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Bankrate Earnings Will Be Closely Watched By Traders (RATE, MOVE, TSCM)

On Tuesday, we’ll get to see earnings out of Bankrate Inc. (NASDAQ:RATE). The estimates from First Call for the internet-based consumer banking company are $0.39 EPS on $26.84 million in revenues. Estimates for fiscal 2008 are $1.96 EPS on $142.76 million in revenues. Analysts have an average price target north of $56.00, which is right in line with current share prices. If Friday’s closing prices are any indicator and if the earnings were coming out immediately, it appears that options traders would be pricing in a move of up to $4.00 in either direction. It will be interesting to see…

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  3 February, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 12:51
BHP Investors Braced For Earnings (BHP, RTP, AA)

On Tuesday (actually late Monday night in the U.S.), we’ll get to see earnings out of BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP). The estimates from First Call for the metal and mining giant were not calculated in dollars as it is based in Australia and might as well just be considered its own country. This has been one of the more complicated companies to cover because of the global waves of mergers in metals and mining, plus it has been a huge winner in the global growth trade. The fact that all these metals and miners are getting so large could…

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  3 February, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 12:35
Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Jan 28 - Feb 3, 2008)

This regular weekly article highlights some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week, and briefly reviews the week’s market action on the basis of economic statistics and a performance chart.

Please visit my website (by clicking on the heading above) for the full article, as well as other interesting investment snippets.

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  3 February, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) admin @ 8:51
Asia Pacific Preview: February 4-8

Will the Reserve Bank of Australia hike interest rates?…
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  3 February, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 3:00
ETF Trading is a Key to Sector Rotation

The rise of ETF’s has caused a major change in trading, particularly in sector rotation strategies.  There are several good current articles on this subject.

The Float, which does a nice job of covering developments in ETF’s, cites an a…
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  3 February, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 2:57
Three Business Decisions

One of the valuable things for us in writing a blog about a book, what we are doing at "A Dash",  is that we can see what is working and what is not.  By "working" we mean helping readers to understand something important that will be profitable in their investing.  This is not strictly a function of popularity of the article.  Reader comments are especially valuable.

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  3 February, 2008| Economy | Comments (0) @ 2:22
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