For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – November 19, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the latest Zacks Industry Rank. Stocks featured in this week’s analysis include B.P. Prudhoe Bay Trust (BPT), San Juan Basin (SJT), Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Petrobras (PBR).

Zacks Industry Rank Analysis is written by Dirk Van Dijk, CFA, Chief Equity Strategist for Zacks.com.

This week: Some Improvements in Energy

A good example of an industry that is showing both a very good overall rank and substantial improvement is Oil Royalty Trusts, which with a industry rank of 2.00 is tied for 4th place with several other industries. What sets it apart is that it improved 21 spots in its ranking as the average ranking of its components, up from 2.43 last week. Every one of the seven firms in the industry has a Zacks Rank of 2.

These are great vehicles for

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Money Morning’s Keith Fitz-Gerald brings us a sobering look at investing in gold. If there is a moral to the story, it’s that nothing is what it seems anymore – not even gold.

Keith Fitz-Gerald (Money Morning): Millions of investors who bought gold in the last 12 months are undoubtedly very happy at the moment – considering that the yellow metal has risen 60% since last November to a recent close of $1,138.60 an ounce on Monday.

But chances are good that many won’t be smiling when they discover just what the taxman has planned for their gains.

Unbeknownst to most investors, gold is considered a collectible not a capital asset. In plain English, this means that despite the fact that many people believe they are investing in gold, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes that they are collecting it.

This is no small distinction and hurts investors

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Industry Rank Analysis 11-17-09 Normally, the focus of this article has been on the industries that have the best overall Zacks ranks, with an occasional mention of the industries that rank particularly badly and thus should be avoided. This week, however, I want to look at some of the industries that are showing sharp improvements in rank, even if they are still far from the top of the list. Ideally, you would want to focus on the industries that are both near the top of the list and rising fast, but that rarely happens, especially for industries with a large number of participants. The Zacks Industry Rank is an un-weighted average of the Zacks ranks of the firms in the industry, so it is much easier for a small industry with only tow or three firms in it to rise quickly and have a very good-looking rank ...

In TV commercials and across the Internet, managers of exchange-traded funds tout the tax advantages of their products. But according to a story in the latest issue of Barronrsquo;s, many investors in precious-metals ETFs have to deal with an unwelcome surprise come April 15. The issue is that gold and silver fall under the heading of ldquo;collectiblesrdquo; in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, making these metals similar to artworks, antiques, vintage wine and rare baseball cards. This status means that profits from gold and silver investments do not qualify for the 15 percent maximum on long-term capital gains that pertain to stock and mutual fund investments. These profits are instead taxed at a 28 percent maximum if held for more than a year, and at ordinary income rates if held for less than a year. With the rapid appreciation of gold in recent years ndash; the current price is nearly double where it ...

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Monday November 16, 2009

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CVAT, Cavitation Technologies Inc, CVAT.OB

CSRH, Consorteum Holdings Inc, CSRH.OB

TAXS, TaxMasters Inc., TAXS.OB

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TaxMasters, Inc. Managing Growth, Improving Efficiency, Increasing Speed of Service

TAXS,the IRS tax relief company, began operational implementation this week of a proprietary system to increase productivity and improve customer service. The system, known as P3, cataloged and analyzed the Company’s internal Processes, Procedures, and Policies (P3) in an effort to identify and target opportunities to increase efficiency. The P3 Report was finalized in April and consists of a comprehensive assessment including efficiency recommendations linked to

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Wednesday November 11, 2009

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I’d like to bring your attention to a company that has a remarkable success story and I think this is only the beginning of their outstanding growth and should definitely be on your watch list. TaxMasters, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TAXS) was founded by Patrick Cox in Texas in 2001 and since then has grown to over 250 employees, has served tens of thousands of clients saving them millions of dollars.

You’ve probably seen one of their many tv commercials they broadcast nationally.

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Tuesday November 10, 2009

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I’d like to bring your attention to a company that has a remarkable success story and I think this is only the beginning of their outstanding growth and should definitely be on your watch list. TaxMasters, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TAXS) was founded by Patrick Cox in Texas in 2001 and since then has grown to over 250 employees, has served tens of thousands of clients saving them millions of dollars.

You’ve probably seen one of their many tv commercials they broadcast nationally.

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Tuesday November 10, 2009

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TAXS, TaxMasters Inc., TAXS.OB

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TaxMasters, Inc. Managing Growth, Improving Efficiency, Increasing Speed of Service

HOUSTON, (CRWENEWSWIRE) Nov 10, 2009 — TaxMasters, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TAXS - News), the IRS tax relief company, began operational implementation this week of a proprietary system to increase productivity and improve customer service. The system, known as P3, cataloged and analyzed the Company’s internal Processes, Procedures, and Policies (P3) in an effort to identify and target opportunities to increase efficiency. The P3 Report was finalized in April and consists of a comprehensive

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Those were the top named service requests reported by Pre-Paid Legal Services (NYSE: PPD) based on input from their participating law firms.  Pre-paid legal services provides specified legal services to their members.

“The Pre-Paid Legal Services Top Five List is intended to be a ’snap-shot’ of the issues that legal service plan members are facing today, and given the economic hardships that so many Americans are experiencing, it’s not a pretty picture,” said Pre-Paid Legal Services Founder and CEO Harland C. Stonecipher.

Debt collection activities by the lender, or service provider owed the money, don’t have the same restrictions as activities by debt collection agencies. Debt collection agencies must stop harassment when requested by the debtor.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) protects consumers from abusive actions by debt collectors.  Debt collectors are defined more broadly than just agencies.  It also includes attorneys who attempt to collect debts on a regular basis, as

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Exchange-traded notes are like the forgotten stepchildren of the ETF industry: unloved and overlooked. Investors (particularly taxable investors) are missing out.

According to the National Stock Exchange, U.S. ETNs had $6.9 billion in assets at the end of September. ETFs were literally 100 times more prevalent, with $697 billion in assets. That included $62 billion just in long commodity ETFs.

That’s just crazy. And it highlights investors’ irrational fear of the ETN product structure.

I remember when ETNs first came to market in 2006: Investors couldn’t get enough of them. Barclays Capital launched the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index ETN (NYSEArca: DJP) and it quickly gathered assets.

The reason was simple: ETNs offered two huge advantages over commodity ETFs.

First, they promised perfect tracking. If you bought an ETN, you would receive the full return of the benchmark, minus the fund’s expenses. Period. That’s handy, since commodity ETFs have been more prone to tracking error

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