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2009: January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November

2008

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November 2009

11/06/2009 – Doctor Up Your Portfolio With This Medical Communications Company

11/05/2009 – Beware This Tech-Tonic Shift In The Global Technology Sector

11/05/2009 – Fuel Your Portfolio With BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP): The Best-Run
Commodities Company In The World

11/04/2009 – Bank On HSBC Holdings (NYSE: HBC) and the Asian Equation

11/04/2009 – How To Play the Oil Conspiracy Theories

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October 2009

10/29/2009 – The Best Two Ways to Play Canada’s Economy, Currency And Natural Resources

10/28/2009 – GPS Killer: Google Rules Another Roost

10/28/2009 – Let China’s Middle Class Lead You Into Luxury

10/23/2009 – ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) Has the Eye of the Tiger

10/21/2009 – Emerging Market ETFs… Five Ways to Play

10/21/2009 – The Secret to Profiting from Earnings Reports: Buy High… Sell Higher

10/20/2009 – Move Over Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo: There’s A New Gamer In Town

10/14/2009 – Capitalize on the “Age Of Infrastructure” With This Industry Giant

10/14/2009 – Two Pharmas Are Better Than One… Here Are the Ones to Buy in This Merger-Mad Industry

10/13/2009 – The Baltic Dry Index: A Solid Gauge of Global Economic Health

10/09/2009 – Two Sagging Economies… Two Laid-Back Banks

10/07/2009 – Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX): Don’t Sip On This Stock Just Yet

10/07/2009 – America and Europe Join Forces on Natural Gas… Here Are The Companies Set To Profit

10/06/2009 – Don’t Build Your Portfolio on Oil Sands

10/05/2009 – Two Companies Profiting From the “Fuel of the Future”

10/01/2009 – London Calling: FTSE-100 Racks Up its Best Quarter in History

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September 2009

09/29/2009 – Euro Telecom Giants Swap Numbers, Agree Mega Merger

09/29/2009 – Five Ways To Profit From The Commodity Nobody Likes

09/29/2009 – What’s the “Fair Price” of Gold?

09/29/2009 – Gold: This Commodity Loves Economic Upheaval

09/28/2009 – Another Monday… Another “Game-Changing” Deal

09/28/2009 – The United States is the New Tanzania? Ugh…

09/28/2009 – This Top-Performing Industry May Surprise You

09/25/2009 – Get Paid To Trade With Dividends

09/25/2009 – One Natural Gas Company Worth Looking Into…

09/25/2009 – Housing Streak Ends at Four

09/24/2009 – The “Tiregate” Scandal Can’t Derail This Growth Story…

09/23/2009 – IPOs Heating Up Markets

09/23/2009 – Casinos Returning to Blue Chip Status

09/22/2009 – Increasing Alzheimer’s Patients Spell Drug Profits

09/22/2009 – Coca-Cola’s Secret Ingredient To Success Revealed

09/21/2009 – Peak Oil and Petrobras

09/21/2009 – Gold’s Two-Faced Disappointment

09/18/2009 – Behold, The Power Of Cheese… And Chocolate

09/18/2009 – BlackRock Gives “Ups” to the Dollar

09/18/2009 – A New Era in the Defense Industry: Lock And Load On Profits

09/17/2009 – Five Ways to Profit from China’s Environmental Crackdown

09/17/2009 – Are Casino Stocks a Gamble Right Now?

09/16/2009 – LNG Makes It A Really G’Day, Mate

09/16/2009 – Nothing Changes on Wall Street

09/14/2009 – Big Moves for Bank Stocks

09/11/2009 – Why We Need Less Of  Michael Moore

09/11/2009 – Disney’s Spidey Sense is Tingling

09/10/2009 – M&A = Movement & Action

09/10/2009 – Japan’s Historic Moment Creates Historic Confusion

09/09/2009 – This Swiss Logic Has More Holes Than Their Cheese

09/09/2009 – BP: British Petroleum. Big Profits

09/03/2009 – Read Any Good E-Books Lately?

09/02/2009 – Pull Back Continues Through Mixed News

09/01/2009 – Praxair: This Company Has Gas…

09/01/2009 – Another Marvelous Move at Disney

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August 2009

08/31/2009 – Time to Short AIG?

