Liberty Global Inc. (LBTYA) declared mixed financial results for the third quarter of 2009. Quarterly total revenue of $2.82 billion was an improvement of 7% year-over-year and also better than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.75 billion. This was primarily due to the fabulous growth of Telnet and J:COM operations, which provides broadband services in Belgium and Japan respectively.  Quarterly GAAP net loss was $120.3 million or 45 cents per share compared to a net loss of $308.9 million or $1.01 in the prior-year quarter. However, third quarter net loss from continuing operation was 22 cents per share, above the Zacks Consensus estimate of a loss of 20 cents. Quarterly cost of operation was $1,059.2 million, up 5.5% year-over-year.  Selling, General and Administrative expense was $523.8 million, up 2.4% year-over-year. Third quarter operating income was $463.8 million, up 13.6% year-over-year. During the reported quarter, Liberty Global generated $691.4 ...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 11/11/09 — Wind Works Power Corp. (OTCBB: WWPW)(FRANKFURT: R5E1)(WKN: AOKE72) is pleased to announce that they have signed an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in Ecsed, a 50 megawatt wind energy project located in Hungary. In consideration for the 100% interest, Wind Works will make an initial cash payment of $125,000 on January 15, 2010 and a further cash payment of $375,000 on March 15, 2010.

“Ecsed is now our second wind energy project in Europe following the announcement on Monday that we signed an option to acquire a 100% interest in Honelles, a 10 megawatt wind energy project located in Belgium” commented Dr. Ingo Stuckmann, CEO and director of Wind Works.” Ecsed is an advanced stage project that adds significant value to our project portfolio. We will spend over $2 million in development costs over the next three years and create

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Canadian-based Wind Works Power Corp. announced today that they have signed an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in Ecsed, a 50 megawatt wind energy project in Hungary, for $500,000. This transaction followed on the heels of another announcement Monday in which the company announced they signed an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in Honelles, a 10 megawatt wind energy project in Belgium for $475,000.

The company plans to invest over $3 million dollars to develop these wind projects. Wind Works Power expects these projects to create investment opportunities in excess of $150 million which would be an outstanding return on the company’s investment. The company feels safe in making these investments into Europe since the European wind market is backed by government incentives, is well-established and secure, and should be solid additions to Wind Works’ portfolio of wind projects.

Wind Works Power has moved rapidly recently to expand

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Companies featured in this edition of the newsletter: ACTC, CHIP, CVM, DKAM, ENZ, IWEB, MBCI, MFGD, PHC

Markets rebounded last week, on the strength of upbeat productivity and manufacturing reports that led to solid gains in all of the major indices. Despite news that the unemployment rate had hit its highest levels in 25 years, the Dow managed to end the week up 310 points, gaining 3.2% on the week to close at 10,023, up 14.2% on the year. The Nasdaq posted a gain of 3.3%, closing at 2112 and extending its yearly gains to 34%, while the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 advanced 3.2% and 3.1% respectively on the week to bring their YTD performance to 18.4% and 16.2%.

Several better than expected economic reports provided buying incentive throughout much of the week, as investors managed to shake off the previous week’s negative bias to send indices into positive territory

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Wind Works Power Corp.’s mission is to become a leading developer of wind energy projects in North America. They have a variety of wind park projects in Canada and the United States. The Company has their headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They trade on the OTC Bulletin Board.

Wind Works Power Corp.’s projects include the Grey Highlands Wind Park, the Snowy Ridge Wind Park, the Skyway 126 Wind Park, the Polar Bear Wind Park, and the Pleasant Bay Wind Park in Ontario; in addition to the Settlers Landing Wind Park, Zorra Wind Park, Clean Breeze Wind Park, and Whispering Woods Wind Park. In the United States, Wind Works Power Corp. has their Grand Prairie Wind Park in Illinois and their Baker Wind Park in Montana.

