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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:
Technology (21 articles)
- eBay, 3 articles (6, 14, 20)
- Accenture, 2 articles (1, 16)
- Apple, 2 articles (4, 11)
- Baidu, 2 articles (3, 18)
- Broadcom, 2 articles (5, 7)
- Oracle, 2 articles (8, 17)
- Samsung, 2 articles (4, 10)
Consumer (18 articles)
- Nike, 2 articles (3, 13)
- Rite Aid, 2 articles (2, 16)
Financial Services (10 articles)
- E*Trade, 2 articles (3, 6)
- Goldman Sachs, 2 articles (4, 10)
Media & Telecom (9 articles)
- AT&T, 2 articles (3, 6)
- Blackberry, 2 articles (7, 8)
- Sprint, 2 articles (3, 6)
Industrials & Transportation (9 articles)
- FedEx, 3 articles (5, 6, 8)
- Boeing, 2 articles (2, 4)
- GE, 2 articles (2, 3)
Health Care (7 articles)
Basic Materials (5 articles)
Energy & Utilities (2 articles)
All 81 investment stories this week are listed below.
Technology
- Accenture Earnings: Revenue Soars Even As Order Booking Disappoints on December 19th
- Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Platform Explained – Part 1 on December 19th
- Weekly Chinese Internet Notes: Baidu’s Latest Moves on December 19th
- Smartphone Weekly Notes: Apple Pay Alliances, BlackBerry Classic and Samsung’s Mobile Payment Plans on December 19th
- Why Broadcom Will Benefit From The Digitization Drive In India on December 18th
- Amazon Vs. eBay — Which Is A Cheaper Stock To Buy? on December 18th
- Broadcom Launches A New Platform To Benefit From Mexico’s Analog-to-Digital TV Transitionon December 18th
- Oracle Q2’15 Earnings Review: Cloud’s Success Helps Beat All Expectations on December 18th
- Western Digital’s Skyera Acquisition Adds To Flash Storage Consolidation on December 18th
- Why 2014 Was A Challenging Year For Samsung’s Smartphone Business on December 18th
- How Apple Is Revamping Its iAd Platform on December 18th
- Salesforce Releases Product That Lets Businesses Create Custom Enterprise App Stores on December 17th
- TI Set To Showcase A Range Of Consumer Devices At The 2015 CES on December 17th
- eBay’s Business: Here Are The Key Drivers And Barriers (Part 2/2) on December 17th
- Declining Unemployment, Strong Job Additions To Drive Paychex’s Revenues on December 17th
- Accenture Earnings Preview: Revenue Growth In Focus on December 16th
- Oracle Q2’15 Earnings Preview: All Eyes on Cloud on December 16th
- Nokia Expands HERE Maps Client Base With Baidu Partnership on December 16th
- Weekly Online Travel Agency Notes: Priceline, Expedia, TripAdvisor, Ctrip on December 15th
- Here Are The Key Drivers And Barriers For eBay’s Business (Part 1/2) on December 15th
- Adobe Earnings: Creative Cloud & Cloud Services Deliver Another Quarter Of Growth on December 15th
Consumer
- Improved Management of Fleets Business Bodes Well For GM’s Profitability on December 19th
- Rite Aid Raises Its 2015 Outlook Backed By A Strong Q3 2015 on December 19th
- Strong Europe, China Performance Drives Nike’s 15% Top Line Growth In Q2 on December 19th
- Why Wal-Mart’s Revenue Per Square Feet Will Improve Going Forward on December 19th
- Walgreen’s Q1’15 Earnings Preview: Topline Continues To Grow Though Margins Remain Under Pressure on December 19th
- Harley-Davidson’s Success Story In The U.S. on December 18th
- Four Reasons Why Truck Sales In The U.S. Might Increase In 2015 on December 17th
- Can Burger King Make An Impactful Start In India? on December 17th
- A Brief Recap of Avon’s Performance in 2014 on December 17th
- The Impact Of Coffee Prices On Kraft Foods Group’s Business on December 17th
- Wynn Resorts’ Stock Price Hits 52-Week Low; Macau Set To Post First Ever Annual Gaming Revenue Decline on December 16th
- Urban Outfitters: Does Black Friday Slowdown Indicate Holiday Sales Weakness? on December 16th
- Earnings Preview: Higher Unit Prices, Shift To Higher Margin Businesses To Drive Nike’s Growth on December 16th
- Volkswagen Bets On New Technology To Take On Tesla on December 16th
- Week in Review: Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly Clark on December 15th
