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		<title>Music, BBQ  Economic Clout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Milken Institute recently released its 2009 list of Best-Performing Cities Index and Austin, Texas has been named the best-performing metropolitan area in the U.S.
The index is designed to measure which U.S. cities are most successful in terms of job creation and retention, the quality of jobs being produced and overall economic performance.
Austin combines several advantages that put it atop the rankings. It is the capital of an economically powerful state (at $1.1 trillion, the Texas GDP is the nationrsquo;s second-largest and in the top 15 worldwide), and home to the well-funded research centers at the University of Texas, a thriving technology cluster and an extensive professional services sector.
Austin has plenty of local company on this yearrsquo;s list ndash; Texas claimed four of the top five spots and nine of the top 25. Our hometown of San Antonio came in at No. 11, up four places from last year.

Texas cities benefited from a welcoming business climate and a housing market that has declined less than other markets. The state also benefited from its huge oil and gas industry.
The Northeast corridor of the U.S showed considerable improvement from last year, as 14 of the top 20 biggest gainers were from the region. After a rough 2008, the Connecticut cities of Hartford (#48) and New Haven (#88), and Cambridge, Mass. (#45), each moved up about 100 spots in 2009.
View the Interactive Version of the Report
By clicking the link to the interactive report, you will be directed to MilkenInstitute.org. U.S. Global Investors does not endorse all information supplied by this website and is not responsible for its content. All opinions expressed and data provided are subject to change without notice. Some of these opinions may not be appropriate to every investor. #09-825]]></description>
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		<title>Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Aetna Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc., WellPoint Inc., Assurant Inc. and Cigna Corp. &#8211; Press Releases</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p align="left"><strong>For Immediate Release</strong></p>
<p align="left">Chicago, IL &#8211; November 20, 2009 &#8211; 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: <strong>Aetna Inc.</strong> (<a href="void(0)">AET</a>), <strong>UnitedHealth Group Inc. </strong>(<a href="void(0)">UNH</a>), <strong>WellPoint Inc.</strong> (<a href="void(0)">WLP</a>), <strong>Assurant Inc.</strong> (<a href="void(0)">AIZ</a>) and <strong>Cigna Corp. </strong>(<a href="void(0)">CI</a>).</p>
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<p align="left"><strong>Here are highlights from Thursday&#8217;s Analyst Blog: </strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>Aetna Axes Jobs</strong></p>
<p align="left">In a bid to become more efficient, the health insurer <strong>Aetna Inc.</strong> (<a href="void(0)">AET</a>) announced on Wednesday its intention to shed a total of 1,250 jobs or about 3.5% of its total workforce by the first quarter of 2010. Management intends to do so in two phases, by slashing 625 jobs now and the remaining early next year.</p>
<p align="left">The company expects to record after-tax restructuring charges of $40 million in fourth quarter 2009. Last December, the company cut 1,000 jobs, which was 3% of its total workforce. The company plans to slash majority of the jobs at its headquarters in Connecticut.</p>
<p align="left">Aetna with a total head count of 35,500 is eliminating jobs to cope with the difficult economic environment and potential impact that the health care reform might cast on its health insurance business. Elimination of excess workforce will help streamline the business by optimizing staffing level, thereby maintaining efficiency.</p>
<p align="left">During the third quarter of 2009, Aetna earned $326.2 million, or 73 cents per share. That represents an increase from $277.3 million, or 58 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. Membership has slumped throughout the health insurance sector as employers have cut jobs, reducing the number of people covered by employer-sponsored plans.</p>
<p align="left">Aetna rivals <strong>UnitedHealth Group Inc. </strong>(<a href="void(0)">UNH</a>) and <strong>WellPoint Inc.</strong> (<a href="void(0)">WLP</a>) both recently saw enrollment declines in the third quarter. Last week, Assurant Health, a division of <strong>Assurant Inc.</strong> (<a href="void(0)">AIZ</a>) announced that it has slashed 94 jobs. Earlier during the year, peers <strong>Cigna Corp. </strong>(<a href="void(0)">CI</a>) cut 1,100 jobs and Wellpoint Inc. eliminated nearly 1,500 jobs.</p>
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<p align="left">Continuous coverage is provided for a universe of 1,150 publicly traded stocks. Our analysts are organized by industry which gives them keen insights to developments that affect company profits and stock performance. Recommendations and target prices are six-month time horizons.</p>
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		<title>Aetna Axes Jobs &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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In a bid to become more efficient, the health insurer <strong>Aetna Inc.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/AET">AET</a>) announced on Wednesday its intention to shed a total of 1,250 jobs or about 3.5% of its total workforce by the first quarter of 2010. Management intends to do so in two phases, by slashing 625 jobs now and the remaining early next year. <br />
<br />
The company expects to record after-tax restructuring charges of $40 million in fourth quarter 2009. Last December, the company cut 1,000 jobs, which was 3% of its total workforce. The company plans to slash majority of the jobs at its headquarters in Connecticut . <br />
<br />
Aetna with a total head count of 35,500 is eliminating jobs to cope with the difficult economic environment and potential impact that the health care reform might cast on its health insurance business. Elimination of excess workforce will help streamline the business by optimizing staffing level, thereby maintaining efficiency. <br />
<br />
During the third quarter of 2009, Aetna earned $326.2 million, or 73 cents per share. That represents an increase from $277.3 million, or 58 cents per share, in the same quarter last year. Membership has slumped through out the health insurance sector as employers have cut jobs, reducing the number of people covered by employer-sponsored plans. <br />
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Aetna rivals <strong>UnitedHealth Group Inc.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/UNH">UNH</a>) and <strong>WellPoint Inc.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/WLP">WLP</a>) both recently saw enrollment declines in the third quarter. Last week, Assurant Health, a division of <strong>Assurant Inc.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/AIZ">AIZ</a>) announced that it has slashed 94 jobs. Earlier during the year, peers <strong>Cigna Corp</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/CI">CI</a>) cut 1,100 jobs and Wellpoint Inc. eliminated nearly 1,500 jobs.<br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=AET">Read the full analyst report on "AET"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=CI">Read the full analyst report on "CI"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=AIZ">Read the full analyst report on "AIZ"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=WLP">Read the full analyst report on "WLP"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=UNH">Read the full analyst report on "UNH"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Casey on real estate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>World Wrestling Tops View &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<strong>World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/WWE">WWE</a>) recently reported its third quarter results. The company posted a robust earnings growth of nearly 68% to $8.9 million from $5.3 million in the year-ago quarter. Earnings per share came in at 12 cents, compared to 7 cents last year and surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 33%, or 3 cents.<br />
 <br />
The Stamford, CT-based company&#8217;s revenues grew by 2.3% to $111.3 million, compared to $108.8 million last year. In terms of segments, Live and Televised Entertainment, the flagship segment, recorded a 13.4% year-over-year expansion in revenues to $77.9 million. The growth was driven by higher average attendance, increase in international events and higher television rights fees received primarily due to a new WWE Superstars television show.<br />
 <br />
Consumer Products segment fell 13.5% to $23 million reflecting a reduction in royalties on toys and videogames coupled with lower magazine subscription revenues. Digital Media segment contracted 6.3% to $7.4 million primarily due to a decline in online merchandise sales, while WWE Studios segment recorded a decrease of 46.4% to $3 million.<br />
 <br />
In terms of geographic regions, North American revenues dipped 2.3% year over year to $81.3 million, while that from Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) declined 15.8% to $14.4 million. However, revenues from Asia Pacific region jumped 83.8% to $12.5 million, while Latin American region posted a growth of 82.4% to $3.1 million.<br />
 <br />
Gross profit (revenues less cost of revenues) expanded 20.5% year over year to $51.2 million, while gross margin grew by 690 basis points (bps) to 46%. The growth was driven by higher efficiencies in the Live and Televised Entertainment segment, staff reductions as well as lower costs in marketing and TV production. Selling, general and administrative expenses increased 5.8% year over year to $33.1 million due to higher incentive compensation.<br />
 <br />
WWE ended the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $152.7 million, compared to $119.1 million in the year-ago period. During the first 9 months of this year, the company utilized $61.6 million towards payment of dividends and $3.6 million towards capital expenditure. The company also utilized $41.5 million towards purchasing marketable securities over the same period, while proceeds from matured investments were $45.6 million.<br />
 <br />
Moving forward, WWE expects earnings to grow at an average annual rate of 15% to 20% through 2012. This calculates to full-year earnings of roughly 71 cents to 74 cents per share, compared to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 68 cents derived from 7 covering analysts.<br />
 <br />
The company also expects approximately one-third of total revenue growth and more than 40% of earnings growth to come from leveraging its global television franchise and licensing platform, bolstered by a deal with toy making giant <strong>Mattel Inc. </strong>(<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/MAT">MAT</a>). WWE entered into the multi-year licensing agreement in February last year under which Mattel will develop and market products featuring WWE brand and superstars, which are scheduled to be launched in 2010.<br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=WWE">Read the full analyst report on "WWE"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=MAT">Read the full analyst report on "MAT"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pitney Bowes Exceeds Barely &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<br />
<strong>Pitney Bowes Inc.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/PBI">PBI</a>) reported earnings per diluted share from continuing operations of 55 cents, compared with 67 cents in the prior year. This was higher than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 54 cents. Earnings reflect the negative impacts of 1 cent per diluted share associated with currency and 1 cent per diluted share from incremental pension costs when compared with the prior year.<br />
<br />
Revenue for the quarter was $1.36 billion compared with $1.55 billion in the prior year, a decline of 12%. A stronger dollar reduced revenue by 2% year-over-year.   <br />
<br />
The sustained nature of the recessionary environment is also driving some fundamental changes in the way businesses and customers connect, communicate and complete transactions in the global marketplace. Companies in most industries still have limited visibility and uncertain outlooks resulting in rising unemployment and ongoing caution about capital expenditures. These factors have contributed to depress mail volumes in mail intensive industries. Mailstream Solutions revenue declined 12% on a constant currency basis compared with the prior year. On a reported basis, revenue declined 14% to $925 million and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) declined 21% to $227 million compared with the prior year. Within Mailstream Solutions, U.S. Mailing revenue declined 12% to $491 million and EBIT declined 19% to $178 million compared with the prior year. Revenue declined by 4% and EBIT declined by 8% compared with the second quarter. International Mailing revenue declined 11% on a constant currency basis compared with the prior year.<br />
<br />
Mailstream Services revenue declined 6% on a constant currency basis compared with the prior year. On a reported basis, revenue declined 8% to $432 million and EBIT increased 26% to $50 million compared with the prior year. Management Services revenue declined 8% on a constant currency basis compared with the prior year. Mail Services revenue declined 3% on a constant currency basis.<br />
<br />
As a result of its strategic alliance with Hewlett-Packard in Sep 2009, the company launched the IntelliJet Printing System for high volume transactional mailers. During the quarter it also announced two partnerships that will help it expand its presence in the growing Asia Pacific market. Cannon marketing Japan will distribute one of its lower end metering systems to small and medium sized businesses in the Japanese market. It has also partnered with Digital China to distribute a variety of mailing solutions and software systems that provide variable data composition to small and medium sized businesses throughout China .   <br />
<br />
Free cash flow was $223 million for the quarter while on a GAAP basis the company generated $249 million in cash from operations. Free cash flow benefited from lower capital expenditures and lower levels of finance receivables. During the quarter the company paid $75 million of dividends to common shareholders. Cash and equivalents were $460 million with long-term debt at $4.2 billion and shareowners&#8217; equity at $77 million. <br />
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The company expects earnings per diluted share from continuing operations, on a GAAP basis for the year, within the range of $2.09 to $2.21. The current Zacks Consensus Estimate is $2.25 per share. Revenue for the year is now expected to decline by 5% to 8% on a constant currency basis and 8 to 11% on a reported basis.<br />
<br />
Pitney Bowes Inc. provides mail processing equipment and integrated mail solutions in the United States and internationally. It offers a suite of equipment, supplies, software, and services for end-to-end mailstream solutions, which enable its customers to optimize the flow of physical and electronic mail, documents, and packages across their operations. The company&#8217;s Mailstream Solutions group engages in the sale, rental, and financing of mail finishing, mail creation, shipping equipment, and software; and provision of supply, support, and other professional services, as well as payment solutions in the United States and internationally. Its Mailstream Services group offers facilities management services; secure mail services; reprographic, document management services; and litigation support and eDiscovery services. The company, formerly known as Pitney Bowes Postage Meter Company, was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Stamford , Connecticut .  Nearest competitor is <strong>Siemens AG</strong> <a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/SI">(SI)</a>.<br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=PBI">Read the full analyst report on "PBI"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=SI">Read the full analyst report on "SI"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Two More Join Toxic Asset Program  &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Tuesday that two more large investment companies have fulfilled the necessary requirements and are ready to join the federal government&#8217;s toxic assets purchase program. <br />
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The federal government initiated buying toxic assets from banks with the intention of helping them resume normal lending, which will fuel economic recovery. <br />
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The two investment companies, which together raised more than the $500 million needed to close investment funds, were New York-based Angelo, Gordon &#38; Co. LP and Norwalk, Conn.-based GE Capital Real Estate. These companies will jointly invest in the Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP), under which the Treasury provides financial support for private firms that buy distressed assets, including mortgage-related loans. <br />
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These two companies take the total number of firms to have joined the government in buying toxic assets to six. The private sector capital raised by these six firms totaled $3.58 billion. With the Treasury&#8217;s additional investment capital, the total amount available for buying bad bank assets stands at $14.34 billion. <strong>Invesco Ltd.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/IVZ">IVZ</a>) and TCW Group Inc. have already agreed to invest in PPIP. <br />
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In March 2009, the Treasury initially announced that the program would buy as much as $1 trillion worth of toxic assets. However, amid improvements in the economy, the program has been scaled back several times. <br />
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However, the Treasury has remained optimistic and now expects PPIP to be a $40 billion program. It expects three more firms to participate in the program soon.<br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=IVZ">Read the full analyst report on "IVZ"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>NanoViricides, Inc. (NNVC.OB) Reports Progress in Drug Development Programs and Fiscal Responsibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>People&#8217;s United Reports In-Line &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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People's United Financial Inc.&#8217;s </strong>(<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/pbct">PBCT</a>) third quarter earnings of 8 cents per share were in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. While quarterly results benefited from growth in core loan portfolios and deposits, the company&#8217;s credit quality continued to deteriorate. It has reported significant increase in loan loss provisions in the quarter.<br />
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People's United reported net income of $26.8 million or 8 cents per share for the quarter, compared to $25.3 million or 8 cents per share in the prior quarter and $46.0 million or 14 cents per share a year earlier. <br />
<br />
Net interest income was $145.3 million, up 3% sequentially but down 9% year-over-year. Net interest margin was up 7 basis points (bps) sequentially but down 52 bps year-over-year to 3.19%. The sequential increase in the net interest margin was primarily driven by a reduction in the costs of deposits.<br />
<br />
Non-interest income decreased 6% sequentially but was up 8% year-over-year to $80.2 million. Non-interest expense was down 6% sequentially but increased 4% year-over-year to $165.1 million.<br />
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Provision for loan losses was more than tripled from the prior-year quarter to $21.5 million and increased by $7.5 million from the prior quarter.<br />
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Net loan charge-offs jumped to $16.0 million in the quarter from $6.0 million in the prior quarter and $4.0 million in the year-ago quarter and included $6.1 million related to one non-performing shared national credit. Annualized net loan charge-offs increased 28 bps sequentially and 33 bps year-over to 0.44% of average loans. The allowance for loan losses increased $5.5 million from the prior quarter to $172.5 million at Sept. 30, 2009.<br />
<br />
Non-performing assets also continued to increase in the quarter. These totaled $192.7 million at Sept. 30, 2009, reflecting increase of $10.7 million sequentially and $101.3 million year-over-year. Non-performing assets increased 10 bps sequentially to 1.35% of total loans.<br />
<br />
Return on average tangible assets was 0.55% and return on average tangible stockholders' equity was 3.0%, compared to 0.53% and 2.8%, respectively, in the prior quarter. Tangible equity ratio stood at 18.6% at Sept. 30, 2009.<br />
<br />
With assets of $21 billion, People's United Financial offers commercial banking, retail and small business banking, and wealth management services through a network of nearly 300 branches in Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts and New York.<br />
<br />
Although People's United is currently experiencing credit quality deterioration, the company is eying strategic acquisitions for expansion. Along with this, its cost expense management initiatives bode well going forward. Hence, we currently have a Neutral recommendation on this stock.<br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=PBCT">Read the full analyst report on "PBCT"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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MBRX, a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel drugs targeting the liver and liver pathways.
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North Dallas Bank &#38; Trust Co. (OTCBB:  NODB) announces net earnings of $1,344,021 or $0.52 per share for the  three months ending September 30, 2009, compared to $1,348,016 or $0.52 per  share for the same period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mack-Cali Signs New Lease &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<strong><br />
Mack-Cali Realty Corp.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/CLI">CLI</a>), a fully integrated real estate investment trust (REIT), has recently signed a new long-term lease for its 100,000 square feet Class A JV office property at 1 Jefferson Road in Parsippany, New Jersey. The lessee was Day Pitney LLP, a full-service law firm with approximately 375 attorneys and offices in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Washington DC.<br />
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The deal is reportedly the largest of its kind in the Northern New Jersey region in 2009 and provides an opportunity to Day Pitney to design and construct new space in the building to meet its additional space requirements. Furthermore, the long-term leasing agreement especially during the period of economic uncertainty is testament to the location advantage and the credibility of the asset&#8217;s ownership.<br />
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The leased property is a joint venture partnership among institutional investors advised by J. P. Morgan Asset Management, The Hampshire Generation Fund LLC, and Mack-Cali. J. P. Morgan Asset Management is a leading global asset management company with approximately $1.1 trillion assets under management. The Hampshire Generation Fund LLC is a real estate investment fund manager, catering to high net worth individual investors investing in real estate.<br />
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Mack-Cali is responsible for the leasing and management services of the building. The company owns, leases, manages, and develops Class A office and industrial/flex properties, primarily in suburban markets in the northeastern U.S. Mack-Cali&#8217;s portfolio includes 288 properties, totaling over 33.1 million square feet with over 2,100 tenants.<br /><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=CLI">Read the full analyst report on "CLI"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>DrStockPick.com Stock Report! 10/08/09, GTY, CI, LNC, CWLZ, STI, TXI</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Please be advised that  Getty Realty Corp. (NYSE: GTY) will release its financial  results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, after the market closes on  Tuesday, November 3, 2009.

