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At some point, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will accept that if it really wants its currency to sell-off and stay down, it will have to be much more direct about its intentions. The tradition of talking down one's currency is now well-established from the Bank of Japan to the Swiss National Bank to the Bank of England and even the Federal Reserve. The European Central Bank would try to talk its currency down if it was not more fearful of a market overreaction tat prices in a collapse of the euro itself.In Monday's minutes (Tuesday Australia time) of the May 7th policy meeting, the RBA provided no direct smoking gun to explain what I called at the time a mystifying rate cut. The minutes begin on a relatively optimistic note on expected economic growth rates: Members noted that global economic data released over the past

Introduction Looking for the next hot Basin in the U.S., an investor will stumble upon the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin where the dominant formation is the Niobrara shale. The industry is still in the early stages of unlocking the potential of the Niobrara and Codell formations in this Basin as different spacing densities within multiple formations are still being delineated.Although the large caps always attract most of the attention in any play, there are also companies that are worth a deeper look because they might be good short candidates or potential buyout targets. One thing is for sure: Not all the shale plays are created equal, and Niobrara or Codell are not Bakken or Eagle Ford. The Synergy Case With this in mind, let's check out Synergy Resources (SYRG) whose operations are in the DJ Basin. Synergy holds 218,000 net acres, spread out in Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada

Chevron Corporation (CVX) is one of the so-called supermajors, the six largest publicly owned oil and gas companies, the other five being BP (BP), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A), Total (TOT) and ConocoPhillips (COP). Chevron history The oldest predecessor of Chevron, the Pacific Coast Oil Company, was founded 134 years ago in 1879, in the same year that the famous "inventor" of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein, was born, for those of us who happen to be interested not only in investing but also in history. In fact, relativity is a very relevant concept for investors, as stock prices are also relative - relatively cheap or expensive, compared to the intrinsic value of the companies and prices of other stocks and asset classes. Stock dividend yields are relatively high or low as compared to a risk-free interest rate, bond yields, or other forms of income

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Cor (NYSE:BAH) will report earnings before markets open on Wednesday, May 22nd. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. provides management and technology consulting services to the U.S. government in the defense, intelligence and civil markets. The Company offers economic and business analysis, information technology, intelligence and operations analysis, modeling and simulation, organization and other consulting services. Here is your Cheat Sheet to Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Cor Earnings: Earnings Expectations: Analysts expect earnings of $0.37 per share on revenues of $1.51 billion. Currently, the company’s P/E ratio stands at 11.23. Analyst Trends: Analysts have a neutral outlook for the company’s next-quarter performance. Over the past three months, the average estimate for next quarter’s earnings is a profit of $0.38 and has not changed. For the current year, the average estimate is a profit of $1.63, which is the same as the estimate ninety days ago. Earnings Trends: Here’s how Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Cor has been performing on an annual basis: Fiscal Year 2009 2010 2011 2012 Revenue ($) in millions 4,351 5,123 5,591 5,859 Diluted EPS ($) -18.04 0.22 0.66 1.70 Next, our CHEAT SHEET investing framework asks us to drill down to the recent quarterly data: Quarter Dec. 31, 2011 Mar. 31, 2012 Jun. 30, 2012 Sep. 30, 2012 Dec. 31, 2012 Revenue ($) in millions 1,443 1,541 1,432 1,388 1,393 Diluted EPS ($) 0.44 0.3610 0.43 0.27 0.38 Past Performance: Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Cor has beat analyst estimates 4 times in the past four quarters. Shareholders could expect a boost if the company beats estimates. “E = Earnings Are Increasing Quarter-Over-Quarter” is a core component of our successful CHEAT SHEET investing framework. Don’t waste another minute – click here to discover our CHEAT SHEET stock picks now! (Company fundamentals provided by Xignite Financials. Email any earnings discrepancies to earnings [at] wallstcheatsheet.com) Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

I have written a number of articles about Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE) and recently wrote a piece detailing its various lines of business. I have been long CLNE on the theory that the surplus of natural gas in the United States will work its way into the transportation sector of the economy and that CLNE is uniquely positioned to play a key role in that transition.In order to better understand CLNE's prospects it is important to be aware of the distinction between the two fuels it sells, the nature of the markets each fuel is sold into, and CLNE's potential market power in each of those markets. These two fuels are Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG); CLNE has other lines of business discussed in earlier articles but these two will probably be the ones which determine whether CLNE has the enormous upside I described

