Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc (NYSE: CCE)

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. produces, distributes, and markets nonalcoholic beverages. It provides still and sparkling waters, flavored waters, juice and juice drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, teas, and coffees. The company offers its products primarily under Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coke Light, Fanta, Coca-Cola Zero, Capri-Sun, Schweppes, Sprite, Chaudfontaine, Minute Maid, Oasis, Dr. Pepper, Monster, Nalu, Relentless, and POWERade Energy brands. It distributes its products through retailers, wholesalers, and other customers; and through licensed territory agreements in Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
Take a look at the 1-year chart of Coca-Cola (NYSE: CCE) with the added notations:

After rallying into March, CCE has held a very important level of support at $44 (purple) for most of the following 6 months. No matter what the market has done during that time, CCE has always found support at that level when tested. Now, the stock seems to be approaching $44 again and that could provide another bounce higher.

The Tale of the Tape: CCE has a key level of support at $44. A trader could enter a long position at $44 with a stop placed under the level. If the stock were to break below the support a short position could be entered instead.
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OPEC Hints It May Act To Stop Oil Price Slide

by Nick Cunningham
Oil Price
Oil prices may have gone as low as OPEC is willing to tolerate.
After several months of price declines, the secretary-general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) says the group may cut its production target for 2015 because of an abundance of supply.
The oil cartel accounts for around 40 percent of the world’s oil supply, and although its influence has diminished in recent years as oil output has risen — from the United States in particular — the organization can still significantly impact the price of crude if it wants to.
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Gold Losing Ground in Other Assorted Currencies

Some of the long time readers will know that I like to check the charts for gold, when priced in terms of the other major currencies, to get a sense of how the metal is doing when viewed from outside of this country. Since it is an internationally traded commodity, it makes sense to compare its performance to see whether there is a general global trend in the metal or whether it is diverging from such a trend depending on which currency it might be priced in. This helps us assess overall global sentiment.

With the big Scotland vote in the headlines, I thought it might behoove us to see how the metal was faring in terms of the British Pound. I understand that more than a few Scots fear for their life’s savings and were pulling money out of banks just in case. One would think that gold would be a likely recipient for some of that cash.

However, in looking at the price chart, it is rather lackluster ( and that is trying to be kind) as the metal has actually BEEN FALLING ahead of the vote. Not exactly a VOTE of confidence ( sorry, I could not resist the pun) in the metal from what I can see on the chart at this point.

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Eric Coffin: Can Investors Still Find Tenbaggers?

The Gold Report: You told The Gold Report last year you were “neutral” on the state of the U.S. economy. Since then, the headline unemployment number has improved. Even so, as David Stockman, former director of the Office of Management and Budget, says, there have been no net new jobs created since July 2000, and jobs paying over $50,000 per year have disappeared by 18,000 per month since 2000. What is your view of the health of the U.S. economy?

Eric Coffin: I’m more positive than neutral these days, but I do agree somewhat with Stockman. As unemployment falls toward 6%, we would expect an increase in wage gains. But we’re just not seeing that. And five years into the latest expansion, we’re not seeing the economic growth spurts that tend to occur coming out of a really bad recession. I don’t see how the U.S. economy keeps reproducing the 4% Q2/14 growth if we don’t see higher wage gains and higher paying jobs created. (more)
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)

Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, markets, and supports software, services, and devices worldwide. The company’s Devices and Consumer (D&C) Licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system. Its Computing and Gaming Hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories. The company’s Phone Hardware segment offers Lumia Smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C Other segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows Phone Store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal. The company’s Commercial Licensing segments licenses server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft and related Client Access Licenses; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business; and Skype. Its Commercial Other segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial and other Microsoft Office online offerings.
Take a look at the 1-year chart of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) below with my added notations:

MSFT has been trending consistently higher for the entire last year, and during the last 8 months, the stock has also formed a clear trendline of support (green). In addition, the stock had also created at 52-week high resistance level at $45.50 (blue) in July and August. At some point MSFT was going to have to break one of those two levels, and late last week the stock broke through resistance to a new high.

The Tale of the Tape: MSFT broke though its $45.50 resistance, which was also a new 52-week high. A long trade could be made on a pullback down to the $45.50 level with a stop placed below that level. A break back below $45.50 should lead to a fall down to the trendline support., which is currently approaching $44.
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Twitter (NASDAQ: TWTR) is Back on the Warpath

In the brief history of social media stocks, history is repeating itself. Both Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Twitter (NASDAQ: TWTR) stumbled badly after much-hyped IPOs. And both are now gaining meaningful traction, cementing their roles as powerful platforms for the global ad market.
Of course, we now know how wrong many investors were about Facebook. A little more than a year ago, it appeared as if the company's management was ill-suited to the task of converting a massive user base into a profit machine -- what's known in the tech industry as "monetizing the base" -- and shares languished below $25.
Investor cynicism toward Facebook surely proved short-sighted. 2015 sales will likely exceed $16 billion, more than double the company's 2013 sales base, and shares now trade above $75. (more)

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How to Invest in the Next Disruptive Tech Trends

Lou Basenese, Founder and Chief Analyst at Disruptive Tech Research, talks about two new tech trends that are about to change the world.

He also talks about what to expect from Alibaba's IPO, the huge surge in GoPro and his favorite technologies developing from Apple's new product launch.

Then, Debra Borchardt, market analyst at S&A, talks about her recent trip to the Disrupt San Francisco TechCrunch conference.

This is where some of the biggest names in technology including Peter Thiel (billionaire and PayPal founder), Mark Cuban (billionaire entrepreneur), and Marissa Mayer (CEO of Yahoo!) talk about their favorite new tech ideas. (more)

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