- Rite Aid’s Q3’15 Earnings Preview: Topline Growth Is Intact But Margins Remain Under Pressureon December 15th
- How Are Hyatt’s Asia Pacific Operations Trending? on December 15th
- How Low Crude Oil Prices Are Good For Lululemon on December 17th
Financial Services
- Credit Card Weekly Notes: Discover, MasterCard, American Express on December 19th
- Insurance Weekly Notes: MetLife, Prudential, UnitedHealth on December 19th
- Asset Base Continues To Grow For E*Trade, Trading Activity Slows Down on December 19th
- Financials Weekly Notes: U.S. Bancorp, BofA, Goldman and RBS on December 19th
- BlackRock Continues To Make The Most Of The ETF Growth Story on December 19th
- Weekly Brokerage Notes: Client Assets Rise For E*Trade, Ameritrade And Charles Schwab on December 19th
- Weekly Global Exchange Notes: November Trade Volumes In Focus on December 19th
- High Trading Volumes Could Lead To A Profitable Year-End For CME on December 18th
- State Street Ups Ante In European ETF Price Wars With Another Round Of Price Cuts on December 17th
- Goldman Continues ETF Market Push With Proposal To Launch 11 New ETFs on December 16th
Media & Telecom
- Why We Believe That Netflix Is Still Overvalued on December 19th
- How Is Nickelodeon Network Trending For Viacom? on December 19th
- U.S. Wireless Carriers Weekly Review: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint on December 19th
- News Corp Benefits as Higher Demand For E-books And Harlequin Acquisition Will Drive Growthon December 18th
- Time Warner Boosted By Record Foriegn Box-Office Opening For The New Hobbit Movie on December 18th
- Sprint’s Efforts Hurting AT&T, Impact May Be Short-Lived on December 18th
- BlackBerry Q3 Preview: Expect Another Quarter Of Transition on December 17th
- BlackBerry Bolsters Enterprise-Focused Hardware Strategy With The Classic on December 16th
- How Is Disney’s Studio Business Trending In 2014? on December 15th
Industrials & Transportation
- Industrials Weekly Review: Deere, Corning, Honeywell, Caterpillar on December 19th
- Aviation Week In Review: Boeing and GE on December 19th
- How Will GE Fare In The Low Oil Price Environment? on December 18th
- Boeing Looks Set To Beat Airbus In Orders And Deliveries In 2014 on December 18th
- FedEx Delivers Strong Growth But Misses Expectations on December 18th
- FedEx To Enhance Services, Expand Presence In North American E-Commerce Market Through GENCO on December 17th
- With Recovering Demand And Improving Margins, Textron Aviation Is Poised For Growth on December 16th
- FedEx Earnings Preview: E-Commerce Growth Will Continue To Drive Ground Segment on December 15th
- What’s Driving Honeywell’s Aerospace Segment Going Forward? on December 16th
Health Care
- Abbott’s Generic Drug Business Gets A Boost With Veropharm Acquisition on December 19th
- Battle In Hepatitis C Market: Bristol-Myers Squibb Needs To Speed Up on December 18th
- Roche Hopes For Melanoma Therapy Approval on December 17th
- Medtronic-Covidien Deal In Final Stages With Antitrust Approvals In Place on December 17th
- Pfizer’s Acquisition Strategy: Will Pfizer Still Go For A Big Acquisition? (Part 1 of 2) on December 16th
- A Look At UnitedHealth’s Medicare And Retirement Business on December 16th
- Boston Scientific Reports Positive Clinical Trial Results For Neuromodulation Device on December 15th
Basic Materials
- DuPont To Take Additional Restructuring Charge Related To Performance Chemicals Spin-off on December 19th
- Vale Completes Sale of Stake In Fosbrasil As Part of Ongoing Response To Low Iron Ore Prices on December 19th
- Mining Royalty Rate Hike To Adversely Impact Barrick Gold’s Zambian Copper Mining Operations on December 18th
- Alcoa Announces Acquisition Of Aerospace Components Manufacturer As Aerospace Expansion Continues on December 17th
- Trends In Jewelry Demand For Gold on December 15th
Energy & Utilities
- Where Are Oil Prices Headed In The Long Run? on December 17th
- Oilfield Services Weekly Notes: Lower Crude Prices, Rig Count Declines And Jobs Cuts on December 15th