08/31/2009 – An Australian Dollar Play on China’s Growth

08/27/2009 – Rising Oil Means Invest Small and Local

08/26/2009 – Employment Data: What Can You Believe?

08/26/2009 – Healthcare Truths

08/25/2009 – Housing Numbers: The Truth Behind It All

08/25/2009 – Ben’s Back, And So is Real Estate

08/25/2009 – First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR): Stock of the Day

08/25/2009 – Emerging Market for Pharma

08/24/2009 – Markets Set Up For Blow-Off Top?

08/24/2009 – Chinese Metals Boosted by Stimulus

08/20/2009 – A Partly Sunny Outlook for the Solar Industry

08/20/2009 – Markets Keep Churning

08/20/2009 – The China Lie

08/20/2009 – Get Smart With Your Portfolio

08/18/2009 – Sweet, Sweet Rebound… Or is it

08/17/2009 – Look out Below and Overseas

08/14/2009 – Markets Take a Nosedive

08/14/2009 – Profiting From Oil – Peak or Not

08/13/2009 – Financials Surge After Paulson Buys

08/12/2009 – Economic Data: What Can You Believe?

08/12/2009 – The Fed Fund Rate Announcement & Interest Rate Decision

08/12/2009 – The Apple-Google Rivalry Goes Global

08/11/2009 – Adding Iron for a Healthy Portfolio

08/11/2009 – Productivity Soars

08/11/2009 – Fred’s, Inc. (Nasdaq: FRED): Stock of the Day

08/10/2009 – Why the Web Should be Free

08/10/2009 – Risk Returns – And So Does Fear

08/10/2009 – Defining Investment Jargon: Flash Trades

08/07/2009 – When it comes to Oil and Gas MLP’s, Three is Better than One

08/04/2009 – Hot New Spanish Model… for Banking

08/04/2009 – How to Prepare for the Storm Brewing in Copper

08/04/2009 – DeVry, Inc. (NYSE: DV): Stock of the Day

08/04/2009 – Stocks Returning to Normal?

08/04/2009 – DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA): Stock of the Day

08/03/2009 – U.S. Consumers Come Out for CARS

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July 2009

07/31/2009 – Cash for Clunkers Follows Stronger Economic Figures

07/30/2009 – Semiconductor Industry Trying to Survive

07/30/2009 – Oil Companies Still Making Piles of Money

07/30/2009 – Veolia Environnement SA (NYSE: VE): Stock of the Day

07/29/2009 – Why Financial Earnings Leaders Means Bad Times Ahead

07/29/2009 – Corn Crop Numbers Boost Ethanol Producers

07/29/2009 – RSC Holdings (NYSE: RRR): Stock of the Day

07/27/2009 – Microsoft Down But Not Out

07/23/2009 – Return of the Swine Flu: Part 2

07/23/2009 – Return of the Swine Flu: Part 1

07/23/2009 – Inergy, L.P. (Nasdaq: NRGY): Stock of the Day

07/22/2009 – Starbucks Climbing Back

07/22/2009 – Pepsico and AmBev – a Cola and a Beer, Together?

07/21/2009 – Earnings Optimism Hides Ugly Truth

07/21/2009 – Three Ways to “Sweeten” Your Portfolio

07/17/2009 – Japan’s Darkest Days Lay Ahead

07/17/2009 – Two Big Reasons to Dump your Oil Refinery

07/17/2009 – CIT Rescue Shows Credit Isn’t Dead

07/16/2009 – Profit From the “New Decoupling”

07/16/2009 – CIT Goes Over a Cliff

07/16/2009 – Trading FDA Decisions with Calendar Spreads

07/15/2009 – Making Money from Dead Shoots

07/13/2009 – Taiwan and China: Rivals, and now, Partners

07/13/2009 – AIG Gives Big Bonuses to Investors

07/10/2009 – As AIG Sinks, Its Value Rises

07/09/2009 – Four ETFs Profiting From Green Energy

07/09/2009 – Retailers Get No Help from Consumers

07/08/2009 – Google Takes MSFT Head on

07/08/2009 – Praxair (NYSE: PX): Stock of the Day

07/07/2009 – Another Reason to Avoid Mutual Funds

07/06/2009 – Stocks Drop on Low Volume

07/01/2009 – Use Your “Bean” to Profit

07/01/2009 – Nordic American Tanker – Income and More

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June 2009

06/30/2009 – Becton Dickson and Company (NYSE: BDX): Stock of the Day

06/30/2009 – Lessons for Apple in Mays, Madoff

06/29/2009 – Window Dressing Season… Again

06/29/2009 – Unemployment Numbers – Fake, or Really, Really Fake?

