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“TFN’s closed positions have averaged 42.48% since January 1.” — J. Christoph Amberger
by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): Over the past 7 days, we closed out four stock recommendations and added them to our official TFN Track Record. (For long-term TFN members, we only include picks we made as of Jan. 1, 2008 in that [...]

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by Laura Cadden
Baltimore — (TFN): Laura Cadden: Since late March, stocks have made up for some lost ground. Not just in the United States, but also in Hong Kong, Japan, Germany and Britain. Company earnings, especially from internationally diversified firms, have been rising as strong foreign revenues have made up for lagging U.S. sales. [...]

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On March 14, I recommended you purchase Rex Energy (REXX:NASDAQ).
On April 18, we sent you an update announcing the 40% increase in stock price. I suggested for those that can stand risk, that you hold on until 50% (at $24 per share) was reached.
Well, here we are… it’s $24.35 as I write.
On Friday, May 9, Rex [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): The commodities boom is still going strong and investors looking for alternative investment opportunities are turning to this market in droves. But will the commodities bubble pop anytime soon? Andrew Gordon of Investors Daily Edge says: “Absolutely not!”
Fueled by the growth of emerging markets such as China and India and completely independent [...]

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“All of this action is happening because of new technology that allows drillers to more efficiently access the trillions of cubic feet of natural gas trapped inside the area’s Marcellus shale formation. If tapped, this area could be producing 15% of the nation’s natural gas by 2012.” - Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN)– With food [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): Merrill Lynch’s David Rosenberg recently wrote: “If not for the ongoing support from foreign-derived earnings, U.S. profit growth would be even further in the red. U.S. corporate profits derived from domestic demand sources sagged 30% annualized in the fourth quarter.”
In a global economy, where companies sell their products and services not [...]

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“You cannot open a newspaper without reading of major job cuts. The banking industry got slammed, now the ripples are spreading throughout the pond.” - Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN)– I must be looking at the equities through a different lens, because what I see and what Wall Street is apparently looking at is [...]

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by J. Christoph Amberger
Baltimore — (TFN): American Airlines (AMR) stranded a quarter million passengers (and counting) at the nation’s airports. The markets continued on their unimpressive sideways up-and-down-again two step. And Hillary Clinton added to her artful dodging of sniper’s bullets by Matrix-like evading questions regarding the lacy inconsistencies between what her campaigners say and [...]

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Blogger’s Note: Where’s the world’s global warming watchdog when you need him? Al Gore is nowhere to be seen around the CO2-belching publicity stunts involving the Olympic Torch Relay, even though it ranks right up there with the carbon footprints left by the most recent convention of climate catastrophists.
But while liberals and Europeans are [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): They may still be talking up the euro as a bastion of strength compared to the dollar. After all, everyone believes that Europe’s economic base is strong. After all, there are no “twin deficits”. Germany in particular likes to pride itself on being “Exportweltmeister” — export world champion.
But how’s it going considering [...]

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“Now that Congress is getting involved, we should see some decisive action, a clear and easy solution to eliminate the financial collapse now knocking on our doors… and if you believe that, I’ve got these great banking shares to sell you.” — Stephanie Grimmett
by Stephanie Grimmett
Here at Today’s Financial News, we spent the [...]

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"At least the U.S. economy has started to look more like a soap opera and less like a Greek tragedy this week. Maybe we can get out of the current market situation without having to watch every player die a bloody, violent death, afterall… or maybe not. Either way, I’d bring a an umbrella to [...]

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"You can just imagine the scene enacted last weekend: Ben Bernanke on his knees begging pal Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s CEO, to rescue Bear Stearns from imploding in a panic and creating a blackhole large enough to suck the rest of the U.S.’s banking industry in with it. Jamie agreed to help out his [...]

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"Last year, Horacio Marquez’ Money Map VIP Trader generated 61% on trading Indian Icici Bank, 213% on Brazilian oil and energy magnate Petrobras — and 50% on Transocean." — Steve McDonald
by Steve McDonald
Baltimore — (TFN): Throughout what now seems like the stock market boom year of 2007, the international markets went through the roof as [...]

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Baltimore — (TFN): TodaysFinancialNews.com is expanding our accessibility. In addition to supplying our content through our website as well as numberous video syndication sites, we have begun making our video content available through video and audio podcast. Our coverage now is also available through Technorati.com. Technorati Profile
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"The markets closely match the popular mood. With the same headless abandon that investors bought vinyl-clad tract mansions just two years ago, they are now piling into the treacherous safety of gold and oil. Any port in a storm. And in panic-stricken financial market, anything that moves up looks like a decent port." — J. [...]

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"How many people would continue recycling at home if they had to pay for it to be collected? The reality is that there would be a massive fall-off in numbers. Deep down most consumers’ green efforts would come to a swift end if there was a cost attached, or it became [...]

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"So how can you spot a rogue trader before he strikes? You simply can’t. There seems to be no amount of regulations, checks, firewalls, or risk management systems that can thwart an intelligent mind bent on mischief." — Jamie Ellis
by Jamie Ellis
Baltimore – (TFN): There is no set of qualities [...]

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by J. Christoph Amberger, President TFN
Baltimore — (TFN): Another terrible week in the stock markets has come to an ignominious end. The U.S. economy may not be quite as damaged as the media reports imply, but even I find it difficult to see a silver lining in the data, the remaining presidential candidates — [...]

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Blogger's Note: The euro is at record levels! American pundits like to consider the weakening of the US dollar against the euro and a basket of major world currencies the beginning of the end. That's understandable, considering many of them derive their personal experience in dealing with currencies on the micro level: When traveling to [...]