For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – November 6, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the latest Zacks Industry Rank. Stocks featured in this week’s analysis include B.P. Prudhoe Bay (BPT), Sabine Royalty Trust (SBR), Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Hershey (HSY) and Del Monte (DLM).

Zacks Industry Rank Analysis is written by Dirk Van Dijk, CFA, Chief Equity Strategist for Zacks.com.   This week: Out-of-Step Industries

Sometimes the best investments come from a small group that seems to be bucking the trend of the much larger group that they are a part of. That appears to be the case for the Oil Royalty Trust group. There are eight names in this group, all of which sport Zacks #2 rankings. That puts them in a tie for 4th place among all industries tracked. Meanwhile, the Energy sector is well down the list overall sector rank list.

With royalty trusts, you get high dividends

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Chinese stocks plummet, worldly markets follow… what’s behind today’s sell-off… Dan Denning on taking profits in the twilight of the U.S. stock rebound… India reports better-than-expected GDP growth… why our Mumbai partners are still hesitant… Another compelling argument against U.S. banks… Dan Amoss serves the cold, hard data… Plus, signs of the times: American’s vote to throw the bums out while the free market backlash hits Hollywood…

China has once again set the tone for our Monday market forecast. Roll the videotape:

Chinese traders dumped shares early this morning after a popular magazine rumored that the booming Chinese loan market is cooling off. Caijing magazine guessed that the Chinese loaned about $29 billion in August, a 43% crash from July. While that number isn’t official, traders around the red nation raced for the exits. The Shanghai Composite closed down 6.7%, its worst day in

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How many entrepreneurs have sat down and thought to themselves, “If only the Chinese would buy my product…Heck, if only one in 10 Chinese would buy my product, I’d be rich!”  Call it the China Dream. It has a long history.

James McGregor wrote a book in 2005 on doing business in China called One Billion Customers. If the title sounds familiar, it may be because a man named Carl Crow wrote a book called 400 Million Customers, back in 1937. You see, the dream only gets bigger over time!

For the most the part, this dream remains a mere dream. But sometimes, someone, somewhere, figures it out. Carl Crow was someone who figured it out, and it made him a rich man.

Carl Crow led an adventurous life. Born in Highland, Missouri, in 1884, Crow started out as a newspaperman. Eyeing his fortune, he started China Press in Shanghai in 1911. But

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I love hard assets… like energy, agriculture and metals.   Why?  Because there is a good chance that inflation is going to devalue paper currency around the globe.

You need to have a portion of your wealth in something tangible—something you can hold in your hand, like a hard asset.  I’m talking about oil, grains, livestock, sugar, copper, aluminum, gold, silver, platinum and even forest products like lumber.

The price of oil will never go to zero!  Someone will always be in the market to buy gasoline.  Gold has never been worth $0.  Silver could always buy you a meal–even in ancient times.

But can the value of a stock or a paper currency go to zero?  Yes, indeed.  One good way to invest in hard assets is to buy the Market Vectors RVE Hard Assets Exchange Traded Fund (HAP).  This ETF closely tracks the Hard Assets Producers index which consists of over

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American markets at a standstill… can the Far East drive stocks forward? … Chris Mayer on buying “what China needs, but can’t make for itself” … Dan Denning’s pair trade for the next decade … Bill Bonner and Goldman Sach’s CEO on the current “bull market” … Plus, a CEO pay debate fills our inbox… your letters and our response, below…

The Dow crashed 1.4 points yesterday, wiping out Monday’s 1.3 point moonshot. Desperate for something beyond these 0.014% “swings,” the market’s putting China in the driver’s seat today… and these guys still have quite a lead foot:

Chinese auto sales soared 34% in May, year over year. According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the Red Nation scooped up 1.12 million vehicles last month, outpacing any nation in the world. Consider the course of the last 12 months,

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The Dow crashed 1.4 points yesterday, wiping out Monday’s 1.3 point moonshot. Desperate for something beyond these 0.014% “swings,” the market’s putting China in the driver’s seat today… and these guys still have quite a lead foot: Chinese auto sales soared 34% in May, year over year. According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, the Red Nation scooped up 1.12 million vehicles last month, outpacing any nation in the world.

Consider the course of the last 12 months, and then look at this chart… is China even part of the global slowdown?

We don’t want to get too excited about this growth, as much of these sales are a product of Chinese government stimulus. But I.O.U.S.A. is certainly throwing a bunch of money at this crisis as well, and the same measure of auto sales here

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Every time the United States goes through a recession, the pundits all race to be the first to proclaim that “Buy and Hold” is dead.  I can’t watch a financial news channel or read a financial website without some mention of this proclamation.  Well I’m growing tired of it, and if it were up to me, I’d prohibit anyone else from making this point for the rest of 2009.

Buy and Hold is not dead, and I’m on a mission to prove it.  Buy and Hold has worked brilliantly for decades, and it will continue to do so in the future.  The stock you bought in 2007 is worth less now than what you bought it for?  Oh boohoo, go cry me a river…somewhere else.  The economy has peaks and troughs, and we’re in the middle of one of the more serious

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* According to the FTC, directors holding positions at both Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) raise the possibility of unfair competitive advantages

* Kraft (NYSE:KFT) reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings of 45 cents a share, beating estimates by 5 cents, as revenues fell 6.5% to $9.4 billion

* Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) reported worse-than-expected second quarter earnings of 37 cents a share, a 12 cent miss, as revenues plunged 20.7% to $14.8 billion

* Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) reported worse-than-expected first quarter earnings of 28 cents a share, a 4 cents miss, as revenues declined 0.7% year-over-year to $3.31 billion

* Avon Products (NYSE:AVP) reported first quarter earnings of 27 cents a share, which missed estimates by 6 cents, as revenues fell 12.9% to $2.18 billion

* CVS (NYSE:CVS) announced better-than-expected first quarter earnings of 55 cents a share, beating estimates by a penny, as revenues jumped 9.7% year-over-year to $23.4 billion

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Highlights include Pacific Ethanol (PEIX), Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), ConocoPhillips (COP) and Valero (VLO).Higher Ethanol Mix Bad for RefinersThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiated the process yesterday to increase the amount of ethanol that can be blended into a gallon of gasoline from the present 10% to 15%. The agency is seeking public comments in response to an application last month by Growth Energy, an industry lobbying group headed by retired General Wesley Clark. The agency is required to decide the issue by December 1, 2009.Aside from ethanol producers such as Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and the corn lobby, the issue is of immense significance to conventional oil refiners like ConocoPhillips (COP) and Valero (VLO) and automobile manufacturers.The ethanol producers have been hit hard by a combination of supply-demand ...

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has fared better than the market recently on strong fundamentals, which include an industry-leading return on equity (ROE) and profit margin. Shares soared 20% over the past 6 months, while the Dow ($DJI), S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMP) show negative returns over the same time period.

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Archer-Daniels-Midland, one of the largest agricultural processors worldwide, makes food ingredients, animal feed ingredients, renewable fuels and naturally derived alternatives to industrial chemicals. The company is headquartered in Decatur, Illinois.

Archer-Daniels-Midland explains that farmers are essential to the overall economy, which is why it works to be essential to the farming community, creating thousands of products from crops and providing hundreds of markets for farmers' crops.

Favorable Industry Comparisons

Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity (ROE) of 19% fares well against a negative industry average figure.

The company's net profit margin of 3% is also

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