For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – September 30, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the latest Zacks Industry Rank. Stocks featured in this week’s analysis include Agrium (AGU), CF Industries (CF), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Mosaic (MOS), Potash of Saskatchewan (POT) and Market Vectors Agribusiness (MOO).

Zacks Industry Rank Analysis is written by Charles Rotblut, CFA, Senior Market Analyst for Zacks.com.

This week: Fertilizer's Farming Problem

Hostile takeover attempts have kept fertilizer companies in the news. The acquisition talk has helped to overshadow a negative trend that should have investors concerned - ongoing cuts to full-year profit forecasts.

During the past 90 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimates have been revised downwards on several fertilizer companies, including Agrium (AGU), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Mosaic (MOS) and Potash of Saskatchewan (POT).

The most recent cuts were related to a warning from POT. The company predicted

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Hostile takeover attempts have kept fertilizer companies in the news. The acquisition talk has helped to overshadow a negative trend that should have investors concerned - ongoing cuts to full-year profit forecasts.

During the past 90 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimates have been revised downwards on several fertilizer companies, including Agrium (AGU), Intrepid Potash (IPI), Mosaic (MOS) and Potash of Saskatchewan (POT).

The most recent cuts were related to a warning from POT. The company predicted that its full-year profits would be in the range of $3.25 to $3.75 per share, instead of the prior guidance of $4 to $5 per share. The company blamed "continued slow demand and limited restocking by fertilizer distributors" as the reasons for the revised forecast.

All Is Not Well on the Farm

The big reason why profit projections for fertilizer companies have been falling is not weaker demand for fertilizer,

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Last week, Fed Reserve chief Ben Bernanke said that the U.S. economy is nearing recovery, exceeding expectations and fueling a run in the stock market that appears to be carrying forward into this week. Today, Pacific WebWorks, Inc. (OTCBB:PWEB) surprised investors with bullish news of its own, reporting that the company’s profitability for the third quarter of 2009 will likely exceed total profitability for the first two quarters combined, drawing an interesting parallel between its success which is based on creating e-commerce solutions for enterprise, and Bernanke’s remarks.

AdEx Media, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ADXM), a leading performance-driven, online marketing

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The potash market is looking strong today thanks to news of increasingly positive supply and demand fundamentals. Potash Corp. (NYSE:POT) is leading the charge.

Even in day filled with less-than-stellar economic data and enough stocks trading in the red to pull the perma-bears out of hibernation, there is cause for optimism.

Today it comes from the companies that have anything to do with the world’s potash market.

Thanks to news that a key Russian producer is raising its prices due to increased potash demand, American firms like Intrepid Potash (NYSE:IPI), Potash Corp (NYSE:POT) and Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) are making strong gains.

The news is yet another strong indication of the profit potential currently held by the world’s commodities market. First we saw gold prices soar. Then oil. Then silver. And now potash prices.

Next up is your portfolio balance

As the world bounces out of this recession, demand

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div style="text-align: justify;"Citigroup is out with a Fertilizer call upgrading span style="font-weight: bold;"Potash (NYSE:POT), Mosaic (NYSE:MOS)/span to Buy from Hold and span style="font-weight: bold;"Agrium (NYSE:AGU)/span to Hold from Sell.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Looking Past the China Contract /span— In recent months investors have been sharply focused on the upcoming China potash contract and the risk potash prices could fall below last year’s $575/t level. However, the bigger risk in Citigroup's view is that the Ag complex will continue to rally on stronger grain fundamentals. There are three key reasons grain prices are moving higher, thus creating an environment for multiple expansion for fertilizer stocks:br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"- Grain Supplies Remain Historically Tight —/span Last week’s USDA report indicated lean grain inventories, including significantly tighter corn stocks-to-use (16% vs. 20-year avg. of 24%). In our view grain prices don’t have a “cushion” – another major weather event or poor ...

