• Aetna (NYSE:AET) reported third quarter earnings of 69 cents a share, 3 cents better than Zacks estimates, on revenues of $8.72 billion, up 14.4%.  The company sees full year earnings of $2.75 a share

• OfficeMax (NYSE:OMX) posted third quarter earnings of 8 cents, 6 cents below Zacks estimates on inline revenues of $1.83 billion, down 12.6%. The firm issued cautious guidance, anticipating macro employment trends will not turn positive well into 2010

• Nintendo (NASDAQ:NTDOY) posted first half profits off 52% to $768 million, while sales dropped 34.5%. The company slashed its dividend for the first half by 37%

• Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) reported third quarter earnings of 79 cents a share, 24 cents above Zacks estimates, as revenues of $2.05 billion, up 49.5%, bested Zacks estimates of $1.78 billion

• Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) reported a 73% drop in net profit, with earnings ex-items of $2.62 billion slightly ahead of estimates

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PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PSFT.PK) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.amplificationtechnologies.com) (ATI), is offering higher performance thermoelectrically cooled discrete amplification single photon counting solid state photodetectors. These photodetectors are mounted on a two stage thermoelectric cooler inside a hermetically sealed TO8 package and can be operated down to a temperature of -30oC.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully demonstrated its ability to provide rocket stability using heritage U.S. Air Force Peacekeeper missile system hardware during NASA’s first Ares l-X

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Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) recently said it would launch a new Print App and an App Studio portal for the holiday season to enhance web printing, helping consumers to print customized content without a PC.

The print App software is designed to work with HP’s high-end printers. To improve the speed and reduce cost of digital printing, the company had earlier unveiled graphic arts technologies and products to support its Print 2.0 strategy. HP’s Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web is already available in the market. The company is manufacturing commercial and specialty digital printers to work with the Photosmart and TouchSmart.

HP’s Photosmart Premium printer with TouchSmart Web will be available for $399. The new Photosmart printers feature touch technology that help users to display as well as edit and print photos and enable them to copy and scan documents. Other wireless printers are available within the range of $129

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Aspire Misery Index For the Week Ended March 20, 2009 For the week, the DJIA closed up 0.8%, marking the first consecutive week gain since the week ended May 2, 2008. The Samp;P gained 1.6%, while the Nasdaq gained 1.8%. middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Industrial Output ndash; The Federal Reserve reported that industrial output dropped by 1.4% in February. Expectations were for a 1.2% decline. middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Capacity Utilization ndash; Fell to 67.4% last month, the lowest level on record since 1948. middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Profit Warnings ndash; Energy Conversion Devices, Gray Television, Xerox, Sony Ericsson, middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Initial jobless claims came in a 646,000, down 12,000, while continuing claims came in at 5.47 million. Weekly claims were less than expected while continuing claims came in higher than expected. middot;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Job Cuts ndash; Energy Conversion Devices (about 75 jobs), Baker Hughes (another 1,500 jobs), Raleigh Media (78 jobs), Nokia (1,700 jobs), Lexington Dispatch (83 jobs), Crane amp; ...

Monday:Economic Construction (-0.8%), ISM (42.0)Earnings Allegheny Energy (AYE), DryShips (DRYS), Goodyear (GT), Oshkosh (OSK), Anadarko (APC), Auto Data (ADP), Herbalife (HLF), MasterCard (MA), Mohawk (MHK), Open Text (OTEX), Otter Tail (OTTR), Rock Tenn (RKT), Pitney (PBI), Principal Fin (PFG), Viacom (VIA.B)Tuesday:Economic Truck / Auto, Factory Orders (-1.5%)Earnings Archer D (ADM), Emerson (EMR), FirstEnergy (FE), Graftech (GTI), Jacobs (JEC), Marvel (MVL), Rowan (RDC), RTI (RTI), Vornado (VNO), West Pharma (WST), Blue Nile (NILE), Kendle (KNDL), Ultra Petrol (UPL), Weight Watchers (WTW), W Greatbatch (GB)Wednesday:Economic Weekly Crude, ADP (-80K), ISM Services (48.5)Earnings Agrium (AGU), AMBAC (ABK), Arcelor Mittal (MT), Clean Harbors (CLHB), Cognizant (CTSH), Duke (DUK), GM (GM), Molson (TAP), Quanta (PWR), Sara Lee (SLE), Time Warner (TWX), Transocean (RIG), XTO (XTO), Activision (ATVI), Central Euro Dist (CEDC), Charles River (CRL), Excel M (EXM), Leap W (LEAP), Ormat (ORA), Sina (SINA), Vulcan ...

Maverick CapitalMaverick Capital Management Holdings AnalysisThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Lee Ainslie started Maverick Capital back in 1993 with $38 million. Nowadays, the fund is worth $10 billion. Ainslie, like many of the other fund managers I've profiled, has a background rooted in learning from legendary great Julian Robertson at Tiger Management. So, due to the fact that these proteges learned from the best and have had great success running their own hedge funds, I continually try to find a reason not to follow these funds. And, needless to say I'm never successful. Some contacts over at Maverick have explained that their hedge fund strategy is straight up stock picking, both long and short. They made ...

Soyo Group Inc. is a consumer electronics and IT products provider. Trading on the OTCBB, they have their corporate headquarters in Ontario, California, along with additional sales offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Established in 1985, Soyo forges strategic relationships with premier global manufacturers to deliver state-of-the-art affordable products to consumers.

Originally an expert manufacturer of designer motherboards, Soyo saw the need for affordable, high-quality peripheral consumer electronic products. They then began to branch out into the other product lines that are now very much an integral part of their business. Soyo recently signed a licensing agreement with Honeywell Intellectual Properties Inc. to produce Consumer Electronics products.

Soyo opened their first office in the United States in 1989. The company sells LCD monitors, LCD Televisions, computer motherboards, Bluetooth headsets, portable storage devices, home-theater furniture products, and broadband products and services. Soyo’s brand name product lineup includes SOYO, Dragon, Onyx, Dymond, Honeywell, Le Vello,

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