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January 08

75%

PETS New Index for Pet Care and Animal 'Farma'

Sector: Services > Retail (Drugs)

New Index for Pet Care & Animal 'Farma' The accompanying table [click to enlarge] provides statistics for the 37 companies included in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Pet and Animal Care Index, with the Top 25 rated stocks in the index outpacing the overall market and ...

Mike Havrilla

(-0.71% risk: moderate)

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January 07

75%

DSCO Healthcare Catalyst Stocks for 1H09

Sector: Healthcare > Biotechnology & Drugs

Healthcare Catalyst Stocks for 1H09 Below are four companies I have not written about recently with expected catalysts in the first half of 2009 in the form of FDA decisions or clinical trial results. FDA Calendar of New Product Decisions Last Fall, Discovery Labs (...

Mike Havrilla

(-0.71% risk: moderate)

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71%

JLL Never Sell

Sector: Services > Real Estate Operations

Never in my lifetime has there been a time when stocks could be baought and held. The REITs are paying WAY more than the T-bills. Folks the day you add rising dividends to that and these babies are exploding. Buy now into a company tht gave back to the sharholders during good times and bad...

dogcrap

(-0.37% risk: moderate)

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64%

IDEV Bullish on IDEV ...

Sector: Healthcare > Biotechnology & Drugs

* Last Trade: $5.38 * Change: 0.00 * Open: $N/A * High: $N/A * Low: $N/A * Volume: 0 January 6, 2009 Breaking News Alert: Indevus Pharmaceuticals Enters Merger Agreement With Endo Pharmaceuticals - (MobiWire) Indevus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDEV) announced yesterd...

Marian Filo

(-27.45% risk: aggressive)

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69%

BAC Why fight the Fed

Sector: Financial > Money Center Banks

The Fed is actively working to reduce the cost of borrowing by reducing risk premiums with direct purchase of mortgage-backed securities. These direct purchases reducing risk premiums will directly influence mortgage rates from 5.500% last week to a target of 4.500% before long. New mortg...

thebigkill

(+0.52% risk: conservative)

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BBBY Bearish on BBBY ...

Sector: Services > Retail (Specialty)

Bed Bath and Beyond (Symbol: BBBY) BBBY is irrelevant. You can go to WMT or TGT and get the same stuff for better price and sometimes better quality. Watch and learn as BBBY becomes at $10 stock soon .. they expanded too fast to areas that don't need them. They will feel the effects of our recent ...

Jim Morris

(-1.11% risk: conservative)

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January 06

73%

GEO Double Your Money With Prison Operator Geo Group (GEO)

Sector: Services > Business Services

Stock market investment - The deep recession expected in 2009 will likely lead to higher rates of crime. Adam Lass says investors can play this trend by picking up shares of commercial jails. Florida-based Geo Group (NYSE: GEO ) operates in several countries and is rapidly expanding it...

Contrarian Profits

(-2.65% risk: moderate)

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January 05

75%

THOR A New Index of Health Product Innovators

Sector: Healthcare > Medical Equipment & Supplies

A New Index of Health Product Innovators The accompanying table includes statistics and all 23 companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Global Health Innovators Index of companies with market caps over $250M which received FDA approval in the past 12 months for an origina...

Mike Havrilla

(-0.71% risk: moderate)

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73%

PKB An All-American ETF (PKB) For The Coming Construction Boom

Sector: Financial > Misc. Financial Services

ETF Funds - Obama’s stimulus plan may still be vague, but you can be sure it will involve huge construction projects says David Newman. And government funding will be targeted at US companies. That’s why David recommends the PowerShares Dynamic Building & Construction Port...

Contrarian Profits

(-2.65% risk: moderate)

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69%

LCAPB Ali Vincent / Divested

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/news/news.a... Liberty Media Corporation announced that Greg Maffei, President and CEO of Liberty Media Corporation, will be presenting at the Citi 19th Annual Global Entertainment, Media, and Telecommunications Conference, on Wednesday, January 7t...

zyakaira

(-4.83% risk: conservative)

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13%

MSFT Windows 7 could be a winner

Sector: Technology > Software & Programming

Thomas George

(-15.42% risk: conservative)

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ATVI Activision is NOT a typical retail company.

Sector: Technology > Software & Programming

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NasdaqGS: ATVI ) You probably heard of guitar hero or maybe even world of warcraft. These are both two of the more popular products of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Stock Symbol: ATVI ). They categorize ATVI as a retail stock. Though this...

Jim Morris

(-1.11% risk: conservative)

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January 04

75%

MNTA Momenta Pharma: A Pure Play on Bio-Generics

Sector: Healthcare > Biotechnology & Drugs

Momenta Pharma (MNTA) represents a pure play investment for the future of bio-generics, with two ANDAs filed at the FDA in partnership with the Sandoz division of Novartis (NVS) for multi-billion dollar biological agents Lovenox ($3.8B in sales for 2007) (blood thinner) – Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) ...

Mike Havrilla

(-0.71% risk: moderate)

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71%

AIV REITs will be the center of the next market Rally

Sector: Services > Real Estate Operations

If in 2000 someone were to say. I want an investment that pays during good times and bad. Never cuts the dividend. Raises the dividend on a regular basis. Is fair to the shareholders. No accounting scandles. RETs would have been the answer. When you look at what a T-bill pays and look at w...

dogcrap

(-0.37% risk: moderate)

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50%

TWM strong start to 2009

will unfortunately be short lived. markets will have to continue their downtrend for the current time being and probably much of 2009. corporate revenues will continue to decline etc etc due to slower business environments. i'd say early next week may show a little strength, and that time wou...

Tyler Hiranaka

(+0.60% risk: conservative)

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