For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – August 24, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the list of companies likely to issue earnings surprises. This week’s list includes Dell (DELL), Big Lots (BIG), Medtronic (MDT), Novell (NOVL), Staples (SPLS), Tiffany & Co. (TIF), Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR), Marvell Technology Group (MRVL) and Energy Conversion Devices (ENER). To see more earnings analysis, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=3207.

Every day, Zacks.com makes 4 stock picks available, free of charge. To see them, go to http://at.zacks.com/?id=5612.

This Week's Events

Dell (DELL) will release its results on Thursday, after the close, as second-quarter earnings season nears an end. The technology company is projected to have earned 23 cents per share.

Joining Dell will be fellow S&P 500 members Big Lots (BIG), Medtronic (MDT), Novell (NOVL), Staples (SPLS) and Tiffany & Co. (TIF).

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The common adage has most every rally climbing a wall of worry. “If I buy now, I might get crushed for the fifth or sixth or seventh time in the past 10 years… but if I wait, the market might run on me, and I won’t see a decent entry price like this for years to come…”

What I am worried about is what will happen when investors fall off the top of this wall.

“Let me take my chances on the Wall of Death”

– Richard Thompson

An astute observer can easily see how Wall Street and Washington have been trying to push investors toward the latter position. For the past few weeks, we have heard endless examples of lagging corporate profits and failing economic numbers spun as “better than expected” buying signals.

Sometimes the stories are completely contradictory – like when the Fed claims one day that it

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - July 1, 2009 - Zacks Equity Research highlights Denbury (DNR) as the Bull of the Day and St. Joe Co (JOE) the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) and Wells Fargo (WFC).

Full analysis of all these stocks is available at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2676.

Here is a synopsis of all five stocks:

Bull of the Day:

Denbury (DNR) is a leading tertiary oil player, with a solid asset base and an impressive track record of production and reserve growth.

We expect this growth momentum to continue over the next 5 years. Our continued favorable view of Denbury shares reflects the company's low-risk profile and oil-centric niche business model.

We consider management's recent Barnett Shale

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In order to prevent the U.S economic recovery from being squashed, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy is expected to retain its overly accommodative (OA) stance for an extended period.

So far, the Fed has reduced interest rates to almost zero and pledged to buy up to nearly $1.8 trillion worth of U.S. government and mortgage debt in order to combat a severe recession. This has been an attempt to prevent the economy from slipping into deflation, similar to what occurred in Japan when that country endured a decade of stagnation during the 1990s.

However, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank's President James Bullard has pointed out that having a withdrawal plan of the massive expansion of the U.S. monetary base is just as important. Without an exit strategy, expectations of high inflation may develop and feed into today's long-term yields. Therefore, financial institutions such as but not limited to

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The financial debate during the past few days was dominated by President Obama’s sweeping revamp of financial market supervision, and this issue also occupies a number of slots in today’s Video-o-rama.

But it was not all about regulation, as pundits were also trying to figure out whether there were in fact economic “green shoots” and what the implications for financial markets might be. Commentators include Michael Lewis, John Rogers, Robert Kleinschmidt, Jack Welch, Barry Ritholtz, Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Roach, Mario Gabelli and George Friedman.

The compilation kicks off with author Michael Lewis discussing his article “The End of Wall Street”, and concludes with a fascinating analysis of the Iranian situation by George Friedman of Stratfor, geopolitical analysts.

You Tube: Michael Lewis - the end of Wall Street? “Author Michael Lewis discusses how his experience working at Salomon Brothers and writing Liar’s Poker influenced his article, ‘The End of Wall

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Alex’s Notes: The term “slippery slope” has been used quite a bit when it comes to analyst commentary on what the Federal Reserve (which by the way isn’t a government institution, contrary to what many believe) has been up to lately.

A little freedom here, a little sovereignty there, and before you know it, a person might just wake up to find them self enslaved.

I am reminded of a few comments by Thomas Jefferson:

“I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” ~Letter to John Taylor, 1816

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all

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