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		<title>Saturday Success Story &#8211; Raymond, Connecticut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pratt &amp; Whitney Cuts Jobs  &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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Jet engine maker Pratt &#38; Whitney said it plans to eliminate 1,000 jobs in Connecticut by 2011, transferring engine repair work to the Southeastern state of Georgia and Asia in a cost-cutting initiative.
<p align="left">This subsidiary of <strong>United Technologies Corp.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/UTX">UTX</a>) will close down its Cheshire, Connecticut, plant by early 2011. From the second quarter of 2010, it will begin shifting some operations from the East Hartford facility to Columbus, Georgia, Singapore and Japan. Pratt &#38; Whitney, which is suffering due to sagging demand from airlines, employs 35,000 workers worldwide, with 11,000 in Connecticut.</p>
<p align="left">The company rejected an offer that the Machinists union valued at more than $80 million in wage and other concessions and a state plan proposing $100 million in economic assistance over five years. Pratt &#38; Whitney has vastly scaled back operations in the state since the 1960s, when more than 20,000 workers were employed.</p>
<p align="left">Pratt &#38; Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, industrial gas turbines and space propulsion systems. The company&#8217;s 38,577 employees support more than 9,000 customers in 180 countries around the world. It builds engines for front line fighters, like the F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, as well as the C-17 Globemaster III military transport.</p>
<p align="left">United Technologies provides high technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. Its Otis, Carrier and UTC Fire &#38; Security (collectively referred to as the commercial businesses) serve customers in the commercial and residential property industries worldwide. Carrier also serves commercial, industrial, transport refrigeration and food service equipment customers.</p>
<p align="left">Pratt &#38; Whitney, Hamilton Sundstrand and Sikorsky (together called the aerospace businesses) primarily serve commercial and government customers in both the original equipment and aftermarket parts and services markets of the aerospace industry; Hamilton Sundstrand and Pratt &#38; Whitney also serve customers in certain industrial markets. Its major rivals include <strong>General Electric Co.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/GE">GE</a>) and <strong>Boeing Co.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/BA">BA</a>).</p>
<p align="left">We currently have a Neutral recommendation on UTX.</p><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=UTX">Read the full analyst report on "UTX"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=GE">Read the full analyst report on "GE"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=BA">Read the full analyst report on "BA"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Success Story &#8211; Hal, Connecticut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Millipore &amp; Roka to Collaborate &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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On Monday, <strong>Millipore Corp.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/MIL">MIL</a>) announced its collaboration with Roka Bioscience Inc. to develop molecular assays and portable instruments for biopharmaceutical production.<br />
 <br />
Roka Bioscience is a new, independent company created following the spin-off of the industrial testing business of <strong>Gen-Probe Inc.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/GPRO">GPRO</a>). After the spin-off, Gen-Probe transferred its partnership agreements with Millipore and GE Water (a business unit of CT-based <strong>General Electric</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/GE">GE</a>). Roka Bioscience is now engaged in developing real-time molecular tests for biopharmaceutical, food, and water safety testing.<br />
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Gen-Probe initially plans to own 19.9% of the new company. Affiliates of three private equity firms, OrbiMed Advisors, TPG Biotechnology and New Enterprise Associates have agreed to provide $37.2 million to complete the development of several industrial-scale molecular assays. Gen-Probe contributed industrial assets that include its closed unit dose assay (CUDA) system, a portable testing instrument that can deliver highly accurate molecular results in roughly an hour.<br />
 <br />
Millipore and Gen-Probe formed an exclusive partnership in 2005 to develop faster, more reliable and sensitive tests for contaminants commonly found in pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing processes. In 2008, they introduced the MilliPROBE® system, which is the first solution of its kind and combines Millipore&#8217;s leading industry-accepted sample prep methodologies with Gen-Probe&#8217;s advanced proven nucleic acid technologies to deliver both speed and sensitivity in one microbial screening tool.<br />
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The companies currently have one assay on the market for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and are developing a second assay for Mycoplasma that remains on track to be introduced early in 2010.<br />
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Roka Bioscience&#8217;s investment into a fully integrated, portable testing instrument will help Millipore accelerate further development of MilliPROBE assays.<br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=MIL">Read the full analyst report on "MIL"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=GPRO">Read the full analyst report on "GPRO"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=GE">Read the full analyst report on "GE"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>DrStockPick.com Stock Report! 9/15/09, BSTK, EPD, CTAS, LMT, SYNJ, DEP</title>
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Brite-Strike® Tactical Illumination  Products, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: BSTK) is pleased to announce a new,  aggressive internet marketing campaign to coincide with the upcoming Holiday  season. As part of the new online initiative, Brite-Strike has enlisted the  expertise of internet marketing guru Thomas J. McCarthy, who has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DrStockPick.com Stock Report! 9/14/09, OPTR, NBY, SCS, CHH, GEOY, SEP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Optimer  Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTR) today announced the presentation  of results from its second prulifloxacin Phase 3 clinical study for the  treatment of infectious diarrhea in travelers, by clinical investigator Robert  Steffen, M.D., at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and  Chemotherapy (ICAAC) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Falls Below $70, Eyes Wall Street Slide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pU.S. crude oil fell over 3 percent to below $70 a barrel on Friday as U.S. equities struggled for traction and raised fears about the economy and a recovery in energy demand./p
pU.S. crude for October delivery fell $2.20 to $69.74 by 1:24 p.m. EDT (1724 GMT) after rising to $72.90 in choppy trading. London Brent crude fell $2.10 to $67.76 a barrel./p
p#8220;Crude put in a high for the week, but there was no follow-through and the dollar and S#38;P turned around and that helped pull crude back,#8221; said Gene McGillian, analyst at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut./p
pU.S. stocks were hampered by profit taking after five days of gains and the longest winning streak since November which helped boost crude prices earlier in#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Sofame Technologies (SDW.V) &#8211; more detail on funding plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Objective Capital comment issued on Sep 11, 2009 titled 'Sofame Technologies (SDW.V) - more detail on funding plans'.]]></description>
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		<title>NXT Nutritionals, Inc. (NXTH.OB) Launches SUSTA Natural Sweetner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NXT Nutritionals Inc. is a developer and marketer of proprietary, patent-pending healthy alternative sweeteners as well as food and beverage products. The common ingredient for all of the company&#8217;s products is its SUSTA natural sweetener, a minimal calorie, all-natural, nutritional sweetening system. The company believes that SUSTA is superior to all other sweeteners on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pratt &amp; Whitney Gets Incentives &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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The governor of Connecticut has offered $100 million worth of incentives to jet engine manufacturer Pratt &#38; Whitney, a <strong>United Technologies Corporation</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/utx">UTX</a>) company, to prevent the possible loss of 1,000 jobs.<br />
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The five-year plan includes lifting a cap on tax credits for the parent company, providing training assistance and establishing a job retention tax credit. It also includes investments in machinery and equipment and the building of an Engineering Center for Excellence for engineers at Pratt &#38; Whitney and other aerospace companies.<br />
<br />
The state has joined hands with the International Association of Machinists, which represents 3,700 workers and has been negotiating with Pratt &#38; Whitney for weeks in an attempt to retain existing jobs. The Machinists offered $63 million in annual cost reduction, including reduced overtime, to help save jobs.<br />
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Pratt &#38; Whitney has been affected by the steep decline in the commercial airline industry. It has announced that it may close its Cheshire engine repair plant and shift work from its East Hartford operation. Jobs could be shifted to plants in Columbus, Georgia, Singapore and Japan.<br />
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United Technologies had earlier announced that it needs to eliminate 11,600 jobs, or 5 percent of its global work force, in 2009 to cut costs. The company employs about 26,000 workers in Connecticut, with 11,000 of those working at Pratt &#38; Whitney.<br />
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United Technologies Corporation provides high technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. Pratt &#38; Whitney, Hamilton Sundstrand and Sikorsky (collectively referred to as the aerospace businesses) primarily serve commercial and government customers in both the original equipment and aftermarket parts and services markets of the aerospace industry; Hamilton Sundstrand and Pratt &#38; Whitney also serve customers in certain industrial markets. Major competitors include <strong>Boeing Company</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/ba">BA</a>) and <strong>General Electric Company</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/ge">GE</a>).<br />
<br />
We currently have a Neutral recommendation on UTX.<br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=UTX">Read the full analyst report on "UTX"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=BA">Read the full analyst report on "BA"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=GE">Read the full analyst report on "GE"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Carrier Acquires StrionAir &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Carrier Corp., a division of <strong>United Technologies Corp.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/UTX">UTX</a>), acquired StrionAir, a producer of proprietary air purification systems employing patented "capture and kill" technology. StrionAir developed and patented advanced electronic filtration methods and products, including the sole whole-house air purifier in the market validated by third-party tests to capture and kill airborne germs, viruses and mold.</p>
<p>StrionAir has been the provider of Carrier's residential Infinity Air Purifier since 2006, and has also developed, marketed and sold over 6,000 commercial systems. StrionAir is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado and was founded in 1997.</p>
<p>This acquisition will enable Carrier to incorporate Infinity Air Purifier into its products as well as provide an opportunity for accelerated product development for both residential and commercial applications.</p>
<p>Carrier has consistently been the leader in developing energy-efficient, environmentally sound solutions in home and building comfort and indoor air quality. Carrier, headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, is the world's largest provider of heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration solutions, with operations in more than 170 countries.</p>
<p>United Technologies was incorporated in Delaware in 1934. It provides high technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. Operating units include businesses with operations throughout the world. Otis, Carrier and UTC Fire &#38; Security &#8211; collectively referred to as the commercial businesses &#8211; serve customers in the commercial and residential property industries worldwide. Carrier also serves commercial, industrial, transport refrigeration and food service equipment customers. Its major competitors include <strong>Boeing Co.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/BA">BA</a>) and <strong>General Electric Co.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/GE">GE</a>).</p>
<p>We currently have a Neutral recommendation on United Technologies.</p><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=UTX">Read the full analyst report on "UTX"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=BA">Read the full analyst report on "BA"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=GE">Read the full analyst report on "GE"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Pratt &amp; Whitney Powers Discovery &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<br />
Three Pratt &#38; Whitney Rocketdyne Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) successfully powered the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on Mission STS-128 to deliver extra supplies and equipment to support a six-person crew onboard the International Space Station. The SSME is the world's only fully reusable high performance rocket engine rated for human space flight. Discovery was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on 30th August. Pratt &#38; Whitney Rocketdyne is a unit of <strong>United Technologies Corp.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/UTX">UTX</a>).
<p align="left">Discovery's main payload is the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, which is carrying extra supplies and equipment to help establish a six-astronaut crew capacity on the space station. The payload includes science and storage racks, a treadmill and a crew quarter.</p>
<p align="left">Pratt &#38; Whitney Rocketdyne Inc., a part of Pratt &#38; Whitney, is a preferred provider of high-value propulsion, power, energy and innovative system solutions used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications, including the main engines for space shuttles, Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, missile defense systems and advanced hypersonic engines.</p>
<p align="left">Pratt &#38; Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Connecticut, is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries. Its major competitors include <strong>General Electric Co.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/GE">GE</a>) and <strong>Boeing Co.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/BA">BA</a>). We currently have a Neutral recommendation on the stock.</p><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=UTX">Read the full analyst report on "UTX"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=BA">Read the full analyst report on "BA"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=GE">Read the full analyst report on "GE"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Conn&#8217;s Slips on Weak Guidance, Q2 &#8211; Zacks Tale of the Tape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Shares of <strong>Conn's Inc.</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/CONN">CONN</a>) have slipped more than 8% today as the retailer slashed guidance citing the sluggish economic environment.
<p>The company stated that it now expects earnings for the fiscal year ending Jan 2010 between $1.40 and $1.60 per share, compared to the prior outlook of $1.75 to $1.85.</p>
<p>The Zacks Consensus Estimate is at $1.72 per share, which has moved down by 4 cents over the past month.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the company reported fiscal second-quarter earnings of 22 cents per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 35.3%.</p>
<p>Sales grew marginally by 0.8% to $220.2 million, while same-store sales declined 5.2%.</p>
<p>CONN, a Zacks #5 Rank ("Strong Sell") stock, is trading on heavier-than-usual volume of approximately 407,000, compared to the average daily volume of about 116,000.</p><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZRANK&#38;t=CONN">"CONN" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar Gains as Risk Trade Takes a Pause</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe U.S. dollar rose on Wednesday as news that China would act to restrict redundant investments underscored concerns about a global recovery and tempered the positive impact of data showing a jump in new U.S. home sales./p
pReports that China intends to curb excessive investment in a range of industries #8220;hurts the strong global growth outlook and is one of the things moving the dollar today,#8221; said Chuck Butler, president of a href="http://www.everbank.com"  class="alinks_links"Everbank/a World Markets in St. Louis./p
pInvestors tend to buy the dollar and yen as safe havens or unwind trades in higher-yielding assets financed with the U.S. and Japanese currencies when recovery optimism fades./p
pTwo reports offered some encouragement about the health of the U.S. economy. A rise of 9.6 percent in new#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Wells Fargo Going Slow on Wachovia  &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Six months after acquiring Wachovia Corp., the <strong>Wells Fargo</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/WFC">WFC</a>) name and stagecoach logo have yet to be seen in the Kansas City area. Indeed it will not be visible till the next year. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo has been moving slowly to consolidate Wachovia Bank into its system.<br />
 <br />
During December last year, the brokerage firm Wachovia Securities became part of Wells Fargo. All 4,800 branches of the residential lender Wachovia Mortgage have been folded into Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.<br />
 <br />
Wachovia Corp. was purchased by Wells Fargo on Dec 31, 2008, when it ceased to be an independent corporation. The company had been battered by heavy losses &#8211; especially in its portfolio of flexible, interest-only home loans &#8211; and was suffering a run on its deposits.<br />
 <br />
The consolidation of Wachovia bank branches into Wells Fargo's network is scheduled to begin this November. The integration will begin in Colorado, one of a half-dozen states where both the institutions have overlapping branches.<br />
 <br />
After Colorado, the branch-conversion process will move to five other states &#8211; California, Arizona, Illinois, Nevada and Texas &#8211; where Wells Fargo and Wachovia offices also overlap. Conversion in these states is expected to begin in 2010, though the conversion dates haven&#8217;t been announced for the Wachovia-only markets in the Carolinas and along the East Coast.<br />
 <br />
Wells Fargo&#8217;s growth plans have included a large number of acquisitions, Wachovia being the latest in December 2008. The company has demonstrated its ability to assimilate local franchises offering a wider range of products than the acquired company could have had.<br />
 <br />
The Wachovia merger is expected to generate an internal rate of return (IRR) of about 20% and be accretive to earnings starting from the third year without any adjustments. Further, as a result of the merger, Wells Fargo substantially expanded its distribution network and has a Community Banking presence for the first time in 16 states &#8211; Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington D.C.<br />
 <br />
Last month, Wells Fargo reported net income of 57 cents per share. The company reported that the Wachovia merger is on track and expects to realize $5 billion of annual merger-related savings upon completion of the integration process. During the latest reported quarter, 39% of the combined revenue came from Wachovia. With the combined resources, Wells Fargo will be in an even better position to satisfy its customers&#8217; financial needs.</p>
<p>We maintain a Neutral recommendation on the shares of Wells Fargo.</p><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=WFC">Read the full analyst report on "WFC"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>MetroPCS Expanding Coverage &#8211; Analyst Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<strong>MetroPCS</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/pcs">PCS</a>), a leading provider of unlimited pre-paid wireless service in the US, has reportedly expanded its New York City area service to include additional markets in the Tri-State region. The company has extended its unlimited service footprint to include Long Island, North Central New Jersey, White Plains and New Rochelle in New York, and Stamford and Bridgeport in Connecticut.<br />
<br />
This expansion represents a part of MetroPCS&#8217; ongoing initiative to increase its penetration in the lucrative Northeast region. The company entered Las Vegas and Philadelphia during 2008 and launched its low-cost unlimited wireless service in New York and Boston in February 2009, representing a major business expansion.<br />
<br />
<strong>MetroPCS </strong>(<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/pcs">PCS</a>) offers a broad range of wireless broadband services (under the MetroPCS brand) in the selected metropolitan areas in the US, leveraging its proprietary code division multiple access (CDMA) technology based network. The company sells its products through self-operated and independent retail outlets.<br />
<br />
Despite a leading position in the unlimited prepaid segment, MetroPCS is currently struggling with customer retention problems as evidenced by significant increase in churn (customer switch) in the last quarter. The company has been increasingly challenged by aggressive roll-outs of competitive discounted service plans by some of its larger rivals, most prominently <strong>Sprint Nextel&#8217;s </strong>(<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/s">S</a>) Boost Mobile, <strong>America Movil&#8217;s </strong>(<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/amx">AMX</a>) Tracfone and <strong>Deutsche Telekom&#8217;s </strong>(<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/dt">DT</a>) T-Mobile USA.<br />
<br />
To counter intense competition, MetroPCS is broadening its portfolio of discounted price plans and entering new markets for growth. The company is currently enjoying meaningful traction in the Northeast region, which is reflected in healthy subscriber growth. Approximately 94% of the new customer additions came from this region in the second quarter of 2009. A significant part of the company&#8217;s network infrastructure deployment initiatives are currently centered in the Northeast region.<br />
<br />
While the company&#8217;s expansion initiatives into the Northeastern markets appears encouraging for sustaining subscriber growth, associated expenditures may strain balance sheet condition moving forward.<br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=PCS">Read the full analyst report on "PCS"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=S">Read the full analyst report on "S"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=AMX">Read the full analyst report on "AMX"</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZER&#38;t=DT">Read the full analyst report on "DT"</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>DrStockPick.com Stock Report! 8/24/09, PCS, BEST, PRWP, INKN, XTEX, XTXI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Residents of the Tri-State area now have a new  alternative to costly traditional wireless service plans. MetroPCS  Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS), the nation&#8217;s leading provider of  unlimited, flat-rate, no signed contract wireless communications service,  announces the expansion of its New York City area service to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PennyOmega.com Stock Report! 8/18/09, ARG, ACCL, NAVI, INFA, RTLX, SCOR, NATI</title>
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Acushnet Company, the golf  business of Fortune Brands, Inc. (NYSE: FO), announced that on  August 14, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit  granted the company&#8217;s request for a new trial and issued other favorable  decisions in its patent dispute with [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Vlaicu</dc:creator>
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The follow article has been submitted to StocksHaven Investments by Nicholas DeCesare, a highly respected investor and journalist within the biopharma realm.
Take one look at a chart of Javelin Pharmaceuticals over the past six months and you will see a stock that has doubled in price but still sits only around $2.00 [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>STDF Steadfast Holdings Group, Inc. Subsidiary Lands $28.6 Million Building Contract (DrStockPick Stock Report)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Stock Pick</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Steadfast Holdings Group, Inc. Subsidiary
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&#8220;Steadfast Holdings Group, Inc. Subsidiary
Lands $28.6 Million Building Contract&#8220;



