With vacation season ending in the Northern Hemisphere, we’ll start to see analysis rooted in experience and common sense driving stock prices. Through much of the summer, trading has been dominated by “quant” funds that are prone to “garbage in, garbage out” decision systems. You can see it in the tick-by-tick movements and in Level 2 quotes. These quant funds typically use backward-looking data on the U.S. economy to drive trading decisions, rather than assess how the outlook for the global economy has changed in the wake of last fall’s panic.

Consider this likely scenario: The heavy retail investor inflows into corporate bond funds last spring (far in advance of the peak in defaults, by the way) undoubtedly helped push corporate bond spreads down. The quant funds’ models detected this movement, concluded that the recession might be over, and proceeded to buy stocks that are highly sensitive to future U.S. consumer

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SteelCloud, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCLD), a leading integrator of mobility computing appliance services, today announced that it will be offering its SteelWorks(R) Mobile appliance for BlackBerry(R) Enterprise Server to hosting service providers in the Americas and EMEA markets.

Humana Military Healthcare Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), recently received accreditation for its Disease Management Program - Diabetes and its first re-accreditation for Disease Management programs in Asthma and Heart Failure.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced today that it has entered into multiple real estate transactions that will expand the Company’s manufacturing and development infrastructure. These transactions

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Thursday August 6, 2009

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SteelCloud, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCLD), a leading integrator of mobility computing appliance services, today announced that it will be offering its SteelWorks(R) Mobile appliance for BlackBerry(R) Enterprise Server to hosting service providers in the Americas and EMEA markets.

Humana Military Healthcare Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), recently received accreditation for its Disease Management Program - Diabetes and its first re-accreditation for Disease Management programs in Asthma and Heart Failure.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced today that it has entered into multiple real estate transactions that will expand the Company’s manufacturing and development infrastructure. These transactions should broaden the Company’s

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - June 15, 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: Government Properties Income Trust (GOV), Cypress Sharpridge Investments (CYS), Freddie Mac (FRE), Fannie Mae (FNM) and LoopNet (LOOP).

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Here are highlights from Friday's Analyst Blog:

2 New REIT IPOs

Two new recent REIT IPOs launched in June. Government Properties Income Trust (GOV) began trading earlier this month. The company priced 10 mm shares @ $20.00 per share. The company is a subsidiary of HRPT Properties Trust, an

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The Federal Reserve released its Beige Book this week, and the news for LoopNet (LOOP), which operates an online marketplace for commercial real estate, remains challenging. Commercial real estate transactions remain at historically low levels, and we expect this trend to continue to put pressure on LoopNet’s operations. The Fed noted that "commercial real estate markets continued to weaken across all Districts." This is certainly not a positive sign for LoopNet’s business, and the lack of transaction activity is our primary concern regarding the company’s outlook. This lack of commercial purchases and sales stems not only from lack of demand, but lack of available capital. According to the Fed, "eight Districts cited difficulty in obtaining financing as one of the primary reasons for delaying or stopping construction of new developments and for limiting sales of existing properties." This fact is troubling, as it indicates ...

We highlight Citigroup, Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC).This morning, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner testified before the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) headed by Elizabeth Warren. In general, the questions were excellent; unfortunately, the answers were not forthcoming.One excellent question was, "How does protecting the common shareholders of Citigroup (C) help the economy?" There was no real answer to that question -- just a dance about how it was not appropriate for him to talk about any individual financial institution. The true answer to the question is: it doesn't.He said in response to questioning about the asymmetric risks and returns in the Public Private Investment Plan (PPIP) that if you had to sell your house immediately but there were no mortgages available, you would not get a very good price. I think that this is fundamentally the ...

by Edward Hugh: Barcelonabr /br /blockquoteJoke - How do you know when a country is in crisis? Well, on the buses on the way to work, and in the bars and cafes during the mid morning break, everyone is reading the economy rather than the sports section in the local newspaper./blockquoteSeveral pieces of news out over the last week are relevant to the whole debate we are having about how to drag the Estonian economy (kicking and screaming it would seem) out of its current slump. In the first place the Estonian parliament passed a supplementary 2009 budget at the start of the week, in an attempt to address the ongoing crisis in the economy and the dramatic decline in revenues. The cuts were approved by 61 votes to 35 against in what was also an effective vote of confidence in the present government. So at least it is clear ...

Controversy surrounding the Romanian economy is nothing new, nor, as a href="http://globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com/2008/11/romania-votes-under-new-electoral.html"Manuel points out in his post on the recent election/a, are Romanian politics strangers to tumult. Nonetheless the intensity of controversy has grown considerably of late, with a wide variety of assessments being offered concerning the likely impact of the intensifying international credit crisis on the short to medium term outlook for the Romanian economy. National Bank of Romania (NBR) governor, Mugur Isarescu, has been consistently arguing that the country should be able to avoid an excessively "hard landing"as the bank attempts to cool its evidently overheated economy and engages of fire-extinguising activities in the banking sector trying to control the impact of set of adverse external circumstances that are largely beyond its control. But most of these comments (or at least the more convincing ones) preceded the meltdown in the international financial markets which followed the Lehman Brothers ...

by Edward Hugh: Barcelonabr /br /Controversy surrounding the Romanian economy is nothing new, nor, as a href="http://globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com/2008/11/romania-votes-under-new-electoral.html"Manuel points out in his post on the recent election/a, are Romanian politics strangers to tumult. Nonetheless the intensity of controversy has grown considerably of late, with a wide variety of assessments being offered concerning the likely impact of the intensifying international credit crisis on the short to medium term outlook for the Romanian economy.National Bank of Romania (NBR) governor, Mugur Isarescu, has been consistently arguing that the country should be able to avoid an excessively "hard landing"as the bank attempts to cool its evidently overheated economy and engages of fire-extinguising activities in the banking sector trying to control the impact of set of adverse external circumstances that are largely beyond its control. But most of these comments (or at least the more convincing ones) preceded the meltdown in the international financial markets which ...