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Daily Archives: September 4, 2008

A Leading Biotech Stock

September 4, 2008
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If you want to be a big winner in the market, you simply can’t hang back with the crowd.  You’ve got to think for yourself, imagine alternative scenarios, notice what’s happening outside the world of groupthink.  When you do, you’ll find opportunities like Isis Pharmaceuticals (ISIS). Isis earned a spot in Cabot Top Ten Report back on August 18, thanks to its strong performance.  Here’s what Editor Michael Cintolo wrote. “Pharmaceuticals are showing up in these pages with increasing frequency as investors, hungry for a little alpha, look to the big moves these companies can make when good news...

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Would You put a Wind Turbine on Your Roof?

September 4, 2008
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An article in today’s New York Times posed a similar question to readers alongside a story about people who have recently installed small wind turbines on their roofs but may never recoup the cost. The installations have been mostly in cities with a lot of wind, like Boston and San Francisco, but the problem is that the turbines might be too small to ever really provide enough energy for their installation to have been cost effective. A few people in the article (even someone from Harvard University) said that they wanted to install the turbines as an outward show...

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