According to Engadget and a litany of websites, Sony (SNE) recently demonstrated its slick new 13.3-inch Slate, at the Educational IT Solutions Expo in Japan. This A4-sized tablet (i.e. digital "yellow / legal pad" replacement), uses a flexible plastic-based reflective display from E-Ink (8069.TWO), called Mobius, and is designed specifically for power-sipping (3-week charge) note-taking.As the media on Sony's new product convey, this super-thin product uses optical touch technology and has no cover-glass. This intuitively means the Sony slate's touch technology has to be licensed from Neonode (NEON). Neonode's involvement makes perfect sense considering that Sony was NEON's first optical-touch licensee (for eReaders in 2010) and has been a very strong customer. Finally, if one looks at the resolution specifications for Neonode's MultiSensing technology, its fast 1 Kilohertz (1,000 times per second) refresh rate makes it ideal for handwriting, versus capacitive's inadequate rates of 60-120 times per second

Intel (INTC) began aggressively focusing in integrated graphics performance, starting in earnest with 2011's "Sandy Bridge". In a few short weeks, Intel will launch its next generation, high performance "Haswell" parts for the premium/high end laptop and All-In-One markets. While there are substantial improvements to the "Haswell" core, the real magic at the high end is the dramatically improved on-die graphics. It seems that Apple's (AAPL) 13" "Retina" displays are about to be paired with "Iris" and "Iris Pro" graphics processors. Is it any coincidence that Intel's high end integrated graphics offering is named to go perfectly with Apple's highly regarded "Retina" displays? The Product Stack For reference, here is Intel's graphics product stack, for convenience as you read this article: (click to enlarge) 15" Retina MacBook Pro Likely To Stay With Nvidia While Intel's performance claims for its "Iris" graphics are bold and probably truthful in most

Below is a list of two technology companies, based in Israel and Indonesia, currently being sold by hedge funds. They appear undervalued based on levered free cash flow/enterprise value ratios, but vary widely across other metrics.To create the list we began with a screen of the foreign technology sector for stocks with bearish sentiment from institutional investors, with significant net institutional sales over the last quarter representing at least 5% of share float. This indicates that institutional investors such as hedge fund managers and mutual fund managers expect these companies to underperform in the future.We then screened for companies that appear undervalued relative to their cash flows, indicated by high ratios of levered free cash flow/enterprise value. Levered free cash flow can be used to pay dividends, pay for expansion or finance growth opportunities by taking on debt.Levered free cash flow is the free cash flow after

by Jason Voss, CFA It is a new era for global bonds and everything you know is wrong, PIMCO's global co-head of emerging markets portfolio management, Ramin Toloui, told delegates at the 66th CFA Institute Annual Conference in Singapore.His point? All of the important market structures and ways of thinking about investing were put in place over the last many decades. But this environment was largely unswerving in its reverence for developed markets. In addition, it had very little of that most irritating of investor perturbances: volatility. As a result, fixed-income investors are all fighting the last war with the same strategies and the same weapons.So what has changed? For starters, Toloui noted, there's been a transformation of international creditor-debtor relationships. Consider: Emerging markets now have positive current account balances, meaning that they now raise capital domestically. Emerging market international reserves are now approaching $8

BlackBerry Live in Orlando Florida has ended successfully with many announcements being made. BlackBerry's (BBRY) new marketing slogan "keep moving" also seems to apply as their new internal mission statement. New products and features are being released on a regular basis, with their enterprise services taking the limelight. New Enterprise features released This week BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.1 was released and is available for download. This upgrade is free for BlackBerry Enterprise 10 customers, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5 customers can upgrade their client access licenses free of charge for the remainder of 2013. Additionally BES 4 customers can upgrade to BES 5, saving the $995 upgrade fee.The new features in BES 10.1 are: Regulated-level EMM - This feature is an extended set of policy settings and controls that restricts the new BlackBerry 10 devices for work only. This setting is optional. Upgrade simplification - The upgrade