The retail and financial sectors have again become attractive.   Some brokerage firms and banks have forsaken the entire 30% run-up that they have rallied in the last 2 months. 
Subprime writedowns offer investors a rare opportunity to buy MS, a high-caliber brokerage at just 1.2x tangible book value.   Looking at the premium of March strike 40 calls […]

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Team,
The solar sector has tanken a beating as of late… This is particularly true for TSL, FSLR, SOLF, LDK.
I direct your attention to LDK which is now trading at 6 times 2009 earnings with a PEG of .12!    The earnings figures for 2008 are evident by LDK’s production plkans for the remainder of the year.  LDK is […]

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Exchange traded funds (ETF) assets totaled more than $568.7 billion of the more than $1 trillion in stock index funds as of Jan. 31, according to the Investment Company Institute.  This represents  32% increase over last year. However,  the number is down $39.7 billion from December of 2007.  Although the market offers many ETFs, few have a […]

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Major Earnings Announcements

Company Name

Symbol

3/03/08

HSBC Holdings

HBC

Sunrise Senior Living

SRZ

TurboChef Technologies

OVEN

3/04/08

Chico’s FAS

CHS

Staples

SPLS

3/05/08

Big Lots

BIG

BJ’s Wholesale Club

BJ

Costco

COST

Saks

SKS

ADC Telecom

ADCT

H & R Block

HRB

Longs Drug

LDG

PETsMART

PETM

3/06/08

Blackstone Group

BX

Blockbuster

BBI

Urban Outfitters

URBN

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce

RIO

Marvell Technology

MRVL

National Semiconductor

NSM

VeriFone

PAY

3/07/08

Ciena

CIEN

SkillSoft

SKIL

Major Economic Events

Date

Release

For

Consensus

Prior

3/03

ISM Index

Feb
49.0
50.7

3/05

Factory Orders

Jan
-1.5%
2.3%

3/05

ISM Services

Feb
48.5
44.6

3/05

Crude Inventories

3/01
N/A
3231K

3/06

Initial Claims

3/01
N/A
373K

3/06

Pending Home Sales

Jan
N/A
-1.5%

3/07

Non-farm Payrolls

Feb
30K
-17K

3/07

Unemployment Rate

Feb
5.0%
4.9%

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Charts of the S&P 500 trading range and 50- EMA are shown below.

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