06/26/2009 – China Goes Green, Dumps Hummer

06/25/2009 – Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEC): Stock of the Day

06/23/2009 – Papa Johns Sticks to its Guns

06/22/2009 – E*Trade Attractive Again?

06/22/2009 – Germany, Europe, and America: Central Banks Growing Apart

06/19/2009 – Unions at it Again: And FPL fight Back

06/18/2009 – GE Looking Better and Better

06/17/2009 – FedEx Miss Spooks Wall Street

06/16/2009 – Best Economy in the Americas – Brazil

06/16/2009 – Canadian Banking: Sober, Boring, and Successful

06/16/2009 – Time to Bet on Casinos… Again

06/10/2009 – BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP): Stock of the Day

06/10/2009 – China’s New “Manifest Destiny”

06/10/2009 – Real Media Losers: Not DIS

06/09/2009 – Smart Money Betting on Heavy Machinery Stocks Gaining in 2009

06/09/2009 – Government TARP Investing – Paying off

06/05/2009 – Penske Picks up “Belle” of GM

06/02/2009 – Investing in Thailand: Revolutionizing Global ETF Investments

06/02/2009 – Taking Bets on Hummer’s Buyer

06/02/2009 – Vistaprint Limited (Nasdaq: VPRT): Stock of the Day

06/01/2009 – Seven Reasons A Boom in Silver is Beginning

06/01/2009 – GM’s Bankruptcy Good for Dow

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May 2009

05/27/2009 – Core-Mark Holdings Company (Nasdaq: CORE): Stock of the Day

05/26/2009 – Gold climbs to $1250, Oil at $200

05/21/2009 – OpenTable IPO Shocks, but Doesn’t Surprise

05/20/2009 – Options Transactions Signaling Steel Resurgence

05/20/2009 – Will Frugality Remain?

05/20/2009 – Quality Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: QSII): Stock of the Day

05/19/2009 – Investment U’s Outlook: Bull or Bear?

05/19/2009 – GM’s Union Snowflakes

05/18/2009 – Video Game Slump Nothing New

05/13/2009 – Alphabet Soup Rebound Vs, Ls, Ws, and more?

05/12/2009 – Alzheimer’s Care Key to Healthcare Facilities Sector

05/12/2009 – Look Before You Leap into the DGI IPO: Watch out for these 4 Big Risks

05/12/2009 – RehabCare Group, Inc. (NYSE: RHB): Stock of the Day

05/11/2009 – Forget Market’s Fear, Follow MSFT

05/08/2009 – Drug Companies: A Powerhouse of Profits

05/07/2009 – The Mac-N-Cheese Economic Indicator?

05/06/2009 – Tekelec (Nasdaq: TKLC): Stock of the Day

05/05/2009 – Molson Coors Readies For Beverage Wars

05/03/2009 – Sun Also Rises At SRZ

05/01/2009 – Crazy Pills on Wall Street

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April 2009

04/30/2009 – Grupo Televisa (NYSE: TV): Stock of the Day

04/29/2009 – Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq: OTEX): Stock of the Day

04/29/2009 – Market Volatility Fraught with Danger

04/28/2009 – Aaron’s Inc (NYSE: AAN): Stock of the Day

04/25/2009 – Markets Coming Down with Swine Flu

04/24/2009 – Markets Fooling Themselves?

04/23/2009 – Commercial Real Estate Crisis: It’s nice to be first

04/22/2009 – Mines Make Excellent Earth Day Investments

04/21/2009 – Playing the Plunge

04/20/2009 – Bank Pullback Exposes Casino Opportunities

04/17/2009 – Wall of Worry Grows over Rally

04/16/2009 – Watch Out for Bank Stress Tests

04/15/2009 – Doubling down on Casinos

04/14/2009 – Allegiant Travel Company (Nasdaq: ALGT): Stock of the Day

04/13/2009 – Brace Yourselves

04/10/2009 – Double Bottom For Markets?

