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A low-cost producer with a stable balance sheet, UPL is positively levered to a likely rise in natural gas prices, says investment advisor Tim Travis.' on 6/23/2013 Often the best investment opportunities occur when quality companies struggle with short-term issues, which allow the investor to benefit from a time arbitrage as the short-term issues are worked out over the course of time. Ultra Petroleum ( UPL ) offers an excellent opportunity for the investor to benefit from the long-term increasing utilization of natural gas as a primary fuel source for the global economy, spurred on by the abundance of supply in North America due to new drilling technologies. While over the short term, excess supply has hurt prices and UPL's bottom line, over the long term, the economic and environmental forces will help foster an increase in the utilization of the gas. In addition, drillers have and will continue to reduce production to ensure adequate profitability, ...

In Congressional testimony on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the central bank could begin winding down its $85 billion-per-month bond-buying program at one of its "next few meetings Read more at http://www.i4u.com/2013/05/ben-bernanke/may-wrap-stocks-bond-says-22-could-market-wednesday-pullback-bernanke#7fhKUShiS3t4FW06.99 http://www.i4u.com/2013/05/ben-bernanke/may-wrap-stocks-bond-says-22-could-market-wednesday-pullback-bernanke

Can We Trust the Dow's Record Highs? - 8 March 2013 Stocks have surged – but the economy still feels stagnant... I HAVE a secret to tell you about the new all-time highs the Dow recorded this week, says Greg Guenthner in Bill Bonner's Daily Reckoning . It's not about an impending market crash. It's not about panic or a disconnected economy, or any of the other themes the media has bombarded you with this week. No, the secret I want to share with you is simple. Yet it has been almost completely overlooked since the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted fresh highs this week. The truth about these new highs is that they don't matter–at least not the way you think they do. It is all too easy to look at this week's market milestones through the lens of crisis. Folks want to know why the markets are rising while the economy feels stagnant. Jobs and income aren't back to levels we saw before everything got out of control. Europe is a mess. Need I go o...

Weekly   Market   Wrap: May 24, 2013 By:   Market News Video Posted on May 24, 2013 at 16:16 PM EDT This twenty first   trading   week of 2013 comes to a close with   stocks   falling on concerns the Federal Reserve could reduce or end its bond-buying program. Hi.

The Rude Awakening Wednesday, May 15, 2013 |0930 Hours Markets Shift to Overdrive Anatomy of a relentless market melt-up Why S&P 1,900 isn't so crazy after all… Plus: Will the boom generation jump back into stocks? Greg Guenthner coming to you from Baltimore, MD... Greg Guenthner Put down that jelly donut for a second… Do you see what's happening here? This market is in overdrive. The melt-up has been relentless, with the broad market gaining more than 1% yesterday. Nearly 200 domestically traded stocks finished the day up 5% or more. I told you it would be unwise to fight this tape. Short squeezes are fueling some of the bigger moves higher . Anyone betting against stocks right now is losing his lunch. Yet while stocks are moving higher, experts still don't see any need to be overweight equities for some reason. The average strategist recommends a stock allocation at less than 50%, according to Bloomberg. The equity risk premium (a favo...

SHARES OF KB HOME RANK THE HIGHEST IN TERMS OF RELATIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE HOMEBUILDING INDUSTRY (KBH, MDC, DHI, LEN, RYL) Print Share Apr 27, 2011 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the top five companies in the Homebuilding industry as measured by relative performance. This analysis was compiled based on yesterday's trading activity as we search for stocks that have the potential to outperform. KB Home (NYSE:KBH) ranks first with a gain of 1.38%; MDC Holdings (NYSE:MDC) ranks second with a gain of 0.96%; and DR Horton (NYSE:DHI) ranks third with a gain of 0.91%. Lennar (NYSE:LEN) follows with a gain of 0.31% and Ryland Group (NYSE:RYL) rounds out the top five with a gain of 0.28%. SmarTrend currently has shares of KB Home in an Downtrend and issued the Downtrend alert on February 04, 2011 at $14.02. The stock has fallen 16.3% since the Downtrend alert was issued.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Reiterated Outperform and raised target to $220 at Oppenheimer; . American Capital, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACAS) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo. Apollo Investment Corporation (NASDAQ: AINV) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo. Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Cut to Sell at S&P Equity Research (late-Tuesday call). BioMarin Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: BMRN) Cut to Neutral as Bear of the Day at Zacks. Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) Maintained Buy but raised target to $65 at BofA/ML. Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) Maintained Neutral but cut target to $22 at BofA/ML. Emerson Electric Co. (NYSE: EMR) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) Raised to Buy at Kaufman Bros. IAC/InterActiveCorp. (NASDAQ: IACI) Raised to Buy at Citigroup; Raised target to $39 at BofA/ML. International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) Reiterated Buy and Raised target to $190 at Argus. Joy Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: JOYG) Maintained Outperform as B...