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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>STDF Steadfast Holdings Group, Inc. Hires Builder and Contracts for First Nine Residential Units (DrStockPick News Report!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRWENewswire - Steadfast Holdings Group, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: STDF) through its Banx and Green Group, Inc. subsidiary has completed an agreement with Peter Waxman to build homes using environmentally, energy efficient structurally insulated panels (SIPS).
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[pOil prices fell more than 1 percent to $63 a barrel today, Tuesday, as growing uncertainty over an economic recovery spurred investor risk aversion.  A member of U.S. President Barack Obama#8217;s economic advisory panel said the world#8217;s top oil consumer should plan to possibly provide a second round of stimulus funds to prop up the economy, implying that recovery is still far off./p
pU.S. crude futures traded down $1.01 to $63.04 a barrel by 1:13 p.m. EDT (1713 GMT) as investors sought safer havens. London Brent crude fell 74 cents to $63.31 a barrel./p
p#8220;The worries are that the pace of the economic recovery hasn#8217;t materialized the way that people who plunged into the commodity markets thought, and now they are running for the#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[pU.S. stocks fell today, Monday, as investors worried about the potential strength and timing of an economic recovery, sending oil prices and energy shares lower./p
pMarkets briefly cut losses after data showed the service sector contracted at a slower pace in June, blunting some pessimism over the economy after a last week#8217;s much worse-than-expected jobs report./p
p#8220;Overall the data looks like a positive, although it may not be enough in the near term to overcome last week#8217;s disappointing jobs report,#8221; said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial in Westport, Connecticut./p
pOil touched a five-week low and fell to around $64 a barrel, sending Exxon Mobil Corp down 2.1 percent at $67.05, and Chevron Corp fell 2.1 percent to $63.09. The two companies were#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Today is the end of the 2009 fiscal year, and many states are still scrambling to get budgets in place for the 2010 fiscal year.  <br />
<br />
It is not easy since when the economy turns south, so do tax revenues, and states are not allowed to run deficits or borrow for operating needs. Some states have managed to cut costs or raise taxes enough to close their deficits for the upcoming year. The only two states without a budget problem are Montana and North Dakota.  <br />
<br />
As shown in the table below (from http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&#38;id=711), the total spending cuts or revenue increase needs to be $166 billion or 24% of the projected budget. To some extent states have used "rainy day funds" and the money from the Federal Stimulus bill to close some of the gap. Still the problem is very severe with 5 states (CA, AZ, NV, IL, NY) facing shortfalls of greater than 30%. California is in the worst shape with a gap of 58.2%.</p>
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<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="80%">
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        <tr>
            <th colspan="8"><strong>STATES WITH PROJECTED FY2010 BUDGET GAPS</strong></th>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#a2d39c">
            <td align="left"><strong><u>	State	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	FY2010<br />
            pre-budget	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	FY2010<br />
            mid-year gap	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	FY2010<br />
            Total	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	FY2010 Total<br />
            % of Budget	</u></strong></td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Alabama</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.2 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$1.2 billion</td>
            <td align="center">16.70%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Alaska</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.3 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$1.3 billion</td>
            <td align="center">30.00%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Arizona</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$4.0 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$4.0 billion</td>
            <td align="center">41.10%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Arkansas</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$146 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$146 million</td>
            <td align="center">3.20%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">California*</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$34.2 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$19.5 billion</td>
            <td align="center">$53.7 billion</td>
            <td align="center">58.20%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Colorado</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.0 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$384 million</td>
            <td align="center">$1.4 billion</td>
            <td align="center">18.60%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Connecticut</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$4.1 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$4.1 billion</td>
            <td align="center">23.20%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Delaware</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$557 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$557 million</td>
            <td align="center">17.60%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">District of Columbia</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$650 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$150 million</td>
            <td align="center">$800 million</td>
            <td align="center">12.70%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Florida</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$5.9 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$5.9 billion</td>
            <td align="center">22.80%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Georgia</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$3.1 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$750 million</td>
            <td align="center">$3.9 billion</td>
            <td align="center">22.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Hawaii</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$682 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$297 million</td>
            <td align="center">$978 million</td>
            <td align="center">19.10%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Idaho</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$411 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$411 million</td>
            <td align="center">16.40%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Illinois</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$9.2 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$9.2 billion</td>
            <td align="center">33.00%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Indiana</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.1 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$1.1 billion</td>
            <td align="center">7.50%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Iowa</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$779 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$779 million</td>
            <td align="center">13.20%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Kansas</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.4 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">Yes, DK size</td>
            <td align="center">$1.4 billion</td>
            <td align="center">22.60%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Kentucky</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	0	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$1.1 billion</td>
            <td align="center">$1.1 billion</td>
            <td align="center">11.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Louisiana</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.8 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$1.8 billion</td>
            <td align="center">21.60%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Maine</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$640 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$640 million</td>
            <td align="center">21.40%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Maryland</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.9 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">Yes, DK size</td>
            <td align="center">$1.9 billion</td>
            <td align="center">13.60%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Massachusetts</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$5.0 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$5.0 billion</td>
            <td align="center">17.90%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Michigan</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$2.4 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$2.4 billion</td>
            <td align="center">12.00%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Minnesota</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$3.2 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$3.2 billion</td>
            <td align="center">21.00%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Mississippi</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$480 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$480 million</td>
            <td align="center">9.60%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Missouri</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$923 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$923 million</td>
            <td align="center">10.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Nebraska</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$150 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$150 million</td>
            <td align="center">4.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Nevada</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.2 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$1.2 billion</td>
            <td align="center">37.80%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">New Hampshire</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$250 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$250 million</td>
            <td align="center">16.20%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">New Jersey</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$8.8 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$8.8 billion</td>
            <td align="center">29.90%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">New Mexico</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$345 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$345 million</td>
            <td align="center">6.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">New York</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$17.9 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$17.9 billion</td>
            <td align="center">32.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">North Carolina</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$4.6 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$4.6 billion</td>
            <td align="center">21.90%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Ohio</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$3.3 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$3.3 billion</td>
            <td align="center">12.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Oklahoma</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$600 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$600 million</td>
            <td align="center">10.50%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Oregon*</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	0	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">0.00%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Pennsylvania</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$4.8 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$4.8 billion</td>
            <td align="center">18.00%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Rhode Island</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$590 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$590 million</td>
            <td align="center">19.20%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">South Carolina</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$725 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$725 million</td>
            <td align="center">12.50%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">South Dakota</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$32 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$32 million</td>
            <td align="center">2.90%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Tennessee</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.0 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$1.0 billion</td>
            <td align="center">9.70%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Texas</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$3.5 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$3.5 billion</td>
            <td align="center">9.50%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Utah</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$721 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$279 million</td>
            <td align="center">$1.0 billion</td>
            <td align="center">19.80%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Vermont</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$278 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$278 million</td>
            <td align="center">24.80%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Virginia</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$1.8 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">Yes, DK size</td>
            <td align="center">$1.8 billion</td>
            <td align="center">10.90%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Washington</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$3.4 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$195 million</td>
            <td align="center">$3.6 billion</td>
            <td align="center">23.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">West Virginia</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$200 million	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$200 million</td>
            <td align="center">5.30%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Wisconsin</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$3.2 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">0</td>
            <td align="center">$3.2 billion</td>
            <td align="center">23.20%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Wyoming</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	0	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$32 million</td>
            <td align="center">$32 million</td>
            <td align="center">1.70%</td>
        </tr>
        <tr bgcolor="#e6f3e7">
            <td align="left">Total</td>
            <td align="center"><strong><u>	$143.2 billion	</u></strong></td>
            <td align="center">$22.7 billion</td>
            <td align="center">$165.9 billion</td>
            <td align="center">24.40%</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
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<p align="left">This will lead to very drastic cuts in state budgets. Access to medical care by the poor will likely be one of the first things to be cut.  <br />
<br />
Education budgets will also probably be pared. This could be decreased spending on new textbooks, which would not be good news for publishers like <strong>McGraw-Hill</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/MHP">MHP</a>) and <strong>Scholastic</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/SCHL">SCHL</a>).  <br />
<br />
Another area that is likely to be hit is new equipment at the municipal level. For example, I would not expect <strong>Oshkosh</strong> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/OSK">OSK</a>) to have a very good year selling new fire engines and snow removal equipment to municipalities.  <br />
<br />
Layoffs of state and municipal workers will simply add to the already high and rising unemployment rate. In short, a big part of the federal stimulus spending is being offset by (legally mandated) anti-stimulus actions at the state level.  <br />
<br />
As the graph shows, state fiscal problems tend to persist well after the recession is officially over. Indeed the problem is usually worse in the second or third year since by then the "rainy day funds" have already been used up.  <br />
<br />
Following the last recession, states collectively had their worst year in 2004 with a shortfall of $80 billion (or less than half what they face for fiscal 2010), which was well after the recession officially ended. Thus 2011, and possibly even 2012, will be a very lean year at the state level as well.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Words from the Wise” this week comes to you in a shortened format as I do not have access to my normal research resources while on the road in Europe. Although very little commentary is provided, a full dose of excerpts from interesting news items and quotes from market commentators is included. ]]></description>
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		<title>Analogic Slides 8% on Q3 Results &#8211; Zacks Tale of the Tape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<br />Shares of <b>Analogic Corp.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/ALOG">ALOG</a>) have slumped nearly 8% today after reporting fiscal third-quarter earnings that fell short of expectations. 
<p>The maker of security and health imaging systems posted 21 cents per share, missing the consensus estimate by 15 cents, or nearly 42%. In the year-ago quarter, earnings reached 54 cents. </p>
<p>Sales dipped 9% to $93.6 million, as the ongoing economic downturn affected the demand for CT, MR, and motion control related systems. </p>
<p>Sales for medical imaging, the company's flagship segment, declined $8.5 million to $50 million, neutralizing modest improvements in the digital radiography and security technology segments. </p>
<p>The full-year average forecast has moved down 3 cents over the past 2 months to 90 cents per share. </p>
<p>ALOG, a Zacks #3 Rank ("Hold") stock, is trading on volume of approximately 156,000, compared to the average daily volume of about 80,000. </p>
<p></p><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZRANK&#38;t=ALOG">"ALOG" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<title>Putin and Connecticut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Amsterdam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's an interesting tidbit from the Wall Street Journal: Vladimir Putin is used to taking flak from rivals in the former Soviet Union. Now he has to deal with opposition from a more unlikely location: Greenwich, Conn. Two months ago...]]></description>
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		<title>Hartford CEO Pays Heed to Investors &#8211; Zacks Tale of the Tape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b><br />Hartford Financial Services Group</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/HIG">HIG</a>) said Chief Executive Ramani Ayer will retire by December, ending his 12-year stint at the top position in the midst of increasing pressure from shareholders. 
<p>As the credit crisis intensified through a tumultuous year, Hartford lost $2.7 billion for writing down the value of mortgage-related assets and corporate debt in 2008. </p>
<p>In October, faced with concerns over the company's capital levels, Ayer accepted a $2.5 billion cash investment from German peer <b>Allianz SE</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/AZ">AZ</a>). </p>
<p>Even then, the downward trend in equity markets continued to drag the Connecticut-based firm along with it. All three key credit ratings agencies downgraded Hartford. To meet rising challenges, Ayer cut jobs, slashed the company's dividend by 84% and appealed for funds under the US Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). </p>
<p>Last month, Hartford won preliminary approval for $3.4 billion in government bailout along with six other insurers. However, even though most insurers rejected the proposal for federal support to sustain themselves, Hartford and <b>Lincoln National Corp.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/LNC">LNC</a>) are likely to accept those funds. Ayer said last week that he was "finalizing details" with the government regarding TARP money. </p>
<p>Even though Ayer has defended the measures he undertook to handle the crisis, investors believe he could have done better. The Hartford board will now begin the search for an immediate and external successor. </p>
<p>Shares of Hartford (HIG), a Zacks #4 Rank ("Hold") company, are up nearly 2%. </p>
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		<title>Weekly Mortgage Applications Of Interest Today; Fed Already Loses $5 Billion on Mortgages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trader Mark</dc:creator>
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		<title>DJIA Reshuffles Components &#8211; Zacks Tale of the Tape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b><br />General Motors</b>' (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/GM">GM</a>) official bankruptcy filing on Monday marked the end of an era. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) replaced the company with <b>Cisco Systems Inc.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/CSCO">CSCO</a>), dropping the last automaker from the most eminent benchmark for U.S. stocks. 
<p>Along with this much anticipated move, which is a natural corollary of the beleaguered firm's entry into bankruptcy court, the benchmark stock index also removed <b>Citigroup Inc.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/C">C</a>) from its lineup to make way for the second-largest U.S. commercial insurer <b>Travelers Co.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/TRV">TRV</a>). Both GM and Citigroup will be formally taken out from the average at the opening of trade on Jun 8. </p>
<p>While swapping companies on the index usually takes years, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression has claimed many of its components as victims. The last change came when <b>Kraft Foods Inc.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/KFT">KFT</a>) replaced the ailing <b>American International Group Inc.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/AIG">AIG</a>) in September. </p>
<p>Dow Jones Editor in Chief Robert Thomson, who plays a key role in deciding the composition of the index, said, "We were reluctant to remove Citigroup at the height of the financial frenzy, but it is clear that the bank is in the midst of a substantial restructuring which will see the government with a large and ongoing stake." </p>
<p>Citi was added to the index in March 1997 as Travelers Group Inc. The country's biggest financial firm by assets was formed by a merger of Travelers and Citicorp. In 2002, it spun off the Hartford, Connecticut-based Travelers Property Casualty Corp. through an initial public offering. The irony is that the same firm is now replacing Citigroup on the DJIA. </p>
<p>With the addition of Cisco to the index, the technology weighting of the DJIA now goes up to about 17%. Shares of Cisco rose 6% to $19.61 at noon on the NASDAQ, while Travelers gained nearly 4% to $42.20 on the New York Stock Exchange at about the same time. Responding to upbeat economic reports, the DJIA is currently up 2.67% or 227.24 points. </p>
<p></p><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZRANK&#38;t=GM">"GM" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZRANK&#38;t=CSCO">"CSCO" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZRANK&#38;t=C">"C" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZRANK&#38;t=TRV">"TRV" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZRANK&#38;t=KFT">"KFT" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?</a><br /><a href="http://register.zacks.com/ucd/step1.php?ALERT=YAHOO_ZR&#38;d_alert=rd_final_rank&#38;ADID=GENSYND_ZRANK&#38;t=AIG">"AIG" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?</a><br /><a href="http://www.zacks.com">Zacks Investment Research</a><br />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 19:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pWhile everyone else has been focused on the banks’ stress tests and how much government is spending to bail out troubled “too big to fails,” a disturbing trend on the other side of the equation is now emerging: how much (or rather, how little) the U.S. government is receiving in tax revenues./p
pAfter combing through the past 25 editions of the “Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government,” which is compiled and published by the Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service, we created the following chart./p
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pHere’s what’s going on:/p
div style="margin-left: 40px;"•    In 2007 and 2008, government tax revenues averaged about $633.15 billion per quarter. For the first quarter of 2009, however, the numbers just in tell us that tax#8230;/div]]></description>
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		<title>AMNE Reduces Over $200,000 in Liabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart T. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW HAVEN, CT &#8212; (Marketwire) &#8212; 05/20/09 &#8212; American Green Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AMNE) is pleased to announce that it has reduced its liabilities by over $200,000 and cleared the way for a Judgment against the company to be satisfied without using any funds from the sale of its first county for $250,000 announced yesterday.

