Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning/The Money Map Report
If you still look at Amazon Inc. (AMZN) as just an Internet retailing giant, you’re not just missing the point – you are also missing one of the really great long-term profit plays in the market today.
Amazon remains the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the online retailing space. And business [...]
Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning/The Money Map Report
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has “surprised” the market with flawless execution and strong profits.
A few months ago, I congratulated my nephew for getting an internship with IBM, while he studies business in Argentina.
“It is a superb global company, with a bullet-proof business model and a balance sheet [...]
By Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning/The Money Map Report
Although ABB Ltd. (ADR: ABB) has been around for 120 years, it’s one of those rare companies that’s kept current with the times. It continues to do so and those efforts are generating tangible results.
Indeed, as Money Morning noted in its July 7 overview of ABB, the Zurich-based [...]
By Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning
Research in Motion Ltd. (Nasdaq: RIMM) – maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry – is likely to consolidate and increase its market share.
Almost all of our “Buy, Sell or Hold” recommended stocks started out on the right foot here in the New Year. And our strategy of building up a position gradually [...]
By Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning
With BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE ADR: BHP), it’s a case of the strong getting stronger and possibly even running away from the pack.
Back in 2001, BHP Ltd. and Billiton PLC merged to form BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s
leading diversified resources group. And it never looked back.
Now, the lowest-cost natural-resources producer with [...]
By Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning
In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday,
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) Chief Executive Officer H. Lee Scott Jr. said the recession is changing consumer-buying habits.
What Scott didn’t say is that Wal-Mart is perfectly positioned to capitalize on those changes.
“The No.1 issue today is [consumers'] concern about their job,” [...]
By Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning
There is no doubt that the global economic environment presents a very bleak outlook. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) last week announced that the U.S. economy has been in a recession since last December – [...]
By Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning/The Money Map Report
With America’s “Big Three” automakers all due to submit turnaround plans to Congress today (Tuesday) – a requirement if General Motor Corp. (GM), Ford Motor Co. (F), and Chrysler Corp., are to receive $25 billion in government loans – I couldn’t help but [...]
By Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning
When – on August 22, 1851 – schooner-yacht America defeated 15 other yachts representing the Royal Yacht Squadron, racing around the Isle of Wight in England to win the renamed “America’s Cup,” Queen Victoria asked who was second. The famous answer was: "Ah, Your Majesty, there [...]
By Horacio Marquez
Contributing Editor
Money Morning
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) used to rule its niche world and will continue to do so, with lots of room to grow.
As Coldplay’s “I used to rule the world…” played softly on the outside stereo speakers of my sailboat “Southern Cross” as my family [...]