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Consorteum Holdings Inc. (OTCBB: CSRH) announced that it has proceeded to launch its consumer stored value rebate card. The consumer rebate card program will offer manufacturers and retailers a new way to process mail-in rebates that ensures increased customer loyalty and decreased overhead costs. Consorteum will work directly with manufactures and retailers to reduce the administration costs associated with mail-in rebate programs while providing a new way to increase consumer awareness. Additional revenue and cost-saving opportunities will be

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All Men Created Economically Unequal The distribution of income in the U.S. has been growing more and more concentrated with each passing year since the early 1980’s. This is true whether you include capital gains income or leave it out, although the path is much more bumpy if you include capital gains. The following graphs come from Emmanuel Saez, a professor of economics at U.C Berkeley (http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/TabFig2007.xls). He, along with Thomas Piketty, published a most exhaustive study of income inequality in the U.S. in 2003. Saez has now updated his study through 2007. While I am sure that the numbers including capital gains will come down for 2008, I’m not sure if the numbers excluding capital gains will change much for 2008. The data comes from the Statistics of Income division at the Internal Revenue Service. Those statistics are of extremely high quality and final, but ...

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - June 24, 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: Tiffany (TIF), Big Lots (BIG), Family Dollar (FDO), Isis Pharmaceuticals (ISIS) and OncoGenex (OGXI).

Get the most recent insight from Zacks Equity Research with the free Profit from the Pros newsletter: http://at.zacks.com/?id=5513

Here are highlights from Tuesday's Analyst Blog:

Long-Term Job Stagnation

The two major forces behind the secular slowdown in job creation have been automation and globalization (off-shoring). It would not be particularly wise to reverse job losses coming from automation, since technology is the source of productivity growth and ultimately higher standards of living.

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Chicago, IL - April 14, 2009 - Zacks Equity Research picks Estee Lauder Companies (EL) as Bull of the Day and Embarq (EQ) as Bear of the Day. In addition, the analysts at Zacks Equity Research discuss the latest on Saks, Inc. (SKS), Nordstrom, Inc. (JWN) and Wal-Mart (WMT).

Full analysis of all these stocks is available at: http://at.zacks.com/?id=2678

Bull of the Day

Estee Lauder Companies (EL) is the pre-eminent global leader in prestige beauty. The company has strong brands, market presence, and growth potential demonstrated by over 60 years of uninterrupted sales growth.

Even though the slowdown in consumer spending in the U.S. is expected to drive a sales decline in fiscal 2009, management has embarked on a four-year strategic plan that will build on the company's core strengths, sharpen execution capabilities and lower the cost base though fiscal 2013.

With the stock trading at

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Highlights include Saks, Inc. (SKS), Nordstrom, Inc. (JWN), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) and Target Corp. (TGT).To attract shoppers trading down, high-end retailers Saks, Inc. (SKS) and Nordstrom, Inc. (JWN) are expanding their reach with new stores in outlet mall locations.Consumers that typically shop in luxury retail stores have experienced unparalleled wealth destruction from asset values deflating in housing and the equity markets. This demographic is increasing savings, paying off debt and looking over their shoulders to see if they are still employed. Even so, those consumers still want to shop at Saks, Nordstrom, or privately-held Neiman Marcus because of the popular brands and exceptional customer service offered in those stores. They just want to pay less.This is where outlet malls fit in to a luxury retailer's strategy. Previously, outlet malls were used to move overstocked merchandise, odd ...

Trading on the OTCBB, Euoko Group Inc. develops, markets, and distributes scientifically advanced, innovative skin treatments for luxury and mass markets. Founded in 2003, the Company has their corporate headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They also have satellite sales offices in Milan, Italy, Chiswick, London (UK), and in Geneva, Switzerland.

Euoko, a luxury offering, is the Company’s flagship brand. Euoko Group Inc. focuses their efforts towards luxury skin-care customers. Their product portfolio consists of 25 treatments spanning five collections. These products offer comprehensive solutions to a wide range of skin concerns. The Company markets their product portfolio through premium distribution channels in over twenty countries and territories.

The Company first introduced their products in September of 2007. They have retail partnerships with premium department stores. These include Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, La Rinascente (Italy), Ogilvy and Andrew’s (Canada), and Ludwig Beck (Germany). In addition, they have partnerships

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HIDDEN VALUE

If Crude oil Breaks Through $53, It’s a Screaming Buy

Dear Value Seeker,

America’s job losses have come into sharp focus again today.

The New York Times calls it a “rising tide.” It’s more like a tsunami…

Initial jobless claims for the week ended January 17 shot up by 62,000 to 589,000. This is the highest weekly rise in unemployment since November 1982.

Meanwhile, Microsoft ensured an abrupt reversal of yesterday’s stock market rally by warning that it was “not immune” to the recession.

The tech giant also announced it would give 5,000 workers their marching orders, including 1,400 today.

Microsoft joins a long and growing list of blue chips that have announced job cuts in 2009.

It’s a list The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics blog is tracking:

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Dragged down by plunging gasoline prices and an auto industry struggling for survival, retail sales fell by 1.8% in November for a record fifth straight month, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.

But a historic drop in retail gasoline prices and auto sales may have exaggerated the decline.  Filling-station sales mirrored the recent drop in prices from $4 a gallon in July to less than $2 a gallon recently. Auto sales fell 2.8%, confirming automakers’ assertions that business had sunk to the lowest levels in decades.

Excluding gasoline, which fell by almost 15%, retail sales fell just 0.2%.

In fact, without sales of autos, gasoline and building materials, sales actually rose 0.5%, the most since May.

“The financial markets were braced for a horrific retail sales report for November, but the numbers were actually not so bad,” Mark Vitner, a senior economist for Wachovia Corp. (

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Company Overview Avon is one of the United States’ oldest companies. Originally founded as the California Perfume Company in 1886, Avon has always been about marketing. On October 6, 1939, the wildly successful California Perfume,by then with over $4M in sales and more than 25,000 representatives, changed its name to Avon Products, Inc. People believe that the company was re-christened “Avon” for the whimsical reason that Suffern on the Ramapo, the New York State town in which the founder of the company lived, reminded him of Shakespeare’s Stratford-on-Avon1

Avon today calls itself “The Company for Women” and is one of the leading companies in the personal products industry. A global company with over $10 billion in annual revenue, it is the world’s largest direct marketer with 5.4M independent sales representatives. Currently, its product line includes not only beauty items but also jewelry and apparel. In addition,

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We are joined today by Director of Zacks Equity Research Dirk van Dijk, CFA, who was kind enough to take some time out of his busy day to speak with us.

We’re doing a rather last-minute interview here for publication Thursday morning (the 28th). What is on your mind to talk about?

Well, with the Democratic National Convention underway and therefore political season in full swing, lots of claims and counter claims will be made about taxes. Amid all the spin, careful analysis often gets lost. The Tax Policy Center (TPC), a non-partisan group, sat down with the top economic advisors for both campaigns and attempted to sort out just what the implications are from the proposals of each side would be.

And what is the verdict?

Well first of all, I strongly urge all readers who care about the long-term fiscal health of the U.S. Government to

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