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		<title>And Then There’s This…Thursday, May 14th, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 19:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pGold tacked on about $10 in early Wednesday morning trading in the Far East. But shortly before London began trading, all the those gains began to disappeared. The low for the day was shortly after Comex floor trading started. From there, a spirited rally began, which went vertical right after London closed for the day#8230;but [as always] there was someone standing there with a hammer to make sure that the rally went no further./p


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pSilver was up a dime by 3 p.m. in Hong Kong in their afternoon yesterday#8230;when it, too, began the long decline#8230;with the bottom coming at 9:30 during Comex trading. The rally in silver ran into the same seller as gold#8230;and at precisely the same time#8230;and#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Kelyniam: Bio-Engineering Medical Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bullish Bankers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kelyniam Global, Inc. [[OTC:KLYG]] is an advanced design, engineering, manufacturing and rapid prototyping company specializing in the use of CADCAM (Computer Aided Design Computer Aided Manufacturing) technology. KLYG will be manufacturing artificial bone implants for cranial, orthopedic, dental and cosmetic medical applications from FDA approved polymers (which is summarized in a nine minute new medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Base Metals Mixed Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p class="maintextDRP"The base metals were mixed again on Wednesday. Copper was down in the pre-dawn hours, falling below $1.99, but pulled itself back over the $2 mark as the day wore on, and finished at $2.0133/lb., down 2 cents. /p
p class="maintextDRP"Nickel was also down early, rallied during the New York morning, but fell off again late to close at $5.146/lb., down 5½ cents. Zinc followed a similar path, ending at $0.6443/lb., down a half-cent. Aluminum did make it back into positive territory, adding just short of a penny, to $0.6452/lb., while lead was little changed, adding less than a quarter-cent, to $0.6674/lb./p
pCopper tried to fight its way back to green numbers, but wound up with the biggest cumulative 3-day loss since January,#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>New Article Added: The 1997 Silver Price Manipulation, Martin Armstrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Stanczyk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt:
During the late 1970s, the silver market was claimed to be “cornered” by the Hunt Brothers. That was far from true, for what they failed to understand, was that the attitude of the major brokerage houses was not that you were a pure trader-customer, but someone to pick - off for profit.
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		<title>This Crisis Is Just Starting to Hit the Headlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daily Wealth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dan Ferris, editor, Extreme Value/

Two recent headlines in the Wall Street Journal have confirmed my worst fears are coming true... much faster than I thought they would:

On Tuesday, the Journal ran a story called "Life Insurers Are Finding Their Fates Tied to Stocks." It confirmed what I told my subscribers in the latest issue of Extreme Value. Stock market losses might hit more than your equity portfolio...

Many life insurance companies sell variable annuities and other guaranteed return products. These products guarantee the investor will receive either a minimum return... or the gain in the S and P 500... whichever one is larger.

With the big stock indexes way down, losses have already piled up. The hedging that supports guaranteed investment products is too dense to get into here... But as the Journal pointed out on Tuesday, big life insurers like Lincoln National and Hartford have already suffered ratings downgrades due to investment losses and exposure to variable annuities. Moody's also said there's a risk of even greater losses.

But variable annuities aren't even the biggest problem. No one has quite caught on to the real issue yet...

Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran a story called "Commercial Property Faces Crisis." It reported default rates on $700 billion of commercial mortgage-backed securities could hit 30%, and noted that as many as 700 banks could fail as property loans go sour.

So what does all that have to do with life insurance companies? Everything...

The life insurance industry has put a lot of money into the commercial property market. Connecticut-based hedge fund Bridgewater Associates estimates 10% of the life insurance industry's investments are direct commitments to office buildings, shopping centers, and other commercial real estate projects.

Commercial real estate losses are rising rapidly. The delinquency rate on commercial mortgage-backed securities is already nearly as high as in the 1990s recession. Back then, the financial industry lost $48.5 billion on commercial real estate debt holdings.

The current commercial real estate crisis will certainly be much worse, due to the much larger real estate bubble this time around. The Journal reported U.S. banks could lose as much as $250 billion on commercial real estate. They're not the only ones.

As I explained last month, insurance companies are state regulated. Every state determines how much capital insurance companies have to keep on hand according to their financial strength and credit ratings.

As commercial real estate continues to collapse, life insurance companies won't have enough capital on hand. That will cripple their business... and their shares.

Take MetLife for example. MetLife has $36 billion worth of direct exposure to commercial real estate... and less than $19 billion of tangible equity. A 25% drop in the value of its commercial real estate holdings would cut tangible equity in half. That would crush the stock.

MetLife isn't alone. I've got my eye on 13 North American insurance companies. And all of them will take large writedowns due to commercial real estate and variable annuity exposures. At least one of them will fail over the next year.

I wish I were wrong about this. And I have nothing against any of the companies involved. Many are well run and, until now, had decent track records as good investors.

But they simply can't get out of the way. They're like giant hotels sitting on a sunny tropical shore... with an enormous tsunami headed straight for them.

Right now, it's time to go short on the biggest U.S. life insurance stocks. The next headline to look out for is the one that finally connects the dots, the one that tells you corporate-bond downgrades will result in permanent impairments to life insurance company capital levels.

Life insurance companies have even worse times ahead than what they've already endured. Investors who short now can spare themselves the pain.

Good investing,

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		<title>Another Day, Another Trillion Dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Bonner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pAnother day…another bailout…another rally on Wall Street… And another milestone on the road to ruin./p
p“Geithner plan welcomed,” says the headline story in today’s Financial Times./p
p“Stocks rally on news of toxic assets proposal,” continues the commentary./p
pStocks did indeed rally. The Dow rose 497 points…putting some bounce back in the bounce. We’ve been expecting a healthy rebound. Normally, after such a long and steep sell-off, you can expect a rebound that recovers 30%-50% of the losses. We have not had such a rebound…yet. Maybe this is it./p
pOtherwise, the financial news is mixed. House sales in February were unexpectedly high. Then again, prices continued to fall./p
pAMEX looks like it is going to be downgraded…as credit card debt now looks as though it could#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. (BCLI.OB) Elects Malcolm Taub to its Board of Directors</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. today announced the election of Malcolm S. Taub to its Board of Directors. Malcolm Taub has had a distinguished career in the practice of law in New York City for 34 years.  He has had a varied practice ranging from complex Federal Securities matters, fraud litigation to real estate litigation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Base Metals Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pBase metals were all winners on Thursday. Copper jumped more than 8 cents to close at $1.7828/lb. Nickel added nearly 8 and one-half cents to finish at $4.5027/lb. Zinc tacked on 3 pennies, ending at $0.5618/lb. Aluminum gained about 3 and two-thirds cents, closing at $0.6490/lb., while lead moved to $0.6010/lb., up 1 and one-third cents from the previous session./p
pemBloomberg/em reported that copper rose above $4,000 a metric ton [about $1.81/lb.] for the first time since November in London, gaining with other metals as a Federal Reserve plan to buy assets pulled the dollar lower and fanned speculation about an economic rebound./p
p“All markets are significantly higher, largely because of the impact of the Fed announcement last night, and the dollar is#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>InSight Health Services Holdings Corp. (ISGT.OB) Signs Agreement to Acquire Two Boston-Metro Imaging Centers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday after the closing bell, InSight Health Services announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of two imaging centers in the Boston-metropolitan area for approx. $8.1 million in cash. Together, these centers generate approximately $5.6 million in yearly revenues. The acquisition is anticipated to close next month.
Kip Hallman, InSight’s President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Confidence Makes Up Huge Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wednesday’s Market Recap (03/18/09)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The markets continued to rally as the Dow Jones ended up 1.23% at 7486.58 while the S&#38;P and NASDAQ closed up 2.09% and 1.99% respectively. The 10 year saw yields shrink as news that the Fed will increase its open market purchase pushed prices up. Yields closed around 2.55%. Gold and oil settled up at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Dividends to Count On</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bullish Bankers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[      As the fallout in the financial markets continues to unwind, a number of companies have bolted down balance sheets and insured some cash flows by cutting their once attractive dividends.  In the past month we have seen the likes of General Electric [GE: 10.32, +0.32 (+3.20%)], JP Morgan Chase [JPM: 27.11, +1.97 (+7.84%)], Bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Could Be the One of the Greatest Shorts of Our Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[tr
strongNotes from the
pInvestment Underground/p/strong
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Wednesday, March 18, 2008br /
Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentinabr /

