Earnings estimates for Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc. (SWM) have been steady over the past month, but that could change in the near future as this diversified producer of premium specialty papers just raised its full-year outlook.

< ?DART(15);?> SWM is a top-performing Zacks #1 Rank company on Wednesday with shares that have increased more than 9%. Volume is well above normal at 551,000, compared to the daily average of more than 245,000.

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for this year is $3.75 per share, which is only a penny higher than 2 months ago but is 7.1% better than 3 months ago.

In addition, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for next year is pegged at $4.70, accounting for a gain of 5.6% in 2 months and as much as 843% in 3 months.

Q3 Helped by Higher-Value Products

Yesterday, Schweitzer-Mauduit International announced third-quarter earnings per

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Leading software and semiconductor IP design company Synopsys Inc. (SNPS) recently introduced the Synphony HLS (High Level Synthesis) solution that combines M-language and model-based synthesis, enabling the delivery of around ten times higher design and verification productivity compared to traditional RTL (Register Transfer Level) flows for communication.  In RTL design, a circuit's behavior is defined in terms of the flow of signals (or transfer of data) between hardware registers and the logical operations performed on those signals. This whole operation is carried out within a span of time, which will be drastically reduced by the introduction of HLS technology.  Synphony HLS is made through a combination of Synopsys’ Design Compiler, Synplify Premier, Confirma, VCS, System Studio and Innovator products in order to facilitate the process of prototyping, implementation and verification flows from algorithm to silicon. Technical experts expect that the Synphony HLS will significantly change the ...

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Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, today introduced its Synphony HLS (High Level Synthesis) solution that integrates M-language and model-based synthesis to deliver up to 10X higher design and verification productivity than traditional RTL flows for communications and multimedia applications. Synphony HLS creates optimized RTL for ASIC and FPGA implementation, architecture exploration and rapid prototyping. In addition, Synphony HLS complements C/C++-based flows by generating C-models for system

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GSI Commerce Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIC), a leading provider of e-commerce and multichannel solutions, today announced a multiyear extension and expansion of its e-commerce agreement with Turner Sports, in partnership with NASCAR. Under the agreement, GSI will continue to provide Turner Sports and NASCAR with e-commerce technology, fulfillment, customer care, catalog services and interactive marketing services, including e-mail.

Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) today reported record quarterly silver production of 3 million ounces for the second quarter of 2009, a 24% increase compared with the same period a year ago. In spite of lower by-product metal credits in 2009 versus 2008, cash

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Assuming for this discussion that the 200-day moving average of a security could be called its primary trend, let’s see how the prices of a round-the-world selection of 61 diverse fund types (and 6 transport indexes) stack up to their primary trend, and whether their primary trend is up or down.

The first observation is that nearly all are in a primary down trend, based on the 200-day (40-week or roughly 10 month) average.  In this batch of fund categories, only aggregate US bonds, intermediate US Treasuries, the Dollar index and the Japanese Yen are in primary up trends, but the price of the Treasuries fund and the Dollar index fund have fallen below their primary trend line.  That leaves only two where the primary trend is up and the price is above the primary trend line — US aggregate bonds and the Japanese Yen.

Of the 60+ in a primary down

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M3 Money Supply Chart

M3 Money supply represents the amount of money added to the money supply. The Federal Reserve stopped reporting this (gee I wonder why) but it is still tracked by private firms.

I have watched this closely over the last few months, as I wanted to see if we were going to see a contraction, or expansion of the money supply.

As you can see, money supply has expanded substantially, going from roughly 13.5 Trillion $USD in August to approximately $14.5 Trillion in November. Annual rate of change (increase) is approximately 17%.

Any expansion of the money supply is bullish for gold.

Baltic Dry Index Chart

The Baltic Dry Index shows us how much surface tonnage is being shipped, which also gives us a feel for how much international trade is being conducted.

As you can see, it has basically fallen off

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