Wall Street Breakfast Editors submit: By Yigal Grayeff and the Market Currents team Apple's net profit passes $13B. Apple ( AAPL ) exceeded most analysts' wildest fantasies in FQ1 as its net income rocketed 118% to $13.06B, or $13.87 a share, making it one of the most profitable quarters ever for
CNH chairman Sergio Marchionne noted at the North American International Auto Show that the company will not counter Kubota's KUB revised NOK 10.50 per share offer for Norway's Kverneland, about a month after initially offering NOK 9.50 per share for
offer for farm implement manufacturer Kverneland for NOK 9.50 per share (about $245 million), topping rival Kubota's KUB recent NOK 8.50 per share bid (which was actually a formal agreement between Kubota and Kverneland). We doubt CNH will be
food companies such as Tyson ( TSN ) and Wilmar International to farm equipment manufacturers such as Deere ( DE ) and Kubota ( KUB ). Those four companies alone represent 20% of MOO’s holdings as of early October. I happen to own Deere anyway. And I
The Manual of Ideas submits: Japan has been on our radar screen for quite some time. The aftermath of this year’s Great East Japan Earthquake has given us the impetus to look at this market in more detail, and to try to identify some bargains among Japanese mid and large cap stocks. These companies
Rougemont submits: Just after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis unfolded in Japan, I wrote about some stocks and ETFs that could benefit from the changing headlines in Japan. You can read that article here . Every single stock and ETF mentioned in that article is higher now. That shows ...
Steven Kiel submits: Everyone from Warren Buffett to Barron’s has come out in the past week to say that Japanese stocks are cheap and now is the time to buy. Heck, even Dr. Doom himself, Marc Faber, has come out and called Japanese stocks a “lifetime buying opportunity.” Most commentators are ...
Martin Hutchinson submits: With a magnitude of 9.0, the March 11 earthquake in Japan was the worst in that country's 300-year history and was the fifth-worst the world has ever seen. That trembler, coupled with the devastating tsunami that followed, ignited a flurry of fears and caused a two-day ...
Hitachi Limited ADR ( HIT ) for farm & construction machinery Nidec CP ADS ( NJ ) for industrial electric equipment Kubota CP ( KUB ) for diversified machinery (This even closed positive today) Now timing on these will be essential. Surely they may go down
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