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John Hopper, vice president and treasurer of El Paso Corporation (NYSE: EP), will present tomorrow at the Deutsche Bank Seventeenth Annual Leveraged Finance Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. The presentation will not be webcast, but slides will be available in the Investors section of El Paso’s Web site at www.elpaso.com.

Positron Corporation (OTCBB:POSC) a molecular imaging solutions company focused on Nuclear Cardiology, will attend the 14th Annual American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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While we have gotten several economic reports in a row that indicate the economy is stabilizing, if not starting to expand, there is one indicator of the real economy that is not budging, namely rail traffic.

The table below comes from Railfax, which tracks activity on the nation's rails http://railfax.transmatch.com/. It shows very little change in activity. Look at the 4-week rolling average (the weekly numbers can contain a lot of noise, the 4-week average smoothes them out) relative to the year-to-date numbers. For total rail traffic, there has been only a 0.2% difference in the year-over-year rate of decline, down 18.6% instead of down 18.8%.

The amount of rail traffic is not just important to the big railroads like Norfolk Southern (NSC) and Union Pacific (UNP). They are a measure of how much stuff is being shipped. If stuff is not moving, the economy is not moving.

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – July 14, 2009 - Zacks Research Equity Strategist, Dirk Van Dijk says that S&P 500 earnings are continuing to show red ink. He tracks companies on the Zacks.com web site, naming names, while forecasting trends for the months ahead.

Key Points from Van Dijk's Latest Earnings Assessment

Second-quarter total net income expected to be down 34.9% year over year Staples only sector expected to post positive growth in second quarter Seven sectors expected to decline more than 25% Financials expected to rebound after disastrous 2008 Early positive surprises lead disappointments by 7:1 margin Third quarter expected to be down 22.9% year over year Estimate cuts for 2009 again outnumber increases slightly Full year 2009 expected to fall 13.6%, ...

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Chicago, IL - July 7, 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: CSX (CSX), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Burlington Northern (BNI), Union Pacific (UNP) and Sanofi-Aventis (SNY).

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Here are highlights from Monday's Analyst Blog:

Trainspotting

In looking for an economic recovery, one of the things to be looking at is rail traffic. While an increasing part of the economic output of the country (and the world) moves electronically, there is still a very important role for, to use a technical term, "stuff."

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In looking for an economic recovery, one of the things to be looking at is rail traffic. While an increasing part of the economic output of the country (and the world) moves electronically, there is still a very important role for, to use a technical term, "stuff." So far, nobody has figured out how to move a ton of coal or wheat over a fiber optic line.Granted the "stuff" that moves on the rails is mostly lower value, but it is also at the base of the economic pyramid. In short, if stuff is not moving on the railroads, then the economy is not moving forward.The volume of traffic is important for the information it provides about the economy as a whole, not just because it gives insight into what the earnings are going to be for the major railroads like CSX (...

A couple of days ago, I said I was looking at purchasing some railroad shares. They are a longer term play on the broader economy, and there are a couple of big factors I like in the industry. Those are efficiency, lower fuel costs than trucking, access to moving commodities, which I think will be coming back strong. You can see more of a href="http://briskycapital.blogspot.com/2009/05/prospects-strong-for-norfolk-southern.html"that analysis here/a.br /br /My update is that I did some more research, and I'd like to adjust what I'm looking to buy a bit. Norfolk Southern, which I mentioned before, is a good company with strong margins. But they have too much exposure to automobiles for me. I'm looking at some of the west coast names a little harder, and those are Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=bniamp;.yficrumb=DHHJXdr.Qk4"BNI/a) and Union Pacific (a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=unp"UNP/a). They both have exposure to ...

I'm starting to look at picking up some deals in stocks that will perform well when the economy picks up again. One of those is Norfolk Southern (a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=nsc"NSC/a). Railroads were hot over the past five years, largely due to soaring energy prices. When Warren Buffett started investing in railroads, its seemed everyone was jumping on the bandwagon. I've done some research on a few of the majors, and I like Norfolk Southern the best. They all will be in pretty good shape when the economy rebounds, and the thesis is mostly the same for each. I did some work on NSC a couple of weeks ago when I did a piece for Fund my Mutual Fund. a href="http://www.fundmymutualfund.com/2009/04/road-to-recovery-lets-see-what-old.html"You can read that here/a. br /br /I wanted to pass along a a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/It-Will-Get-Better-Norfolk-prnews-15247762.html?.v=1"nice quote from their CEO/a at the annual meeting that sums ...

For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - April 2, 2009 - Zacks.com releases the latest Zacks Industry Rank. Stocks featured in this week's analysis include Burlington Northern (BNI), Canadian National (CNI), CSX Corporation (CSX), Norfolk Southern (NSC) and Union Pacific (UNP).

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

Are Chipmakers Finally Stabilizing?

The Dow transports pretty much moved in lockstep with the broader markets during last month's rally. For followers of the Dow Theory, this was a positive sign.

The problem, however, is that there were nasty undercurrents at the same. Specifically, about 40% of the earnings estimates for Transportation-Railroad were cut in March. Among the companies targeted by the negative revisions are Burlington Northern (BNI), CSX Corporation (CSX), Canadian National (

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Highlighted stocks include Burlington Northern (...

An Index of Top Rated Global Transport Companies The accompanying table includes the top 50 rated companies and statistics for the ETF Innovators (ETFI) Global Transportation PerformIdex, which is structured as an equally-weighted index with quarterly updates from a database of 225 companies included in the five indexes below to provide broader investment exposure compared to existing ETFs such as iShares Dow Transports (IYT) and PowerShares Global Progressive Transport (PTRP). 1.) ETFI Global Air Transport 2.) ETFI Global Personal Transport 3.) ETFI Global Maritime Transport 4.) ETFI Global Railroad Industry 5.) ETFI Global Trucking & Logistics The index is structured to include 15 companies each from railroads + trucking & logistics, 10 companies from air transport, and five companies each ...