p /p
pstrongPlastic Paddies#8230; The now and  future inflation#8230; Spendaholics Anonymous#8230;  Waiting for the Treasuries bubble to pop#8230; The perversity of  ‘self-stimulation’#8230; Paul Volcker’s two-tier financial system#8230; emNotes/em in “Fantasyland”#8230; Going to ground in Ireland#8230; And  more! /strong/p
p*** Paddy’s Day celebrations  are over. Yesterday, the streets of Buenos Aires filled up with lots  of Latin “plastic paddies.” All very strange indeed. More on this  below./p
p*** This morning, the a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/40d54f36-1335-11de-a170-0000779fd2ac.html" target="_blank"emFinancial Times/em/a reports that Mr. Market is waiting to  see whether the Fed will start buying long-term U.S. Treasuries to further  ‘stimulate’ the economy. /p
pAnd with rates at near zero levels,  it’s running out of ammo. Talking to a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/29720589" target="_blank"CNBC/a yesterday, Dr. Marc Faber, editor of the em Gloom, Boom#8230;/em/p/tr]]></description>
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		<title>Fed to Buy Up to $300 Billion in Treasuries; Stocks Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>QualityStocks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve announced that it will begin buying Treasuries to help open up tight credit markets. The central bank plans to purchase up to $300 billion of longer-term Treasury securities over the next six months. Upon announcement of the decision, both government bonds and bank stocks soared.
Quincy Krosby, who helps manage $298 billion as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Base Metals Little Changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p class="maintextDRP"The base metals were mixed on Tuesday. Copper rose and fell in small fits and starts yesterday, with the final move being to the downside as it finished at $1.702/lb., down 2¾ cents. /p
p class="maintextDRP"Nickel was in positive territory to start the New York day, but fell off sharply to mid-morning, after which it regained a little lost ground to close at $4.5185/lb., down just over a penny. Zinc ended modestly lower, at $0.5496/lb., down better than three-quarters of a cent. Aluminum had a modestly higher day, adding a third of a cent, to $0.6077/lb., while lead pushed higher, tacking on a penny and a third, to $0.6006/lb./p
pCopper eased off of the four-month high reached on Monday as investors decided to#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar Firms Against Euro</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p class="maintextDRP"In the currency market, the dollar rose slightly against the euro. Late Monday, the euro was trading at $1.2602 vs. $1.2641 on Friday. /p
pDespite unending grim economic numbers, the buck continues to benefit from the perception that among world currencies it may be the least sucky, and therefore constitutes a safe haven of sorts./p
pYesterday, the Conference Board added an exclamation point to Friday’s jobless numbers. Gad Levanon, senior economist at the Board, wrote that, “Over the past year, the Employment Trends Index has declined faster than at any other time in its 35-year history, with the most severe decreases taking place since the fall.”/p
pLevanon added that, “As job losses persist, the drop in overall earnings makes a rebound in consumer#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Buck Gains Against The Euro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pIn the currency market, the dollar gained against the euro. Late Friday, the euro was trading at $1.2668 vs. $1.2735 on Thursday. /p
p#8220;Today the dollar is once again emerging as the ultimate fantasy island survivor as more currency traders cast their votes against any remaining contenders,#8221; said Andrew Wilkinson, senior market analyst at Interactive Brokers Group in Greenwich, Conn./p
pWhile Mr. Wilkinson’s comment is true for now, there’s no telling how long this will last given the expansion of the monetary base we’ve seen recently./p
pNow, here’s some economic news from Friday… and you probably guessed, it’s bad./p
pThe nation#8217;s economic slide during the last three months of 2008 was even sharper than previously estimated, with the broadest gauge of economic activity suffering#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Concerns Boost Dollar as Investors Seek Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe dollar soared to a three-year high on Monday after a record loss for insurer AIG added to worries that the financial crisis is growing more severe and enhanced the U.S. currency#8217;s safe-haven appeal. /p
p Wall Street sustained heavy losses, extending a global stock market rout as the Dow opened below 7,000 for the first time since 1997, while the dollar hit its highest level against a basket of six major currencies since early 2006.br /
/p
p European Union leaders#8217; rejection of a mass bailout for Eastern Europe pushed the euro below $1.26, as did a survey showing euro zone manufacturers had their worst month in 12 years.br /
/p
p But the biggest blow came from American International Group  , which announced a $61.7 billion fourth-quarter loss,#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>SEC Charges Two With $554 Million Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Shepard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday February 26, 2009
Navivest
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged two money managers with misappropriating as much as $554 million out of $667 million that their clients invested with them, in an investment scheme.
According to the SEC, Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh promised their investors that their money would be invested in an enhanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Savings Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Musselwhite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Boyd
What to do with your hard earned savings now that the hard times are in? Invest or deposit it in a bank in the form of Certificate of Deposit otherwise known as CD? With the uncertainty high based on the severity of the financial meltdown, investing your money in business is a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar Kicks Euro</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[pIn the currency market, the dollar rose sharply against the euro. Late Tuesday, the euro was trading at $1.2622 vs. $1.2887 on Friday. /p
pThe buck continues to be the go-to currency around the world, and benefited yesterday from increasing worries about the euro, as Moody#8217;s warned that euro-zone banks are highly exposed to the financial turmoil unfolding in Eastern Europe./p
pAustria, Italy, France, Belgium and Germany were among the countries singled out by Moody’s as most likely to be affected./p
pWhereto for dollar/euro from here? “It is unlikely that the euro will make it through the week without printing below the October low at $1.2330 as investors collectively work out that, no matter how bad the U.S. economy looks, Europe is behind#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Dollar Marches Higher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Casey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p class="maintextDRP"In the currency market, the dollar rose against the euro. Late Wednesday, the euro was trading at $1.2846 vs. $1.3044 on Tuesday. /p
pThe dollar got a lift against the euro after credit-ratings agency Fitch Ratings downgraded Russia#8217;s long-term foreign and local currency ratings, or IDRs, to BBB from BBB+./p
pThe downgrade puts pressure on the euro because Russia will likely be forced to sell euros to rebalance its currency basket./p
p“The Russian debt-downgrading once again highlights the strains within the European financial system with weaker commodity prices playing no small part,” said Andrew Wilkinson, of Interactive Brokers Group in Greenwich, Conn./p
p“Russia as an important trading partner means that this downgrade cannot do one jot of good for the larger eurozone in the#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Federally Approved Stem Cell Therapy: Time to Look at Stem Cell Stocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Fuld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/SYksOvCIT5I/AAAAAAAAAoM/DrrO_JiQPJ8/s1600-h/stem_cells.jpg"img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 169px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/SYksOvCIT5I/AAAAAAAAAoM/DrrO_JiQPJ8/s200/stem_cells.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298815068233289618" //abr /Since President Obama has decided to repeal the limitations imposed on embryonic stem cell research, and since the first federally approved human study utilizing embryonic stem cell therapy is now taking place, investors are now looking at opportunities in stem cell stocks. Extensive research is being done to utilize stem cells for a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/gene-therapy-stocks.html"  target-"_blank"gene therapy/a and the treatment of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and many other medical conditions. br /br /A source of stem cells is a href="http://cordbloodstocks.com/" target-"_blank"cord blood/a, the blood from an umbilical cord. The saving and storing of cord blood has become a fast growing business. For example, Richard Branson, founder and head of Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways, set up a cord blood bank. Even a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/stem-cell-bonds-issued-by-california.html"  target-"_blank"Stem Cell Bonds/a were issued by the state of California last year. Also, the National Institute of Health has discovered that strong a href="http://stemcellsstocks.com/"  target-"_blank"stem cells/a can be found in baby teeth. br /br /Here are several stocks, which are pure plays or semi-pure plays in the stem cell business. br /br /Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) is a Connecticut based company with a $2.9 billion market cap that is involved in the development of biologic therapeutic products for the treatment of hematologic and cardiovascular disorders, auto-immune diseases, and cancer. The stock has a forward PE of 444.br /br /ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (ARIA) is a Massachusetts based company, with a $150 million market cap, that is involved in the development of treatments for cancer by using small molecules to regulate cell signaling. Their cancer products are used to treat solid tumors, sarcomas, hormone refractory prostate cancer, and endometrial cancer. The stock has generated negative earnings of $1.01 per share. It is a low cap stock and should be considered very speculative.br /br /Celera Group (CRA) is a company that was founded in 1937. It is involved in the research of new diagnostic markers, using proprietary genomics and proteomics discovery procedures and diagnostic products. Some of their products are used for the detection of HIV, hepatitis C, and cystic fibrosis. They are in collaboration with Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Genentech (DNA), and General Electric (GE). The stock has generated negative earnings.br /br /Cellgene (CELG) is a $24 billion market cap company involved in the discovery and production, of therapies designed to treat cancer and immune-inflammatory-related diseases. One of their main products is Thalomid, which is used for the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum, a complication of leprosy. They also received patent on placental stem cell recovery. The stock has recently generated negative earnings.br /br /Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (CYTX) is a $125 million market cap company that makes and markets regenerative medicine medical technologies. They have recently generated negative earnings. This is a low cap stock and should be considered very speculative. br /br /Dendreon Corporation (DNDN) This $358 million market cap company is involved in the discovery, development, and sales of active immunotherapies, monoclonal antibodies, and small molecule product candidates to treat cancer. They also manufacture the DACSÒSC stem cell enrichment device. The stock has had negative earnings.br /br /Geron (GERN) is a Menlo Park, California based $600 million market cap company which develops cell-based therapies derived from human embryonic stem cells used for the treatment of various diseases and medical conditions such as spinal cord damage, heart failure, and diabetes. They have the first federally approved human study utilizing embryonic stem cell therapy. The stock has had negative earnings.br /br /Integra Lifesciences Holdings (IART) is a New Jersey based $781 million market cap company that develops, manufactures, and sells medical devices, implants, biomaterials, and instruments to the stem cell, surgery, and soft tissue repair markets. Their P/E is 40, and the PEG is 1.01.br /br /Invitrogen Corporation (IVGN) is a California based $3.3 billion market cap company which sells products and services to research institutions, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies, including tools for gene acquisition, gene cloning, and gene analysis techniques. The stock has a P/E of 52.br /br /Neuralstem Inc. (CUR) is a $52 million market cap company that develops and markets human neural stem cell technology. They have recently generated negative earnings. This is an extremely low cap stock and should be considered extremely speculative. br /br /Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (OSIR) is a $660 million market cap company, which markets stem cell products from adult bone marrow. They have recently generated negative earnings.br /br /StemCells Inc. (STEM) is a $195 market cap company involved in the development, and marketing of cell-based therapeutics to treat liver diseases and diseases of the central nervous system. They have recently generated negative earnings. This is a low cap stock and should be considered very speculative. br /br /Also, check out a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/gene-therapy-stocks.html"gene therapy stocks/a and a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/richard-branson-investing-in-cord-blood.html"cord blood stocks/abr /br /emAuthor does not own any of the above./embr /br /By Fred Fuld at a href="http://Stockerblog.com"Stockerblog.com/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"div class='adsense' style='text-align:center; padding: 0px 3px 0.5em 3px;'
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		<title>Aspire Misery Index for the Week Ended January 16, 2009 &#8211; Updated through January 16</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aspire Misery Index for the Week Ended January 16, 2009


As of Friday morning, January 16, here is what we have accumulated for our Misery Index: 


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; US. Auto Industry ndash; Ford expects U.S. light vehicles to reach 12.2 million units this year, Chrysler expects sales to reach 11 million and GM projects 10 to 11 million - down from 16 million in 2007 and 13.2 million last year. Wachovia expects 10.3 million unit sales. CSM worldwide expects 2009 sales in the U.S. to hit 11.5 million (but then rebound to 13.6 million in 2010). Deutsche Bank projects 2009 sales in the U.S. to decline by 13% to 11.5 million units. J.D. Power amp; Associates projects sales in the U.S. to decline to 11.4 million units in 2009, and then grow to 13.4 million in 2010, and 14.7 million units by 2011.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Global Auto Industry ndash; French-Romanian manufacturer Dacia announced a temporary closure of a Romanian plant; Hyundai cutting domestic output between 25% to 30%. CSM Worldwide is forecasting 2008 global sales to fall about 8% to 56.8 million (but a rise in 2010 sales of nearly 7% to 60.8 million units). PSA Peugeot Citroen said its sales declined by 4.9% in 2008. South Korearsquo;s Ssangyong Motor has halted production, after filing for bankruptcy last week. Nissan is cutting domestic production by 64,000 vehicles in February and March. European car sales have hit a 15-year low, according to the ACEA, with demand in the region down 7.3%. Sales in the region in December were down 18% Y/Y. Honda is halting production at its British plant for 20 days in April and 15 days in May to reduce production by 17,000 units and it is cutting production in Japan by an additional 56,000 units.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Global Technology ndash; Forrester Research anticipates spending to decline by 3% this year, which would mark the first decline since 2002, but it expects spending to recover to as much as 9% growth by 2010.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; PC Shipments ndash; Global shipments of PCs posed their first quarterly decline in six years, during the last quarter of 2008, by 0.4% Y/Y. In the U.S. shipments of PCs fell by 3.5%.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Global Handset Marketnbsp; - Sony Ericcson revised its estimate to 1.19 billion units, or 6% growth, down from previous estimates of 10% growth.nbsp; 

middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Retail ndash; The Commerce Department reported that retail sales fell 2.7% in December, following a 2.1% decline in November. Ex-autos, the number came in at a decline of 3.1%.nbsp; Expectations were for a 1.2% decline in December. Excluding auto sales, expectations were for a decline of 1.3%. Chain-store sales fell 2.3% for the week ended January 10. December chain-store sales fell 2% Y/Y, and excluding Wal-Mart, comparable store sales declined 4.6% Y/Y marking the largest downturn since 1970.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Airline Industry ndash; Airbus expects orders to dip below deliveries for the first time in six years. Airline traffic fell 7.1% in October. SkyWest said December traffic fell by 3.3% Y/Y.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Beer ndash; reports from brewers are indicating that the beer industry is not immune from current economic conditions either. SABMiller is reporting shipments fell unexpectedly in Q3; Carlsberg A/S said it is cutting 274 jobs to save on costs;nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Inventories ndash; The Commerce Department said businesses cut inventories by 0.7% in November. Expectations were for a 0.5% decline. This is the third straight month of reductions in inventories.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The housing market continues to reel. Reports this morning are that more than 2.3 million American homeowners faced foreclosure last year, an 81% increase from 2007. 860,000 properties were actually repossessed by lenders and Moodyrsquo;s Economy.com is projecting that the number of homes lost to foreclosure will rise by another 18% this year. RealtyTrac said Hawaiirsquo;s foreclosures tripled in December, compared to the same period last year; 

middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Hustlerrsquo;s Larry Flynt reported hat adult DVD sales have decreased 22% in 2008 over the prior year.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Ratings Revisions ndash; Moodyrsquo;s revises Harscorsquo;s outlook to negative; Moodyrsquo;s revised Synovus outlook to negative; Samp;P downgraded Visteon to CCC status from B- with a negative outlook; Samp;P reduced Hayes Lemmerz maintaining outlook to negative; Fitch downgraded Tronox ratings; Moodyrsquo;s cut Harscorsquo;s outlook to negative; Samp;P cut auto parts supplier BorgWarnerrsquo;s ratings; DCP Midstream outlook downgraded to negative by Samp;P, Moodyrsquo;s downgraded Texas Industries; Samp;P cut ratings on Merisant; Moodyrsquo;s said the fundamental credit outlook for the United Arab Emiratesrsquo; banking sector is negative; Samp;P lowered Greece republic; Moodyrsquo;s downgraded American Greetings; Delta Petroleum rating downgraded by Moodyrsquo;s; Moodyrsquo;s downgraded Quiksilver; Samp;P lowered ratings on Spansion; 

middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Profit warnings ndash; Vertex, Hologic, Kendle, Aetna, Kennametal, Aetna, Celgene, KLA Tencor, Health Management, Prestige, Liz Clairborne, Cepheid, Lexmark, Prestige Brands, Old National, Nvidia, Genesco, Visteon, Kenneth Cole,nbsp; F.N.B.., Marathon, Beazer, Deutsche Bank AG, Ametek, P.F. Changs, Kenneth Cole, Bunge, VF, California Pizza Kitchen, Cardiac Science, Trimble, Sanyo, Plantronics, Intel, Cynosure, RC2, Caliper, Autodesknbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Job cuts ndash; Waterford (367 jobs), Courier (72 jobs), Kennametal (1,200 jobs), Westchester Medical Center (400 jobs), Cessna (2,000 jobs), Seagate (10% of its U.S. workforce, or 800 jobs), Cost Plus (18% of its staff), BRE Properties (33 jobs), Mosaic (1,000 jobs in Canada), Cummins (800 jobs and freezing salaries), PGT Inc. (10% of workforce), Pfizer (800 jobs), Hutchinson Technology (275 jobs), ING Group (750 jobs), Digicel (10% of workforce), Harrahrsquo;s Cherokee Casinos (100 jobs), FormFactor (22% of workforce or about 200 jobs); Nieman Marcus (about 375 jobs), Sonus Networks (4% of its workforce, or 40 jobs), Oracle (500 jobs), Reebok (more than 300 workers), Cardiac Science (12% of workforce, or 66 jobs), Barnes amp; Noble (100 jobs); Motorola (another 4,000 jobs), Ecolab (1,000 jobs), Google (100 jobs), MeadWestvaco (10% of its workforce, or 2,000 jobs), Sanyo (1,200 jobs), Plantronics (18% of workforce), Standard Micro (5% to 10% of workforce), Vulcan (50 jobs), Saks (1,100 jobs), AAA (200 jobs), Cynosure (17% of workforce), Random House (confirmed it is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs), the Boston Globe (up to 50 newsroom jobs),nbsp; Marshall amp; Illsley (830 jobs), Autodesk (750 jobs), Blue Cross Blue Shield (up to 1,000 jobs), Roche (780 jobs),nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Employers announced almost 40,000 jobs cuts on Friday alone!nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The Labor Market was expected to report unemployment claims were 500,000 last week. Instead, jobless claims rose 54,000 to 524,000. The one positive note is that continuing claims declined to 4.5 million from an upwardly revised number of 4.6 million the prior week.

middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Chapter 11 ndash; Tronox, Tarrogon Corp., Apex Silver (planned); Nortel, Gottschalks, Goodyrsquo;s, Black Angus,nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; BankruptcyData.com reported that bankruptcy filings amongst publicly traded companies increased by 74% in 2008 (136 filings). The record was set in 2001 with 263 filings.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Corporate Defaults ndash; Moodyrsquo;s Investors Service said the rate of defaults by corporate borrowers around the world more than quadrupled last year to 4%. The default rate is expected to rise to about 15.1% by the end of this year.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Closing shop ndash; Cost Plus is closing 26 stores and exiting eight media markets; Sunoco is closing its Texas manufacturing plant; AAA is closing 34 offices in 7 states; Circuit City is closing remaining 567 U.S. stores;nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; States running on empty ndash; Texas comptroller announced it expects a $9 billion drop in revenue for the next 2-year state budget; Iowa estimates a budget gap that could top $600 million; Minnesotarsquo;s State Budget Trends Commission said budget problems are long-term, and the state faces a $4.85 billion deficit for the coming 2-year budget; Florida is pulling from its last-resort reserves to help fill its $2.3 billion budget deficit;nbsp; Ohiorsquo;s unemployment compensation fund is out of money, and the state plans on borrowing $500 million to pay benefits in January and February; Kansas is projecting a $186 million budget deficit but estimates are that the deficit could grow to more than $1 billion by 2010; New Mexico is facing a $450 million deficit; Idahorsquo;s governor has proposed cutting $75.8 million from its public education funding to help cut its fiscal 2010 budget; Alabamarsquo;s Legislative Fiscal Office said its public schools and colleges face $1 billion in budget cuts this year and next as the state grapples with its budget shortfalls; Arizona faces a $1.6 billion shortfall in its current budget; Marylandrsquo;s governor announced that state employee layoffs are in the state budget to be submitted next week; Connecticut is working on a plan to trim its $1 billion deficit; California is running with a $41.6 billion deficit;nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The federal government has run the deficit up to a record $485.2 billion in the first three months of the current budget year. The deficit for December was $83.6 billion, contrasted with a surplus of $48.3 billion in December, 2007. The deficit for the entire 2008 year was $454.8 billion. Dan Weiss of Samp;P expects that this yearrsquo;s deficit will hit $1.6 trillion and will remain above $1 trillion next year as well.nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; And the House Democrats are stepping up the pace announcing a stimulus bill on Thursday that would amount to $825 billion in federal spending and tax cuts. 

middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President, Dennis Lockhart: ldquo;Looking ahead, the economy is very weak, and I expect it will remain weak at least through the first quarter in late April.rdquo;nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Hedge Fund Research reported that almost 700 funds, or 7% of the industry, shut down in the first three quarters of 2008 with the average hedge fund losing 18% of its value (better than the DJIA which lost 34% and the Samp;P 500 which lost 38%).nbsp;nbsp;


middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; The UN predicts zero world growth in 2009. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
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		<title>Global Investment News Roundup Wednesday, January 14th, 2009</title>
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liSources       close to the matter told strongemBloomberg News/em/strong that President-elect       Barack Obama may name a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087#38;sid=akNfaSX7TX8o#38;refer=home"Steven       Rattner as “car czar,”/a a top-level position that would oversee the       conditions of which bailout money is given to U.S. auto companies, strongemBloomberg /em/strongreported. Rattner co-founded private-equity firm strongQuadrangle       Group LLC/strong in 2000./li
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listronga href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=LON%3ABARC"Barclays plc/a /strongis       planning to a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE50C56V20090113"cut more       than 2,100 jobs/a from its investment banking and investment management       units, sources told strongemReuters/em/strong. About 1,300 jobs would be lost from Barclays Capital. About 500 from Barclays Wealth. And about 370#8230;/li/ul]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[pstrongResearch in Motion Ltd./strong (Nasdaq:a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob#38;q=NASDAQ:RIMM"RIMM/a) is a compelling buy right now, says strongHoracio Marquez/strong. The company dominates the corporate market with its Blackberry phone and has a #8220;bulletproof#8221; balance sheet. Horacio says the correction in RIMM#8217;s share price should have run its course by now, meaning a big opportunity for profits in the coming year./p
pThis from a href="http://www.moneymorning.com"  class="alinks_links"Money Morning/a:/p
blockquotepstrongResearch in Motion Ltd./strong (Nasdaq:a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob#38;q=NASDAQ:RIMM"RIMM/a)  - maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry - is likely to consolidate and increase  its market share./p
pAlmost all of our #8220;Buy, Sell or Hold#8221; recommended stocks started out on the right foot here in the New Year.  And our strategy of building up a position emgradually/em up to year-end - to avoid the downward pressure of tax-loss selling, and other volatility -#8230;/p/blockquote]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Backers &#124; A List of Capital Sources for Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard C. Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[h1 style="text-align: center;"bHedge Fund Backersbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"Hedge Fund Backers &#124; span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"Capital Raising/span/spanbr //b/h2span style="font-weight: bold;"br /span style="font-weight: bold;"As part of our /span/spana alt="Hedge Fund Blogger.com: Hedge Fund Startup Tools &#124; 1 Page Guide for Startups" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-startup-tools-1-page-guide.html" title="Hedge Fund Startup Tools &#124; 1 Page Guide for Startups"Hedge Fund Startup Guide/a please see our list of hedge fund backers below:span style="font-weight: bold;"span style="font-weight: bold;"/spanbr /br /br /Affiliated Managers Group/spanbr /Bostonbr /Brett Perrymanbr /Public company has taken equity stakes in four hedge fund shops: AQR Capital,br /Blue Mountain, First Quadrant and Value Act.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Asset Alliance/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Bruce Lipnickbr /Twice has backed off plans to sell stock to the public, most recently in August andbr /in 1998. Offers operational and marketing support in exchange for 50% ownershipbr /of management companies.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"BRI Partners/spanbr /Chicagobr /Adam Brassbr /Provides investment capital in exchange for marketing and operational support.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Boxtree Capital/span span style="font-weight: bold;"Rumson/spanbr /N.J.br /Robert Picardbr /732-939-9000br /Founded earlier this year by former Optima Fund Management chief investmentbr /officer Robert Picard, the firm has not yet made any acquisitions. Hopes to buybr /minority interests in funds of funds and hedge funds.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Capital Z Asset Management/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Jim Marronebr /212-965-0800br /Has backed 17 hedge funds, including John Burbank’s Passport Management.br /Takes meaningful minority stakes as an anchor investor in startups. In January,br /announced management buyout of hedge fund-sponsorship business from parentbr /Capital Z, in partnership with private equity shop Paine amp; Partners.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Citadel Investment/spanbr /Chicagobr /Bryan Lockebr /Has seeded three funds via its Citadel Discovery vehicle, which is run within itsbr /Citadel Alternative Asset Management unit. The vehicle invests only its parent’sbr /capital.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Financial Risk Management/spanbr /Londonbr /Patric de Gentile-Williamsbr /Big fund-of-funds operation run by Blaine Tomlinson launched a hedge-fundbackingbr /vehicle in January via a new unit, FRM Capital Advisors. Focuses on earlystagebr /and startup managers. Offers operational and infrastructure support,br /including risk-management, compliance and technology services. In exchange, itbr /shares in management and performance fee revenues.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Focus Investment/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Andrew Godfreybr /Provides seed capital to startups and is a strategic investor in more-establishedbr /managers. In exchange, it usually shares revenues.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Fortune Group/spanbr /Londonbr /Simon Hopkinsbr /Has seeded more than 20 firms over the past decade. Terms vary, but standardbr /model includes share of revenue in exchange for $25 million to $50 millionbr /investment.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Goldman Sachs/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Jonathan Sorrellbr /In the fall of 2007, word got out that Goldman had set up a private equity fund tobr /take stakes in hedge fund managers. At that time, it purchased 10% of Londonbasedbr /commodities manager Winton Capital.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hardt Group/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Jeff Landlebr /Backs more than two dozen operations, usually sharing revenues, but also takingbr /equity stakes in some cases. Since 2004, has invested north of $200 million inbr /seed-capital arrangements.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Investcorp/spanbr /Bahrainbr /Hank Murphybr /Has financed eight hedge fund companies, including two deals slated to bebr /announced in the next month or two. New York unit typically provides $75 millionbr /of seed capital, as well as operational and marketing support. In exchange, itbr /shares revenues. Its affiliate managers, including Minneapolis-based Interlaken,br /have $2 billion of seed and client capital.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"J.P. Morgan Incubator Strategies/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Simon Lackbr /212-648-2593br /Expects to do a couple of deals per year, but no more than that because thebr /treacherous market makes it too difficult to evaluate hedge funds.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Jefferies Group/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Tom Witzbr /Still wants to seed hedge funds and offer operational support despite cutbacks inbr /the amount of capital parent is willing to provide.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Larch Lane Advisors/spanbr /Purchase, N.Y.br /Marc Jurishbr /Established in 1993 by Marc Jurish and became an affiliate of Old Mutual Assetbr /Management in 2005. In June, entered into a joint venture with the now-embattledbr /AIG Investments to provide seed capital between $50 million to $200 million perbr /deal.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Liberty Ermitage/spanbr /Londonbr /Jonathan Wautonbr /Still amenable to seeding deals, but it’s temporarily out of the game until it raisesbr /capital for a new vehicle. The life of an earlier vehicle recently ran its course.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Man Group (RMF):/spanbr /span style="font-weight: bold;"Hedge Fund Ventures/spanbr /Londonbr /Hans Hurschlerbr /Has backed 32 operations over the years in exchange for revenue or equity stakes.br /Terms have changed, however, with the November launch of its RMF Globalbr /Emerging Managers fund, which has backed eight management companies thisbr /year. Fund enters only revenue-sharing arrangements. One fund it has seeded isbr /Bill Seibold’s Noroton Capital.br /Man Group:br /Man Global Strategiesbr /Londonbr /Alex Lowebr /The Man unit uses parent’s proprietary capital to invest in early-stage managers.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"MD Sass-Macquarie Financial Strategies/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Steve Shenfeldbr /Has backed nine companies and expects to add a couple more to its roster bybr /yearend. Set up as private equity vehicle, investor money is locked up until 2014,br /with the possibility of extending to 2017.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Millennium Management/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Adin Kahnbr /Allocates capital in a flexible manner to satisfy unique business and investmentbr /relationships.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Ospraie Wingspan/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Eric Vincentbr /Since its start in 2005, has allocated capital to eight independent managers ofbr /commodities funds. Ospraie also offers marketing and operational support.br /Wingspan is a unit of Lehman-backed Ospraie Management, which is liquidatingbr /its flagship commodities vehicle due to losses.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Reservoir Capital/spanbr /New Yorkbr /Dana Craverbr /Has ownership stakes in 10 managers. Founded by Dan Stern and Craig Huff,br /former partners at Ziff Brothers Investment. Reservoir was an early backer of suchbr /big names as HBK Investments, Och-Ziff and Ellington Management.br /br /Skybridge Capitalbr /New Yorkbr /Anthony Scaramuccibr /Has seeded nine hedge funds. Skybridge formed a joint venture with Challengerbr /Financial of Australia to mine for talented fund mangers down under, as well as tobr /market current funds to investors. Computer tycoon Michael Dell is a big investorbr /in one of its funds.br /br /Triple A Partnersbr /Santa Monica, Calif.br /Hans Tidemanbr /Has so far seeded three Asia funds, its specialty. Provides working and seedbr /capital along with operational and marketing support.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Weston Capital Management/spanbr /Westport, Conn.br /Chris Kelleybr /Shares revenues with nine managers in exchange for a combined $1.5 billion ofbr /trading capital. Doesn’t supply working capital and doesn’t take equity stakes.br /Affiliated funds include White Oak, Agamas Capital and Frontfour.br /br /h4Related to  Hedge Fund Backers &#124; A List of Capital Sources for Hedge Funds:/h4ullia title="Hedge Fund Terms" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-terms.html" description="Hedge Fund Terms, Hedge Fund Definition, Define a Hedge Fund, Hedge Funds Definition, Hedge Fund Definitions" alt="Hedge Fund Terms"Hedge Fund Terms and Definitions/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool, Hedge Fund Press Release, Hedge Fund Press Releases, Hedge Fund Tools, Hedge Fund News" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia alt="Financial Certification, Financial Management Certification, Financial Markets Certification" title="Financial Certification" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/financial-certification.html"Financial Certification/a/lilia alt="Hedge Fund Forum, Hedge Fund Forum Greenwich, Hedge Fund Manager Forum" title="Hedge Fund Forum" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-forum.html"Hedge Fund Forum/a/li/ulTags: Hedge Fund Backers, Hedge Fund Capital Providers, Hedge Fund Capital, Sources of Capital for Hedge Fund Managers, Institutional Hedge Fund Capitaldiv class="feedflare"
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		<title>Basketball Stocks: and Why a Warren Buffett Company is Included</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/SVXq_Wn9ZRI/AAAAAAAAAms/2Hy4p_jyDYw/s1600-h/Basketball.png"img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/SVXq_Wn9ZRI/AAAAAAAAAms/2Hy4p_jyDYw/s320/Basketball.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284388111914984722" //abr /At last night's Lakers versus the Celtics basketball game, tickets supposedly went for $20,000 each from the scalpers. Basketball, in addition to being a great aerobic sport for participants, a great spectator sport for fans, and is big business. The following companies are involved the sport of basketball in some way, some just a small portion of their business.br /br /Cablevision Systems Corp. (CVC) Their Madison Square Garden division owns and operates the New York Knickerbockers basketball team; they also own the Madison Square Garden Arena, the New York Rangers hockey team, the New York Liberty women's basketball team, and the Hartford Wolf Pack hockey team. The stock has a PE of 45, a PEG of 5.62, and a yield of 2.7%. br /br /Comcast (CMCSA) The company owns Comcast-Spectacor, which owns the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association, along with the the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, and the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League. The stock has a PE of 17, a PEG of 1.49, and a yield of 1.6%. br /br /Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS) markets basketballs and basketball equipment and apparel, along with all other types of sports equipment and sportswear. The stock has a PE of 11, and a PEG of 0.66. br /br /Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) Warren Buffet's company owns Russell Corporation, which owns Spalding, a leading producer of basketballs, and has been the official ball supplier to the NBA since 1983.  The stock has a PE of 18. br /br /Amer Sports Oyj (AGPDY.PK)  the largest manufacturer of sporting equipment in the world, owns the Wilson Sporting Goods Company,  manufacturer of the official ball of all NCAA postseason tournaments. br /br /Nike (NKE) produces balls for ULEB, including the Euroleague and is used in the NCAA and UAAP in the Philippines. The stock has a PE of 13, a PEG of 1.01, and a yield of 2%. br /br /United States Basketball League Inc. (USBL.OB)   is a Connecticut company that manages and franchises a professional basketball league in the United States. This is a very low market cap stock and should therefore be considered very speculative.br /br /American Basketball Association, Inc. (ABKB.PK)   operates a professional basketball league in the United States, along with selling league-related merchandise and products. This is a very low market cap stock and should therefore be considered very speculative.br /br /If you like sports stocks, you should also check out a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-invest-in-soccer-stocks.html"Soccer/a, a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/racecar-motorsports-stocks-worth-doing.html"Racecar Motorsports/a, a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/taking-swing-at-golf-stocks.html"Golf/a, a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/hockey-stocks-in-summer.html"Hockey/a, and a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/take-swing-at-tennis-stocks-and-why.html"Tennis/a.br /br /span style="font-style:italic;"Author has owned USBL.OB for a long time. No recommendation expressed or implied./spanbr /br /By a href="http://Stockerblog.com"Stockerblog.com/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"div class='adsense' style='text-align:center; padding: 0px 3px 0.5em 3px;'
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		<title>No Sale: Courtney Avoids Urge To Dump Stocks In 2008</title>
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Instead of unloading small-cap and value stocks, portfolio manager is sticking to his guns. But he's shifting into TIPS and away from Treasuries. 
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Tim Courtney admits that financial markets do tend to break down from time to time. 
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A prime example, says the Oklahoma City, Okla.-based portfolio manager, is what's going on today in markets across the globe. 
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"But markets have proven to be efficient enough over the longer-term to dissuade us from trying to time a recovery or squeeze any possible excess losses by using individual stocks," said the chief investment officer for Burns Advisory Group, which is headquartered in Oklahoma but has offices in California and Connecticut as well. 
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Courtney used to work with large institutional investors at Fidelity Investments on developing retirement plans and asset allocation requirements. He joined John Burns, who started the business and serves as its chief executive, in 1997. 
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These days, Courtney is a dedicate portfolio developer for the company's advisors across the country. He doesn't engage in individual stock analysts, but instead relies on the techniques and strategies of managers at Dimensional Fund Advisors. He also likes to sprinkle Vanguard Group index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds into allocations for high net worth and institutional client portfolios. 
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<strong>Preserving Capital Is Key</strong> 
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As the year comes to an end, he's making sure money set aside in more conservative investments remain fully funded according to long-term allocation requirements. 
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"A lot of people are really focused on yields so they've got enough interest to live on," said Courtney. "But we don't really look at just interest and yields. We're more focused on total returns and overall growth in a portfolio." 
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Rather than rebalancing back to a static stock-to-bond allocation, he prefers to take profits from stock positions when markets are doing well and use those proceeds to shore-up bond positions. "We don't rebalance back to static allocations. Our ultimate concern is that we don't have to sell stocks when they're way down, like what we're going through now," said Courtney. 
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Investors who came to the firm a year ago and set up portfolios primarily leaning towards stocks would've seen their fixed-income positions being sold in 2008. "We didn't sell any stock positions this year," said Courtney. "And the reason we didn't is because we set aside enough in our clients' income reserves (through bonds) so we would not need to sell stocks at the wrong time." 
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He doesn't believe in rebalancing by calendar dates. "We prefer to rebalance based on asset cycles," said Courtney. "We want to make sure that there's enough set aside in a client's income reserves to meet their needs. The fastest way to deplete those reserves over time is by selling stocks at the wrong time." 
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As a result, portfolio weightings between stocks and bonds can be dynamic. "We don't really see huge swings from year-to-year," said Courtney. "And in most years, we don't even come close to using up someone's income reserves." 
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During the bear market of 2000-2002, he didn't sell stocks. "We lived off the income of bonds. And if that wasn't enough, we sold shares of the bond funds as a last resort," said Courtney. "There were areas of the market that were doing well, such as real estate, where we were also able to take profits to live on." 
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The same situation has taken place this year. Courtney has been selling shares of the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund (VBMFX), the DFA Five-Year Government Fund (DFFGX) and the DFA Five-Year Global Fixed-Income Fund (DFGBX). "We've basically been selling anything with a lot of exposure to Treasuries, since those have been doing well this year," said Courtney. "But we're not dumping them wholesale. We're selling pieces of those positions to preserve income for our clients." 
