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<title><![CDATA[The Long Case for SkyPeople Fruit Juice]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[SkyPeople Fruit Juice (SPU) is an unknown, yet, exciting juice, beverage and fruit products producer in China. The company was recently listed on the AMEX exchange a few months ago and the story has begun to get discovered by an institutional base of shareholders. SPU has an experienced and polished management team in place. In the past three years, management has doubled its revenues from $29.3 <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China Mobile hammered for bank splurge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:31:34 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The problem with having enough cash on your balance sheet to bail out a medium-sized country is that everyone has a use for it. Last week, China Mobile revealed some loose change from its $30 billion-plus cash pile would be used to buy a 20% stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.<br /><br />It might have been only a $5 billion investment, or just 3% of China Mobile's (HK:941 74.05, +0.10, +0.14%)(CHL<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[M&A: Marsh & McLennan May Sell Kroll for $1.3 Billion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:27:50 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Marsh & McLennan, the No 2. global insurance broker, has put up its security consulting business Kroll up for sale for $1.3 billion and received offers from several major private equity firms in the first round of bidding, the Financial Times reported on its website on Monday.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[China Life Upbeat, Asian Shares Up ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:23:24 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Most Asian markets ended higher Tuesday, as Shanghai and Hong Kong shares rose after an upbeat forecast from China Life Insurance Co., while China Southern Airlines Co. jumped on plans to raise funds through a private placement.<br /><br />Japanese shares ranked among decliners and gains in many other markets were muffled after a lackluster performance on Wall Street. Steelmakers and resource stocks suff<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Texas Instruments Sales and Earnings Outlook Improves]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:19:33 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Texas Instruments Inc. on Monday narrowed its sales and earnings outlook for the first quarter.<br /><br />The Dallas-based chip maker (TXN 24.65, -0.04, -0.16%) said it now expects revenue in the range of $3.07 billion to $3.19 billion, compared with a previous range of $2.95 billion to $3.19 billion. <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Simon Property Group and General Growth Properties' Intimidating Union -- Seeking Alpha]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:15:16 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[National retailers are expressing growing concern that mall giant Simon Property Group Inc. may gain too much market power if it succeeds in acquiring rival General Growth Properties Inc. out of a bankruptcy proceeding.<br /><br />The concern raises the possibility that the deal might face antitrust criticism from retailers and others. The combined entity would own roughly half of the 300 U.S. malls with<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Algonquin Power has Adequate Yield and Growth Potential]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:12:24 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Algonquin Power and Utilities (AQUNF.PK) is a small-cap Canadian electric generation company focused on renewable, clean power and water utilities. The company manages a billion dollars in utility assets in the US and Canada. AQN in the process of transforming itself from a Canadian income unit trust to a growth oriented cross-border utility. As with some Canadian unit trusts, the transformation <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fast Growth for Ebix but Low P/E]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:09:34 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The more I look at the shares of Ebix (Nasdaq: EBIX), the more I like it. This just seems like a fast-growing company whose stock is priced cheaply.<br /><br />With a quarterly earnings call coming up on Monday, March 8, and the stock having pulled back 25% or so from its recent highs, it's a good time to take a look at Ebix shares. It's been perking up into the earnings report, up 10% in just two days.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European Natural Gas Sales Rebound will give Gazprom's profit a push]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:07:22 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Analyzing third quarter results released today, we reaffirm estimated Net Present Value (NPV) of $64 a share for buy-recommended Gazprom (OGZPY.PK). On that basis, unlevered appreciation potential is 120% to a McDep Ratio of 1.0 where stock price would equal NPV. Unlevered cash flow (Ebitda) met expectations from three months ago with oil increasing its share to 39%. Natural gas volume and price <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Questions on how Palm can Remain Competitive?