For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – November 20, 2009 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Apple Inc. (AAPL), KT Corp. (KTC), SK Telecom (SKM), China Unicom (CHU) and American Express Company (AXP).

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Here are highlights from Thursday’s Analyst Blog:

South Korea Welcomes iPhone

Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone is finally reaching the hands of South Korean mobile users. The country’s telecom regulator Korea Communications Commission (“KCC") has granted Apple the license to sell the iconic handset in the domestic cell phone market. KCC has also lifted

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Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today:

AES Corp (AES) Akzo Nobel NV (AKZOY) Alliance Financial Corp (ALNC) Atlantic Tele-Network Inc (ATNI) BASF SE (BASFY) Biovail Corp (BVF) Carbo Ceramics Inc (CRR) Cato Corp (CATO) Cellcom Israel Ltd (CEL) Chunghwa Telecom Co Ltd (CHT) Covidien Plc (COV) DG FastChannel Inc (DGIT) Diodes Inc (DIOD) Dover Corp (DOV) E.ON AG (EONGY) Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd (ENH) Gap Inc (GPS) Investors Bancorp Inc ...

NTT DoCoMo (DCM), the largest wireless operator in Japan, together with its five vendors has developed major new specifications for a mechanism that delivers network-based value added services for IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS).

Other members in this collaboration are Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), LM Ericsson AB (ERIC), Fujitsu Ltd., NEC Corp., and Nokia-Siemens Network; a joint venture of Nokia Corp. (NOK) and Siemens AG (SI). This mechanism includes a service composition component that coordinates various applications using IMS session management service.

IMS is a set of specifications that describes the next-generation networking architecture for implementing IP-based telephony and multimedia services. It defines a complete architecture and framework that enables the convergence of voice, video, data and mobile network technology over an IP-based infrastructure.

IMS uses Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for easy integration with the Internet. This architecture was originally formulated to deliver Internet services over GPRS.

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KT Corp. (KTC) was trading above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages of $14.26 this noon on low volumes. Two analysts see the company's profit per share rising by 18.53% to $1.13 in 2010. KT Corp is a Zacks#1 Rank ("Strong Buy") stock.

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Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today:

Access National Corp (ANCX) Acxiom Corp (ACXM) AeroCentury Corp (ACY) American Public Education Inc (APEI) Anaren Inc (ANEN) Banco Latinoamericano de Exportaciones (BLX) Big Lots Inc (BIG) Blackrock Kelso Capital Corp (BKCC) Brady Corp (BRC) Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN) Churchill Downs Inc (CHDN) Corrections Corporation of America (CXW) CPEX Pharmaceuticals Inc (CPEX) Deutsche Bank AG (DB) Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc (DPS) Energy XXI (Bermuda) Ltd (EXXI) Entercom Communications Corp (ETM) Flanders Corp (FLDR) Hittite Microwave Corp (HITT) HMS Holdings Corp (HMSY) Inergy Holdings L.P (NRGP) Ingram Micro Inc (IM) Keppel Corporation Ltd (KPELY) KT Corp (KTC) Longtop Financial Technologies Ltd (LFT) Lumber Liquidators Inc (LL) Northrim BanCorp Inc ...