In October, Wind Works and Zero Emission People LLC announced that they signed a definitive agreement whereby Wind Works will acquire all of the outstanding equity

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OTTAWA, ONTARIO — (Marketwire) — 11/09/09 — Wind Works Power Corp. (OTCBB: WWPW)(FRANKFURT: R5E1)(WKN: AOKE72) is pleased to announce that they have signed an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in Honelles, a 10 megawatt wind energy project located in Belgium. In consideration for the 100% interest, Wind Works will make an initial cash payment of $100,000 on January 15, 2010 and a further cash payment of $375,000 on March 15, 2010.

“I have led a team that has successfully developed over 1,500 megawatts of wind energy projects all over the world and one of the most attractive countries for the development of wind parks is Belgium. With the Honelles project, we will invest $1.1 million over the next two years and create an investment opportunity of $25 million, offering attractive leverage to our development dollars.” commented Dr. Ingo Stuckmann, CEO and director of Wind Works. “The European

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I concluded a post on stock markets over the weekend saying: “After equities’ seven-month climb, stock markets certainly look vulnerable for a decline. Two downside reversal days - on Wednesday and Friday - would seem to indicate that stocks could commence a pullback to work off the overbought condition, allowing fundamentals to reassert themselves.”

Global stock markets, as well as other risky assets, closed sharply lower over the past few days as concerns mounted over the sustainability of the global economic recovery and the outlook for central bank policy.

The performance of the major asset classes is summarized by the charts below, with the top one showing the period from the March 9 stock market lows until October 19 peak and the second one the subsequent period. The numbers indicate an all-change pattern in the performances as risk aversion re-entered financial markets and government bonds and the US

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This analysis is from John Derrick, U.S. Global Investors Director of Research. The market has rallied dramatically since the March 9 low, with the biggest beneficiary of this rally being low-quality companies. This intuitively makes sense, given that companies with the most troubled outlooks are the ones most likely to have a strong recovery when the dire outcomes predicted at the bottom of the crisis failed to transpire. Quality may have different meanings to different investors, but in a recent research piece, Citigroup ranked performance based on multiple definitions of quality. Samp;P earnings quality ranking, debt-to-capitalization ratio and return on equity were used as proxies for quality. The research universe was the small-cap Russell 2000 Index, but I believe broader market conclusions can be drawn as well. Based on Samp;P earnings quality rankings, companies with C or D (the two lowest categories) ratings returned about 55 percent over the past six months, while the ...

Earlier today, cigarette manufacturer and marketer Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) reported better-than-expected third-quarter results, benefiting from price increases in some markets. Earnings per share came in at 93 cents, 3 cents above the Zacks Consensus Estimate. On a year-over-year basis, Philip Morris’ earnings per share was flat (excluding a tax benefit of 8 cents in 2008), while net revenues declined 4.6% to $16.6 billion, attributable to unfavorable currency translations and weak results in the European Union (EU), Eastern Europe and Middle East & Africa (EEMA) markets. Revenue, Volumes & Margins On an organic basis (excluding currency and acquisitions), revenues increased 4.1% driven by favorable pricing. Cigarette volume was down almost 3% year-over-year to 219.3 billion units, mainly because of declines in EU, EEMA and Asia. The first two regions were adversely affected by the economic crisis (especially in Spain and Ukraine) and unfavorable comparisons ...

Today, Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group, Inc., an emerging global leader of high performance Information Transport Systems (“ITS”) infrastructure solutions, announced that it has expanded its relationship with an existing Fortune 100 pharmaceutical client to provide ITS infrastructure documentation, design, installation and ongoing management services. Valued at approximately $27 million, the engagement will initially focus on Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom. Later it will expand to include 31 additional European, Middle Eastern, and African nations. The engagement follows other pre-existing projects that Beacon currently manages for this client.

Beacon will conduct ITS infrastructure assessments and prepare complete documentation of all of the pharmaceutical company’s foreign facilities, encompassing more than 450 buildings. Additionally, the company will provide ongoing managed ITS infrastructure services using Beacon’s I(3)MAC infrastructure management platform.

The company has commenced the initial phase of the engagement. It involves site visits, assessments and documentation of each of

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