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posted by admin, January 17, 2012 @ 9:55 am

Zacks Momentum

American Water Works Co., Inc.

By: Jared Levy

January 17, 2012

AWK

American Water Works Co., Inc (AWK)
Contrary to what you might believe, the most important commodity is not crude oil, natural gas, silver or even gold – humans can survive without any or all of them. The one essential commodity that humans cannot live without is potable water.

What is most interesting is that there currently is no way to “trade it” or to take advantage of this integral part of our lives or its scarcity. American Water Works is one of the ways you can invest in water, without having to build a tower in your neighborhood to store it.

Company Description & Developments
American Water Works Company is a water and wastewater utility company that provides approximately 15 million people with drinking water, wastewater and other water-related services in over 30 states and two Canadian provinces.

There is a good chance you are drinking water that is treated by them…

Water is something Read more

posted by admin, January 14, 2012 @ 8:32 am

Zacks Momentum

Kodiak Oil & Gas Inc.

Momentum

By: Jared Levy

January 14, 2012 |Comments: 0

KOG

KODIAK OIL & GAS CORP (KOG)

This “under the radar” Bakken Shale oil and gas company could have big upside potential. On his January 12th episode of mad money, Jim Cramer was screaming “buy, buy, buy” on the pull back. It hit Zacks Rank Buy as a “1” ahead of the recent rally and Jim Cramer’s call, but the recent pullback may be reason for us to look to Kodiak again for another run.

Company Description & Developments
Crude oil cannot stay out of the headlines. More importantly, you can’t pry it from the needy hands (and machinery) of much of the world’s citizens, especially when it comes to transportation.

For us in the in the United States of America, we are doing all we can to reduce our foreign dependence on oil. Projects like the Keystone XL pipeline which will bring Canadian Oil from their rich sands will help us break this dependence. But we need to do more!

The Bakken Shale which spreads widely over the northwestern US (Montana, North Dakota) and into Canada is said to have reserves richer than some of the major oil producing countries in the middle east. The US Geological Survey estimated that there are undiscovered volumes of 3.65 billion barrels of oil, 1.85 trillion cubic feet of dissolved natural gas and 148 million barrels of natural gas liquids contained within it.

Kodiak Oil & Gas, along with several other companies primarily operate in that region. Along with new discoveries Kodiak Oil & Gas stands to Read more

posted by admin, January 10, 2012 @ 5:38 pm

From Zacks Momentum – CALL

Momentum

MagicJack (VocalTec ltd)

By: Jared Levy

January 10, 2012 |Comments: 0

The wall Street Shuffle – CNN radio 1190am

January 6, 2012 Seg 1

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Dan Cofall and Jared Levy discuss the Dillon Gage Market Update

January 6, 2012 Seg 2

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Dan Cofall and Jared Levy talk with Sarah Janssen, the Senior Editor of The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012

posted by admin, December 20, 2011 @ 8:52 am

Social Media Distortion

Special Report-

I remember it like it was yesterday, September, 1998 just after my birthday and the dot-com bubble was in full inflation mode. Stocks were going public left and right. Many of them had never made a penny of profit and yet drew millions from investors. Bubbles were nothing new to the markets, but when we are in one, many seem to forget the past. Boy did they miss this one!

Late that month, a relatively new online auction company called eBay was coming to market and investors foaming at the mouth to get a piece of it.

During the height of the new “internet era”, where anything ending with “.com” was getting bought up by every sucker and supposed professional alike. Even with the meteoric rise of so many worthless companies, caution was thrown to the wind and traders continued to buy worthless companies right up into the new millennium.

I remember the first day of trading for eBay. The stock rose by nearly 300 percent and its market cap on that day was close to 2 billion, almost 6 times what its closest competitor Onsale.com was worth. It was an unbelievable showing and that was only the beginning for the fledgling online retailer.

For the record, I was a believer in eBay’s business. I thought their idea and website was pure genius, but I was extremely skeptical of the insane valuations that the market was willing to give them, so I didn’t buy in.

Starting with their debut on the NASDAQ, eBay proceeded to go straight up until about May of 1999, at which point they had a price to earnings ratio (P/E) of over 1000! In the months that followed, even with a drop in stock price, the price to earnings ration or P/E (which is a common way to measure a stock’s value) had risen to over 1600 at one point, before dropping back to a more realistic level as the company began to make real money.

The average P/E range of stocks in the S&P 500 index is somewhere between Read more

posted by admin, December 19, 2011 @ 7:58 am

CNN Radio – December 12, 2011

- December 12th 2011 Seg 1
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Dan Cofall Jared LEvy and Shane Bell talk about What the NBA and Russia have in common.

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posted by admin, November 30, 2011 @ 9:37 pm

CNN Radio November 30th 2011 Seg 1

Posted: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:49:28 PST

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Dan & Jared’s Topics: Eurozone,AMR shares halted repeatedly in busiest trading day ever, ADP looking strong (but it has misled in the past), Look behind the lines

posted by admin, November 23, 2011 @ 6:48 pm