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Eight Stocks With Positive Dividend Momentum 11/27/09   —  A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force. The following dividend payers kept the dividend momentum coming, by raising distributions to shareholders. What is particularly interesting is the fact that most of them have raised distributions consistently for more than ...
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APWR   China's Green Stimulus: A-Power, First Solar May Get Big Chunk 11/27/09   —  Following President Obama's 17% CO2 cut by 2020, China pledged a 40-45% greenhouse gas cut by 2020, an astonishing number for most analysts. We know China is leading the green way to the future, its wind and solar energy technologies are leading the world. If you are an environmentalist, it is easy t...
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ECA   COP   Canadian Oil Sands Looks Well Priced for a Deal 11/27/09   —  Buy-recommended Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COSWF.PK) appears priced at a discount to facilitate a successful offering of new units to finance the purchase of ConocoPhillips’ (COP) 9% interest in Syncrude. Its low McDep Ratio stands out and it was a rare stock to decline yesterday in a strong market....
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Natural Gas: U-Turn Follow Up 11/27/09   —  The writer elaborated on his thoughts about the trend for Natural Gas in a previous article for Seeking Alpha posted November 23, 2009. The volume of interest and comments that this article generated surprised the writer. It appears that natural gas is a very hot topic and that there is no shortage...
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Tiffany: More Resilient than We Thought 11/27/09   —  Stock price: $43.9 Conclusion: Tiffany has been more resilient than we thought thanks to efficient cost control, tight cash management and improved forex. The stock trades at a premium to the sector, which seems justified by its long term growth potential. Despite low visibility in the US and in Japa...
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GRN   GRN: New Carbon Emissions ETN Offers Green Energy Alternative 11/26/09   —  Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new exchange traded funds (ETFs) and exchange traded notes (ETNs) focusing on clean technology, renewable energy and most recently carbon emission.One such carbon product is the iPath Global Carbon ETN (GRN) which began trading on July 8, 2009...
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Finding Power in Poland's ETF 11/26/09   —  The Market Vectors Poland ETF (PLND) is up and running. I mentioned this in that very high quality video I posted, not realizing it would be out so soon....
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HAP   THRX   Theravance, Inc.: Wait to Buy on Dip 11/26/09   —  The FDA is anticipated to decide on 11/26/09 for Vibativ (telavancin) as a once-daily injectable antibiotic for the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP). But both the market and myself are expecting a delay in approval from the FDA. On November 5, 2009, Theravance, Inc. (THRX) announced tha...
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CYTR   CytRx Announces First of Two Positive Developments Ahead 11/26/09   —  Just as readers of BioMedReports were told on Monday, CytRx Corporation (NASDAQ:CYTR) announced the first of two key news developments for the company on Tuesday.See the Reuters Story here....
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Buying Homemade Italian: American Italian Pasta Company 11/26/09   —  By Brandon ClayU.S. consumers love spending money – or at least they used to. Saving money? Not so much. Think back to the three most recent economic growth periods: The Reagan Boom of the mid-1980s, the Clinton Boom of the mid-1990s and the last easy money, easy credit boom from 2003-2007. All thr...
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MBI   AGO   Why I'm Starting a Stake in Assured Guaranty 11/26/09   —  Wednesday, we began starter stake in bond insurer Assured Guaranty (AGO) - for those not familiar with the space, think of the 2 disaster of companies called MBIA (MBI) and Ambak (ABK) which we talked about at length in first quarter 2008. This is not my typical fare, but a speculative, "special si...
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SIGA   SIGA Shares Could Double on Pending Government News 11/26/09   —  BioMedReports has learned that shares of this bio-defense company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of products for use in defense against biological warfare agents, such as smallpox and arenaviruses is expecting big news and government orders.Our Subscribers were alerted Mo...
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Ground Floor Opportunities in Junior Oil Producers Disappearing Fast 11/26/09   —  I have noticed valuations in the junior oil sector creeping up – sometimes to the point where I have to blink. But it’s not just the increase in the price of oil this year that has driven up valuations. Technology is increasing how much oil or gas companies can produce from a well in a day, and ...
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COP   NPV   Canadian Oil Sands: An Investment in Secure, Long-Life Oil 11/26/09   —  Buy-recommended Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COSWF.PK) offers unlevered appreciation potential of 46% to a McDep Ratio of 1.0 where stock price would equal Net Present Value (NPV) of US$42 a share. Third quarter results released late on October 28 indicated Ebitda minus Interest of C$0.70 a unit, up fro...
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SLE   KFT   Dividend ETFs Are Looking Attractive 11/26/09   —  Despite an impressive market rally that has major indexes up around 65% off the March 9 lows, there are still a number of blue-chip stocks delivering handsome dividend yields. ETFs can give a diversified play.Yields upwards of 3% are being offered by some well-known names, including Kraft Foods (NYSE...
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UUP   USO   PowerShares Dollar Bullish Fund Hits Record Lows 11/26/09   —  Volume was light on the day before Thanksgiving. Yet a record low for the PowerShares U.S. Dollar Bullish Fund (UUP) is still a record low. In mid-July 2008, UUP closed at a price point of 22.27. U.S. dollar devaluation coincided with the peak of the commodity bubble, particularly in oil. The spot pr...
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NVMI   MU   Niche Player Nova Rides Chip Production Recovery 11/26/09   —  Updating IT systems at organizations, which mostly involves personal computers, many of them laptops, can only be good for chip companies. That is why I prefer this week's recommendations of Credit Suisse on the chip sector in the upcoming year, over the more negative remarks last week by Bank of Ame...
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COH   Coach: Growth and Growth Yield at a Reasonable Price 11/25/09   —  Weathered the Storm Coach (COH) has weathered the recession extremely well. Although fiscal 2009 ending June 30 was a down year, it was nevertheless their second most profitable year ever. So far fiscal 2010 promises a return to growth. Even though their profitability remained strong, Coach’s stoc...
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FLR   JEC   Infrastructure Stocks About to Rise? 11/25/09   —  Mad Money’s Jim Cramer discussed two high-quality infrastructure stocks: Fluor (FLR) and Jacobs Engineering (JEC). He analyzed them from both the technical and fundamental perspective on the segment called “Off the Charts.” Both stocks have greatly underperformed the market benchmarks in the ...
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CSCO   Sales Growth Expectations of S&P 500’s Top Performers 11/25/09   —  Using The Applied Finance Group's (AFG's) Value Expectations interface we have provided an analysis of the expectations embedded in the stock prices of some of the top performers in the S&P 500 year to date (excluding financials) to see which companies have the lowest expectations for sales growt...
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