div style="text-align: justify;"JP Morgan is out lowering their rating on span style="font-weight: bold;"Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) /spanto Neutral from Overweight while lowering tgt to $44 from $50.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;"According to the firm the downgrade is based a weaker earnings outlook and valuation issues./span Mosaic has been a strong performer in 2009, outpacing both Potash Corp. and the Samp;P. Mosaic has climbed 32% and Potash 13% versus (9%) decline for the Samp;P 500 since December 31, 2008. Mosaic now trades at 6.8x EV/EBITDA for F2010 (ends August) versus 6.4x for Potash for F2009 (ends December). They note that Potash Corp, historically, has commanded a premium valuation on the basis of its higher financial returns. JP Morgan has reduced their Potash segment profit expectations sharply for F2009 based on lower forecasted volumes, and Phosphate margin forecast for F2010 based on narrower projected prices and margins leading to substantially lower earnings expectations for ...

U.S. markets closed modestly lower Monday paring losses recorded earlier in the day amid banking worries and investor concerns that gloomy earnings and outlook will hurt technology, commodities and industrial shares.  The KBW Banking index slipped 3.8% after a prominent banking analyst advised selling banking stocks.  Calyon Securities analyst Mike Mayo in a report titled "Seven Deadly Sins of Banking" warned bank losses could exceed levels seen during the Great Depression.  Stocks advanced in the late afternoon session paring some losses but the rally was checked after reports emerged that talks for IBM Corp.'s (NYSE: IBM) $7 billion deal to buy Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) had hit a roadblock. Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) shares plunged 23%.

Mayo started coverage on several banking stocks with an "underperform" or "sell" rating.  Among securities initiated with a sell rating were: BB&T Corp (NYSE:BBT), Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ:FITB), KeyCorp (NYSE:KEY), SunTrust Banks

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Asian markets rose for a fourth day amid a global rally in stocks as hopes that the worst of the economic crisis is over boosted demand for riskier assets.  Investors continued to look at the bright side of things, shrugging off a U.S. jobs report on Friday which showed unemployment rose to 8.5% in March.  Although the numbers were up from 8.1% in February, they were only slightly worse than expected.  Sunday's launch of a long-range missile by North Korea appeared to have little impact on the markets and was seen as having little economic implication.  Boosting the sentiment further were U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments that policies to ease the financial crisis through infusion of billions of dollars in aid were beginning to work. 

Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average closed up 108.09 points, or 1.2%, to 8,857.93, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 452.35 points,

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Wednesday January 7, 2009 Navivest

Considering the current economic climate and the forecast calling for an even rougher keel ahead, its amazing that stocks have held their own and have seemingly found a floor, or as the technicians might say, a support level.

On September 30th, 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,850.66 to close out the third quarter, after hitting an intra-day low of 10,371.58. That was after hitting an intra-day high of 11,139.62, the day prior.

Since then, we hit a five year low of 7,392.27 on November 21st, but have since rallied back to yesterday’s closing price of 9,015.10.

The bounce back and holding at current levels has had the pundits calling a bottom for the stock market.

That begs the question; if stock market levels are a function of the prices of the underlying stocks that make up an index, and if the prices of the

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Wednesday December 17, 2008 Navivest

We are looking for the stock market to extend yesterday’s gains, so traders can look to get into long trades today. Our commodity stock picks were some of the biggest winners yesterday and that’s where we would put money again today.

So for those that did not get in yesterday, the trading ideas that we like for today, are Mosaic (MOS), Agrium (AGU) and Bucyrus (BUCY). Again, we also like the Proshares Ultra Dow 30 (DDM).

Yesterday, Mosaic (MOS) and Agrium (AGU) were up 14.3% and 12.19% respectively, while we saw a 5.68% gain in Bucyrus (BUCY) and an 8.34% gain in Proshares Ultra Dow 30.

We do advocate definitely getting out by the end of trading today, if we are blessed with profits. While we may miss out on further gains if the stock market makes it three days in a row tomorrow, we have to keep

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