L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (LLL), which recently received a $90 million contract from the U.S. Air Force, has a terrific track record of delivering positive surprises on earnings estimates.

< ?DART(15);?> Company Description

L-3 Communications is a prime contractor in aircraft modernization and maintenance, C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems as well as government services. L-3 is also a leading provider of high technology products, subsystems and systems. The company reported 2007 sales of $14 billion. Headquartered in New York City, the company employs over 64,000 people worldwide.

Recent Contract

The company recently announced that its subsidiary WESCAM was awarded a $90 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the U.S. Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC). L-3 said the initial order under the ID/IQ is for MX-15Di turrets with deliveries to begin in 2009.

"WESCAM'S MX turrets display excellent imaging capabilities, target location accuracy and reliability, and

...

New York City-based Hess Corporation (HES), previously known as Amerada Hess Corporation (AHC), is an integrated oil company engaged in oil and gas exploration, production (E&P) and refining as well as marketing. As of year-end 2007, the company's proved reserves tally stood at 1.33 billion oil-equivalent barrels, of which approximately two-thirds consisted of crude oil/liquids.

Hess has slashed its 2009 capital budget in response to the pullback in crude oil prices and credit market turmoil, essentially bringing its outlays inline with projected internal cash flows. The company plans to spend $3.2 billion next year, down from the roughly $5 billion budgeted for 2008.

We consider the move as prudent given the macro backdrop. While we continue to see upstream momentum at Hess on the back of the company's large inventory of exploration and development projects, our Hold recommendation remains unchanged at this stage.

Read the full analyst report on HES

...

Headquartered in New York City, Brilliant Technologies Corp. operates their subsidiary called QTRAX, which is the world’s first free and legal peer-to-peer music service. This service displays an innovative ad-supported downloading model that easily directs revenue back to artists and rights holders. QTRAX monetizes the experience by selling sponsorships and advertising displayed during the search and download processes. With QTRAX, users will also have the option to purchase music and related items throughout the Company’s interface. QTRAX (www.QTRAX.com) is currently available for both browsing and music downloading.

QTRAX has licensing deals with major labels, music publishers, and leading independents. These include EMI Music, EMI Publishing, Warner Chappell, Sony/ATV Publishing, Universal Music Group, Universal Publishing, and TVT Records and Beggars Banquet as well as others. Qtrax will soon provide fans with access to a broad and diverse catalog with millions of high quality, high-fidelity digital music files.

In October, Brilliant Technologies

...

Perf Go Green Holdings Inc., a company dedicated to funding green initiatives that promote sustainability, is a biodegradable plastics firm. They work at developing eco-friendly, non-toxic, food contact compliant, biodegradable plastic products as a solution to eliminate plastic waste from the environment. As part of the Green Revolution, they have developed a biodegradable trash bag. It consists of recycled plastics that are biodegradable. After consumers use them and have them hauled away to trash sites, the bags completely break down within 12 to 14 months.

Perf Go Green markets and distributes a 13-gallon kitchen trash bag and a 30-gallon lawn and leaf bag. The Company seeks out mass-market retailers to market their products in the United States and Canada. Based in New York City, the company sells their trash, and lawn and leaf bags throughout different supermarkets. They also sell their products through Walgreen’s, Amazon.com, and Drugstore.com, among others.

The Company’s

...

Headquartered in Melbourne Australia, with offices in New York City as well, Legend International Holdings, Inc is a mining and agriculture resource-development company. The Company’s primary focus is on developing their phosphate deposits in the Georgina Basin in Queensland, Australia. The Company’s exploration licenses include approximately 5.2 million acres in Queensland and the Northern Territory, Australia.

Legend International Holdings Inc.’s acreage in the Georgina and McArthur River Basins in Queensland and Northern Territory, are prospective for phosphate. Legend’s phosphate interests in the Georgina Basin in Queensland include Lady Annie, Lady Jane, D-Tree, Thorntonia, Lily Creek, Quita Creek, Sherrin Creek, and Highland Plains. These have historical deposits of a minimum of 1.4 billion tonnes.

