Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (PVH) is seeing higher forecasts ahead of reporting third-quarter results next week. The full-year Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.49 per share was increased from last month's $2.46.

Company Description

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. is a global designer and marketer of branded dress shirts, sportswear footwear and other similar products, offering several well-known brands. Calvin Klein , Izod, Bass and DKNY are just a few of the company's brands.

The company grants licensing rights to its brands and holds key licenses to brands in the dress shirts, neckwear, and sportswear segments.

Higher Estimates on a Surging Share Price

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. is seeing higher forecasts ahead of reporting third-quarter results next week. The full-year Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.49 per share was increased from last month's $2.46. The most accurate forecast is higher at $2.57.

For the following year, the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.88 per share was increased from

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Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (PVH) is seeing bullish forecasts. Analysts polled by Zacks are calling for earnings of $2.46 per share. Last month, the Zacks Consensus Estimate stood at $2.43 and was pegged at $2.31 two months ago.

Company Description

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp is a global designer and marketer of branded dress shirts, sportswear footwear and other similar products, offering several well-known brands. Calvin Klein , Izod, Bass and DKNY are just a few of the company's brands.

The company grants licensing rights to its brands and holds key licenses to brands in the dress shirts, neckwear, and sportswear segments.

Bullish Forecasts and Strong Momentum

Phillips-Van Heusen is seeing bullish forecasts. Analysts polled by Zacks are calling for earnings of $2.46 per share. Last month, the Zacks Consensus Estimate stood at $2.43 and was pegged at $2.31 two months ago.

For the following year, the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.73 per share was

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Skinvisible, Inc., a pharmaceutical research and development company, announced that the company has entered into an exclusive license agreement with Mayquest Pharmaceuticals Pte. This license agreement grants Skinvisible the exclusive rights for the product Dermsafe in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Dermsafe is a patented antimicrobial hand sanitizer lotion proven to kill the H1N1 swine flu virus.

Under the terms of this agreement, Mayquest is to pay an upfront license fee in milestones for the exclusive manufacturing and marketing right. Skinvisible will also receive on-going royalties derived from product sales.

Mr. Terry Howlett, President and CEO of Skinvisible, stated, “Mayquest is an excellent partner to bring DermSafe to both the retail and healthcare market in Southeast Asia”

Howlett added, “This agreement represents an important step in accelerating our worldwide approval and commercialization of DermSafe for the prevention of the spread of the swine flu and other viruses and bacteria. Mayquest

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Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (PVH) posted second-quarter results in mid-August. Earnings per share of 60 cents came in slightly below last year's 66 cents but topped the Zack Consensus Estimate by 36%. Revenue of $529.3 million slipped by 1% year-over-year.

Company Description

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp is a global designer and marketer of branded dress shirts, sportswear footwear and other similar products, offering several well-known brands. Calvin Klein, Izod, Bass and DKNY are just a few of the company's brands.

The company grants licensing rights to its brands and holds key licenses to brands in the dress shirts, neckwear, and sportswear segments.

A Solid Quarter

Phillips-Van Heusen posted second-quarter results in mid-August. Earnings per share of 60 cents came in slightly below last year's 66 cents but topped the Zack Consensus Estimate by 36%.

Revenue of $529.3 million came in above the company's guidance but slipped by 1% year-over-year.

PVH noted that its

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Here are highlights from Tuesday’s Analyst Blog:

Microsoft Doing Everything Right

When I read the first article about the Microsoft (MSFT)/ Yahoo (YHOO) combo, I did not fully realize how it would change my search experience. But when I checked my Yahoo mail this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see a Bing bar at

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When I read the first article about the Microsoft (MSFT)/Yahoo (YHOO) combo, I did not fully realize how it would change my search experience. But when I checked my Yahoo mail this morning, I was pleasantly surprised to see a Bing bar at the top. One of the things that crossed my mind was how could a regular Googler like me be enticed into using Bing?

It now appears that I have to do nothing, I just open a Yahoo finance/mail/or any other Yahoo page and there it is. But would I still continue using Google (GOOG)? I think not, especially if Google is not my home page and the content is more or less the same. This basically means that the focus has now shifted from use to content.

Microsoft has also introduced a freely downloadable version of MS Office, facilitating the use of the

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Institutional Investors Shifting To Index Funds

In an article titled: "Active Managers Get Cold Shoulder," Craig Karmin writes in Monday's Wall Street Journal that big institutional managers are increasingly shifting to index funds.

It quotes a director of the $9 billion Illinois State Board of Investment as saying that "active managers have not given us the added performance in a down market that we hoped for."

You can read the story here.

SEC Investigating Dark Pools

In an interesting story from the Financial Times, the Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly looking into so-called "dark pools." In an interview with Mary Schapiro, the SEC's chairwoman, the paper is reporting that the trading systems set up for large investors to block trade with little outside transparency is a source of real concern for U.S. regulators.

You can read the story here.

Hedge Funds Redux?

In a look at the growth in exchange-traded funds using hedging strategies, MarketWatch's

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Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (PVH) is seeing bullish estimate revisions as its share price soars past the market. The current full-year earnings forecast of $2.26 per share was upped from last month's $2.19. During the past 3 months, PVH's shares more than tripled the S&P 500.

Company Description

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp is a global designer and marketer of branded dress shirts, sportswear footwear and other similar products, offering several well-known brands. Calvin Klein, Izod, Bass and DKNY are just a few of the company's brands.

The company grants licensing rights to its brands and holds key licenses to brands in the dress shirts, neckwear, and sportswear segments.

Bullish Forecasts

Phillips-Van Heusen is seeing bullish estimate revisions as its share price soars past the market. The current full-year earnings forecast of $2.26 per share was upped from last month's $2.19.

For

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It was bound to happen, I suppose. While exchange-traded funds have not yet attracted the multi-trillions of dollars that mutual funds have, ETFs have become popular enough they’re starting to acquire some of the bad habits of their older rivals.

The first generation of ETFs were low-cost, broadly diversified products from firms like Barclays and Vanguard, well suited to average investors wishing to expose the core of their portfolios to the broad equity market.

But we are well into the second phase of ETF proliferation, with more volatile sector ETFs sporting considerably higher price tags. How complex it’s become can be inferred from the fact BetaPro Management Inc. is hosting an all-day Horizons ETF University session today at Ryerson University, part of a seven-city road show. 

BetaPro came under fire last week from consumer advocacy group FAIR for not disclosing clearly enough

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SPDR Gold Trust (GLD: US$92.55), Net Change: -0.62,% Change: -0.67%, Volume: 14,717,061 Where does it end? The SPDR Gold Trust finished off a huge week by added another 15.3 metric tonnes (mt) of gold on Friday to hold 985.9 mt – another record. For the week, the ETF has added 118.67 mt of gold. The SPDR Gold Trust is now the second largest ETF in the U.S. – the largest being the SPDR S&P 500. It’s not just the SPDR Gold Trust that is attracting major investor interest. According to the Age, assets other gold ETFs touched all-time highs last Friday: ETF Securities’ Physical Gold fund rose to 2.299 million ounces and Zuercher Kantonalbank’s fund has record assets of 3.734 million ounces.

Commodity market watcher Dennis Gartman put it best when he said last week, “. . .We are a bit concerned about the speculative …