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Below is a summary of the activity at Trefis during the past week that Trefis thought Econintersect readers would find interesting.
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Table of Contents for the 81 top stories this week:
Consumer (23 articles)
- Abercrombie & Fitch, 2 articles (7, 14)
- Aeropostale, 2 articles (6, 12)
- Ford, 2 articles (16, 22)
- Guess, 2 articles (2, 13)
- McDonald’s, 2 articles (11, 18)
- Walgreen, 2 articles (5, 20)
Technology (20 articles)
- Alibaba, 2 articles (8, 15)
- IBM, 2 articles (1, 4)
- Intel, 2 articles (5, 10)
- Seagate, 2 articles (6, 19)
- Western Digital, 2 articles (6, 19)
Financial Services (12 articles)
- Citigroup, 2 articles (3, 11)
- Mastercard, 2 articles (1, 10)
Energy & Utilities (10 articles)
- Chevron, 2 articles (1, 3)
- Schlumberger, 2 articles (2, 5)
Industrials & Transportation (6 articles)
- Corning, 2 articles (1,2)
- Deere, 2 articles (1, 5)
- Norfolk Southern, 2 articles (3, 6)
Media & Telecom (4 articles)
- Juniper, 2 articles (1, 4)
- VMware, 2 articles (1, 4)
Basic Materials (3 articles)
- Cliffs Natural Resources, 2 articles (1, 2)
Health Care (3 articles)
All 81 investment stories this week are listed below.
Consumer
- Weekly Beauty And Personal Care Notes: L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Revlon And Avon on December 5th
- Guess’s Results And Guidance Disappoint, But E-Commerce Shows Promise on December 5th
- Tata’s Jaguar Land Rover Starts Building Its Brazil Plant on December 5th
- American Eagle Outfitters Falls On Bleak Guidance, But Shows Some Bright Spots on December 5th
- Walgreen Reports Strong November & Q1’15 Sales on December 4th
- Aeropostale Stumbles Again; To Ramp Up Store Closures on December 4th
- Abercrombie & Fitch Slashes Outlook In Anticipation Of A Weak Holiday Season on December 4th
- American Eagle’s Sales Decline To Slowdown In Q3; Margins Will Be Better on December 2nd
- Monthly Reviews On The Beverage Industry: Coca-Cola And PepsiCo on December 1st
- Monthly Reviews On The Home Improvement Sector: Home Depot And Lowe’s on December 1st
- Monthly Notes On Restaurant Industry: McDonald’s, Burger King & Chipotle Mexican Grill on December 1st
- Aeropostale’s Sales Slump Will Continue In Q3 on December 1st
- Guess’s Earnings Preview: Foot Traffic Decline In The U.S. And Economic Weakness In Europe Will Subdue Sales on December 1st
- Abercrombie & Fitch Earnings Preview: Weak Demand And Traffic Decline Will Suppress Growth on December 1st
- Weekly Tobacco Notes: Uruguay Responds, China Clamps Down on December 1st
- Weekly Auto Notes: Honda, GM, Ford Come Under The Regulatory Scanner on December 1st
- Audi’s Bid In China’s Promising Electric Vehicle Market on December 1st
- McDonald’s Prepares For Breakfast Battle Amid Uncertainties In Overseas Markets on December 1st
- AB InBev To Focus On Younger Customers To Revive Budweiser Sales In The U.S. on December 1st
- Walgreen’s Focus On Lowering Internal Costs Will Help Improve Its Bottom Line on December 1st
- Toyota Set To Take On Tesla With Its Own Electric Car on December 1st
- Ford Betting On China To Revive The Lincoln Brand on December 1st
- Best Buy Margins To Remain Under Pressure on December 1st
Technology
- Week In Review: Accenture, Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, HP on December 5th
- Week In Review: AOL, Google, Yahoo on December 5th
- Here’s Why We Have Valued Zynga’s Stock At $2.83 on December 5th
- Cloud Deals To Boost IBM’s Global Services Revenues on December 4th
- Intel Accelerates Its Presence In Wearable Tech By Partnering With The Luxottica Group on December 4th
- A Look At The SSD Market: Where Do Seagate and Western Digital Stand? on December 4th
- Revising Yahoo! Japan Share Price to $8.29 on December 3rd
- Here’s Why Changing Market Dynamics Should Worry Alibaba’s Investors on December 2nd
- Factors That Cast Uncertainty Around Qualcomm’s China Operations on December 2nd
- Intel To Replace TI In The New Version Of Google Glass on December 1st
- Weekly Chinese Internet Notes: Baidu In Focus on December 1st
