Gazprom, Crisis in Pakistan, Take-over Arbitrage and a Daily Reckoning for 2008: TFN’s week in review

Posted December 30, 2007

Baltimore — (TFN): Most of our colleagues in the financial newsletter industry took a well-deserved breather from e-mailing fresh new financial analysis to you, some since the Friday before Christmas. It's not like anything groundbreaking could possibly be happening in the financial markets anyway between Christmas and New Year, right? Apart from the occasional political crises and assassinations in Asia that may eventually work their way into our markets…

But the TFN team was not so lucky. We were on all week. Our coverage doesn't require mammoth e-mail lists and broadcast scheduling managers. We can post and distribute new analysis and commentary as we generate it. In fact, we take our work home… on vacation… really anywhere they have a power source and a modem hook-up.

Accordingly, we look back on quite a busy week. Here are a few of the most-viewed and highest-rated TFN articles you may have missed in the past week:

*** Annual Reckoning: Market Outlook 2008 (December 23, 2007): Bestselling financial author Bill Bonner provides his contrarian view of what will happen in the markets in 2008.

*** New Video: How to profit from corporate takeovers (December 29, 2007): This most recent installment of Laura Cadden's Smart Trading Action Alert features Oxford Club's Lou Basenese and his recommendation on how to arbitrage corporate take-overs.

*** Bank Stocks: This Sector Is On SALE! (December 29, 2007): Krista Das interviews Mount Vernon Publishing's Karim Rahemtulla abot what bank stocks to buy now… for exponential gains in the new year.

*** Dollar Bear: Crunch time for the American consumer, by Peter Schiff (December 28, 2007): After guest columns in the New York Times and the international edition of Newsweek, Dr. Doom is back with another TFN exclusive.

*** Crisis Investing: These Pakistani ADRs are set for short-term decline, by J. Christoph Amberger (December 27, 2007): Pakistan may keep the Karachi stock exchange closed for three days in the aftermath of the Benazir Bhutto assassination… but these are the top stocks headed into hot water.

*** Commodities Investing: Buy this agro-industry boom stock right now! (December 27, 2007): BreakAway Investor Andrew Mickey picks his top stock to profit from the boom in agro-technology and resources.

*** Energy Investing: Buy Gazprom before the (other) election, by Stephanie Grimmett (December 26, 2007): Why now may be the best time to reserve your own slice of Gazprom's monopoly.

*** Options Trading: Investing in South Korea’s KOSPI (December 22, 2007): Laura Cadden asks Taipan Trader's Sara Nunnally about the best ways to profit from South Korea's stocks in the aftermath of their presidential election.

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