04/09/2009 – The Light is Real… and it’s not a Train

04/09/2009 – Corning (NYSE: GLW): Stock of the Day

04/08/2009 – Mergers Heat Up Between Haves, Have-Nots

04/07/2009 – Housing Recovery Here We Come

04/06/2009 – Put Your Gold Where your Mouth is

04/03/2009 – Dollar Cost Averaging

04/01/2009 – First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR): Stock of the Day

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March 2009

03/31/2009 – When The Government Owns You

03/31/2009 – The U.S. Automakers: A Slow Motion Disaster

03/24/2009 – Thrills of Victory, and Agony of Repeat

03/23/2009 – Coke Wins NCAA Brackets

03/20/2009 – Buying And Selling Gold?

03/19/2009 – Altius Minerals (TSX: ALS): Stock of the Day

03/19/2009 – When You’re Wrong, You’re Wrong

03/18/2009 – At What Point is it a Bull Market?

03/18/2009 – TransCanada Corporation (NYSE: TRP): Stock of the Day

03/17/2009 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT): Stock of the Day

03/17/2009 – Defining Investment Jargon: Stalking-Horse Bid

03/17/2009 – What’s The Best Way Up?

03/17/2009 – The Hidden Side of Bonuses

03/16/2009 – New Bull Market? Lock in those Gains…

03/16/2009 – Vanguard Financials ETF (NYSE: VFH): Stock of the Day

03/12/2009 – “Sharks” Starting to Wake Up

03/11/2009 – A Vision For the Future

03/11/2009 – E*Trade Forgotten Profit Center

03/11/2009 – Agrium, Inc. (NYSE: AGU): Stock of the Day

03/10/2009 – Geron Corp (Nasdaq: GERN): Stock of the Day

03/10/2009 – Stop Sitting on the Sidelines

03/09/2009 – Cornell Companies Inc. (NYSE: CRN): Stock of the day

03/09/2009 – Price Wimps of the S&P 500

03/06/2009 – Children’s Place Retail Stores Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCE): Stock of the Day

03/06/2009 – Is the Market Headed Lower?

03/04/2009 – AutoZone and ADP, Non-traditional Indicators

03/03/2009 – Frontline (NYSE: FRO): Stock of the Day

03/03/2009 – Berkshire Hathaway: Buy of the Century

03/02/2009 – Canadian Banks: It’s Nice to Be First

03/02/2009 – Tesoro Corporation (NYSE: TSO): Stock of the Day

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February 2009

02/27/2009 – FLIR Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLIR): Stock of the Day

02/26/2009 – Jeremy Siegel: S&P’s Earnings Wrong

02/25/2009 – Americas Wind Energy Corporation (Nasdaq: AWNE): Stock of the Day

02/25/2009 – Obama’s Market Effect

02/24/2009 – Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (NYSE: GDX): Stock of the Day

02/23/2009 – Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN): Stock of the Day

02/23/2009 – Take Two Interactive (TTWO) Still Recession Proof?

02/21/2009 – The Perfect Storm for Technology Takeovers

02/20/2009 – Whole Foods (Nasdaq: WFMI): Stock of the Day

02/20/2009 – Renewable Energy Rollercoaster

02/19/2009 – Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA): Stock of the Day

02/19/2009 – Sitting and Market Watching

02/18/2009 – Neutral Tandem, Inc. (Nasdaq: TNDM): Stock of the Day

02/17/2009 – 9 Out of 11 Ain’t Bad

02/17/2009 – Silver Wheaton Corp (NYSE: SLW): Stock of the Day

02/17/2009 – Sun Still Shines on Trina Solar (TSL)

02/13/2009 – Buffalo Wild Wings (Nasdaq: BWLD): Stock of the Day

02/13/2009 – This Company Proves Stocks Aren’t Dead…

02/12/2009 – Ethanol Is on Life Support… For Now

02/11/2009 – Cubist Pharmaceutical’s (CBST): Stock of the Day

02/10/2009 – Bet on the Chip Leaders… Intel (INTC)

02/10/2009 – The Year All Bets Were Off… Again.

