Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Bernie Madoff Toilet Paper
For the Madoff investor who has everything, or maybe nothing, you may want to consider the Bernard Madoff toilet paper, offered by justtoiletpaper.com. This is probably the only way of ripping off Madoff.
Federally Approved Stem Cell Therapy: Time to Look at Stem Cell Stocks
Since President Obama has decided to repeal the limitations imposed on embryonic stem cell research, and since the first federally approved human study utilizing embryonic stem cell therapy is now taking place, investors are now looking at opportunities in stem cell stocks. Extensive research is being done to utilize stem cells for gene therapy and the treatment of multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and many other medical conditions.
A source of stem cells is cord blood, the blood from an umbilical cord. The saving and storing of cord blood has become a fast growing business. For example, Richard Branson, founder and head of Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways, set up a cord blood bank. Even Stem Cell Bonds were issued by the state of California last year. Also, the National Institute of Health has discovered that strong stem cells can be found in baby teeth.
Here are several stocks, which are pure plays or semi-pure plays in the stem cell business.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) is a Connecticut based company with a $2.9 billion market cap that is involved in the development of biologic therapeutic products for the treatment of hematologic and cardiovascular disorders, auto-immune diseases, and cancer. The stock has a forward PE of 444.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (ARIA) is a Massachusetts based company, with a $150 million market cap, that is involved in the development of treatments for cancer by using small molecules to regulate cell signaling. Their cancer products are used to treat solid tumors, sarcomas, hormone refractory prostate cancer, and endometrial cancer. The stock has generated negative earnings of $1.01 per share. It is a low cap stock and should be considered very speculative.
Celera Group (CRA) is a company that was founded in 1937. It is involved in the research of new diagnostic markers, using proprietary genomics and proteomics discovery procedures and diagnostic products. Some of their products are used for the detection of HIV, hepatitis C, and cystic fibrosis. They are in collaboration with Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Genentech (DNA), and General Electric (GE). The stock has generated negative earnings.
Cellgene (CELG) is a $24 billion market cap company involved in the discovery and production, of therapies designed to treat cancer and immune-inflammatory-related diseases. One of their main products is Thalomid, which is used for the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum, a complication of leprosy. They also received patent on placental stem cell recovery. The stock has recently generated negative earnings.
Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (CYTX) is a $125 million market cap company that makes and markets regenerative medicine medical technologies. They have recently generated negative earnings. This is a low cap stock and should be considered very speculative.
Dendreon Corporation (DNDN) This $358 million market cap company is involved in the discovery, development, and sales of active immunotherapies, monoclonal antibodies, and small molecule product candidates to treat cancer. They also manufacture the DACSÒSC stem cell enrichment device. The stock has had negative earnings.
Geron (GERN) is a Menlo Park, California based $600 million market cap company which develops cell-based therapies derived from human embryonic stem cells used for the treatment of various diseases and medical conditions such as spinal cord damage, heart failure, and diabetes. They have the first federally approved human study utilizing embryonic stem cell therapy. The stock has had negative earnings.
Integra Lifesciences Holdings (IART) is a New Jersey based $781 million market cap company that develops, manufactures, and sells medical devices, implants, biomaterials, and instruments to the stem cell, surgery, and soft tissue repair markets. Their P/E is 40, and the PEG is 1.01.
Invitrogen Corporation (IVGN) is a California based $3.3 billion market cap company which sells products and services to research institutions, pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies, including tools for gene acquisition, gene cloning, and gene analysis techniques. The stock has a P/E of 52.
Neuralstem Inc. (CUR) is a $52 million market cap company that develops and markets human neural stem cell technology. They have recently generated negative earnings. This is an extremely low cap stock and should be considered extremely speculative.
Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (OSIR) is a $660 million market cap company, which markets stem cell products from adult bone marrow. They have recently generated negative earnings.
