By Natasha Brereton LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said Tuesday that heightened regulation can’t prevent the financial speculation that results in bank failures, and called for a serious review of the structure of the banking sector whose goal would be to eliminate institutions that are too important to fail. In a speech to business people in Scotland, King championed the idea of separating banks’ utility functions as a means of minimizing the government’s effective subsidy of risky activities and reducing the U.K.’s reliance on a small number of very big banks. Turning briefly to the economy, he noted that there was likely to be “significant” fiscal tightening in the years ahead, and stressed the need to boost broad money growth, but gave no clear indication on whether he would favor extending the bank’s bond buying policy. “The sheer creative imagination ...

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The domestic natural gas industry has fallen on hard times due to a supply glut and a sharp fall in commodity prices over the course of the last year, but with last week’s latest news things are beginning to look up again.  T. Boone Pickens, the long time crude oil bull turned alternative energy maven, has begun working on legislation that is gathering very impressive bipartisan support.  The conveniently named NAT GAS Act (New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions) was introduced by Pickens along with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) in a letter to President Barack Obama on July 8th, 2009.  The group’s legislation provides a real fundamental shift in the way investors should analyze natural gas companies, especially those in the natural gas transportation industry such as Energtek, Inc. [[EGTK.PK]].

This proposed bill represents one of the

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We are presenting a list of companies which we believe are currently mispriced, based on our estimate of fair value, by the market. We develop our fair value ranges by projected free cash flow out one year and estimating an appropriate FCF multiple based on our assessment of risk and the strength of the balance sheet.

Cisco Systems [CSCO: 19.57, +0.84 (+4.48%)] Recent Price $17.04 Value Range 21.86 – $38.41 Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry, and provides services associated with these products and their use. The Company provides a line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world. Its products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco Systems, Inc.’s products, which include primarily routers, switches, and products that the

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MWW Automotive Group [[MWWC.OB]], a full-service global design, engineering and manufacturing firm providing customized accessories for leading international vehicle manufacturers, recently announced that the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Modelworxx GmbH, in Munich, Germany has entered into an agreement with ABT Sportsline GmbH for worldwide distribution of its Volkswagen and Audi products.

Modelworxx has developed and is manufacturing a diverse line of innovative high-tech running boards for a variety of automobiles, including Audi, KIA, Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Opel, Toyota and Volkswagen. As a leading supplier of customized OE accessories for the global automotive industry, ABT Sportsline GmbH is one of the world’s largest distributors of Volkswagen accessories and performance tuning of Volkswagen vehicles. Under the terms of the agreement, ABT Sportsline will carry the entire Modelworxx product line and also select U.S. -designed and manufactured products for worldwide distribution.

Gerold Haas, chief executive officer of Modelworxx, stated, “We are happy to have

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It’s time for another quick look at the United States banking system. Whoops! Nothing happening there. Are they still alive?

Federal Reserve Bank Credit has increased by $1.2 trillion over the past twelve months. What has increased in the banking system? Excess reserves in the commercial banking system have increased by about $800 billion. Tracing this “stuff” a little further, in round figures, the currency in circulation outside of the banking system has increased about $100 billion over the past year, about $100 billion has gone to foreign central banks in liquidity swaps, so there is another $200 or so in funds that the Fed has pumped into the system that is somewhere in Treasury accounts. But who is counting?

I am still concerned with what the United States banking system is doing with the money that has been pumped into it. The answer is, very little!

Looking at the H.8 release

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