02/09/2009 – What’s up at Yahoo! (YHOO)

02/09/2009 – Interphase Corporation (Nasdaq: INPH): Stock of the Day

02/06/2009 – Badger Meter’s (NYSE: BMI) Green Technology Soars Under Pressure

02/05/2009 – Surrounded by Ferret’s Elf

02/04/2009 – Praxair (NYSE: PX): Stock of the Day

02/03/2009 – Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT): Stock of the Day

02/03/2009 – In Response To IU’s E-Mailbag…

02/02/2009 – Accuray (Nasdaq: ARAY): Stock of the Day

02/02/2009 – Mattel’s (NYSE: MAT) New Doll: Debbie Downer

02/02/2009 – Corporate Profits Might Be Falling, But Don’t Let Yours…

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January 2009

01/30/2009 – Pozen Inc. (Nasdaq: POZN): Stock of the Day

01/29/2009 – Baytex Energy Trust (NYSE: BTE): Stock of the Day

01/29/2009 – Best Invention of 2008: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) App Store

01/28/2009 – What is Toxic Debt and How much is there?

01/28/2009 – GE, More Mutual Fund than Company

01/28/2009 – Proshares UltraShort Financials (NYSE:SKF): Stock of the Day

01/27/2009 – Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Loves the Senate

01/27/2009 – Danaher Corp (NYSE: DHR): Stock of the Day

01/26/2009 – Defining Investment Jargon: Force Majeure

01/26/2009 – Gold Prices Creep Over $900

01/26/2009 – Geron Corp. (Nasdaq: GERN): Stock of the Day

01/23/2009 – Stock of the Day: Altria (NYSE: MO)

01/22/2009 – What to Do When Interest Rates Rise

01/22/2009 – Healthcare Stocks… Are They Truly Recession-Proof?

01/21/2009 – More Facts on the New World Oil…

01/21/2009 – Hillenbrand Customers: Dying to Buy

01/21/2008 – Stock of the Day: CF Industries (NYSE: CF)

01/20/2009 – Small Cap Stocks: How to Find the Russell 2000 All Stars

01/20/2009 – Digital TV a Boon to Satellite and Cable

01/20/2009 – How a Regulatory Makeover Can Fix the Financial Crisis

01/19/2009 – Nucor (NYSE: NUE) & The Golden Dividend Ratio

01/19/2009 – Stock of the Day: AerCap Holdings (NYSE: AER)

01/17/2009 – Investment U’s Mission

01/16/2009 – China Overtakes Germany – Economically

01/16/2009 – Citigroup’s Multiple Personalities

01/15/2009 – Credit Crisis: “Jaws” attacks again.

01/15/2009 – Oil – U.S. State Department’s Newest Ally

01/15/2009 – Contango: The Most Profitable “Buy-and-Hold” for 2009

01/15/2009 – Bank of America Befriends a Bear

01/15/2009 – Steve Jobs Health Drags Down Apple

01/14/2009 – Consumers Cut Spending – Feel Good About It

01/14/2009 – Under Armour (UA) Gets Penalized by Analysts

01/14/2009 – German Stimulus Stinginess Opens Opportunity Window

01/14/2009 – Top 10 Value Traps

01/13/2009 – Transaction Taxes: Today’s Failing Grade

01/13/2009 – Treasury TIPS Coming Back into Fashion

01/13/2009 – Hedge Funds & Private Equity & Bears! Oh My

01/13/2009 – Step Right Up Obama – Get your TARP Funds here…

01/12/2009 – Michael Lewis: Prophet, Pariah

01/12/2009 – Demand Trumps Distractions with Oil

01/12/2009 – Satyam Computer (SAY) Just like the Plague

01/09/2009 – Circuit City Pops on Buyout News

01/08/2009 – Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) – Shoppers “Didn’t Have the Time.”

01/08/2009 – Is Oil Ready to Skyrocket?

01/08/2009 – IPO “Spring” Might be Sooner than Experts Think

01/07/2009 – 12 Stocks to “Hunker Down” With in 2009

01/06/2009 – What’s Keeping Obama up at Night?

01/06/2009 – Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) – Another Nail In The Coffin

01/05/2009 – A Question of Leadership at Apple (NYSE: AAPL)

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