StemCells Inc. (STEM) is a $195 market cap company involved in the development, and marketing of cell-based therapeutics to treat liver diseases and diseases of the central nervous system. They have recently generated negative earnings. This is a low cap stock and should be considered very speculative.
For an Excel database of stem cell stocks which you can download, sort, and change, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.
Also, check out gene therapy stocks and cord blood stocks
Author does not own any of the above.
By Fred Fuld at Stockerblog.com
Guest Article: Green - The Secret to Resurrecting Your Nest Egg in 2009
Green: The Secret to Resurrecting Your Nest Egg in 2009.
By Natalie Pace, author of Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth from a #1 Wall Street Stock Picker
Date: January 27, 2009
Did you know that clean energy was the top performing industry in 2007, returning almost sixty cents on the dollar for investors? That was almost double the returns of the 2nd highest performing industry -- oil and gas -- at 32 cents for each dollar invested. And, thanks to President Obama’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Plan, clean energy is poised to be the top performer again in 2009.
In his first White House blog, dated January 24, 2009, President Obama wrote that his Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will “invest in our most important priorities like energy and education.” The details of the plan, which President Obama is currently lobbying with Congressional members, is available online at WhiteHouse.gov and includes the following target expenditures:
Recovery and Reinvestment Plan of 2009
1. Create or save three to four million jobs over the next two years “in a range of industries from clean energy to health care”
2. Launch a Clean Energy Finance Initiative to leverage $100 billion in private sector clean energy investments over three years
3. Double renewable energy generating capacity over three years
4. Modernize “more than 75% of federal building space, saving taxpayers $2 billion per year in lower federal energy bills”
5. Modernize 10,000 schools
Now, for those who are skeptical of Washington’s ability to get anything done before the next Ice Age, returns on green investing are not just dependent upon the President’s ability to win votes with Congress. There is a worldwide push for clean energy. In fact, Europe, Eastern Europe and China are far more proactive about greening their grid than the U.S.
Germany was one of the first countries to embrace solar energy with its “family program.” Solar panels were installed on many homes in that country over the last five years. Germany’s team, Technische Universität Darmstadt, even won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition in 2007! The next Solar Decathlon will be held on the Washington Mall in Washington D.C. October 9 through 18, 2009, where 20 international teams will compete to design and build the most attractive, energy-efficient solar-powered house.
Link:
http://www.solardecathlon.org/
China launched a new clean energy initiative, “Electric Vehicles for Ten Cities,” on January 6, 2009, which will put 1000 electric cars per year for three years in each of ten target cities. (Now if those were Tesla Roadsters, I might just move to one of those cities myself!) On Monday, January 26, 2009, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a plan to achieve solar energy as China’s dominant energy source by 2050. Other European and Eastern European countries are modeling Germany’s incentives to jumpstart their own clean energy plan and are committed to powering their grid with renewable energy with large-scale solar harvesting projects.
Europe, Eastern Europe and China are the biggest clean energy customers to date, accounting for the strongest sales growth in any industry on Wall Street over the past three years. Solar giants, like Suntech Power Holdings, MEMC Electronics and LDK Solar are profitable, with a strong backlog of orders and high profit margins, at 12%, 20% and 24% respectively. MEMC Electronics (a silicon manufacturer) sales were $2 billion in 2008, up from $1.5 billion in 2006. Suntech’s 2008 sales were $1.8 billion, compared to $600 million in 2006. LDK Solar’s sales have exploded from $105 million in 2007 to a projected $750 million in 2008.
On January 5, 2009, Xiaofeng Peng, Chairman and CEO of LDK Solar, reported, “Our operations remain at full capacity, with contract backlog remaining strong for 2009." The LDK Solar sales expectations for 2009 are $2.3 to $2.5 billion.
So, while most industries worldwide are contracting, and many, like real estate and banks, are showing catastrophic losses, solar energy is profitable, growing – largely on worldwide government incentives and investment -- and healthy. Electric cars and component industries, like lithium mining and lithium ion battery makers, aren’t profitable yet, but the winds are favorable for growth and government incentives worldwide as well.