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The proceeds gained from trimming those bond positions are going into the DFA Inflation-Protected Securities Fund (DIPSX). "With nominal Treasuries offering roughly 0% Interest, we feel like TIPS offer a better investment opportunity going forward. And with the amount of money being created right now to deal with the economic problems we're going through, once the economic cycle rebounds, we'd rather hold TIPS than nominal Treasuries," said Courtney. 
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<strong>Positioning For A Stock Market Recovery</strong> 
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He's also putting some money into the Vanguard Short-Term Investment Grade Fund (VFSTX). "It has government and corporate bonds," said Courtney. "At some point, when the market begins to recover, people are going to start coming out of Treasury bonds. We like this fund as a means to keep our government bond positions as short-term as possible to negate the impact of any eventual reversal in cycles." 
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And corporate bonds in a short-term fixed-income portfolio helps to boost overall yields for a portfolio, he added. 
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With stocks, typically smaller companies and stocks oriented more towards value segments of the market lead the way, notes Courtney. "All stocks look pretty cheap right now," he said. "But since we're positioning our portfolios for a time when market cycles change and stocks rebound, our portfolios are sticking with funds investing in traditional value companies which are more economically sensitive." 
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He likes right now the DFA U.S. Small Cap Value Fund (DFSVX). It had lost more than 40% so far this year entering Tuesday. "It has taken a bigger hit this year than a lot of small-cap value funds. But that's one of the reasons why we like it," said Courtney. 
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Over longer periods of time, it has outperformed. "And it has done that by really targeting the smallest and most value-oriented companies in the market - even more so than a fund tracking the Russell 2000 Value Index," said Courtney. "We saw the same thing in 2000-2002. DFSVX fell more during that recession, but it outperformed by nearly 50% once the market cycle reversed and stocks rebounded." 
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Smaller companies have more difficulties raising money these days as the global credit crunch continues, he says. "When you start to see borrowing costs go down, which is starting to happen right now, these smaller companies will start to benefit," said Courtney. "Those smaller companies are on the front lines of any recovery that's bound to take place." 
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He also believes international markets will show the same patterns at some point. As such, Burns Advisory Group's client portfolios are investing in the DFA International Vector Equity Fund (DFVQX). 
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"We're keeping a neutral weighting in large companies, simply because we want to be ready for a recovery and position our portfolios to be slightly overweight in small-cap stocks," said Courtney. 
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For large-caps, he's using DFA U.S. Large Cap Value Fund (DFLVX) and the DFA U.S. Large Company Fund (DFLCX). Courtney also likes to keep some exposure to mid-caps through the Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (NYSE: VOE). 
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As further diversification tools, he also maintains positions in the DFA Global Real Estate Securities Fund (DFGEX). "It has roughly half of its securities in the U.S. and the other half invested in international markets," said Courtney. "We feel that overseas REITs is a burgeoning new market. More companies are starting to accept the REIT structure as we've seen in the U.S. for years." 
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		<title>Oil Falls as Record OPEC Cut Seen Too Little</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[pOPEC cuts 2.2 million bpd of crude output#8230; Dealers say record cut not enough to offset demand slide /p
p Oil prices dropped 3 percent on Wednesday after OPEC announced a record supply cut that dealers said may fail to offset slumping world energy demand. /p
p U.S. crude oil prices  fell $1.40 to $42.20 a barrel by 1:35 p.m. EST (1835 GMT), after dipping to a more than four year low of $40.20 earlier in the trading session. London Brent  rose 66 cents to $47.31 per barrel. /p
p Oil prices have fallen more than $100 since July as a global financial crisis cuts into consumer and industrial fuel demand, and top forecasters are now predicting the first decline in world energy use since 1983.#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>AET Reaffirms Guidance &#8211; Zacks Tale of the Tape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b><br />Aetna Inc.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/AET">AET</a>) shares advanced more than 9% after the healthcare benefits company reaffirmed its 2008 earnings estimates of $3.90 to $3.95 per share, excluding items. 
<p>The company still projects 2009 earnings growth between 3% and 5%. </p>
<p>Analysts expect the company to earn a profit of $3.94 in the current year. For next year, analysts forecast earnings of $4.10. </p>
<p>The Hartford, Conn. insurer said that it will release further information regarding its balance sheet and capital position on Tuesday. </p>
<p>Aetna is a Zacks #4 Rank ("Sell") company.</p>
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		<title>U.S. Companies “Throw in the Towel” – Pushing Jobless Claims to a 26-Year High</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[pThe number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits rocketed to a 26-year high last week, surpassing already gloomy forecasts, as the U.S. economy sinks deeper into recession./p
pInitial applications for jobless benefits climbed by 58,000 to 573,000 in the week ended Dec. 6, upwardly revised from 515,000 the previous week, the U.S. Labor Department reported yesterday (Thursday).  The figure a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068#38;sid=a9UY0zatFlPs#38;refer=home" target="_blank"strongwas  the highest since 1982/strong/a, and far exceeded  the  median projection of 525,000 put forth by 39  economists surveyed by strongemBloomberg News/em/strong./p
pThe increase was due, in part, to a bounce from the week before, which was shorter because it included the Thanksgiving holiday. Government offices were open only four days that week./p
pNevertheless, the four-week average, which smooths out fluctuations, stood#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Bailout Could Have Strings Attached: Ousting CEOs, Appointing Car Czar</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[pAs the Senate meets today (Monday) to discuss what to do with the eviscerated U.S. auto industry, some strong words from one of the Senate’s most powerful member suggested a much-debated bailout could come with some strings attached for top executives. /p
p“It is not my job to hire and fire, but what I’m trying to suggest is that you need to have new teams in place,” Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said today on “Good Morning America”.  “If you are going to restructure a company you can’t be asking the people frankly, many who were involved in creating the problems we’re in, to be involved in restructuring.”/p
pThat’s just one of several possible strings attached to#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>HIG Surges on Raised Forecast &#8211; Zacks Tale of the Tape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b><br />Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.</b> (<a href="http://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/HIG">HIG</a>) shares surged almost 100% after the insurance and financial services company boosted its 2008 earnings forecast. 
<p>Earlier, the insurer had slashed its forecast for this year at least twice. Hartford said that its operating businesses are performing well despite a gloomy economic environment. </p>
<p>The Connecticut-based company now expects earnings between $4.70 and $4.90 a share, excluding a few investment results. In October, the company was looking for a profit in the range of $4.30 to $4.50. </p>
<p>Hartford's new earnings outlook for 2008 is nearly half of what it had estimated in December of the previous year. Analysts expect the company to earn $4.46 a share. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[pRetail experts are predicting one of the most dismal holiday  shopping  seasons in decades this year – a crucial stretch that will set the  stage for poor retail sales throughout 2009./p
pAs the U.S. economy decelerates, pummeled by the aftershocks of the worldwide financial crisis, consumers have been hit from every direction: Unemployment has spiked, and will continue to rise, economy unwinds and continues to work through the aftershocks of the global credit crisis, consumers have been beset on all sides. Unemployment is up, home prices are down, and credit is hard to come by./p
pAnd although inflation is beginning to moderate somewhat –  slowing to a pace of a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm" target="_blank"3.7%  year-over-year in October/a – it’s still well above the U.S. Federal  Reserve’s desired#8230;/p]]></description>
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		<title>The Spectacular Rise And Fall Of Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Ash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[p align="left"How the might have fallen. Once dominant hedge funds have been in a spectacular freefall since their complex world of finance imploded this year. strongAdrian Ash/strong charts the rise and fall of these giants in Whiskey #38; Gunpowder:/p
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p align="left"Alpha used to be what hedge-fund managers promised their clients./p
p align="left"Better still, portable alpha — defined in the easy bed-time reading of finance MBAs as the em“generation of excess return over a benchmark while maintaining the desired asset allocation to traditional market exposures”/em — offered to meet and beat whatever returns everyone else was making, thus proving the manager’s genius and justifying his infamous fees./p
p align="left"~~~~~~~~~~~~~Special~~~~~~~~~~~~~/p
p align="left"strongGet Gold Cheap… Before It Takes Off Again/strong/p
p align="left"Gold is giving you another chance to get in for the inevitable ride up at#8230;/p/blockquote]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge Fund Industry Pulse Check</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard C. Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h1><b>Industry Pulse</b></h1><h2><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="rgb(102, 0, 0);">Hedge Fund Industry Pulse Check<br /></span></b></h2><br /><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/images/ency/fullsize/9800.jpg"><img style="154px;" src="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/images/ency/fullsize/9800.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) I was on the phone yesterday with a hedge fund investor who said he simply could not keep up with all of the news coming out on hedge funds without spending his whole work day tracking it. He wanted to know what to receive a series of updates within a single post.<br /><br />Here is a collection of quotes on the current state of the hedge fund industry:<br /><br />- Hedge-fund manager David Tepper entered the third quarter with $3.1 billion of U.S. stocks and exited with $648 million, selling most holdings to reduce risk and raise cash as carnage spread across the financial markets. “We moved a lot out early because we didn’t want to lose money,” said Tepper, 51, president of Appaloosa Management LP in Chatham, New Jersey. The firm, which switched some money to bonds, has between 30 percent and 40 percent of assets in cash.<br /><br />- Regulatory filings last week by 38 hedge funds with more than $1 billion in assets each show that selling and market declines cut the value of their reported holdings by about 30 percent to $273 billion.<br /><br />- At least 75 funds have liquidated or halted <a title="Hedge Fund Redemption Date" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/hedge-fund-redemption-day-september.html">redemptions</a> this year. With the Nov. 15 deadline for year-end withdrawal requests now past, fund managers may be forced to unload more stocks to pay off clients.<br /><br />- <a title="Atticus Capital" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/atticus-capital.html">Atticus Capital LP</a>, based in New York, said its holdings declined to $510 million from $8.1 billion. In an Oct. 1 letter to investors, David Slager, 36, who manages the Atticus European Fund, told investors that more than 50 percent of his fund was in cash or U.S. Treasuries after he lost 43.5 percent year-to-date.<br /><br />- At <a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/tudor-capital-paul-tudor-jones-hedge.html" title="Tudor Capital &#124; Paul Tudor Jones &#124; Hedge Fund Notes">Tudor Investment Corp.</a>, the Greenwich, <a title="Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/connecticut-hedge-fund-guide.html">Connecticut</a>, hedge-fund group founded by Paul Tudor Jones, 13F holdings fell to $453 million from $5.7 billion. Jones said markets face more selling from managers. “Our concern now is less over year-end fund redemptions, as record cash balances have already been raised in anticipation, but with prospective fund closures,” Jones, 54, said in an Oct. 31 report to his clients. “This latter event represents a tipping point at which a fund’s call on the market for liquidity goes non-linear.”<br /><br />- <span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/sac-capital-steven-cohen-hedge-fund.html">SAC Capital Advisors, LLC</a> of Stamford, <a title="Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/connecticut-hedge-fund-guide.html">Connecticut</a>, said its holdings were $7.7 billion as of Sept. 30, down from $14.4 billion at June 30. Founder Steven Cohen, 52, had about half the firm’s assets in cash in mid-October, after his main fund fell 5 percent through September.<br /><br />- Louis Bacon’s <span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/moore-capital-louis-bacon-hedge-fund.html" title="Moore Capital &#124; Louis Bacon &#124; Hedge Fund Notes">Moore Capital Management, LLC</a> said the value of its 13F securities fell 69 percent to $1.4 billion, while at Jana Partners LLC, a firm overseen by Barry Rosenstein that makes activist investments, they fell to $2.1 billion from $5.9 billion.<br /><br />- Jeffrey Vinik, who once ran the Fidelity Magellan Fund, disclosed that his Boston-based Vinik Asset Management LP held $1.8 billion at Sept. 30, down from $11.8 billion at June 30.<br /><br />- “Movements in financial markets were so volatile, so unpredictable and so seemingly detached from fundamentals” that many hedge-fund managers “didn’t feel they had an edge,” said Doug Peta, an independent market strategist in New York. “The best thing they could do for their investors was to pull back entirely until markets returned to more of a sense of normalcy.”<br /><br />- The largest funds, including those run by David Shaw, Kenneth Griffin and James Simons, reported smaller declines in their holdings. At Griffin’s Chicago-based Citadel Investment Group LLC, holdings listed on Citadel LP’s 13F fell 11 percent to $50.4 billion. Simons’s Renaissance Technologies LLC of East Setauket, New York, reported a 17 percent decline to $37.8 billion. At New York-based <a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/de-shaw-group-david-shaw-hedge-fund.html" title="DE Shaw Group &#124; David Shaw &#124; Hedge Fund Notes">DE Shaw &#38; Co.</a>, the filing showed a 20 percent decrease to $45.4 billion. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ridingthedax.com/2008/11/18/the-hedge-fund-riddle/">Source</a><br /><h4>Related to Hedge Fund Industry Pulse &#124; Not Good<br /></h4><ul><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds">Hedge Fund Tracker Tool </a></li><li><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/chenavari-credit-partners-lp-hedge-fund.html" title="Chenavari Credit Partners LP &#124; Hedge Fund Notes">Chenavari Credit Partners LP &#124;</a></span></li><li><a title="Children's Investment Fund Management TCI" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/childrens-investment-fund-management.html">Children's Investment Fund Management TCI</a></li><li><a title="Citadel Investment Group" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/citadel-investment-group-llc-kenneth.html">Citadel Investment Group LLC</a></li><li><a title="Clarium Capital Management &#124; Peter Thiel" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/clarium-capital-management-hedge-fund.html">Clarium Capital Management &#124; Peter Thiel</a></li><li><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/clinton-capital-management-lp-hedge.html" title="Clinton Capital Management LP &#124; Hedge Fund Notes">Clinton Capital Management LP &#124; Hedge Fund Notes</a></span></li><li><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/creditor-liquidity-solutions-lp-hedge.html" title="Creditor Liquidity Solutions LP &#124; Hedge Fund Notes">Creditor Liquidity Solutions LP</a></span></li><li><a title="CQS Capital Management" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/08/cqs.html">CQS Capital</a></li><li><a title="investment book" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/investment-book.html">Investment Book</a></li></ul>Tags: Hedge Fund Industry Pulse, State of the Hedge Fund Industry, How are hedge funds performing, how are hedge funds doing, what is happening to hedge fund investments<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Hot Stocks: Priceline.com Shares Poised to Beam Up, Barron’s Says</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Contrarian Profits</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>With <strong>Priceline.com Inc.</strong> (NASDAQ:<a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=pcln">PCLN</a>) – the  name-your-own-price travel-services player – it’s time to either beam up or buy  in.</p>
<p>Priceline – the online airfare and hotel-booking firm known for its kitschy TV ad campaign that stars “Star Trek” star William Shatner as “<a href="http://www.myspace.com/thenegotiator">The Negotiator</a>” – is an interesting possible profit play, thanks to its strong balance sheet and market muscle in the bargain-hunting end of the travel-services sector, the financial weekly <strong><em>Barron’s</em></strong> says.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0937391020081109">stock  market has already factored in the challenges facing the travel and retail  sectors</a> into Priceline’s stock price, <strong><em>Reuters</em></strong> and <strong><em>Barron’s </em></strong>both reported.</p>
<p>According to <strong><em>Barron’s</em></strong>, as the current financial crisis deepens, consumers are going to devote an increasing amount of time to their personal and household spending budgets – a point that&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Stocks: Priceline.com (PCLN) Shares Poised to Beam Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>With Priceline.com Inc. (<a href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=pcln">PCLN</a>) – the  name-your-own-price travel-services player – it’s time to either beam up or buy  in. Priceline – the online airfare and hotel-booking firm known for its kitschy TV ad campaign that stars “Star Trek” star William Shatner as “<a href="http://www.myspace.com/thenegotiator">The Negotiator</a>” – is an interesting possible profit play, thanks to its strong balance sheet and market muscle in the bargain-hunting end of the travel-services sector, the financial weekly <strong><em>Barron’s</em></strong> says.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0937391020081109">stock  market has already factored in the challenges facing the travel and retail  sectors</a> into Priceline’s stock price, <strong><em>Reuters</em></strong> and <strong><em>Barron’s </em></strong>both reported.</p>
