President-elect Barack Obama plans to renew America’s information superhighway. This means huge investments in the country’s broadband network. David Newman says there will be big profits for this tech ETF (IGN).

This from Sovereign Society:

We’ve just learned that President-elect Barack Obama’s economic team is considering an economic-stimulus program that will be far larger than the two-year, half-trillion-dollar plan under consideration last week.

Obama aides and advisers now say US$600 billion over two years is “a very low-end estimate”. The final number is expected to be significantly higher, possibly between $700 billion and $1 trillion over two years.

I wonder what the number will be next week…two trillion?

Today I want to talk about some of the other sectors that will benefit big when Obama is sworn in next month, and how you can benefit from one simple investment as this money begins flowing.

Obama said the package will include an initial tax

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Dismal economic events have culminated in drastic declines of market valuation among companies in nearly every industry/sector, including impacts to telecom industry performance. Capital spending constraints among carriers, and limited funds available to sustain (grow) telecom services over the next six- to twelve-months, may be outcomes of credit markets remaining restricted and overall GDP growth remaining tepid or even retracting. Telecom carriers often resort to credit markets for funding capital projects, while telecom equipment companies conventionally use equity share offerings in lieu of debt instruments. The outcome has been a disappointment, regardless of the selected financing mechanism.

As a result of weakening macroeconomic indicators, telecom carriers' capital expenditures remain limited in 2008 and early 2009. There has been more selectivity on technology choices and leveraging cost-savings synergies, such as streamlining purchasing arrangements and reducing the number of preferred vendors. Shareholders continue to foster an environment where executives are

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Atmel Corporation (ATML) is expected to release its Q3:FY08 results on Oct. 29. Earlier, the company reported Q2:FY08 revenues of $420.9 million, up 4.1% y/y and up 2.4% q/q. Microcontrollers posted record revenues of $143 million and the ASIC segment posted revenues of $121 million.Recently, Microchip, Inc. (MCHP) and ON Semiconductor (ONNN) announced an unsolicited offer to acquire ATML for $5/share in cash. The offer represents a 52.4% premium to Oct. 2 closing price, and values ATML at $2.3 billion. The deal is led by MCHP, with ONNN acquiring the NVM and RF/Auto businesses. MCHP plans to sell Atmel's ASIC business together with the French fab to a third party. Going forward, management expects revenues to be down 3% 7% in Q3:FY08, due to onetime revenue adjustment. Excluding these adjustments, Q3 organic revenue guidance is for up 1% to 4% sequentially. We ...

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COMPANY NAME INSIDERS NAME TITLE $ VALUE NO. OF SHARES IN TRANS. RANGE OF VALUES TRANSACTIONS DATES Lincare Holdings J. Byrnes CEO $10,496,173 351,737 29.72-29.96 October 1-3, 2008 Transocean J. Talbert D 5,579,282 53,544 103.46-104.67 October 1, 2008 Varian Medical T. Guertin CEO 3,260,964 56,500 57.01-58.01 October 1, 2008 Aeropostale J. Howard D 2,660,560 90,309 28.50-30.23 October 2-3, 2008 Buckle D. Hirschfeld CB 2,328,971 45,000 50.86-52.87 October 1-2, 2008 Amazon.com...

If you look at the companies that major contributors to the presidential candidates are connected with, stock indexes can be created for each candidate. Forbes Magazine came out with a great list of the members of the Forbes 400 that have contributed to presidential campaigns. The following spells out the stocks of each candidate, and who the contributor is. The contributors are either major shareholders or they run or have run these companies. The above graph shows the Barack Obama Stock Index and the John McCain Stock Index and compares them to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. What is interesting is that the returns for the two presidential candidates are almost identical, with the McCain Stock Index down 21% and the Obama Stock Index down 22%. But what is most unusual is that the indices for both candidates greatly underperformed the ...

Tudor Hedge FundTudor Hedge Fund 13F Holdings AnalysisThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Next up in the macro hedge fund tracking series we have Tudor Investment Corp, the brainchild of Paul Tudor Jones. Taken from Wikipedia, the bio of PTJ is as follows: "In 1980 he founded Tudor Investment Corporation which is today a leading asset management firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Tudor Group, which consists of Tudor Investment Corporation and its affiliates, is involved in active trading, investing and research in the global equity, venture capital, debt, currency and commodity markets. One of Jones' earliest and major successes was predicting Black Monday in 1987, tripling his money during the event due to large short positions. Jones uses a global macro ...

Caxton AssociateseCaxton Associates Hedge Fund HoldingsThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Up next in the macro hedge fund tracking series we have Caxton Associates, ran by Bruce Kovner. Taken from Wikipedia, Kovner's bio is as follows: "Kovner's first trade was for $3,000, borrowed against his MasterCard, in soybean futures contracts. Realizing growth to $40,000, he then watched the contract drop to $23,000 before selling. He later claimed that this first, nerve-racking trade taught him the importance of hedge fund risk management. In his eventual role as a trader under the legendary Michael Marcus at Commodities Corporation (now part of Goldman Sachs), ...

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 ...

Lone Pine CapitalLone Pine Capital & Stephen Mendel - HoldingsThis post is being written as part of HedgeFundBlogger.com's Investment Securities Tool which analyzes the holdings of hedge fund managers.Lone Pine Capital, managed by Stephen Mandel Jr. Lone Pine is an $8 Billion fund that has returned over 25% annually ever since its inception in 1997. Why is Mandel worth following you might ask? Well, he served as a consumer/retail analyst for Tiger Management back in the day for legendary investor Julian Robertson. Robertson's proteges/right-hand men have been nicknamed the "Tiger Cubs" and many have started their own funds. So, not only has Mandel learned from one of the best, but he has put up some very solid returns himself. Mandel is well versed in the ...