For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 30, 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: Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), Motorola Inc. (MOT), China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) and Mylan, Inc. (MYL).

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Here are highlights from Thursday’s AnalystBlog:

Contributions to GDP Growth

While residential investment is still near a record low share of the overall economy, I have serious questions about the sustainability of the increase. The extension and expansion of the the tax credit by Congress might keep things going for the next few quarters, but

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  Motorola Inc. (MOT) today declared financial results for the third quarter 2009. Quarterly net income from continuing operations was $12 million or 1 cent per share, compared to a net loss of $397 million or 18 cents per share in the prior quarter. Third quarter adjusted (excluding special items) EPS was 2 cents, easily beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a break-even quarter. Improvement in net income was primarily due to the huge reduction in operating expenditure. Quarterly total revenue was $5,453 million, down 27.1% year-over-year and also below the Zacks Consensus Estimates of $5,564 million. Gross margin in the third quarter was 33.2% compared to 24.1% in the prior-year quarter and 31.1% in the previous quarter. Quarterly operating expenditure was $1.68 billion compared to a massive $2.26 billion in the year-ago quarter. A huge restructuring initiative taken by the company resulted in  an approximate ...

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 15, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the latest Industry Outlook. Today, Zacks Equity Research discusses the Telecom sector, including Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), Vodafone Group Plc (VOD), China Mobile Ltd. (CHL), Amdocs Ltd. (DOX) and Tellabs Inc. (TLAB).

Here is the latest on the Telecom sector:

Telecom carriers and equipment providers that offer the most attractive opportunities are focused on 3G wireless technologies, emerging 4G technologies, broadband (DSL) and fiber-to-the-home/premises networking. Last year’s collapse of financial markets has left an indelible mark on many of us. We have seen that sector diversity is a less secure natural hedge in today’s increasingly correlated world markets.

However, the telecommunications industry as a whole offers a number of attributes that are difficult to ignore for most investors.

Telecommunications is a necessary utility: The need ...

Today we are featuring top-performing “Chinese equity" mutual funds that invest most of their assets in equity securities of companies that trade in China or are related to the Chinese economy.

Investors can find such funds by checking out the entire list of the Zacks #1 Rank Chinese Equity Funds list.

3 Excellent Picks

Dreyfus Greater China A (DPCAX) was incepted in May 1998 and seeks long-term capital appreciation. It may include invest in common stocks, preferred stocks and convertible securities, including those purchased in initial public offerings. It is non-diversified.

The fund primarily invests in stocks of companies that are principally traded in China, Honk Kong or Taiwan, derive at least 50% of their revenues from Greater China, or have at least 50% of their assets in Greater China.

Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Ltd., Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric Co. Ltd. and Bengang Steel Plates Co. Ltd. are

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Taiwan’s largest integrated telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. (CHT) recently adopted a series of measures to expand its presence outside the country. The Taiwanese telecom market is quickly approaching maturity and has become extremely competitive following telecom regulatory changes.  The market size is comparably smaller than other regional country markets, with approximately 23 million potential customers. Therefore, geographical expansion is critical for Chunghwa’s operations to retain a leading edge.

The company formed a joint venture with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. to build ST-2 telecommunications satellite network. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Integral Systems Inc. (ISYS) will install satellite ground system for the ST-2 program.

Chunghwa signed a memorandum of understanding with China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (CHA) to set up a joint venture to develop information and communications technologies in China.

As part of its next-generation network implementation program, the company is deploying Cisco System Inc.’s (

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NTT DoCoMo (DCM), the largest wireless operator in Japan, together with its five vendors has developed major new specifications for a mechanism that delivers network-based value added services for IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS).

Other members in this collaboration are Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), LM Ericsson AB (ERIC), Fujitsu Ltd., NEC Corp., and Nokia-Siemens Network; a joint venture of Nokia Corp. (NOK) and Siemens AG (SI). This mechanism includes a service composition component that coordinates various applications using IMS session management service.

IMS is a set of specifications that describes the next-generation networking architecture for implementing IP-based telephony and multimedia services. It defines a complete architecture and framework that enables the convergence of voice, video, data and mobile network technology over an IP-based infrastructure.

IMS uses Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for easy integration with the Internet. This architecture was originally formulated to deliver Internet services over GPRS.

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Today we are featuring top-performing “Chinese equity" mutual funds that invest most of their assets in equity securities of companies that trade in China or are related to the Chinese economy.

Investors can find such funds by checking out the entire list of the Zacks #1 Rank Chinese Equity Funds list.

3 Excellent Picks

Dreyfus Greater China A (DPCAX) was incepted in May 1998 and seeks long-term capital appreciation. It may include invest in common stocks, preferred stocks and convertible securities, including those purchased in initial public offerings. It is non-diversified.

The fund primarily invests in stocks of companies that are principally traded in China, Honk Kong or Taiwan, derive at least 50% of their revenues from Greater China, or have at least 50% of their assets in Greater China.

Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Ltd., Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric Co. Ltd. and Bengang Steel Plates Co. Ltd. are

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Motorola (MOT) recently announced that its Home & Network Mobility business unit was selected as a key development partner of KDDI Corp.’s next-generation LTE (Long Term Evolution) network. This is Motorola’s first public order for LTE technology. KDDI is the second-largest wireless service provider in Japan.

Motorola will implement the basic RAN (Radio Access Network) infrastructure and base stations for the KDDI’s LTE network. Although financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, we believe that the contract size may exceed $1 billion. Earlier, KDDI had estimated spending about $5.3 billion for installing a countrywide LTE network.

KDDI is expected to launch its LTE service in December 2012. The Japanese wireless market is quickly gaining maturity. KDDI faces stiff competition from wireless giant NTT DoCoMo (DCM) and Softbank Corp. NTT DoCoMo will launch its LTE service by end of 2010.

In order to remain competitive, KDDI is

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Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #5 Rank ("strong sell") List today:

1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc (FLWS) 3D Systems Corp (TDSC) ACI Worldwide Inc (ACIW) Advanta Corp (ADVNB) Alon USA Energy Inc (ALJ) Alphatec Holdings Inc (ATEC) American Water Works Co Inc (AWK) AMETEK Inc (AME) Anaren Inc (ANEN) Animal Health International Inc (AHII) Apogee Enterprises Inc (APOG) Bankrate Inc (RATE) Banner Corp (BANR) Bel Fuse Inc (BELFB) Belden Inc (BDC) Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc (BIO) Blockbuster Inc (BBI) ...

Today we are featuring top-performing "Chinese equity" mutual funds that invest most of their assets in equity securities of companies that trade in China or are related to the Chinese economy.

Investors can find such funds by checking out the entire list of the Zacks #1 Rank Chinese Equity Funds list.

3 Excellent Choices

Dreyfus Greater China A (DPCAX) was incepted in May 1998 and seeks long-term capital appreciation. It may include invest in common stocks, preferred stocks and convertible securities, including those purchased in initial public offerings. It is non-diversified.

The fund primarily invests in stocks of companies that are principally traded in China, Honk Kong or Taiwan, derive at least 50% of their revenues from Greater China, or have at least 50% of their assets in Greater China.

Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Ltd., Zhuzhou CSR Times Electric Co. Ltd. and Bengang Steel Plates Co. Ltd. are

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