The election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president creates plenty of profit plays for investors in the New Year. By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report With his landslide election victory Tuesday - coupled with Democratic gains in the House of Representatives and in the Senate - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will have the ability to pursue more or less any policy he wants. For investors who have been trying to analyze the economic outlook for the New Year, the election of U.S. Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) provides a major piece of the forward-looking jigsaw puzzle that these analysts hope to assemble. That’s because the likely trends of the United States and other economies around the world - and the relative success of different sectors within those economies - depends crucially on who’s in the White House, what policies they have, and ...

Sector 10 has been making waves in the emergency response paradigm. The main reason for the success of Sector 10 is its core management team that brings a wealth of expertise and accomplishments to the company.

Leading the way at Sector 10 is Pericles DeAvila who serves as the company’s CEO. He is the founder, inventor and the lead creative thinker at the company. DeAvila is responsible for all strategic, financial and operational aspects of Sector 10 and its associated businesses. The Sector 10 leader has entrepreneurial experience nationally and internationally with his beginnings in the construction industry. He was a construction manager for 11 years on large projects in Silicon Valley and in Seattle — including Safeco Field, the home of the Seattle Mariners.

Larry Madison serves as the company’s CFO and is responsible for all aspects of financial reporting and management. Madison is a revered name in the industry for

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Sunrise Solar Corp. (SSRL) announces a new management appointment, adding Jim T. Kesaris who will immediately help with internal auditing and financial control procedures. For 15 years Kesaris has held senior management positions in a variety of companies from start-up to multi-billion. Most recently he was senior vice president and chief financial officer at USE Credit Union in San Diego, with $850 million in assets.

At Sunrise Solar he will join the company’s board of directors and establish new Audit and Compensation committees.

“Financial and operational excellence is a large part of the critical foundation for building a scalable, profitable business,” said Eddie Austin, Jr., SSRL Chairman and CEO. “With Jim’s experience leading financial and operations teams and his proven track record, I’m confident he will help secure Sunrise Solar as a major player in the rapidly expanding worldwide solar industry.”

Austin said Sunrise Solar has worked in recent months on a sustainable

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Obama Link FestBarack Obama Hedge Fund Link Fest(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.Yesterday I published this piece: Barack Obama & Hedge Funds... Here are excerpts and links to many of these discussions:(I never discuss my own political views through this site throwing my opinion around regarding hedge funds 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 ...

Today after the closing bell, CleanTech Biofuels gave special recognition to Missouri for adopting Proposition C, Renewable Portfolio Standards, which requires the state’s three large investor-owned utilities to generate 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2021. With Missouri now onboard, over half the U.S. States have adopted Renewable Portfolio Standards.

The approval of this initiative tightens the voluntary standards that the Missouri legislature passed last year. The previous legislature only obligated companies to make “good-faith efforts” to reach a goal of 11 percent renewables by 2020. The overwhelming support behind this initiative demonstrates the voting public’s strong favor of developing local sources of energy, with more than 66% of the votes cast in favor of adoption.

CleanTech is currently focused on implementing its technology for the production of renewable biomass from municipal solid waste at a commercial site in Chicago, Illinois.

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HIDDEN VALUE

Dear Friend,

Last night, America voted to put junior Illinois Senator Barack Obama in the White House.

“Change has come to America,” said Obama in last night’s victory speech.

He wants to restore patriotism and rebuild America, “calloused hand by calloused hand.”

According to Bloomberg, “Obama inherits the toughest environment for a new president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.”We don’t doubt it.

The 47-year-old faces a cracked financial system, an economic recession, a raging bear market in stocks and a trillion dollar budget deficit… for starters.

The economy is bigger than the president, says Andrew Gordon in Investor’s Daily Edge. And it is heading “irresistibly down”.

Nowhere is that more apparent than in the labor market.

The economy shed 157,000 non-farming jobs in October. And economists expect a similar rate of job losses in the coming months as the recession deepens.

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If you are looking for very cheap stocks, you may want to look for stocks that are selling below cash per share. What this means is if you take all the cash a company has and divide it by the number of shares, you get the cash per share. There are actually over 60 stocks out there, discovered by WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, which are trading below that cash amount. The following are a list of 11 stocks, all with market caps over $400 million, which are trading way below cash per share, therefore, with a Price to Cash per Share [PCS] ratio of way below 1. Keep in mind that many of these are foreign companies, many have high debt, and many are in struggling industries. Financials are based on several sources, but should be investigated before investing in any of these stocks. Mitsubishi UFJ ( MTU ...

The one bill that consumers will do everything they can to pay is their utility bill. Most people can't do without their electricity or natural gas. I previously wrote about the high yielding electric utilities; here is a list of the top natural gas utilities with high yields. Amerigas Partners ( APU ) is a a retail propane distributor structured as a limited partnership. The stock has a forward PE of 10.9 and a yield of 8.6% . National Grid Plc ( NGG ) is a London based company which has a gas national transmission system in Great Britain and also distributes electricity. The stock has a forward PE of 11.5 and a yield of 7.1% . Atmos Energy Cp ( ATO ) is a Dallas based distributor ...

The US consumer confidence index plunged to an all-time low of 38 in October, down sharply from 61.4 in September. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg anticipated a reading of 52.

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The dimming outlook signals consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the economy, will deteriorate further, deepening the U.S. slump.

“The economy feels like it is contracting at a rapid pace,” Lewis Alexander, chief economist at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. in New York, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “It’s clear that consumers have really been affected by the volatility we’ve seen in the last six weeks.”

The report underscores voter discontent with the country’s direction heading into the Nov. 4 presidential election. A majority of voters think Illinois Senator Barack Obama, the Democrat, will be better able to handle the economic turmoil than Republican rival John McCain, according

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When the stock market is volatile and in recessionary times, investors often turn to electric utilities as investments. The advantages are the high income, less volatility than other stocks, they are monopolies, they provide a product that everyone requires, and during a recession when people are cutting back, one of the last things they cut back on are their electric bills. The following electric utility stocks all have yields over 6%, PE ratios below 18, and PEG ratios below 3.Great Plains Energy Incorporated ( GXP ) is a Kansas City based generator of electricity from coal, nuclear, natural gas, oil, and wind. It pays a yield of 8.70% , and has a PE of 10 and a PEG of 1.42 .Ameren Corporation ( AEE ) is a utility that serves Missouri and Illinois. It pays a ...