July 2010

Will this earnings season follow the others?

by Henry Becker 07.16.2010
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The last three earnings seasons have all resulted in lack luster performance in the post earnings season.  The disturbing part of the matter is that in the last three earnings seasons there was optimism behind the market and earnings were actually coming in ahead of estimates for the most part.  Why the estimates were being [...]

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Do you know rare earth elements?

by Henry Becker 07.16.2010
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The first part of this post is a short science lesson to frame the subject. Rare earth elements (REE) are a collection of 17 chemical elements in the periodic table. These elements are the 15 lanthanides along with scandium and yttrium. Why are these elements important? A recent article from the Financial Times puts it [...]

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