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Why the Pentagon Wants to Use This Penny Stock to Cure the Flu

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A tiny clinical-stage biotech firm is pioneering a ground-breaking new way to fight the flu.

Their process is so radical it has caught the eye of DARPA , the shadowy research and development arm of the Pentagon.

What makes their process so unique is that the company uses tobacco plants instead of eggs to produce the recombinant proteins that are the key to vaccines.

Its goal is to dramatically cut the time it takes to manufacture vaccines, which can take as long as nine months to put into production.

In fact, in a key test of the firm's technology DARPA recently ordered 10 million doses of a vaccine candidate as part of a $21 million project.

By all accounts they came through with flying colors, delivering 10 million doses of the H1N1 influenza vaccine in just one month.

So who is this ground-breaking new vaccine company?

It's a tiny Canadian-based firm called Medicago Inc. (OTC:MDCGF; TSX:MDG).

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How to Profit as the Global Energy Crisis Accelerates

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For months, the signs of an impending global energy shakeup have been building.

This is not to say that we have an impending long-term shortage (it is not, in other words, a Peak Oil prophecy coming true) or that the lights are about to go out around the globe.

However, it does appear we are moving into another round of concerns for energy balance and production moving forward.

A combination of reasons exists for the accelerating crises.

Most of them are either the result of expanding energy requirements (a rise in aggregate demand) or the increase in baseline production and generation costs.

The first is playing out in regions typically unknown for their energy intensity. This is more the case outside the OECD countries (the most developed industrially). We should expect such a result, given the movement of new energy demand into these regions.

While the media attention centers on the U.S. and European markets, the other nations have driven global demand for some time. That means any spike in prices worldwide will have an impact on what it costs to obtain energy just about everywhere else.

As an investor, you should not focus on where the energy is produced. Remember, this is a globally integrated market, and prices will reflect that fact.

Still, it's the second trend that is causing the most significant problems moving forward.

And investors will have plenty of opportunities to profit as this problem accelerates.

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Five Energy Stocks to Buy That Offer Juicy Dividends with Low Risk

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The only thing better than a sector with a lot of growth potential – like energy stocks – is finding a financially sound group of stocks to buy within that sector that pays a healthy dividend to boot.

And a recent screen by investment research firm Value Line turned up five such energy stocks, all electric and gas utilities.

Technically, Value Line cast a wider net that included all stocks. The screen actually yielded 17 stocks, many of them well-known companies like McDonald's Corp., Lockheed Martin and General Mills.

But the beauty of an exercise like this is finding the less-obvious gems, which in this case turned out to be mostly energy stocks.

Value Line used several proprietary filters – financial strength, safety and timeliness –
to narrow the list.

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Gold Prices: The Yellow Metal's Still a Great Long-Term Investment

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There are a lot of moving parts to the gold story so let's start with the biggest takeaway: Gold prices are facing only a temporary setback.

Longer-term, as the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks begin to wind down quantitative easing and, more importantly, begin to ease interest rates back up to more "normal" levels, inflation should begin to kick in and drive gold up to new highs, making the yellow metal a great long-term investment.

First, though, let's tease apart the various factors that currently are driving the price of gold lower.

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10 Stocks With at Least 10% Projected Returns in 2013

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It doesn't hurt to have help narrowing down the best stocks to buy… Especially when that "help" comes from one of the most successful stock analysts in the country. Tobias Levkovich, Citigroup Inc.'s (NYSE:C) chief equity strategist, sent a note to clients consisting of 18 recommended stocks and their end-of-year price targets. We've sifted through […]

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How China and Saudi Arabia Mean You Should Bet on Higher Oil Prices

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As Money Morning Global Energy Strategist Dr. Kent Moors pointed out not long ago, the sky is not falling on oil prices despite what the doomsayers believe.

There are two crucial countries that are behind the recent rise in oil prices: China and Saudi Arabia.

And if these two nations keep on their current path, it will mean one thing…

Even higher oil prices in 2013. Here's why.

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Stocks to Buy Now Before the U.S. Infrastructure Spending Boom

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In last week's State of the Union Address, U.S. President Barack Obama delivered some hints as to where he'll focus his spending over the next four years – signaling some stocks to buy in 2013.

In his speech, President Obama made reference to the critical need for infrastructure spending in the United States. He proposed a "fix-it-first" program to address some of the more pressing needs among our nation's roads, highways, bridges and other areas in need of repair.

We have heard this type of political commentary before as the need for infrastructure repair was a highlight of the 2008 campaign. Deteriorating infrastructure is a growing problem in the United States.

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Is George Soros About to Short the British Pound Again?

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Shorting the yen has earned George Soros more than $1 billion in profits since November.

Now Soros has set his sights on the second-most-shorted currency in the world – the British pound.

And he may have company, as the Financial Times reports: Along with Soros Fund Management, Tudor Investment Corp., Caxton Associates and Moore Capital – some of the best global macro traders – "see similarities in UK's predicament to that of Japan" and are interested in shorting the pound.

This adds to worries about the pound, which has already fallen 5% this year. And with exports falling, productivity low, and gross domestic product shrinking last quarter, Britain's economic outlook is foggy at best.

"There could be a dramatic weakening of the pound this year," one of the world's top macro hedge fund managers, who declined to be named because he does not want his firm's positions becoming public, told the FT.

For Britain's sake, let's hope that weakening doesn't lead to another "Black Wednesday," Sept. 16, 1992 – the day George Soros "broke" the Bank of England.

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10 Stocks With at Least 10% Projected Returns in 2013

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It doesn't hurt to have help narrowing down the best stocks to buy… Especially when that "help" comes from one of the most successful stock analysts in the country. Tobias Levkovich, Citigroup Inc.'s (NYSE:C) chief equity strategist, sent a note to clients consisting of 18 recommended stocks and their end-of-year price targets. We've sifted through […]

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Marriott Pumps Up Buyback Activity - Analyst Blog

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Marriott International Inc. (MAR), one of the world’s largest lodging companies, has approved an additional share repurchase, thereby maintaining the trend of returning wealth to its shareholders from time to time, depending on market conditions. Under this program, this Maryland-based hotelier has raised its authorization by another 25 million of its common stock leaving a […]

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