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Sector Performance: What’s Hot Now
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During the last 5 days, the industries that have delivered the strongest performance include:
Toys
Telecommunications
Textiles
Wireless Services
Optical Equipment
Restaurants
We are currently screening these industries looking for companies that pass our strict criteria. Some of the top performing stocks during the week from these sectors include:
Toy Stocks:
Monarch Services, Inc. (MAHI)
4 Kids Entertainment, Inc. (KDE)
Telecommunication Stocks:
Brightpoint, Inc. (CELL)
Telecommunications Indonesia (TLK)
Neutral Tandem, Inc. (TNDM)
Telecommunications Company of Chile (CTC)
Textile Stocks:<>D...
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Cheap Wireless Service Weathering Downturn: Leap Subscriber Growth Spikes Up (LEAP)
 The U.S. economy is getting rocked, and the U.S. mobile business is slowing. So what's pushing the growth at Leap Wireless, which sells cheap, all-you-can-eat wireless service? Easy: Cheap, all-you-can-eat wireless service.
Leap said today that it signed up 171,000 net new subscribers during Q2, up 35% y/y; that number handily beating Goldman's estimate of 119,000. Customer retention improved, too: Q2 churn -- the percentage of subscribers that leave the service each month -- declined to 3.8% from 4.3% a year ago. <>While major U.S. carriers like AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have started offering ...
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Next FED meeting ahead.
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Perhaps the most interesting day of the week is Tuesday. Earnings reports from Cisco, Procter & Gamble and AIG are coming. Also we receive another FED interest rates decision from FOMC meeting. Widely expected is hold action from FED.
Monday:
Economic Inc & Spend (-0.1%, 0.5%), Factory Orders (0.7%)
Earnings Cooper (CTB), DISH (DISH), Humana (HUM), ICExchange (ICE), Fannie (FNM), China Med (CMED), Anadarko (APC), Bankrate (RATE), Qiagen (QGEN), Otter Tail (OTTR)
Tuesday:
Economic ISM Services (48.0), FOMC Meeting
Earnings Archer D (ADM), AIG (AIG), Brinker (EAT), DR Horton (DHI), Emerson (EMR), J...
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Next FED meeting ahead.
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Perhaps the most interesting day of the week is Tuesday. Earnings reports from Cisco, Procter & Gamble and AIG are coming. Also we receive another FED interest rates decision from FOMC meeting. Widely expected is hold action from FED.
Monday:
Economic Inc & Spend (-0.1%, 0.5%), Factory Orders (0.7%)
Earnings Cooper (CTB), DISH (DISH), Humana (HUM), ICExchange (ICE), Fannie (FNM), China Med (CMED), Anadarko (APC), Bankrate (RATE), Qiagen (QGEN), Otter Tail (OTTR)
Tuesday:
Economic ISM Services (48.0), FOMC Meeting
Earnings Archer D (ADM), AIG (AIG), Brinker (EAT), DR Horton (DHI), Emerson (EMR), J...
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Leap Wireless Beats Street On Sales (LEAP)
 It took a while, but Leap Wireless (LEAP) has posted a solid quarter. Leap, which sells cheap, all-you-can-eat mobile phone service, was supposed to release results after market close yesterday but didn't release them til this morning. If there was an explanation, we missed it.
In any case, Leap posted $468 million in Q1 revenues, up 19% year-over-year, beating the Street's $459 million consensus. <>Net loss of $18.1 million, or 27 cents per diluted share, was better than Q1 2007, when the company lost $24.2 million, or 36 cents per diluted share. Leap missed the Street's ($0.02) expected loss...
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