been rising since the beginning of October. On December 8th, CDI announced a strategic plan to promote long-term company growth. This plan will improve key areas such as client relations, technical service, engineering solutions, IT solutions, staffing and other area. On… Continue Reading
Computer Task group, Inc. supplies IT solutions and staffing services mainly in Europe and North America. CTG’s services include selection and implementation of software packages. The company also makes and integrates new software systems and develops customized software solutions. The company provides solutions for health information management, medical care management, medical fraud, insurance assessments, and… Continue Reading
Analysts International Corp. is one of many companies in the information technology services industry. Its services include internet technology staffing in the following formats: managed teams, solutions to project issues including solution implementations and system integration. The company also improves enterprise resource planning, implementation and also management services. It has 971 full-time employees. Analysts International… Continue Reading
GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK:LN) is a giant drug manufacturing and distribution company. It is traded in London and in America. While the American stocks are going up slowly they also pay quarterly dividends. However, the English stocks are doing very well. They have gone up from 1,096 English pounds in February to 1,373 pounds last week.… Continue Reading
Smith Midland Corp (SMID.OB) is a company that develops, sells, licenses and rents precast concrete products for construction, and highway and noise barriers. The business was started in 1960 by Rodney I. Smith and his father David Smith. Today, Rodney’s son, Ashley B. smith, who has a BA in Business Administration, serves as the COO.… Continue Reading
As the hours tick down to Monday’s Wall Street opening, investors are left wondering where to go when the proverbial sky seems to be falling. Since the S&P downgraded the US sovereign debt world stocks have plummeted. Middle Eastern markets tumbled as much as 7% yesterday and Asian markets fell over 3 percent. Both European… Continue Reading
For a third consecutive day there was a drop in European stocks. This might have been due to the fact that earnings missed estimates from Clariant AC (CLN) (a Swiss chemical maker) to Merck KGA (MRK) (second largest drug manufacturer in Germany). The former plummeted 13 percent and the latter, 5.1 percent. Other dives were… Continue Reading
The European Union has been heaping the criticism on Spain vis-à-vis the way it has been dealing with savings banks and tax policy. But Spain has not taken this lying down. Indeed, according to a Bloomberg article it has been “persuading the EU to water down judgments issued as part of a new economic-policing system.”… Continue Reading