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:03:19 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[We've had ongoing coverage of the turnaround at Palm (PALM), first as a "special situation" back in late 2008 and into 2009. (See Nice short squeeze on PALM! which we posted back then.) Back then we estimated the intrinsic value [IV] for Palm to be about $11. But the nature of computing IV for a turnaround story is tricky because it's hard to forecast long-term operating margins of the reinvigora<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Potential Boost for Ancestry.com Tonight]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:59:44 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Today (Friday, March 5th) a new TV series will air that just might cause more people to wonder about their family history.The stock tie in is with a relatively recent IPO named Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM), which is the leading online source for individuals and families to build their history and discover information about their ancestors.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Edison International Income Statement Analysis for December 2009 Quarter  -- Seeking Alpha]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:50:04 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Edison International (NYSE: EIX) earned $0.65 per share in the fourth quarter of 2009, which ended 31 December. Edison made $0.66 per share in the same period of 2008.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cellcom’s Q4 Beats Expectations]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:44:12 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Telecom operator Cellcom Israel Ltd.'s (CEL) fourth-quarter net income grew 11.5% year over year, primarily driven by strong demand for content and value-added services.<br />The company reported earnings of NIS271 million ($72 million), or NIS2.75 (73 cents) per share, compared to NIS243 million ($64 million), or NIS2.48 (66 cents) per share in the year-ago quarter. The result also came in ahead of <br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Profit Leaps, Telefonica Tops]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:41:31 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Telefonica SA (TEF) reported fourth-quarter 2009 results with earnings per ADS of US$2.37, comfortably beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of US$1.63. The Spanish telecom behemoth reported a net income of €2.44 billion (US$3.60 billion), up 22% year-over-year, supported by higher sales as a result of healthy subscriber accretion in Latin America as well as lower taxes<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[F5 Networks: Time to Lock in Gains]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:39:07 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things to do is to let your winners run. I find it much harder to find sell points, than buy points - even after all these years of doing this. One advantage of coming into the week relatively underweight long exposure is it put me in no rush to sell the individual equities I do own. But, with that said, I am starting to feel "piggish" when I see some of the charts of some of t<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Emulex: Running the Table at HP?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:37:23 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[On February 26, Emulex (ELX) announced that its OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapters are available from HP (HPQ).<br /><br />This is significant for three reasons. First, it's a massive opportunity given that HP is the largest OEM consumer of host adapters in the world. Second, time-to-sales will be quick since the new HP-branded products are available for high-volume HP ProLiant rack, tower a<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Downsides of  Shanda Games]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:33:00 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Shanda Games (GAME), a Chinese online gaming company, dropped nearly 18% on Monday after releasing its earning report, which in and of itself did not look bad at all.<br />n a client note, Brean Murray, Carret & Co. analyst Andrey Glukhov said the company's sales forecast came in "deeply below expectations." He said the company expects revenue will fall 10 percent to 15 percent from fourth-quarter le<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buying Opportunity in Chile for Stocks and ETFs ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:27:54 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With Chile being the world's number one producer of copper, the industrial metal surged over 5% on Monday, as supply disruptions sent the price higher. The iPath Dow Jones Copper ETN (JJC) tracks the price of copper and the PowerShares Base Metals ETF (DBB) is composed of one-third copper along with aluminum and zinc. The move will likely be a short-term move as production gets back on line quick<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yemen’s Push Into Gas Sector]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:17:28 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With Yemen's oil revenues plunging, the government's push into the gas market seemed like an economic saving grace for a state wracked by poverty and terrorism. However, analysts warn that more thought should be given into carving out the country's post-petroleum era.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[AB InBev Challenging Start into 2010, Results Mixed]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:12:07 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer, said it has had a challenging start to 2010 with U.S. volumes under pressure after unveiling mixed fourth-quarter earnings buoyed by a sharp increase in Brazilian sales.<br /><br />The maker of Budweiser, Stella Artois and Becks said on Thursday it expected to sell slightly more beer this year than last, but that profit growth would be only a single-digit<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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