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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.

Daktronics Inc. (Nasdaq:DAKT), the world’s leading digital billboard manufacturer, today revealed its 6th generation digital billboard product: the Valo(R) 3000 Series. Highlighted by its substantial

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This post is a guest contribution by Dr Jay Bryson* of Wells Fargo Securities, Economics Group.

Recently released data showed that the year-over-year growth rate of Chinese real GDP rose from 6.1 percent in the first quarter of this year to 7.9 percent in the second quarter (Figure 1). Monthly data certainly suggested that economic growth in China was picking up steam in the second quarter, so the confirmation that overall GDP accelerated in the recently completed quarter was a pleasant, albeit not totally unexpected, outturn.

Why is the Chinese economy accelerating again? A breakdown of real GDP into its underlying demand components is not available, but monthly data offer some clues. First, foreign trade is starting to stabilize. The swoon in exports in the second half of 2008 and early this year exerted a powerful drag on the Chinese economy. Now that foreign trade is

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - June 10, 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: The Gap (GPS), Rex Stores (RSC), HH Gregg (HGG), Transocean (RIG) and Diamond Offshore (DO).

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Here are highlights from Tuesday's Analyst Blog:

Will Oil Prices Prevent a Recovery?

Higher oil prices are coming at a time when the economy is still very fragile. Retail spending on goods other than energy face strong headwinds from both the need for consumers to rebuild their personal balance sheets (pay down past debts

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China’s New “Manifest Destiny”

Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team

During my years of experience in the markets, I have found that the consensus opinion on Wall Street is often misguided, incorrect and downright wrong. Today the Wall Street “herd” is moving in the wrong direction again – they’ve missed the real story on China.

The conventional wisdom on Wall Street that China is an export-dependent, coastal-river-delta-driven economy no longer matches the realities in China. China’s economic growth is increasingly being driven from within.

And we need only to look at our own history to understand how…

In the nineteenth century, the United States relentlessly expanded across the North American continent and fulfilled its “manifest destiny.” Over this time period, the United States economy underwent a transition from export-oriented growth to a greater reliance on inner economic

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The following two charts (and the comments in between them) are part of a very interesting article by James Hamilton. The collapse in oil prices last fall acted as a key economic stabilizer and helped ameliorate the economic decline. It showed up in two key places. The first was in the trade deficit numbers, which have shown a very dramatic improvement over the last year (see here and here). The other place it showed up was in retail sales, since a dollar spent at the gas pump is a dollar that can not be spent elsewhere. Since last Christmas, prices at the pump have climbed sharply, as shown in the first graph. While prices are still far below the levels of a year ago, the current levels are high enough to start hurting, especially those who have seen their incomes drop due to the ...

Buenos Aires, Argentina Is the rally still on? We’re not sure. Wednesday, the Dow fell 83 points…after a weak bounce on Tuesday. We expected the rally to last until June and to take the Dow back to the 10,000 range. But anything could happen. And if you depend on 91-day T-bills for your spending money, you’re in a world of hurt. The yield is only 0.13%.

But maybe things are better on the other side of the planet. How’s China doing? Analysts are “cautiously optimistic,” says a New York Times report.

Retail spending in China is said to be up 15%.

Meanwhile, a report tells us that China is stepping up its purchases of U.S. Treasury debt.

Hmmm… Why would China be doing that? The official response to that question is that U.S. Treasury debt is not only the most abundant credit in the world; it is also the most reliable.

As to the first

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The Stock Market Rally: How Long Can This Last?

by Alexander Green, Oxford Club Investment Director

That’s the question on investors’ minds right now: Does this stock market rally have legs?

Let’s set aside the obvious answer - no one knows - for a moment and consider what many investors simply refuse to believe: That we’ve seen the market lows.

Why are so many skeptical on this count? Because virtually everything they see and hear tells them the economy is going to get much worse in the months ahead.

And they’re right. It will.

The economy is losing 600,000 jobs a month. The banking system remains dysfunctional. Real estate is mired in quicksand. Retail spending is anemic - and still falling. And consumer confidence is at record lows.

It doesn’t take Isaac Newton to see that the economy will get worse. If there were a direct correlation between the economy and the short-term direction of the

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Cyber Monday was better for online retailers than most expected. But consumers were only interested in heavily-discounted goods. That’s why Andrew Snyder thinks eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) is well placed to turn a profit this Christmas. It not only attracts bargain hunters, but also sellers desperate to raise cash. And better still, it has a balance sheet that most companies dream of these days.

During the Great Depression, financially devastated Americans sold turnips along side the road to make ends meet. Today, they merely boot up their computer and sell their junk online.

For proof, I called up an acquaintance that makes her living buying and selling on eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY). She answered the phone sounding like she had just spent the last 48 hours on a runaway treadmill. She was tired and grumpy.

“So how did Cyber Monday treat you,” I asked.

“It was insane. I have more orders than I can handle,” I

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EDF Scooping Constellation; Research in Motion Posts Tough 3Q; Legg Mason’s Miller Calls Market Bottom; Cyber Monday Sales Strong; Crude Stocks Drop; New Zealand Fights Recession

The world’s biggest nuclear utility company, Electricité de France SA will offer as much as $6.5 billion for assets of Constellation Energy Group, Inc (CEG), source familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. A previous offer by EDF was turned down, with Constellation opting for a $4.7 billion bid from Warren Buffett’s MidAmerican unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A,BRK.B). Research In Motion Ltd.’s (RIMM) third-quarter subscriptions and profit fell short of forecasts, as it simultaneously faces increased competition and recession in its largest market. Profit for the Blackberry maker rose no more than 83 cents a share in the quarter ended Nov. ...