This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.

• Michael Lerner and Ethan Hill (GOOD.is): The new Nostradamus, October 1, 2009. Can a fringe branch of mathematics forecast the future? A special adviser to the CIA, Fortune 500 companies, and the US Department of Defense certainly thinks so.

• Paul Lim (The New York Times): 10 years later, a much less expensive Dow 10,000, November 14, 2009. Investors may take some comfort now that the Dow Jones industrial average is back above 10,000 after slipping to around 9,700 at the end of October. But the return to 10,000 also serves as a bitter reminder that stocks have gone virtually nowhere, on balance, for more than a decade. Look a bit

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My Picks for Friday November 13, 2009 are:

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EMKR, EMCORE Corporation

EMKR provides compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and terrestrial solar power markets. EMKR is the world’s largest manufacturer of highly efficient radiation hard solar cells for space power applications.

** EMKR has been awarded a contract by Dutch Space of Leiden, The Netherlands to manufacture, test, and deliver the solar panels to power the Cygnus’ spacecraft being developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service project.

The total value of the contract would be in excess of $15 million.

More about EMKR

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – October 28, 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: Family Dollar (FDO), Costco (COST), Macy’s (M), JC Penney (JCP) and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL).

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Here are highlights from Tuesday’s AnalystBlog:

Consumer Confidence Crumbles

As for expectations about the future, there are still more people out there who expect things to get better over then next six months rather than deteriorate, but the margin is closing. In October, 20.8% expected to see things get better versus 18.3% who thought things will

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Before the opening bell, L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL) released strong third quarter results. In the reported quarter, the company clocked earnings per share (EPS) of $2.12, soundly beating both the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.85 and the year-ago quarterly EPS of $1.73. Net sales rose 5% to $3.8 billion in the reported quarter from $3.7 billion in the year-ago quarter. The upside came mainly from the Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C3ISR) and Aircraft Modernization and Maintenance (AM&M) segments. However, these were partially offset by decrease in the Government Services and Specialized Products segments sales year-over-year. C3ISR segment sales rose 21% year-over-year primarily due to increased demand and new business from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for airborne ISR and networked communication systems for manned and unmanned platforms. AM&M sales increased 17% due to higher revenues from systems field support services, Special ...

API Nanotronics Corp., a prime contractor for secure communications and electronic components to the global defense and aerospace industry announced operating results for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 ended August 31, 2009.

Financial Highlights:

– Net revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2010 was $9.2 million, a 16% increase over fiscal 2009 first quarter revenue of $7.9 million. This revenue includes the contribution from Cryptek as at the date of the acquisition on July 07, 2009;

– First quarter Gross Profit increased to $2.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2010 compared to $2.1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2009. Gross Margins in the company’s electronic component and sub-system product lines improved by 4% to 30.3% on a year-over-year basis due to rationalization and efficiency efforts undertaken during fiscal 2009;

– GAAP net loss for the quarter was $0.8 million or $0.02 per share, compared to a loss of

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Landstar System Inc. (LSTR) reported third-quarter results after the closing bell yesterday. The company’s net income declined 38.7% to $20.1 million, compared to $32.8 million in the year-ago quarter. Earnings per share of 39 cents was well below the year-ago result of 62 cents per share, though it matched the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Landstar is a non-asset based provider of integrated supply chain solutions. The company offers specialized transportation, warehousing and logistics services through a worldwide network of more than 1,000 independent sales agents, 8,000 business capacity owners and 25,000 contract carriers and warehouse capacity owners. The company’s quarterly revenues plunged 31.7% to $500.7 million, compared to $732.8 million in the year-ago period as performance was adversely affected by sluggish freight demand amid the global economic downturn. Revenues from third-party truck capacity providers, which contributed 91% to total revenues, decreased 29.5% year over year to $455.9 ...

Global leader in access control and wireless security systems, Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc. announced today that it received a contract modification of additional funding for the company’s Floating Area Network (FAN) and Littoral Sensor Grid wireless security buoy technology from the U.S. Navy. The contract modification adds $4,483,398.

The company began testing the multi-purpose security buoy platform in 2008. The project, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense and the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab, uses the company’s FAN technology to improve waterside security.

The buoys employ a high-capacity communications network grid for real-time monitoring of marine environments; they can include sensors for both environmental and homeland security purposes, including Water Quality, Oil Spill detection and Dirty Bomb detection.

Dr. Nelson Ludlow, CEO of Intellicheck Mobilisa, commented, “The Wireless Security Buoys project has been recognized by the Department of Defense as a vital source for waterway and port security and environmental monitoring.

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Tuesday September 29, 2009

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CONMED Corporation (NASDAQ: CNMD), a medical technology company specializing in medical devices for surgical and patient monitoring markets, announced today that the Company will participate in the Fourth Annual JMP Securities Healthcare Focus Conference, on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM Eastern time. The event will be held in New York at the New York Palace Hotel.

Patient Access Solutions, Inc. (Pink Sheets:PASO), a leading provider of healthcare/financial processing solutions for the healthcare, homecare, nursing LTNC and dental

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L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (LLL) is seeing higher Zacks Consensus Estimates ahead of reporting next month. The 2009 year forecast of $7.38 per share is up 7 cents over the past 3 month. For the following year, analysts polled by Zacks are calling for earnings of $8.16, representing 11% growth year-over-year.

Company Description

L-3 Communications supplies a broad range of products and services used in aerospace and defense platforms.

The company provides various systems, subsystems and products on many, including those for secure networked communications and communication products, mobile satellite communications, information security systems, shipboard communications, naval power systems, missiles and munitions, telemetry and instrumentation and airport security systems.

L-3 is also a prime system contractor for aircraft modernization and operations & maintenance (O&M), Command, Control & Communications (C3), Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) collection systems and services, training and simulation, intelligence services and government support services.

Customers include the U.S. Department of

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Tetra Tech Inc. (TTEK) recently won a $25 million contract for providing technical support to several programs run by the US Environmental Protection Agency in the Pacific Southwest Region Water Division.

During the five-year term of the agreement, Tetra Tech will support pollution prevention and sustainable water infrastructure activities associated with the Clean Water Act, the Marine Protection and Sanctuaries Research Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The company also received a $13.1 million contract from the Navy for a sanitary sewer system, storm drain removal and other services at Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco. This project is expected to be completed by March 2011.

Tetra Tech said that the dck/TtEC LLC was one of four contractors awarded a global multiple-award construction (GMAC) contract with the U.S. Navy. The indefinite delivery contract has a shared ceiling value of $900 million, with one base year and four

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