Month: March 2011

March Market Madness: American Express (AXP)

As we mentioned earlier, this month we are going to be looking at the stocks that make up the DJIA. . Next up… American Express (AXP).

American Express is a credit card company and a financial services firm. While a great company, it does not score well due to the current...

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Just When You Thought… NFP Payrolls

Just when you thought that things make sense, you get an this initial reaction to the NFP payrolls report on Friday. Expectations were high for sure. But, moreover, the odd movement in the currency and futures markets after the report was at odds. At first, the S&P futures popped higher...

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March Market Madness: Alcoa (AA)

As we mentioned earlier, this month we are going to be looking at the stocks that make up the DJIA. First up is Alcoa (AA).

Alcoa gets a combined score of -3.5. Most of that is due to the poor technicals that shares have been exhibiting. Shares just popped above the...

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Fed’s Beige Book – Color Coded

Making it easy to understand the economic reports, we like to simply color code the “good” and the “not so good” areas.If there is not color coding, that means that there is no real positive or negative from the information.

Overall, the report continues to show that the U.S. is still...

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March Market Madness: 30 Stocks in 30 Days

Over the next 30 days or so, we will be providing our the results of our “OneSheets” for the 30 stocks in the DJIA. Over the course of a year, we have been working on honing in on the details how a stock should be looked at using a fundamental...

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