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PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PSFT.PK) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.amplificationtechnologies.com) (ATI), is offering higher performance thermoelectrically cooled discrete amplification single photon counting solid state photodetectors. These photodetectors are mounted on a two stage thermoelectric cooler inside a hermetically sealed TO8 package and can be operated down to a temperature of -30oC.

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today expanded its HP Total Care portfolio to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) build a strong technology foundation that increases their productivity and collaboration, reduces environmental impact and provides greater flexibility as they refresh technology in

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Life Partners Holdings Inc. (LPHI) reported fiscal second-quarter results. The company’s net income posted a growth of 15.5% to $7.6 million, compared to $6.6 million in the year-ago quarter. Earnings per share of 51 cents was well ahead of the year-ago result of 44 cents per share, though it matched the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Life Partners is a financial services company and the parent company of Life Partners Inc., which is engaged in the secondary market for life insurance known as life settlements. These financial transactions involve the purchase of life insurance policies at a discount to their face value for investment purposes. Life Partners' operating revenues are derived from fees for facilitating life settlement transactions, which involve the sale of an existing life insurance policy to another party. By selling the policy, the policyholder receives an immediate cash payment, while the purchaser takes an ownership interest ...

If you can understand the title you’re approved to continue reading this article by AJ Brown from TradingTrainer.com. AJ is really one of the only guys I know who can make something like OTM Near-Term Vertical Debit Spreads an easy topic to understand and execute! Read the below article and also be sure and get AJ’s Options Trading Courses as I made him promise to give it to Trader’s Blog readers for free! He told me he was impressed with Trader’s Blog readers and really wants you to ask him some tough questions…don’t let him down!

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If you open and close too many positions in a single week, you will be tagged as a pattern day trader and forced to comply with a set of complex and onerous rules.

To reduce our exposure, increase our probability of making a profitable trade, and avoid being flagged as a pattern

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Andrei Piontkovsky shares his opinions - and his alone - about the motivations behind the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.  He says that it functions as a kind of insurance policy to keep President Dmitry Medvedev reigned in tight with the siloviki.

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) plans to sell assets and issue more common stock after being told by the federal government that it must raise $33.9 billion to adequately guard against “more adverse” economic conditions.

Bank of America was one of 10 banks told by the government to raise more capital following the so-called stress test. The government concluded that BofA faces a potential $136.6 billion in losses from troubled loans and investments in 2009 and 2010. The bank’s $34 billion capital shortfall was more than twice that of Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC), which had the second greatest capital need.

BofA Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis said Thursday that his company will start closing the capital shortfall by raising $17 billion in common equity, both by selling new shares and converting a portion of its privately held

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Takeover Targets: 3 Steps To Finding Them & 3 Stocks For Any Portfolio

by Louis Basenese, Advisory Panelist Senior Analyst, The Oxford Club

I promise. Alexander Green and I are not in cahoots about the coming boom in corporate takeovers…

We both researched the possibility separately. Unprompted, I might add. And yet, armed with different evidence, we arrived at the same conclusion.

If you ask me, such a convergence of analysis in a narrow space of time shouldn’t be ignored. So today, let’s move on from why a takeover boom is imminent and focus exclusively on three takeover targets you can profit from…

Identifying The Market’s Next Takeover Targets

The task of identifying the market’s next takeover targets can be daunting. Literally thousands of potential targets exist, which is probably why most investors liken it to a crapshoot and in turn, shun such a strategy altogether.

But that’s a

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Naturally, most investors are hoping that the current stock market rally will hold and we’ll embark on another bull run. But what if it doesn’t?

After all, this could easily just be a bear market rally. And bull markets rarely begin with a bear market rally and head straight higher.

Beware The Bear Market Trap

It makes sense to hedge against a renewed decline. Here’s why smart investors are doing so using inverse ETFs. Read on to find out what they are, how they work, and why you should consider adding one or two to your portfolio in order to protect it…

ETFs: A Safer, More Effective Way To Short The Market

Just a few years ago, investors who wanted to profit from a market/stock downturn had to borrow shares from their broker to short the asset in question. But today, betting against banks, small-cap stocks, or even entire market averages, is just one

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by Christina Goldman

Today, there are two highly convincing reasons why you should be buying gold bullion coins or bars.

1. To safeguard your money from financial catastrophe. 2. To insulate your money from the debasement of the dollar.

Let’s take a look at reason number one – buying gold bullion as a means of protecting your money from some kind of horrible financial catastrophe, such as a bank failure, war, act of terrorism, etc.

They seem to be everywhere these days. Those doomsayers who like to promote owning gold bullion as an insurance policy against the collapse of the global financial system. A few years ago, they were dismissed as extremists, crazy, and delusional.

Yet after the gut wrenching turmoil we’ve seen in the financial and credit markets over the past year, their doom and gloom scenarios don’t seem so unrealistic any more. An investor who was wise enough …

We are now suffering the consequences of one of the most spectacular financial miscalculations in history, after investors around the world discovered that trillions of dollars invested in securities derived from U.S. home mortgages were far riskier than they had originally believed.

Part of this miscalculation can be attributed to misguided quantitative models that were used to assess those risks. The key inputs for those models were assumptions about underlying default rates and their correlations across different borrowers. Default rates and correlations were quite low up until 2005, because rising home prices made default a decidedly inferior option to refinancing for even the least credit-worthy borrower. But the rising home prices were themselves caused by the huge flow of capital for lending to this market, sucked in by the illusion of safety. When the flow of credit stopped and house prices began to fall, the

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Investing bearish right now could help protect your savings.  And just like fellow contrarians have been telling you all along, Ted Peroulakis suggests you broaden your horizons into contrarian investments like gold and silver.

This from Ted at Investor’s Daily Edge:

The stock market is still in panic mode; investors have lost too much and are dumping their stocks in an attempt to salvage what little money they have left.

The more they sell, the worse the market gets. The worse the market gets the more they sell. It’s like a nightmarish game of dominoes.

Granted the new giant stimulus package, a bigger round of rescues, and the largest deficit financing of all time are going to have an effect on this economic crisis. Some of these policies will help, but they may also backfire and aggravate the crisis. Just don’t count on the government to bail you out.

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