- Mobile Weekly Notes: Apple’s iAd Revamp, BlackBerry’s iPhone Trade-In Deal on December 1st
- Unemployment Rate Decline Points To A Bright Future For Human Capital Management Companies on December 1st
- Weekly Online Travel Agency Notes: Priceline, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Ctrip, Travelzoo on December 1st
- Weekly Internet Notes: Twitter, Facebook, Alibaba and Amazon on December 1st
- Yelp Is Worth $61.17 on December 1st
- Here Are The Factors Underlying Our $163 Price Estimate For LinkedIn’s Stock on December 1st
- Can VeriSign Maintain Its Market Leadership In The Coming Years? on December 1st
- Storage Companies Week In Review: SanDisk, Seagate, Western Digital on December 1st
- Here Are The Key Drivers And Barriers For Groupon’s Business on December 1st
Financial Services
- Credit Card Weekly Notes: AmEx, MasterCard on December 5th
- A Look At The Trends Affecting Holiday Spending, Impact On Credit Card Companies on December 5th
- Financials Weekly Notes: Citigroup, Goldman and RBS on December 5th
- Q3 2014 U.S. Banking Roundup: Loan-To-Deposit Ratio on December 4th
- A Look At Hartford’s Revised Model and $44 Price Estimate on December 3rd
- Q3 2014 U.S. Banking Roundup: Deposits on December 3rd
- Discover, AmEx Maintain Low Delinquency Levels And Charge-Off Rates on December 2nd
- A Look At The Country’s Largest Card Lenders: Credit Card Charge-Off Rates on December 2nd
- Insurance Weekly Notes: AIG, Prudential on December 1st
- Credit Card Weekly Recap – MasterCard, Discover, Visa on December 1st
- Financials Weekly Notes: Citigroup, U.S. Bancorp and Barclays on December 1st
- Exchanges Weekly Review: Trade Volumes Surge In October on December 1st
Energy & Utilities
- Weekly Oil & Gas Notes: Chevron’s New Project Announcement And Petrobras’ Ratings Downgrade on December 5th
- Schlumberger Revised To $105, Still Well-Positioned To Weather A Downturn on December 5th
- Chevron’s Deepwater Production To Receive A Boost From The Start-up Of Jack/St. Malo on December 4th
- Halliburton Revised To $60 On Upstream Capex Concerns on December 4th
- Why Schlumberger Is Reducing Its Seismic Survey Fleet on December 3rd
- Plummeting Crude Oil Prices Will Prove A Test For Deepwater And Unconventional Plays on December 2nd
- Why A Dividend Cut May Be Inevitable For Transocean on December 2nd
- A Closer Look At EOG Resources’ Key Business Drivers on December 1st
- Q3 2014 Integrated Oil & Gas Round-Up: Capital Expenditures on December 1st
- Integrated Oil & Gas Round-Up Q3 2014: Upstream Production on December 1st
Industrials & Transportation
- Industrials Weekly Review: Deere, Corning and Johnson Controls on December 5th
- Corning’s Samsung Fiber Optics Acquisition Should Benefit From China Growth on December 4th
- Norfolk Southern’s Coal Woes Likely To Continue on December 3rd
- How Will The New Airbus A330neo Impact Boeing? on December 2nd
- Deere Earnings: Weak Guidance Overshadows Better Than Expected Results on December 1st
- Railroads Weekly Review: Norfolk Southern, CSX and Union Pacific on December 1st
Media & Telecom
- Juniper Expands Partnership With VMware To Boost Private Cloud Adoption on December 5th
- Netflix Headed To 18 Million International Subscribers, International Profits Remain Nonexistenton December 3rd
- Comcast’s Broadband Business To Grow On Higher ARPU And Rising Demand For High Speed Tiers on December 1st
- Networking Monthly Notes: Cisco, VMware, Juniper In Focus on December 1st
Basic Materials
- Weekly Metals And Mining Notes: Alcoa, Vale And Cliffs Natural Resources on December 5th
- Cliffs To Sell Logan County Coal As Part Of Ongoing Response To Poor Market Conditions on December 4th
- Weekly Metals And Mining Notes: Newmont Mining, Rio Tinto And ArcelorMittal on December 1st
Health Care
- Roche’s Expands Diagnostics Position With The Acquisition Of Ariosa on December 4th
- FDA’s Warning On Power Morcellators To Impact Intuitive Surgical’s Procedure Volumes on December 2nd
- Monthly Medical Technology Update: Boston Scientific And Medtronic on December 1st