There is one trick to investing green, however. As I outline in my new book, Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is, the challenge of investing in an industry that is exploding with potential and new technology innovations, is that when innovation is occurring rapidly, it’s difficult to predict a clear winner because tomorrow’s invention could create a new breakout technology. Additionally, clean energy has been around since the 1970s and some legacy corporations are carrying too much debt to compete with the new stalwarts, many of which are based out of China. For these reasons, a clean energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), which owns a basket of clean energy companies, is a better policy for most investors than picking an individual stock.
4 Key Steps to Adding Green to your Nest Egg:
1. Include a Green ETF as one of 10 diversified Exchange Traded Funds in your nest egg.
2. Keep a percent equal to your age, plus 15-20%, SAFE, i.e. not invested in the stock market, since we’re in a recession.
3. The safest place for your money in 2009 is Treasury bills and high rated bonds.
4. Rebalance twice a year to capture gains and buy into underperforming ETFs.
Remember to “overweight” 20% safe in 2009, since we’re in a recession, keeping 70% safe if you are 50, and 50% safe if you are 30, etc.
For more nest egg strategies that work in bull and bear markets, buy and read my new book, Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is.
About Natalie Pace:
Natalie Pace, is the author of Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth from a #1 Wall Street Stock Picker, a featured teacher in the movie, Spiritual Liberation, and CEO of one of the most respected, independently owned financial news corporations in the U.S. She has been ranked as a #1 stock picker from TipsTraders.com and has partnered content with Forbes.com, Sohu.com, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and more. She has appeared on Fox News, Good Morning America, Time Magazine, More Magazine, USA Today, NPR and national radio shows. For more information please visit, http://www.nataliepace.com.
Published with the permission of the publicist.
By Natalie Pace, author of Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth from a #1 Wall Street Stock Picker
Date: January 27, 2009
Did you know that clean energy was the top performing industry in 2007, returning almost sixty cents on the dollar for investors? That was almost double the returns of the 2nd highest performing industry -- oil and gas -- at 32 cents for each dollar invested. And, thanks to President Obama’s American Reinvestment and Recovery Plan, clean energy is poised to be the top performer again in 2009.
In his first White House blog, dated January 24, 2009, President Obama wrote that his Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will “invest in our most important priorities like energy and education.” The details of the plan, which President Obama is currently lobbying with Congressional members, is available online at WhiteHouse.gov and includes the following target expenditures:
Recovery and Reinvestment Plan of 2009
1. Create or save three to four million jobs over the next two years “in a range of industries from clean energy to health care”
2. Launch a Clean Energy Finance Initiative to leverage $100 billion in private sector clean energy investments over three years
3. Double renewable energy generating capacity over three years
4. Modernize “more than 75% of federal building space, saving taxpayers $2 billion per year in lower federal energy bills”
5. Modernize 10,000 schools
Now, for those who are skeptical of Washington’s ability to get anything done before the next Ice Age, returns on green investing are not just dependent upon the President’s ability to win votes with Congress. There is a worldwide push for clean energy. In fact, Europe, Eastern Europe and China are far more proactive about greening their grid than the U.S.
Germany was one of the first countries to embrace solar energy with its “family program.” Solar panels were installed on many homes in that country over the last five years. Germany’s team, Technische Universität Darmstadt, even won the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition in 2007! The next Solar Decathlon will be held on the Washington Mall in Washington D.C. October 9 through 18, 2009, where 20 international teams will compete to design and build the most attractive, energy-efficient solar-powered house.
