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Chicago, IL – November 19, 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: D.R. Horton (DHI), Pulte (PHM), Owens Corning (OC), Masco (MAS) and EnCana Corporation (ECA).

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Here are highlights from Wednesday’s Analyst Blog:

Housing Starts, Permits Plunge

Housing prices are still under pressure, despite unprecedented steps by the Federal government and the Federal Reserve to prop up the price of that asset class. Artificial government support is not as durable a way to prop up prices as a better balance between supply and demand

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In October, Housing Starts fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of just 529,000, a 10.6% decline from September and down 30.7% from a year ago.  That puts housing starts at their lowest level since April, and takes a lot of steam out of the incipient economic recovery. Most of the damage, however, came in the very volatile apartment and condo area. Starts in buildings with five or more units dropped to their lowest level yet in this cycle at an annualized rate of just 48,000. That is down 33.3% from September and is off 78.1% from an already depressed level of a year ago. When most people think about housing starts, they think about single family starts.  There the news was bad, but not quite as bad as the news from "condo-land." Nationwide, single-family housing starts fell 6.8% from September and are down 10.9% from a year ago, ...

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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.

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today expanded its HP Total Care portfolio to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) build a strong technology foundation that increases their productivity and collaboration, reduces environmental impact and provides greater flexibility as they refresh technology in

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Owens Corning’s (OC) share price has entered into oversold territory with a stochastic value of 7.63. Analysts have been increasing their estimates on the company’s full-year earnings, sending the Zacks Consensus Estimate up by 8 cents over the past month to $1.02 per share. Owens Corning is a Zacks #1 Rank (“Strong Buy") company."OC" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?Zacks Investment Research

NEW HAVEN, CT — (Marketwire) — 07/31/09 — American Green Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AMNE) (www.americangreengroup.com) would like to remind investors today is the last day for shareholders of record to receive the 5 for 1 forward split; in order to receive the dividend you MUST be a shareholder of record on the close of today.

AMNE through its wholly owed subsidiary Paradigm Polymers announces a pending Strategic Alliance Agreement with Alderman Research Ltd. (AR) a Delaware Corporation. AR president, Robert J. Alderman is holder of over 80 US and International patents covering a variety of fields, including electronics, telephone, radio communications, fuel cell, acoustic levitation, sonic cleaning, laser measurement, distillation, reflective/thermal insulation, and Phase Change Materials ("Infinite R").

Alderman Research has also developed multiple products sold into various markets under licensing and trade secret agreements. Some licensees of Alderman products are Butler Buildings, the world’s largest builder of

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• Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) beat Street estimates, posting second quarter earnings of $1.15 per share, ex-items, four cents ahead of expectations, versus $1.18 a year ago, on revenues of $15.2 billion

• Fastenal (NASDAQ:FAST) reported second quarter earnings miss at 29 cents per share, 4 pennies off Street estimates of 33 cents, as revenues fell short of the $487.10 million target, posting at $474.9 million

• Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) warned of gross margin pressure in the second quarter, likely to generate only slight sequential revenue gains versus estimates of 1.6% growth.  Although asserting stabilization in its IT product demand y/y, the firm stated profits were affected by "the result of higher component costs, a competitive pricing environment, and an unfavorable mix of product and business-segment demand"

• CSX (NYSE:CSX) reported better-than-expected earnings of 72 cents a share from continuing operations, a dime ahead of estimates, versus 95 cents a year ago, despite a

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Chicago, IL - May 29, 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: D.R. Horton (DHI), Lennar (LEN), Weyerhaeuser (WY), Owens Corning (OC) and Allergan, Inc. (AGN).

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Here are highlights from Thursday's Analyst Blog:

New Home Sales Flat

With interest rates backing up sharply, it appears that the bulk of the work to bring the months of supply back to more normal levels will have to come from further reductions in new housing starts. This is bad news for the homebuilders like D.R. Horton (DHI) and

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But "Flat" Is Better Than "Flattened"New home sales in April were essentially flat with March, rising to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 352,00, from 351,000, a rise of 0.3%. Given that the 90% confidence interval for these numbers is 14.5%, that is about as close to unchanged as you will get.On a year-over-year basis, nationwide sales are down 34.0%. For the month, the Northeast and Midwest regions were unchanged, while a 1.9% increase in the huge South region offset a 3.8% decline in the West. On a year-over-year basis there is significant variation, with new home sales down 52.5% in the Northeast, but down just 25.4% in the South. The Midwest (-45.8%) and the West (-39.7%) fall in between.As a result, the already small Northeast region has fallen to the point of being almost insignificant, accounting for only 5.4% of all new ...

Thresher Industries, an advanced technology aluminum castings company out of Hanford, California, is a good example of the old business truism: People Are The Company. In an intensely competitive industry, during critical economic times, Thresher has never lost sight of the basics represented in its stated mission to provide every customer, big or small, with innovative and quality solutions at fair prices. They continue to grow their business by developing cutting edge technologies and materials, including their own proprietary Direct Metal Induction Cast Process and their Nautilus Core Process, all of which results in more flexible, cost effective, and environmentally friendly casting.

At the heart of the company is its management team, comprising an impressive record of business achievement and dedication.

• Tom Flessner, CEO, has an extensive background in die-casting and foundry management, as well as turning around distressed manufacturing companies. In 1991, he implemented

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The unemployment picture took on an even more ominous tone this week as new layoffs emphatically underscored a worsening global economy.  Now, fear is rising that the losses represent a major restructuring in the business world and that some, if not most, of the jobs are gone forever. Monday began with several European companies, including electronics giant Philips (PHG) and insurance and banking conglomerate ING, announcing job cuts of 6,000 and 7,000 employees respectively. The gloomy start to the workweek quickly turned into a bloodbath as more than 75,000 jobs were lost in a single day, when a who’s who of U.S. household names launched a gauntlet of layoffs: Sign up below… and we’ll send you a new investment report for free:...