• Kraft (NYSE:KFT) is due to formalize its Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) bid for about $16.7 billion as the deadline for an offer hits

• Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) announced it is selling its TASC consulting operations to two private equity firms for $1.65 billion

• About $30 billion was the agreed-to valuation which General Electric (NYSE:GE) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) placed on the joint venture between NBC Universal and Comcast

• Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) upgraded Adobe Systems (NASDAQ:ADBE) to "buy," and lifted its price target to $42

• Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) added Lexmark (NYSE:LXK) to its Conviction Sell list

• KBW upgraded Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) shares to "outperform" with a price target of $18.50

• Windstream (NYSE:WIN) reported third-quarter earnings of 24 cents a share, two cents over Zacks estimates, on revenues of $734 million, below Zacks estimates of $747 million

• DISH Network (NASDAQ:DISH) reported third-quarter earnings of 18 cents, 25 cents under Zacks estimates, on revenues of $2.89

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Monday October 19, 2009

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Consorteum Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: CSRH) has launched its mobile check cashing program. The introduction of this service will offer those that are currently using check cashing facilities a much more convenient way to cash their payroll checks. After two years of development with its partners, Consorteum has now proceeded to the pilot phase of its check cashing program in the Toronto, Ontario region. The first stage of the pilot implementation will be the deployment of this new service on

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Monday October 12, 2009

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JNJ, PWRM, HERO, CSRH, SCHW, CVAT, BX, AQNM

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JNJ, Johnson & Johnson

JNJ engages in the research and development, manufacture, and sale of various products in the health care field worldwide.

JNJ reports earnings for the third quarter Tuesday morning.

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PWRM, Power 3 Medical Products Inc, PWRM.OB

Power3 Medical Products, Inc. is a leading bio-medical company engaged in the commercialization of neurodegenerative disease and cancer biomarkers, pathways, and mechanisms of diseases through the development of diagnostic tests and drug targets. Power3’s patent-pending technologies are being used to develop screening and diagnostic tests for the early detection and prognosis

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Wednesday October 7, 2009

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RPRX, PWRM, WYN, CSRH, BX, CVAT, DELL, AQNM, IBM

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RPRX, Repros Therapeutics Inc.

RPRX focuses on the development of oral small molecule drugs for major unmet medical needs that treat male and female reproductive disorders.

Secondary hypogonadism is a deficiency state in which the male hormone testosterone goes below the normal range, even in aging men, due to inadequate stimulation of the testes by the pituitary.

The results from an exploratory, efficacy and safety study of RPRX’s oral investigational product, enclomiphene citrate (Androxal®), in men with secondary hypogonadism who were receiving testosterone replacement treatment shows that RPRX’s

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As a follow up to my post on "Blackstone Group: A High Beta Play on Recovery", news came out yesterday that Kodak (EK) is gonna raise $700 Mil through a series of transactions, including $400 Mil from secured debt issued to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). In exchange for funding, KKR gets two seats on EK's board. In my previous post I talked about how private equity fills a big need during hard times like the current recession (is it still?), and these firms are gonna make tons of money out of it. The EK capital raising is just one of many deals to come. Banks are reluctant to lend, the government is head over heels in deficit so companies which need funds to reorganize and shore up balance sheets turn to private equity. Many ...

Stalled Infrastructure Projects: What it Means for Investors by David Fessler, Advisory Panelist

Make no mistake: Government and privately funded investment in public works projects - not bubble inducing, debt-financed consumer spending - will be the guiding light that leads the way out of this recession.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - otherwise known as the “Stimulus Bill” - provides $120 billion to begin to address our nation’s crumbling infrastructure.

It’s the largest infrastructure investment since Eisenhower’s Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which created the U.S. interstate highway system.

Infrastructure investment - under-funded since the 1960s - will be unprecedented over the next three to five years, and let’s face it: the need is huge.

According to the National Surface Transportation Policy Review Study Commission, $225 billion needs to be spent annually for the next 50 years… that’s over $11 trillion, and that’s just for the transportation

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This week’s video-o-rama comes to you a day late as I make my away from Cape Town to Europe. Notwithstanding terribly slow broadband at South African airports, I have managed to compile an interesting potpourri of clips.

Topics ranged from another round of discussions about the proposed regulatory reform to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke facing a grilling on Capital Hill over the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal to the usual dose of debate on the outlook for the economy and financial markets.

The stars of this week’s round-up include Steven Pearlstein, Pete Peterson, Warren Buffett (US economy in “shambles”), Nouriel Roubini (US economy “sort of stabilizing”), Puru Saxena, Edmund Phelps, Mohamed El-Erian, Robert Prechter (a “lot more” bear market) and T. Boone Pickens.

The compilation kicks of with Barry Ritholtz, author of must-read “Bailout Nation” and editor of The Big Picture blog, sharing his views on

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Despite rising Treasury Note yields, US stock markets yesterday closed at their highest level for 2009. Also, commodities were driven higher by reports indicating that the recession is abating, but the US dollar retreated on concerns of the huge issuance of government bonds.

Elsewhere, Chrysler completed its deal with Fiat, the US Treasury Department announced that ten banks would repay TARP funds, and the Obama administration is dropping its plan to cap salaries at firms receiving bailout funds and has backed away from a large-scale reduction in the number of agencies overseeing financial markets.

Coverage of these events on camera this week included discussions with John Hussman, Chris Whalen, Peter Peterson, Paul Krugman, Mohamed El-Erian, Laszlo Birinyi, Jim Rogers, Jim Grant and Francisco Blanch.

The selection kicks off with the highly regarded John Hussman sharing his wisdom and concludes with an interesting snippet on Africa as an investment destination.

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I’m pretty sure everyone here uses, in some capicity, fundamentals to trade. But what we also have an issue with is always using the fundamentals when we really shouldn’t, because they don’t make sense! Zachary Scheidt, from ZachStocks.com, has come to show us a little about when the fundamentals don’t make sense.

He’ll be responding to comments and would like to hear a horror story!

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There are times in just about every job where things just don’t line up in a logical manner.  Equity markets have their own way of turning fundamental arguments upside down and confounding even the most studious trader.  There are times when bad economic news turns out to be good news for markets (usually because it leads to easing regulations) or when positive news is met by selling.

At ZachStocks.com, we attempt to find logic in the prices and patterns of growth stocks, and

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - April 20, 2009 - Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (HOT), Blackstone Group (BX), Marriott (MAR), Polycom, Inc. (PLCM) and Petrobras (PBR).

Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: http://at.zacks.com/?id=4579.

Here are highlights from Friday's Analyst Blog:

Hilton Sued for Corp. Espionage

Allegations of corporate espionage have hit the hotel industry, as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (HOT) announced last night that it has filed a lawsuit against Hilton Hotels Corporation, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group (BX).

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