Link:
http://www.solardecathlon.org/
China launched a new clean energy initiative, “Electric Vehicles for Ten Cities,” on January 6, 2009, which will put 1000 electric cars per year for three years in each of ten target cities. (Now if those were Tesla Roadsters, I might just move to one of those cities myself!) On Monday, January 26, 2009, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced a plan to achieve solar energy as China’s dominant energy source by 2050. Other European and Eastern European countries are modeling Germany’s incentives to jumpstart their own clean energy plan and are committed to powering their grid with renewable energy with large-scale solar harvesting projects.
Europe, Eastern Europe and China are the biggest clean energy customers to date, accounting for the strongest sales growth in any industry on Wall Street over the past three years. Solar giants, like Suntech Power Holdings, MEMC Electronics and LDK Solar are profitable, with a strong backlog of orders and high profit margins, at 12%, 20% and 24% respectively. MEMC Electronics (a silicon manufacturer) sales were $2 billion in 2008, up from $1.5 billion in 2006. Suntech’s 2008 sales were $1.8 billion, compared to $600 million in 2006. LDK Solar’s sales have exploded from $105 million in 2007 to a projected $750 million in 2008.
On January 5, 2009, Xiaofeng Peng, Chairman and CEO of LDK Solar, reported, “Our operations remain at full capacity, with contract backlog remaining strong for 2009." The LDK Solar sales expectations for 2009 are $2.3 to $2.5 billion.
So, while most industries worldwide are contracting, and many, like real estate and banks, are showing catastrophic losses, solar energy is profitable, growing – largely on worldwide government incentives and investment -- and healthy. Electric cars and component industries, like lithium mining and lithium ion battery makers, aren’t profitable yet, but the winds are favorable for growth and government incentives worldwide as well.
There is one trick to investing green, however. As I outline in my new book, Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is, the challenge of investing in an industry that is exploding with potential and new technology innovations, is that when innovation is occurring rapidly, it’s difficult to predict a clear winner because tomorrow’s invention could create a new breakout technology. Additionally, clean energy has been around since the 1970s and some legacy corporations are carrying too much debt to compete with the new stalwarts, many of which are based out of China. For these reasons, a clean energy Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), which owns a basket of clean energy companies, is a better policy for most investors than picking an individual stock.
4 Key Steps to Adding Green to your Nest Egg:
1. Include a Green ETF as one of 10 diversified Exchange Traded Funds in your nest egg.
2. Keep a percent equal to your age, plus 15-20%, SAFE, i.e. not invested in the stock market, since we’re in a recession.
3. The safest place for your money in 2009 is Treasury bills and high rated bonds.
4. Rebalance twice a year to capture gains and buy into underperforming ETFs.
Remember to “overweight” 20% safe in 2009, since we’re in a recession, keeping 70% safe if you are 50, and 50% safe if you are 30, etc.
For more nest egg strategies that work in bull and bear markets, buy and read my new book, Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is.
About Natalie Pace:
Natalie Pace, is the author of Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is: Investment Strategies for Lifetime Wealth from a #1 Wall Street Stock Picker
, a featured teacher in the movie, Spiritual Liberation, and CEO of one of the most respected, independently owned financial news corporations in the U.S. She has been ranked as a #1 stock picker from TipsTraders.com and has partnered content with Forbes.com, Sohu.com, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and more. She has appeared on Fox News, Good Morning America, Time Magazine, More Magazine, USA Today, NPR and national radio shows. For more information please visit, http://www.nataliepace.com.Published with the permission of the publicist.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Super Bowl Stock Market Indicator Prediction
The Super Bowl Stock Market Indicator says that if the winning team is from the original American Football League, now the AFC, we will have a bear market. However, if the successful team had its origins with the old National Football League, now the NFC, then we are in fro a bull market. This indicator supposedly works more than three quarters of the time.
But for this year, both the winning team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and their opponents, the Arizona Cardinals, have NFL origins. That means that we are having a bull market this year, no matter who had won.
But for this year, both the winning team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and their opponents, the Arizona Cardinals, have NFL origins. That means that we are having a bull market this year, no matter who had won.
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