AAPL, Apple Inc.

SBUX, Starbucks Corp.

EXOU, Exousia Advanced Materials Inc, EXOU.OB

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DrStockPick Watch List! for Wednesday July 22, 2009

 

My Picks for Wednesday July 22, 2009 are:

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AAPL, Apple Inc.

AAPL and its wholly owned subsidiaries design, manufacture, and market personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices, and sell various related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions.

AAPL sells its products worldwide through its online stores, its retail stores, its direct sales force, and third-party wholesalers, resellers, and value-added resellers. In addition, it sells various third-party Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone compatible products, including application software, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones, and

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AAPL, Apple Inc.

SBUX, Starbucks Corp.

EXOU, Exousia Advanced Materials Inc, EXOU.OB

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PennyOmega.com Watch List ! for Wednesday July 22, 2009

Our Picks at PennyOmega.com for Wednesday July 22, 2009 are:

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AAPL, Apple Inc.

AAPL and its wholly owned subsidiaries design, manufacture, and market personal computers, portable digital music players, and mobile communication devices, and sell various related software, services, peripherals, and networking solutions.

AAPL sells its products worldwide through its online stores, its retail stores, its direct sales force, and third-party wholesalers, resellers, and value-added resellers. In addition, it sells various third-party Macintosh, iPod, and iPhone compatible products, including application software, printers, storage devices, speakers, headphones, and various other accessories and peripherals through its online and

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A little merlot with your capuccino? Clearly, McDonald's (MCD) new coffee drinks have created some competitive pressure on top of the current recession pains and over-expansion issues for Starbucks (SBUX). As a result, in July of last year, Starbucks indicated it would close more than 600 underperforming U.S. stores. That number was expanded in January 2009 by an additional 300 stores worldwide. However, to offset some of the competitive issues, SBUX recently announced plans to change the recipes to some of its food items to provide healthier options for its customers. In addition, SBUX is willing to go into uncharted territory. At one pilot store in Seattle, dubbed "15th Avenue Coffee and Tea," besides coffees there will be beer, wine and night-time live entertainment. By launching with just one store it should give SBUX a live shop to test changes in menu offerings, store ...

Costco Wholesale Corp. (COST) said today that total sales for the month of June declined 4% to $6.9 billion.

The warehouse club operator's same-store sales slipped 6%, still matching the Street's view. Same-store sales contracted 6% in US locations, while it fell by 3% in international markets.

The company attributed the sluggish performance to weak discretionary spending by consumers amid recessionary conditions, partially offset by growth in food items and sundries.

Costco also said that average transaction in June slipped 9.5% year over year, including the negative impact of lower gas prices as well as a stronger dollar.

Analysts, on average, have lowered expectations for the year ending August 2009, sending the consensus down by a penny to $2.48 per share over the past 2 months.

Shares of Costco are down about 1% on volume of approximately 4.1 million, compared to the average daily volume of about 4.5 million.

COST is a Zacks #3 Rank

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India's Wholesale Price Inflation Enters Negative Territory, But No Risk of DeflationIndia's Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for the first week of June went sub-zero for the first time in 35 years. The fall is largely due to the high base effect caused by the sudden jump in prices of fuel and power as well as manufactured goods last year.The WPI had reported an 11.7% rise for the first week of June 2008. The situation has changed a lot since then. Due to the bloated base, the current decline seems to be of more statistical significance.Decline in wholesale prices however provides some scope to the Reserve Bank of India to cut interest rates again in order to offer additional stimulus to the economy. The central bank estimates that three stimulus packages already announced, along with six interest-rate cuts in last ...

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR) just announced that a subsidiary entered into a licensing and distribution agreement with Cuisinart. Supported by a solid record of better-than-expected quarterly earnings announcements, this deal has put the company on the Zacks #1 Rank Top Performers List for Thursday with a share advance of approximately 6%.

< ?DART(15);?> Partnership with Conair Corp. (Cuisinart)

The agreement between Keurig, Inc., the wholly-owned subsidiary of GMCR, and Conair will allow the latter company to develop, market and sell single-cup coffeemakers under the Cuisinart brand in the U.S. and Canada. They will be designed to work with Keurig's patented K-Cup portion packs.

This is a significant deal for GMCR since Cuisinart is the number one brand in the coffeemaker category.

"We believe that having Cuisinart develop, market and sell a co-branded brewer using Keurig's K-Cup technology platform will help speed

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In one of the most high-profile proxy battles in US corporate history, billionaire investor William Ackman will introduce his slate of alternative directors to shareholders of Target Corp. (TGT) on Monday and ask them to overthrow the discount retailer's present board at the annual general meeting later this month.

Ackman has been pushing Target for the last two years to bring about a radical change in strategy. He claims that the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based company's directors lack relevant expertise to make critical decisions that could navigate Target through the ongoing economic crisis.

While Target has no past record of poor governance, its investors might support Ackman's activism in light of the company's underperformance in terms of key retail metrics in the recent past. Shares of Target have shed nearly 40% of their value since a July 2007 high of about $70. Rival retailer Wal-Mart that once lagged

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by Edward Hugh: BarcelonaIndia is in the middle of a storm at the moment, there can be no doubt about that. But the important point to note is that this storm is not of India's making. The financial turmoil in a number of key developed economies, and above all the United States, is sending shock waves across the global economy, and as is normal, when the earth trembles, it is the most fragile who notice it most. India's economy may be fragile in the sense that it is very vulnerable to what is colloqially known as global risk sentiment, but it is not fragile in terms of being susceptible to having its growth trajectory knocked completely off course. India may be shaken, but her economy will not be broken.Emerging Market BondsEmerging-market bonds had their worst week in four years this week as the deepening ...

Yesterday, Hank Paulson's colossal plan to intervene in the free market failed. Today, there is talk of another version of the bailout being pushed through Congress.

What most people just don't get, says Chuck Butler is that the bailout "constitutes the single greatest case of ignoring the free market in modern history." And there is actually little justification for it.

"On a historical basis, many parts of the US economy are in awfully good shape," according to Chuck

Brazil's broadest measure of inflation fell in August for the first time in more than two years, led by a larger-than-forecast drop in food prices. Consumer, construction and wholesale prices, as measured by the IGP-M price index, decreased 0.32 percent when compared with July. The country's benchmark index for consumer prices showed a 6.23 percent increase for the 12 months through mid-August, the central bank said last week. Today's report obviously doesn't mean that the central bank should ease up on its bid to contain inflation by raising interest rates, but it is, nonetheless, welcome news. Policy makers have raised interest rates three times since April, to 13 percent from a record low 11.25 percent, to slow inflation running near the 6.5 percent upper limit of its target range. Policy makers, led by bank President Henrique Meirelles, are still expected to raise the ...