MondayEconomic: Chicago PMI (48.5)Earnings: Robbins & Myers (RBN), H&R Block (HRB)TuesdayEconomic: Truck & Auto, Construction (-0.6%), ISM Index (49.6)Earnings: Constellation Brands (STZ), MSC Ind (MSM), Apollo (APOL)WednesdayEconomic: Weekly Crude, ADP (28K), Factory Orders (0.6%)Earnings: Acuity Brands (AYI), Family Dollar (FDO)ThursdayEconomic: Weekly Claims (375K), Jobs Report (-50K, 5.4%, 0.3%), ISM Services (51.5)Earnings: NAhttp://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Google (GOOG) again increased market share in search engine results. Currently 68,3% all searches come from Google's sites. One year ago it was 65,1%. Yahoo (YHOO) already dropped below 20% and with 19,9% it is still second most used engine. Microsoft (MSFT) with MSN fell to 5,9%. Ask (IACI) improved and gained 4,2% market share.This is the situation in for US searches. Domain May-08 Apr-08 May-07 Google 68.29% 67.90% 65.13% Yahoo 19.95% 20.28% 20.89% Msn 5.89% 6.26% 7.61% Ask 4.23% 4.17% 3.92% In UK, Google is even more dominant and has increased share almost by 10%. All other ...

Yahoo introduced as a first free real time data on its Finance site. And today 2 more finance portals followed the idea. Barrons offers exactly the same scope, free data for US listed stocks and indexes. Google has partnered only with NASDAQ till now.One more new update from Google. One thing I complained about Finance Google is getting to improve. They start with creation of international finance sites covering local stock exchanges. Up to now there are 4 versions of Finance Google. US, UK, Canada and latest addition for Chinese stock market.http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Technical picture shows Google (GOOG) shares returned back above 200 days moving average. This confirms growing trend giving nice signal to long term investors. Open long position with stop loss on level of 200 MA.Main fuel for Google share were Yahoo (YHOO) - Microsoft (MSFT) - Google (GOOG) deal news together with latest ComScore (SCOR) statistics. Numbers indicate 20% growth in paid clicks. Total clicks growth is 28%. Better than expected data includes only US clicks.It's still in our mind last ComScore report before Google's Q1. Nevertheless ComScore released slower growth for US clicks, Google posted very good Q1 results which lifted stock. Mainly due to growth outside of US.Coming back, good US paid clicks rate altogether with possible outstanding global growth. It could be good time to think about Google.http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xml

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With recent interest rate decisions I had closer look into 2 emerging markets in Central Europe. Hungary and Poland. Hungarian central bank again by 25bp (to 8,5%) to tighten monetary policy. Currently highest interest rates since January 2005. Bank acted mainly because of upward inflation. Its outlook has been raised from 3,6% to 4,2%.Economic picture doesn't look very well. Retail sales down by -4% or construction down by -11%. Industrial output remains positive but with sharp decline to 4%. Numbers are year on year basis. GDP growth stays already one year below 1%. And with current high interest rates it's hard to see soon any revival.Polish central bank left rates unchanged on 5,75%. The decision mainly taken by better than expected inflation reading (4%). Unemployment shows very positive trend and latest number is 7,7%. Retail sales ...

I've already 2 times compared 2 major finance portals. Finance Yahoo vs Finance Google. You can see here differences between stock screeners provided by Yahoo and Google. And also my latest analysis for functionality of both portals.Recently Yahoo released free realtime quotes which have moved portal even more ahead. It is shown on summary page for each ticker. ECN realtime data are provided by BATS Trading.http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Recently I was browsing internet to find reliable free and not delayed source for insider trading activities. There are couple of sites providing real time information for monthly paid subscription. You can see this also at official SEC site after insiders post Sec Form 4. But this is not really friendly format.I found FinViz which gives you everything for free. You can see buy sell transaction with share price, value and position of insiders. What I am still missing is searching per ticker.Site provides also technical and fundamental screener. Moreover it has very nice maps grouped by industry. You can see performance of major companies or ETF in industry. Or basic fundamental data like P/E ratio, P/B, PEG, EPS or dividend yield.I'd underline this is not paid review as StockWeb ...

This is first time I post video on my blog. Clip shows CEO of Microsoft (MSFT) being egged during his speech in Hungary. Hungarian protester accused Microsoft from stealing taxpayer money.Steve Ballmer has this Thursday schedule to visit Czech Republic on Thursday. Let's see what we can expect in Prague. Except of speech for University students he is going to meet Ivo Lukacovic, Head of Seznam . cz (biggest Czech online portal). As I already posted couple of weeks ago there are ongoing rumours about acquisition (M&A - Internet companies).http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Only 6% remains of S&P500 companies to post Q1 earnings. Actually earnings fell by -17,5% against estimated growth +5,7% (data provided by Thomson on 1st Jan 08). Huge "contribution" had financials sector. Compared to Q1 2007 financials posted $142 bln less and finished quarter in loss of $28 bln.Q1 started badly by General Electric (GE) which didn't provide bright outlook for other earnings. Nevertheless it wasn't so bad quarter. If two sectors (the best - energy; the worst - financials) are taken out earnings actually grew by 2,9%. That's not so far from optimistic January estimates.Estimation for Q2 2008 are currently set negative -5,4%.http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Today released numbers show good shape for European economies. Germany more than doubled estimations and grew 1.5% in first three months of 2008 (quarter on quarter). Non-seasonally (quarterly basis) GDP grew 1,8%.Another surprise is coming from France. Quarter on quarter growth by 0,6%. Great Britain up by 0,4%.Smaller European economies, Greece +1,1% and Austria +0,8%. But others shrank slightly. Portugal and Spain registered in the negative, -0,2% respectively -0,3%.And how about Central European emerging markets. Czech Republic quarter on quarter +0,9% but non-seasonally still nice growth by 5,4%. Slovakia non-seasonally slow down from 14,3% to 8,7%.http://stockweb.blogspot.com/atom.xml