Legend is working to develop and mine their phosphate deposits to produce an average of 5 million tonnes per year of phosphate rock concentrate by 2010. The Company is also proceeding with their plans for a listing on

...

h1 style="text-align: center;"bHighbridge Capitalbr //b/h1h2 style="text-align: center;"bspan class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"HighBridge Capital Management Notes/span/b/h2br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimageamp;iid=i3Lj_zBK90DE"img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 139px;" src="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimageamp;iid=i3Lj_zBK90DE" alt="" border="0" //aJust a quick note to let you know that Highbridge Capital Management's Hedge Fund Tracker Tool has been updated.br /br /View this updated manager profile here: a alt="Highbridge Capital Management LLC" title="Highbridge Capital Management LLC" description="Highbridge Capital Corp Hedge Fund Group in New York City, NY" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/09/highbridge-capital-management-llc-corp.html"Highbridge Capital Management LLC/abr /br /h4Related to Highbridge Capital Management Profile Update/h4ullia alt="Hedge Fund Tracker Tool" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedge-fund-tracker-tool.html" title="Track over 1,000 Leading Hedge Funds"Hedge Fund Tracker Tool/a/lilia description="hedge fund marketing" alt="hedge fund marketing" href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/03/hedge-fund-marketing.html" title="Sharpen Your Hedge Fund Marketing Skills"Fund Marketing and Sales Advice /a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2007/12/100-hedge-funds-to-watch.html"Top Hedge Fund Managers/a/lilia href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/04/hedge-fund-videos.html"Free Online Hedge Fund Videos/a/lilia description="Hedge Fund Employment, Hedge Funds Employment Openings, Employment at Hedge Funds, Careers amp; Employment ...

Not every automaker CEO is down on his knees with cap in hand. Some of them are too proud to beg… and Taipan Daily won’t have to beg either with the right options strategy.

Not every auto manufacturer wants charity, you know.

While Detroit’s CEOs were up on Capitol Hill whining and begging like street junkies for a mere $25 billion to tide them over until spring, salesmen from Bentley, Lamborghini and Maserati were working the floor of the Los Angeles Auto Show like madmen in an attempt to stem their stateside sales losses.

Now don’t let their $500 suits and smooth manners fool you. These guys are hurting too. Lambo’s down 15% (pretty much a match to the whole biz’ 2008 decline). And Volkswagen AG’s Bentley (VLKAY) group has slipped a whopping 30%.

No Pain Here

Perhaps the folks who buy BMWs and Mercedes are up against it right now. But

...

The election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president creates plenty of profit plays for investors in the New Year. By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning/The Money Map Report With his landslide election victory Tuesday - coupled with Democratic gains in the House of Representatives and in the Senate - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will have the ability to pursue more or less any policy he wants. For investors who have been trying to analyze the economic outlook for the New Year, the election of U.S. Sen. Obama (D-Ill.) provides a major piece of the forward-looking jigsaw puzzle that these analysts hope to assemble. That’s because the likely trends of the United States and other economies around the world - and the relative success of different sectors within those economies - depends crucially on who’s in the White House, what policies they have, and ...

Target date funds have become the flavor of the day in the retirement market.

 

Avatar Associates, a New York City-based money manager that creates asset allocation funds using exchange-traded funds, has nabbed a distribution deal with AEGON's fee-based advisory arm, Investment Advisors International (IAI).

IAI will distribute Avatar's ETF asset allocation funds to the retirement market. The deal will also extend into the IRA rollover market, and ultimately, to a new ETF-only wrap program that Avatar is creating for IAI's retail channel. IAI was founded by AEGON in 2006 to target middle-income families, but has since expanded into institutional and high-net-worth.

Overall, Avatar has $1.4 billion in its ETF funds of funds. Avatar switched to being an ETF-only asset allocation company in 2004.

Target date funds have become the flavor of the day in the retirement market, and it has not escaped the notice of

...

Target date funds have become the flavor of the day in the retirement market.

 

Avatar Associates, a New York City-based money manager that creates asset allocation funds using exchange-traded funds, has nabbed a distribution deal with AEGON's fee-based advisory arm, Investment Advisors International (IAI).

IAI will distribute Avatar's ETF asset allocation funds to the retirement market. The deal will also extend into the IRA rollover market, and ultimately, to a new ETF-only wrap program that Avatar is creating for IAI's retail channel. IAI was founded by AEGON in 2006 to target middle-income families, but has since expanded into institutional and high-net-worth.

Overall, Avatar has $1.4 billion in its ETF funds of funds. Avatar switched to being an ETF-only asset allocation company in 2004.

Target date funds have become the flavor of the day in the retirement market, and it has not escaped the notice of

...