Hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions have gone to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff from multi-level marketing (pyramid scheme) companies since 2003. It's no wonder that he spoke in favor of weakening the Utah law against pyramid schemes... and the politicians listened to him.

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Ackman basically sold down his PUTS in MBIA and Ambac and probably made a small fortune. He also established a position in Wendy's in the quarter and added another 16 million shares of Target, his favorite retail company. Other than that, he held positions in Sears, Cadbury, Greenlight Capital, and loaned Borders Group money to stay afloat and took tons of options/warrants at $7.

Industrial materials comprises a wide variety of businesses, from copper miners to aircraft makers. Except for the commodity stocks, many businesses in this sector have one key characteristic that makes them attractive to the Magic Formula screen...

Three tornadoes ripped through Virginia on Monday, with one hop-scotching across the southeastern part of the state and leaving behind a 25-mile trail of gutted homes, tossed cars and more than 200 injured residents.

Well, that sure is not how you like to close them. Especially with volume picking up there while we sold off right after hitting the 200 day moving average on the Nasdaq. The good news is that the market still gapped high enough in the morning that all major market indexes were able to close with gains. But there was a negative blip in regards to leading stocks as the IBD 100 fell 1.2%.

Barron's analyst recommends Vodafone based on emerging market growth and other factors. The analyst has also been pretty good with his picks so far this year.

Edwards Lifesciences is the world’s biggest manufacturer of artificial heart valves and is working on a new valve that could revolutionize the market since it doesnt require opening up a patient's chest.

FTC, Senate and House Democrats looking into the price of oil and the role of oil companies. Republicans want hearing on the fall of the dollar, the flalout on comodity prices and the Fed's role in the whole mess. The regulators growling at oil producers and the Fed will slowly realize, provided this crisis continues, that they have the wrong target.

Gene Marcial's three stock picks for the week starting 5/12/08 with summaries of why these stocks are worth buying. Also, track the performance of his picks from the pick date and see how his other picks have performed.

Videos talks about Nasdaq and S&P 500. Stock Market Conditions are talked about. The information will help investors understand where the market is going and in tuen help them make good trades. Watch the video hosted on our website.

The market did not do much of anything today as we all bide time ahead of the release of Q1 GDP and the FOMC interest rate decision. About the only market moving news today was the talk of V and MA earnings. Both of those stocks produced excellent action today in their respective security, with MA now giving me a 450% return in a little under two years.

A CHART OF RCH WHICH HAS EXPLODED THE LAST TWO DAYS AND A REVIEW OF RECENT PICKS THIS WEEK