<p>According to <strong><em>Barron’s</em></strong>, as the current financial crisis deepens, consumers are going to devote an increasing amount of time to their personal and household spending budgets – a&#8230;</p>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard C. Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h1><b>Citadel Group<br /></b></h1><h2><b><span style="rgb(102, 0, 0);">Citadel Investment Group</span><br /></b></h2><a href="http://www.mf.co.za/FinancialInformation/PublishingImages/Financial_Information5.jpg"><img style="101px;" src="http://www.mf.co.za/FinancialInformation/PublishingImages/Financial_Information5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Just a quick note to let you know we have updated the Hedge Fund Tracker Tool for Citadel Investment Group.  You may view this updated manager profile here: <a title="Citadel Investment Group" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/citadel-investment-group-llc-kenneth.html">Citadel Investment Group LLC</a>.<br /><br /><h4>Geographical Hedge Fund Guides Include:</h4><ul><li><a title="Hedge Fund New York" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-new-york.html">New York</a></li><li><a title="Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/connecticut-hedge-fund-guide.html">Connecticut</a></li><li><a title="Switzerland Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/switzerland-hedge-fund-guide.html">Switzerland</a></li><li><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/cayman-island-hedge-fund-guide-hedge.html" title="Cayman Island Hedge Fund Guide &#124; Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a></span></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/bermuda-hedge-fund-guide.html">Bermuda</a></li></ul>Tags: Citadel Investment Group, Citadel, Citadel Hedge Fund, Citadel Hedge Funds, Citadel hedge Fund Manager<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Barack Obama Hedge Fund Link Fest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h1><b>Obama Link Fest<br /></b></h1><h2><b><span style="rgb(102, 0, 0);">Barack Obama Hedge Fund Link Fest</span></b></h2><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SRHOEx1XwTI/AAAAAAAACgA/QXxK4s--_FA/s200/Barack-Obama-Hedge-Funds.jpg"><img style="186px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wM_OZdOMR_Y/SRHOEx1XwTI/AAAAAAAACgA/QXxK4s--_FA/s200/Barack-Obama-Hedge-Funds.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com)  I have received many congratulatory emails over the past day from hedge fund/investment professionals in India, Switzerland, London and Singapore all thankful that Obama was elected.  I found that interesting in itself and also saw a flood of articles come out discussing Barack Obama and the hedge fund industry, or Obama and the finance/investment industry in general.<br /><br />Yesterday I published this piece: <span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/barack-obama-hedge-funds-long-term.html" title="Barack Obama &#38; Hedge Funds &#124; The Long-Term Impact">Barack Obama &#38; Hedge Funds</a>... </span>Here are excerpts and links to many of these discussions:<br /><br />(I never discuss my own political views through this site throwing my opinion around regarding <a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-funds.html">hedge funds</a> is enough. I don't support any of these articles one way or another but simply provide them as an aggregation of what has been put out there over the last few days.)<br /><br /><span style="bold;">1) An excerpt from a story in the New York Times followed with commentary from my <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://fintag.com/">Mr. Fintag</a>.</span><br /><br />Today's economic turmoil, it seems, is an implicit indictment of the arcane field of financial engineering — a blend of mathematics, statistics and computing. Its practitioners devised not only the exotic, mortgage-backed securities that proved so troublesome, but also the mathematical models of risk that suggested these securities were safe.<br /><br />What happened?<br /><br />The models, according to finance experts and economists, did fail to keep pace with the explosive growth in complex securities, the resulting intricate web of risk and the dimensions of the danger. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/business/05risk.html?_r=1&#38;scp=5&#38;sq=hedge+funds&#38;st=nyt&#38;oref=slogin">Read more of this story...</a><br /><br /><span style="bold;">Fintag says</span><br />My Obama mentor, now a Hedge Fund grandee living the high life in retirement told me many things. Spelling is for wimps is one but the other was never invest or trade more than 6 things at once. Now this is a little tricky when most funds are not allowed 20% concentration, but he was right. Many hedge funds boast about turnover and the number of positions in the Greg Coffey style of trading. It never works.<br /><br />Again, we can blame spreadsheet jockeys and quants who always forget that humans are irrational and rational at the same time. Irrationally rational.<br /><br />All of us are excited Obama is US president because he has a different skin configuration (if I hear another commentator say he is black ...it is wrong and totally irrelevant). We are being irrationally rational and how could any quant model or risk management process capture this?<br /><br />That is why I love the markets. People trying to find certainty out of chaos and gamblers finding chaos in certainty.<br />_________________________<br /><br />2) <span style="bold;">Financial Times Alphaville published this piece:</span><br /><br />The industry has donated over $1m to Obama’s campaign, according to OpenSecrets (small change to a <a title="hedge fund managers, hedge fund manager" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/10/hedge-fund-managers-pedigree.html">hedge fund manager</a>, perhaps, but it still makes Obama the biggest recipient of the industry’s largesse this year — and is nearly double what rival presidential candidate John McCain received).<br /><br />But despite the contributions, Obama’s taken a somewhat hostile stance towards the barrons of Mayfair and Stamford. Notably, he accused McCain of being the candidate of ‘Joe the Hedge Fund Manager’ as opposed to all-American blue-collar hero “Joe the Plumber.” <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/11/05/17866/hedge-funds-yes-we-can/">Source</a><br /><br /><span style="bold;">3) FinanceAsia.com published this piece:</span><br /><br />There are several reasons that Barack Obama won the US presidential election. He won because the economy is shockingly bad. He won for his campaign promise of “change”. He won because – unlike John McCain – he was in no way tied to the Bush administration, which has been roundly blamed for the economic disaster in which the USA is currently mired.<br /><br />Think about it: under Republican rule, wages – for those who have work (and often more than one job) – have flat-lined. The national debt has doubled from what it was when Bush took office and is fast approaching $10 trillion. Meanwhile, prices at the gas pump have skyrocketed, alongside the price of milk and eggs. Unemployment recently surpassed 6% – the highest level since the early 1990s – and approximately 47 million Americans have no health insurance. Do not even think about dwelling on mortgage defaults; unless your heart can take it, or you have sufficient health insurance, that is. No wonder 64% of America’s eligible voters went to the polls.<br /><br />And no wonder Obama capitalised on former Republican President Ronald Reagan’s famous question to voters in 1980: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” For most Americans in 2008, the answer is an absolute “No”. But now the president-elect faces a tougher question: Can Obama fix what ails the nation? <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.financeasia.com/article.aspx?CIaNID=88369">Read more...</a><br /><br />4) <span style="bold;">Finalternatives published this piece:</span><br /><br />Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won a decisive and historic victory, becoming the first African-American to win the U.S. presidency.<br /><br />The Illinois senator, who just four years ago was a state senator in the Land of Lincoln, became the first Democratic candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win an outright majority of votes cast, winning such traditionally Republican states as Indiana and Virginia, both of which had last given their electoral votes to a Democrat in 1964. Obama was buoyed in no small part by the ongoing financial crisis, which he successful pinned on the policies of the incumbent Republican president, George W. Bush, and his supporters in Congress, including Obama’s rival for the presidency, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).<br /><br />Obama, who enjoyed the substantial financial backing of the <a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/">hedge fund</a> industry and many of its top players, has taken a bellicose tone with the industry on the campaign trail. Notably, he derisively riffed on McCain as the candidate of “<span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/joe-hedge-fund-manager-not-joe-plumber.html" title="Joe The Hedge Fund Manager &#124; Not Joe The Plumber">Joe The Hedge Fund Manager</a></span>.” McCain staked much of his late campaign on trying to win over the “Joe the Plumbers” of the electorate. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.finalternatives.com/node/5979">Source</a><br /><br />5) Dealbook put out this piece:<br /><br />The state of Connecticut went for Barack Obama in Tuesday’s election, as did Fairfield county, which is home to Greenwich — a major hub of the hedge fund industry — as well as many hedge fund managers and Wall Street executives.<br /><br />But while the county as a whole voted in favor of the Democratic presidential candidate, giving him 59 percent of the vote, some of the well-heeled towns in the county where many of those hedge funds and <a title="High Net Worth Investors" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/high-net-worth-investors.html">high net worth</a> Wall Street types are concentrated swung in favor of his Republican challenger, Senator John McCain. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/obama-in-hedge-fund-land/">Read more...</a><br /><h4>Related to Barack Obama and the Hedge Fund Industry:</h4><ul><li><a title="Hedge Fund New York" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-new-york.html"><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></a><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/joe-hedge-fund-manager-not-joe-plumber.html" title="Joe The Hedge Fund Manager &#124; Not Joe The Plumber">Joe The Hedge Fund Manager &#124; Not Joe The Plumber</a></span></li><li><a title="Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/connecticut-hedge-fund-guide.html"><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></a><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/11/barack-obama-hedge-funds-long-term.html" title="Barack Obama &#38; Hedge Funds &#124; The Long-Term Impact">Barack Obama &#38; Hedge Funds &#124; The Long-Term Impact</a></span></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="hedge fund guides">Geographical Guides </a></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/cayman-island-hedge-fund-guide-hedge.html" title="Cayman Island Hedge Fund Guide &#124; Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands"><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></a><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/washington-dc-hedge-fund-guide-guide-to.html" title="Washington D.C. Hedge Fund Guide &#124; Guide to Hedge Funds in DC">Washington D.C. Hedge Fund Guide<br /></a></li></ul>Tags: Barack Obama Hedge Fund, Hedge Funds Barack Obama, Obama Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Taxation Obama, Capital Gains Tax and Barack Obama, Capital Gains Tax<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Greg Coffey &#124; Hedge Fund Tracker Profile</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h1><b>Greg Coffey<br /></b></h1><h2><b><span style="rgb(102, 0, 0);">Greg Coffey &#124; Hedge Fund Tracker Profile</span></b></h2><br /><a href="http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/images/581/65755/Greg-Coffey.gif"><img style="198px;" src="http://www.hedgefundintelligence.com/images/581/65755/Greg-Coffey.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>The following piece on Greg Coffey is being published as part of our <a title="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html">Hedge Fund Tracker Tool</a>, our daily effort to track <a title="hedge fund blog" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/">hedge fund</a>s in the industry.<br /><br /><span style="bold;">Resource #1</span>: A star hedge fund manager, who is thought to have earned $300m (£186m) last year, has joined his former employer's closest rival.<br /><br />Greg Coffey, a 37-year-old Australian, reportedly outstripped the highest-paid chief executive in the FTSE 100 in 2007 by earning seven times more than Sir Martin Sorrell, the head of advertising group WPP. He left the GLG hedge fund last month, forgoing a $250m package designed to retain his services in order to set up his own fund.<br /><br />However, he will not have far to move because his new employer shares the same Mayfair office block as GLG. New York-based <span style="#000000;"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2006/10/moore-capital-louis-bacon-hedge-fund.html" title="Moore Capital &#124; Louis Bacon &#124; Hedge Fund Notes">Moore Capital Management</a></span> announced yesterday that it had signed up Coffey as co-chief investment officer of its London office at 1 Curzon Street. He will switch floors immediately.<br /><br />Colleagues can expect an energetic performance despite the economic downturn. During busy months, Coffey changed his emerging markets fund an average of 2.8 times a day and traded $254.6bn in May alone. His decision to leave GLG, and pass up a fortune, surprised GLG's founder Noam Gottesman, who said: "I would never have imagined that a few hundred million dollars was an insufficient amount to retain somebody."<br /><h4>Related to Greg Coffey &#124; Hedge Fund Tracker Profile:</h4><ul><li><a title="Hedge Fund New York" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-new-york.html">New York Hedge Fund Guide</a></li><li><a title="Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/connecticut-hedge-fund-guide.html">Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide<br /></a></li><li><a title="Switzerland Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/switzerland-hedge-fund-guide.html">Switzerland Hedge Fund Guide<br /></a></li><li><a title="Boston Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-boston.html">Boston Hedge Funds<br /></a></li></ul>Tags: Greg Coffey, Greg Coffey Hedge Fund Trader, Greg Coffey Hedge Fund, Greg Coffey GLG Partners, Greg Coffey Moore Capital Management, Moore Capital Hedge Fund, Hedge Funds<div class="feedflare">
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The typhoon of commentary that’s blown around the world a step behind the financial tsunami that’s wrecking everything, two little words have been curiously absent: “fraud” and “swindle.” But aren’t they really at the core of what has happened? Wall Street took the whole world “for a ride” and now a handful of Wall Street’s erstwhile princelings have shifted ceremoniously into U.S. Government service to “fix” the problem with a “toolbox” containing a notional two trillion dollars. </p>
<p>This strange exercise in financial kabuki theater will shut down sometime between the election and inauguration day, when the inaugurate finds himself president of the Economic Smoking Wreckage of the United States. What will happen?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h1><b>Capital from Family Offices<br /></b></h1><h2><b><span style="rgb(102, 0, 0);">Raising Capital from Single Family Offices</span><br /></b></h2><br /><a href="http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/06/EatTheRich.jpg"><img style="169px;" src="http://jalopnik.com/assets/resources/2008/06/EatTheRich.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>(http://HedgeFundBlogger.com) Here is a short piece on how many of the world's most sophisticated investors are looking to not only sustain current hedge fund related investments, but increase them.  Here is the first shred of evidence that <a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-funds.html">hedge funds</a> are going to emerge 2x as strong in 2011 as they were in 2007:<br /><br />Advisers for ultrawealthy investors are bullish on hedge funds, with many planning to increase their allocations to the alternative investments next year, according to a new study.<br /><br />A majority (58%) of single-family offices around the globe participating in the On the Rise survey indicated plans to increase asset allocations in hedge funds for 2009. The study was co-sponsored by Red Bank, N.J.-based G Capital Management LLC and Rothstein Kass &#38; Co. PC of Roseland, N.J.<br /><br />The study of 146 single-<a href="http://familyofficesgroup.com/">family offices</a> was completed in late August, before the Wall Street turmoil began in mid-September, and as a result, many of these firms were contacted again to see if their plans were changing. However, in the ensuing follow-up interviews, an even greater percentage (62%) said they would boost hedge fund allocations next year.<br /><br />Single-family offices are defined in the study as "created exclusively for or by a single exceptionally wealthy family to provide control, negotiating leverage and a defense for family members." The single-family offices surveyed had investible assets ranging from $312.2 million to $1.3 billion, with a majority of the firms (58%) based in Canada and the United States.<br /><br />"I was surprised [that plans for increasing <a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/">hedge fund</a> allocations] was as strong the second time around," said study co-author Russ Alan Prince, president of Darien, Conn.-based Prince &#38; Associates Inc. "I think it's going to stay strong." <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081102/REG/311039977/1027/HEDGEFUNDS">Read more...</a><br /><h4>Related to Raising Capital from Family Offices:</h4><ul><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/family-office.html" title="family office">Family Offices</a></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/01/fund-of-hedge-funds-database.html" title="fund of hedge fund databases">Hedge Fund Database</a></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool">Hedge Fund Tracker Tool</a></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="hedge fund marketing">Hedge Fund Marketing Guide</a></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-fund-employment.html" title="Hedge Fund Employment">Hedge Fund Employment Guide</a></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-due-diligence.html" title="hedge fund due diligence">Hedge Fund Due Diligence</a></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-strategy.html" title="hedge fund strategy">Hedge Fund Strategy Guide</a></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/geographical-guide-to-hedge-funds.html" title="hedge fund guides">Geographical Hedge Fund Tool </a></li></ul>Tags: Raising Capital from Family Offices, Single Family Offices, Single Family Office, Single-Family Office Investing, Family Office Investments, Family Office Asset Allocation<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Alabama Hedge Fund Guide &#124; Hedge Funds in Alabama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard C. Wilson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<h1><b>Alabama Hedge Fund Guide</b></h1><h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="rgb(102, 0, 0);">Guide to Hedge Funds in Alabama</span></h2><br /><br /><h4>Other Geographical Hedge Fund Guides Include:</h4><ul><li><a title="Hedge Fund New York" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-new-york.html">New York</a></li><li><a title="Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/connecticut-hedge-fund-guide.html">Connecticut</a></li><li><a title="Switzerland Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/switzerland-hedge-fund-guide.html">Switzerland</a></li><li><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/cayman-island-hedge-fund-guide-hedge.html" title="Cayman Island Hedge Fund Guide &#124; Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands">Cayman Islands</a></span></li><li><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/bermuda-hedge-fund-guide.html">Bermuda</a></li><li><a title="Texas Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/texas-hedge-fund.html">Texas</a></li><li><a title="Hedge Fund San Francisco" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-san-francisco.html">San Francisco</a></li><li><a title="Hedge Fund California" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-california.html">California</a></li><li><a title="Hedge Funds London" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/05/hedge-funds-london.html">London</a></li><li><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/washington-dc-hedge-fund-guide-guide-to.html" title="Washington D.C. Hedge Fund Guide &#124; Guide to Hedge Funds in DC">Washington D.C.<br /></a></span></li><li><span style="rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-jersey-hedge-fund-guide-hedge-funds.html" title="New Jersey Hedge Fund Guide &#124; Hedge Funds in New Jersey">New Jersey</a></span></li><li><a title="Chicago Hedge Funds" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/06/chicago-hedge-funds-in-chicago.html">Chicago</a></li><li><a title="Boston Hedge Fund" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-boston.html">Boston</a></li></ul>Permanent Link: <a title="Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/connecticut-hedge-fund-guide.html">Connecticut Hedge Fund Guide</a><br />Tags: Alabama Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Alabama, Hedge Funds in Alabama, Alabama Hedge Funds<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Cardima, Inc. (CADM.OB) Establishes Surgical Ablation Training Program at the Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cardima provides safe and innovative tools to the medical community for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. Arrhythmias develop from abnormal electrical currents within the heart, and can be associated with fast, slow and/or irregular heartbeats. Such electric short circuits in the heart can lead to major trauma and even death. The two most [...]]]></description>
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