MAXIMUS, Inc. (NYSE:MMS) announced that David Walker, Chief Financial Officer, and Lisa Miles, Vice President of Investor Relations, will present at the CJS Securities "New Ideas for the New Year" Conference in New York City on Wednesday, January 11, 2012.

This morning, all of the leading commodity stocks are coming under sharp selling pressure. The catalyst for the decline in the commodity sectors and the major stock market indexes is the stronger U.S. Dollar. Today, the U.S. Dollar Index futures (DX Z1) are trading higher by 0.40 cents to $78.95 per contract.

Joseph Piotroski's 9-point scoring system has proven a successful way to find value stocks that beat the market. Can we combine his method with the "good company at cheap price" precepts of Magic Formula Investing (MFI) to find potential winners? In this article, we take a look at MFI stocks with 8 or 9 Piotroski scores.

Many traders and investors follow the industrial metals very closely as a leading indicator. The legendary trader Jesse Livermore used to say that copper was one of the most important industrial metals that a trader could track. He said copper would tell the investor where the economy was headed.