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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL): Bondholders have reportedly lost roughly $280.6 million of market value since purchasing $17 billion worth of the company’s issued bonds, as it declines due to rising yields that are pulling themselves from record-setting lows. About $3 billion of 30-year, 3.85 percent bonds, issued at 99.418 cents on the dollar, dropped 4.3 cents through yesterday to 95.145 cents on the dollar since the offering made on April 30th, creating a loss of $128.2 million and pushing the yield on the bonds to 4.1 percent NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Google (NASDAQ:GOOG): During the earnings call on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) CEO Meg Whitman attributed the company’s better than anticipated performance to strong tablet sales – tablets that run Google’s Android. The open-source system helped HP salvage its mobile platform offerings, after discontinuing its Palm and webOS TouchPad in 2011. ”If we have the right product and the right price, the channel still loves HP and they want to sell our products,” Whitman said. “Frankly, having Android products helps a lot.” NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Cicsco (NASDAQ:CSCO): Citigroup believes that Cisco shares have enough upside that it could drive them up to $30, and has accordingly kept its shares rated at Buy, with a $26 price target. Citi notes that Cisco’s economic leverage is under-appreciated, and an earnings surprise would bode well for shareholders. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Don’t Miss: Are Apple Displays About to Get Even Better? Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Though coal could not be more hated and analysts expect years of losses at Alpha Natural Resources (ANR), this might actually be the time for the stock. As written last month (see Is The Coal Supercycle Back?), the coal super cycle could be intact so investors need to keep an eye on this sector.The world's third-leading producer of metallurgical coal faces a tough road ahead due to pricing impacted by structural changes for CAPP thermal coal and weak global demand for metallurgical coal. As with any commodity, the market can be very cyclical and volatile providing opportunities to invest at periods of severe weakness.The company has been in a continuous restructuring mode for several years now allowing it to dramatically reduce costs for the next up cycle. Now might be the time to move back into Alpha Natural. Q1 2013 Highlights The company provided the

There have been a broad number of economists and apologists for the current policy approach being undertaken in Japan. Now, I don't entirely disagree with Abenomics. In fact, there are components of it that I think are helpful. But what I find particularly misguided is how the stock market is being targeted quite explicitly via the portfolio rebalancing effect. It's a version of what the Fed is doing in the U.S., though the Fed doesn't buy ETFs as the BOJ does. As I've explained before, the power in central banking is not in the saying, but in the doing. Japan's officials have not only said that they want equity prices higher, but they're buying them as well. This has given Japanese market participants a false sense of confidence. This is where some economists seem to get confused on the cause and effect. For instance, when trying to

At the recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Health Care Conference, Craig Audet Ph.D. gave an overview of Arena Pharmaceuticals' (ARNA) launch for Belviq, its FDA approved anti-obesity medication. While many longs felt that this presentation forecast $200 M first year sales for the drug, I took away a vastly different message. Based on the details provided at the conference by Mr. Audet and a general understanding of effective pharmaceutical sales, I will walk investors through my takeaways below.Key facts of the projected launch for Belviqo 26,000 targeted specialists (Cardiologists, Endocrinologists, Obesity Specialists, etc.)o 200 sales reps assigned by Eisai to Belviq in U.S.o On average, only 43% of physicians will agree to meet a sales repBased on these details and industry averages, we can now make a quantitative estimate of Belviq's sales for its first 3 months on the market.o

Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC): Two major films are coming closer to release that could make or break Time Warner’s summer. Heading into its third installment, The Hangover Part III is a bit of a gamble, as the movie must live up to the previous two and not cause the franchise to stale as a whole. Fortunately, Man of Steel looks like it could be a winner, giving Time Warner an ace up its sleeve if Hangover fails to impress. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH): Dish has issued a warning to the Committee on Foreign Investment review, to indicate what kind of security threat Softbank represents were Sprint (NYSE:S) to accept its takeover bid. ”We remain concerned, however, that these reported steps do not adequately protect our national security interests, especially with respect to Sprints critical fiber backbone network and Sprints extensive contracts to provide important telecommunications services for government, law enforcement and defense customers,” Dish’s release said. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Viacom (NYSE:VIAB): Viacom has raised its quarterly dividend by 9 percent, now at $0.27 for both the Class B stock which is owned by the public) and the Class A (79.4 percent of which is owned by Chairman Sumner Redstone). “Our solid balance sheet and strong cash flow provide us the flexibility for continued investment in our popular brands and properties while delivering substantial capital directly to stockholders through dividends and our ongoing $10 billion share repurchase program,” CEO Philippe Dauman says. The increase is the third since Viacom began paying a dividend three years ago. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Don’t Miss: Will News Corp Continue This Monster Surge? Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Energen Corp. (EGN) 2013 UBS Global Oil and Gas Conference May 23, 2013 9:40 am ET Executives Charles W. Porter Jr. - Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Analysts Presentation Moderator Our next presentation is from Energen, and from the company we have Chuck Porter, Chief Financial Officer. Thanks. Charles W. Porter, Jr. Thank you for that introduction. It's good to be with you here today at the UBS Global Oil and Gas Conference and I'm very excited to share with you the Energen story, we've got a lot of exciting prospects. But before we get into the story, we will be making forward-looking statements today, so I would ask you to review our SEC documents and also review a cautionary statement on oil and gas quantities. And with that, a little bit of housekeeping out of the way, we'll start with Energen. Energen is 100% U.S. asset-based, we've

There was some initial consternation yesterday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave the clarity we were hoping to see. From Reuters: "If we see continued improvement and we have confidence that that's going to be sustained then we could in the next few meetings ... take a step down in our pace of purchases," he said. "Next few meetings" sounds like September at the earliest. Indeed, September or December are the most likely meetings given both have an associated press conference. For financial market participants, I would say this was a mixed message. Bernanke is dovish if you expect the Fed to move in June, hawkish if December at the earliest. But imagine the message that would have been delivered to financial markets had Bernanke not spoken ahead of the minutes of the April FOMC meeting: A number of participants expressed willingness to adjust the flow of

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ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) May 23, 2013 9:45 am ET Executives Peter Convertito Analysts Andrew M. Gardiner - Barclays Capital, Research Division Presentation Andrew M. Gardiner - Barclays Capital, Research Division Good morning, everybody. Thank you for coming. My name is Andrew Gardiner, from the Barclays European technology research team. And it's my pleasure to have with us this morning Peter Convertito from ASML. Pete's going to talk through a few of the high points from a recent set of results from ASML. I've got a few questions for him but I'm sure we'll have plenty of time for your questions as well. Pete, thanks very much for coming. Peter Convertito Thanks, Andrew. Good morning, everyone. So I'll just give you some highlights from the quarter. So in our first quarter we did about 890 -- a little over EUR 890 million in revenue. And most of our business right