Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today:

AeroCentury Corp (ACY) American Capital Agency Corp (AGNC) American Greetings Corp (AM) AudioCodes Ltd (AUDC) The Bancorp Inc (TBBK) The Boston Beer Company Inc (SAM) Corinthian Colleges Inc (COCO) The Corporate Executive Board Co (EXBD) Cymer Inc (CYMI) Homex Development Corp (HXM) Emergency Medical Services Corp (EMS) Ennis Inc (EBF) Fairchild Semiconductor International (FCS) Gerber Scientific Inc (GRB) Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA (GOL) Golfsmith International Holdings Inc (GOLF) ...

Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today:

America Movil SAB de CV (AMX) America's Car-Mart Inc (CRMT) ATC Technology Corp (ATAC) ATMI Inc (ATMI) AXA (AXA) BHP Billiton Ltd (BHP) BlackRock Inc (BLK) Brush Engineered Material (BW) Carter's Inc (CRI) The Corporate Executive Board Co (EXBD) Dynamex Inc (DDMX) First Midwest Bancorp Inc (FMBI) Forestar Group Inc (FOR) Hanger Orthopedic Group Inc (HGR) HF Financial Corp (HFFC) HLTH Corp (HLTH) Kirkland's Inc (KIRK) ...

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) announced today that it has made a significant discovery of oil and gas reserves in Kern County, California. Occidental believes there are between 150 million and 250 million gross barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) reserves within the outlined area where Oxy has drilled six wells to date to delineate the discovery. The multi-pay zone discovery area, whose areal geological extent is still being defined, has both conventional and unconventional pay zones. The bulk of the discovery’s producing zones are conventional oil and gas bearing formations.

WSFS Financial Corporation (Nasdaq/GS: WSFS), the parent company of WSFS Bank, today announced it expects to report second quarter earnings at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on Monday, July 27, 2009. Also on Monday, management will conduct a conference call to review

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A comparison of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:PLA) and Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:MVL) allows us to define the only proper strategy to trade the upcoming FriendFinder Networks IPO.

The times, they are a-changin’! These days, you could become 51% owner of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:PLA) for less than $50 million. I’m not sure what you’d do with half of Hef’s robe or half of his harem of nubile blondes. But it sure has a certain ring to it!

If you wanted to become half-owner of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:MVL), however, you’d have to shell out $1.35 billion! Comic books are now worth 27 times as much as the well-written articles and witty cartoons that I hear are the sales engine of Playboy magazine.

The interesting part of this is that the demographic both businesses used to appeal to are nearly identical: Adolescent and post-adolescent male virgins.

Only that Playboy’s original audience

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Playboy in Play? Honda Throttles Back Jet Program; Hedge Funds to Hedge Bets After Losses; JPMorgan Will Modify Loans; Google Will Rather Fight Than Switch; Mortgage Applications Soar as Rates Fall

The publisher of one of the world’s best known adult magazines, Playboy Enterprises Inc., (PLA) said it would be open to discussions about an outright sale after posting a wider fourth-quarter loss on weaker-than-expected revenue.  The company, which has been through a management shake-up including the resignation in December of longtime Chief Executive Officer Christie Hefner, posted a net loss in each quarter of 2008. A restructuring charge of $157.2 million, and other one-time costs, also hurt results, Reuters reported. Confronting its first quarterly loss in at least 15 years, Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (ADR: HMC) will scale back plans to make business jets and may offer voluntary retirements for ...