Headquartered in Longview, Washington, Nettel Holdings Corporation is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in diverse business activities. Their mission is to produce successful subsidiaries that are financially viable and freestanding. Their main subsidiaries are in telecommunications and software. Founded in 1999, the Company’s subsidiaries work to develop new and innovative technologies.

Nettel Holdings focuses on nurturing high-growth, high-tech businesses into profitable industry leaders. They provide the necessary financing and business support services that speed the development of their subsidiaries by providing them with targeted resources and services.

Nettel’s telecommunications services business includes advanced voice order processing direct. This handles routing management, settlements, billing, and administration activities for carriers. It also includes voice over Internet protocol services. This consists of residential and commercial long distance, prepaid calling card, PC to phone, unified messaging, and teleconferencing services. The Company’s computer equipment business exports computer electronics equipment.

The Company’s AVOP subsidiary delivers toll quality international

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Vietnam’s central bank will gradually widen the band in which the country’s currency is allowed to trade against the U.S. dollar, Pham Huu Phuong, head of the central bank’s representative office in Ho Chi Minh City, told a state run newspaper on Thursday. The dong is presently allowed to trade against the dollar within a three-percent band around a midpoint rate set daily by the central bank. Vietnam’s exchange rate has experienced a turbulent past few months, due primarily to the global rise of the dollar since the onset of the financial crisis, as nervous investors pulled money out of emerging markets like Vietnam. The dong had been rising against the dollar early in the year due to large inflows of foreign investment. It then dropped sharply in late spring on fears of a currency crisis due to rampant inflation. It ...

Trading on the American Stock Exchange (AMEX), Elixir Gaming Technologies Inc. provides turnkey gaming solutions to venue owners. They work with their major shareholder Elixir International who is part of the Melco Group. Elixir Gaming’s main business is the placement of gaming machines on a revenue share model in three, four and five star resorts, hotels, cruise ships, and other venues across emerging gaming markets in the Asia Pacific region. The Company has offices in Macau, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Manila, and Cambodia.

Elixir Gaming has established operations in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam. They are building a stronger gaming presence via contracts for more than 5,500 electronic gaming machines for placing across more than 30 venues in the near future. The Company focuses their efforts on Asia as revenue from casinos and other regulated gambling activities in Asia is forecast to grow 14 percent a year to 2010.

Elixir collaborates with

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We pause this morning, while the rest of the world contemplates Mr. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and this week’s pending machinations of the Fed and OPEC, to ponder matters geopolitical. There’s something extremely telling about the reaction to the reporter who flung his shoes at That Lame Duck in the White House. And it doesn’t bode well for the next four years under the new president.

Something significant was missing from the main account of the incident, be it from the Associated Press or Reuters.

But McClatchy Newspapers (its pitiful financial state notwithstanding) got the real story. “Friends said Zaidi covered the U.S. bombing of Baghdad’s Sadr City area earlier this year and had been ‘emotionally influenced’ by the destruction he’d seen,” says its reporter in Baghdad.

This salient fact was otherwise missing from establishment media coverage.

If after nearly six years of war in Iraq, two of which were

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Today, Capstone Turbine Corp. announced that it has inked a new distribution agreement with Sobono Energy Private Limited for Combined Heat & Power (CHP) and Resource Recovery applications in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Guam and Saipan. With headquarters in Singapore, Sobono Energy provides green, renewable energy solutions to customers in the Asia Pacific region.

Jim Crouse, Capstone Turbine’s Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, stated, “This agreement offers Capstone the opportunity to leverage Sobono’s broad capabilities throughout the Asia Pacific. Their expertise and knowledge as a green and clean energy solution integrator will be a great addition to complement Capstone’s strategic sales growth initiatives.

Darren Jamison, President and Chief Executive Officer of Capstone Turbine, commented, “One of our business strategies has been to add new business partners and strengthen the relationships with our existing ones. The talented and professional management and sales force of Sobono bring to us the capabilities

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Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. (EBS) is aggressively growing its earnings, recently reporting impressive third-quarter results that marked big gains from the previous year. Analysts are very bullish on the company, with the next-year estimate projecting 100% earnings growth.

Company Description

Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. is a bio-pharmaceutical company that develops and manufactures immunobiotics in the U.S., U.K. and Vietnam. The company operates in two divisions, biodefense and commercial, and has a market cap of $677 million.

Third-Quarter Results

Emergent BioSolutions reported excellent third-quarter results on Nov 6 that were far ahead of analyst estimates. Revenue came in at $56.6 million, a 30% increase from last year. Net income totaled $10.4 million, a big jump from income of $2.8 million last year. This produced earnings of 35 cents per share, blowing past analyst estimates of 17 cents.

The company said its solid showing was driven by sales of

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HIDDEN VALUE

Dear Value Seeker,

Yesterday, the “Big Three” automakers came to Washington with a plan: ask for even more money.

GM wants $18 billion, with $4 billion for December’s bills.

Chrysler says it needs $7 billion in the next few months.

Ford is after $9 billion…but only as a precaution. It feels pretty confident it can make it without help.

After all, Ford’s sales fell only 31% year-over-year in November. GM and Chrysler both saw sales for the same period tumble by over 40%.

In exchange for $34 billion in taxpayer money, the automakers promised major restructuring, reduced labor costs (that’s right, it’s promising to fire employees in return for taxpayer backing) and the sale of some product lines.

The CEOs even said they would even work for $1. (Never mind that their salaries only make up about 10% of their overall pay packages.)

But decades of waste and mismanagement aren’t forgotten

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Jeff is traveling, so we are republishing his recent interview from the Kirk Report, one of our featured sources.  The Kirk Report is an excellent investor resource, with many specific stock ideas for members.  Charles Kirk also reads very widely and provides regular links to articles we might otherwise have missed.  He came up with some excellent questions for the interview, getting Jeff to discuss many topics he has not covered on "A Dash." Here is the Kirk Report interview: It is with great pleasure to have Jeff Miller, from A Dash Of Insight, to participate in this month's Q&A. Many of you know Jeff because I've linked to many (if not the vast majority) of his blog posts. In this Q&A we'll cover a variety of topics ...

During the Great Depression, a spike in protectionism deepened the global crisis for many countries. Sara Nunnally says greater co-operation between Asian and Latin American states should prevent a similar mistake being made this year. It should also help keep some of these nations out of recession.

This from Taipan’s Emerging Markets blog:

Members of APEC, Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation, ended their annual summits today in Lima, Peru. One of the main topics, besides the economic crisis, was free trade.

(By the way, APEC consists of member economies like China, Vietnam, the U.S., Canada, Russia, Peru, and Chile, among others.)

Free trade is a hot topic right now, with the dreaded “P” word floating about: protectionism. Protectionism is when governments restrict or restrain international trade. Most times the intent is to protect local markets from competition.

Like if the U.S. government says a tomato farmer in Mexico can no longer export

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