http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:29:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Western Refining, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an independent crude oil refiner and marketer of refined products. In today's rising crude market, you would think that all refining stocks would be performing well. Western Refining is the exception. The problem is debt. WNR debt problems have caused the stock to ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/06/stock-focus-western-refining-wnr/ DreamWorks Animation summer movie Kung Fu Panda is poised to become the company's first non-shrek movie to gross over $200 million in domestic box office receipts. Is that good news for investors? The DWA stock price already has Kung Fu Panda's box office results built into it , and the next ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/06/stock-focus-dreamworks-animation/ There is quite a split opinion in Wall Street on the direction of financial stocks. The S&P Financial Sector exchange traded fund (XLF) is at the lows reached in March when the Bear Sterns fire sale was taking place. Thomas Brown of bankstocks.com had an interesting piece last week on which ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/06/bulls-vs-bears-financial-stocks/ When times are tough financially, American's shopping habits change. During good times we shop at apparel and department stores like Limited and Saks. Same-store sales in May fell 6.5% at specialty apparel stores and 3.5% at department stores, said Michael Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers. ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/06/consumers-heading-to-discount-stores/ Yahoo Inc set plans on Tuesday to hold its annual shareholder meeting on August 1 in the heart of Silicon Valley, setting the stage for a showdown with activist investor Carl Icahn, who is mounting a proxy fight for control of the company. Earlier, The Wall Street Journal reported that Icahn, ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/06/yahoo-board-in-trouble/ Investors Business Daily had a table over the weekend that showed the ten groups with the highest percent of their stocks at new highs. This is a pretty good indicator for where the action and momentum is in the market. The top ten groups are: Transportation - Rail 36% Metal Prds - ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/06/following-the-money/ Years ago I asked a friend of mine to recommend a book about investing and the stock market. He recommended "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" by Edwin Lefevre and it was then that I was introduced to Jesse Livermore. Livermore was born in 1877, and started trading at age 15. He ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/05/learning-from-jesse-livermore/ The Price –Earnings (P/E) ratio is one of the most common measurements investors use to measure the performance of individual stocks or the overall stock market. The traditional PE ratio is calculated as: For example, if stock A is trading at $24 and the earnings per share for the most recent 12 ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/05/and-you-thought-you-knew-the-pe-ratio/ I had to laugh when I read Google founder Larry Page's comments about a potential Microsoft takeover of Yahoo, saying it would concentrate too much power in the online communications market, stifling innovation and curbing competition. But he discounted the idea that an advertising deal between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.—one ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/05/google-owner-larry-page-speaks-with-forked-tongue/ The stock markets 12% rise in the last two months has the bulls on Wall Street believing that the worst is over, and the market is heading higher the rest of the year. The bears point to the following macro events as to this was simply a bear-market really Industrial production ... http://www.wilsonreport.com/blog/2008/05/the-bear-position/