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Submitted by My Ambitions as a Trader and Investor
New Buy Candidates: CGS, CTT, KBX, MEA, NGAS, NYNY, QSC, RDEA, SBLK
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The Ethanol Bubble: Is It Starting to Burst?
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Judging by recent financial results, the big villains in the ethanol story—the American companies that are responding to government mandates by buying about 20% of the U.S. corn harvest and processing it into fuel—aren’t exactly thriving. In fact, their bottom lines and stock prices are suffering pretty badly.
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Lazear Sees No Recession for U.S. Economy
Submitted by Econbrowser
From WSJ, Henry Pulizzi and John D. McKinnon write:
“The data are pretty clear that we are not in a recession,” Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Edward Lazear told a meeting of editors and reporters from the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.
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Could Be A Lot Worse. It Is A LOT Worse in Europe.
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
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Is The U.S. Peso Making a Comeback?
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
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Chinese Firms Outsourcing, Bargain Hunting in U.S.
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Chinese businessman Liu Keil spent about $500,000 for seven acres in Spartanburg, S.C. — less than one-fourth what it would cost to buy the same amount of land in Dongguan, a city in southeast China where he runs three printing-plate plants. U.S. electricity rates are about 75% lower, and in South Carolina, […]
The Individual Investor Experience
Submitted by A Dash of Insight
At “A Dash” we let the big guys do the marketing research for us. Television ads for online brokers indicate that “leading investors” are thinking for themselves instead of relying upon help from their former investment advisors. Not wanting to be completely alone, however, investors want some help […]
Market Scan for Small Cap Stocks on May 7, 2008
Submitted by Ducimus Plinius
Market Scan for small cap stocks
at the close of the markets on May 7, 2008
The table below identifies the stocks returned on my scan of the US markets for small capitalizations stocks likely to display the characteristics of stocks entering Phase II, as described by Stan Weinstein.
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ADLS: Management Discusses Q1 Results and Udates Progress with Cethromycin
Submitted By Knobias ClipReport
ADLS: Management Discusses Q1 Results and Udates Progress with Cethromycin
Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (ADLS) announced a first quarter loss $3.6 million, or $0.09 per share, compared to $10.5 million, or $0.37 per share, for the same period last year. Analysts had expected a loss of $0.13 per share.
The Company expects its […]
Stock Promotions (05-07-2008)
It’s being reported on StockPromoters.com, the best site on the Internet for following all the details about stock promotions, that the following are new pink sheet stock promotions:
Small Cap Voice has been compensated 50,000 rule 144 shares for services through 12/31/07 from the company to promote AMXG.OB
Stock Guru has been compensated $12,000 to promote AFSE.OB
Stock […]
Why Did the Mortgage Crisis Happen?
Submitted by Businomics Blog
Why did the mortgage mess occur when it did? The topic is prompted by a Fortune Magazine article which proposes a very naive reason:
“As margins shrank in traditional businesses like underwriting and brokerage, Wall Street looked for new places to make money,” says Louis Pizante, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs […]
Why Captain Capitalism Hates Blackberries
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Because the purpose of Blackberries is:
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Gas At $3.56 Per Gallon Is A Bargain, Adjusting for The 71% Increase in Fuel Efficiency Since 1973
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
From an anonymous comment on this CD post about gas prices as a percentage of income:
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The Ongoing Expansion of Retail Healthcare Clinics
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
DENVER–Take Care Health Systems, one of the largest managers of convenient care clinics and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walgreens (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG), has opened three Take Care Health Clinics at Walgreens drugstores in the Denver area. The clinics are walk-in, professional health care centers open seven days a week with extended evening […]
Why is the Dow Jones Index so high with the economy down?
Submitted by Blue Chip Stocks Blog
Written by Michael Vass
For those that may have read my prior posts on crude oil prices (Revising my prediction on a higher oil price, since I was right) the fact that oil has now crossed $123 per barrel is only surprising in the fact that it has happened so early […]
Penny Stock Picks Submitted By Dr. PennyStock
Submitted by Dr. PennyStock
Attention to these penny stocks:
CKNN - The run just began, it will break the resistance at .46 today, hold.
DEEP - Still a hold.
DVAX - Has broken the support at 2.19, not a good signal, but, it can support there today, hold.
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Current Account Balances, Again
Submitted by Econbrowser
Two years ago, as part of a multi-year project, Charles Engel and I organized a conference on current account sustainability in major advanced economies. Lask week, we convened a follow-up conference aimed at updating our knowledge on this subject. Below is the latest read on the U.S. current account to GDP.
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Gas At Historical Highs? Not Even Close When Considering Income is Also at Historical Highs
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
We hear a lot these days about how gas and oil prices are at historical highs. But what we don’t hear much about is how personal income is also at historical highs. Per-capita personal income has almost doubled in the last 15 years, from about $20,000 in March of 1993 to almost […]
Maybe We Should Sell T-Shirts?
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
“The media promised a depression and all we got was yet another lousy quarter of economic expansion.”
~Comment from Ken Braun
Informational Power: Interpreting the Payroll Employment Report
Submitted by A Dash of Insight
What is the market impact from the interpretation of data?
It is an open and free debate, but there is a problem. The results follow from advanced statistical methods and processes. Even the smartest hedge fund managers, columnists, and pundits cannot draw independent conclusions. They did not take […]
Penny Stocks to Watch by Stock Analyzer for May 7th
Submitted by Stock Analyzer
Penny Stocks to Watch
I am changing up my scan criteria and we will see how this works for the next week or two.
GBDX if it falls watch .0007 .0008 as support, if we continue watch .0015 .0018 as resistance
GBDX - SharpCharts from StockCharts.com
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Stock Picks and Trade Ideas for Wednesday
Submitted by My Ambitions as a Trader and Investor
New Buy Candidates: APWR (rebuy), AVAN, AXR, BRNC, EXXI, IPHS, ISYS, PZN, RNIN, SCU (on a dip), SNG, SNHY, TELOZ, TGC, VIT (previously mentioned)
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Solars Shine as Crude Reaches Another New High
Submitted By Knobias ClipReport
Tuesday’s session saw oil reach another high as the mantra, “another day, another dollar” was heard in sarcastic fashion across the US. With oil breaching new highs, other commodities were also seeing increases on the back of the rise in crude.
With expanding prices in energy, many were rotating their investment dollars […]
How the Housing Bust Is Boosting Newspapers
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
As the newspaper industry—and print media in general—struggle to survive in the age of digital news, the business has found an unlikely ally: the nation’s gravest housing crisis in recent memory.
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Busted Tech : Billions Spent On Surveillance Society Fails To Cut Crime
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
Altered art by Banksy
In the UK, some 4.5 million CCTV cameras, and billions spent installing and maintaining them, has proven to be a complete waste of money.
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