Moving on to a lighter topic, last week marked the start of business for Pet Airways, a privately-funded company that will fly your pet in the main cabin of their aircraft–not in the baggage hold–between New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles.
Founded by Dan Wiesel and Alysa Binder and funded by private [...]

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All of the movement toward renewable energy and slicing carbon output represents a profitable opportunity for investors. One Green stock I particularly like because it has a dominant position in a product that is used in solar and wind power systems as well as hybrid vehicles.
It’s Maxwell Technologies (MXWL), a San Diego company that has [...]

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China is a country that, as we all know, is changing fast … but is still misunderstood.
While writing the title of this column, I was tempted to use the word xenophobia, meaning fear or contempt of strangers or foreign peoples.  But the word I want (which appears not to exist) means, “underestimating the power of [...]

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My investment idea today is a company that’s getting a boost from government healthcare policies.  It’s SXC Health Solutions (SXCI), an Illinois company that provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) and healthcare IT software.

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Now to the question that’s surely on everyone’s mind:  What do I think of the market here?  My answer:  Shorter-term, I’m cautious.  Longer-term, I’m optimistic.
While I’m certainly not buying with both hands right now, I am viewing this period of time as the market’s first consolidation/pullback/whatever-you-want-to-call-it since the bottom was put in back in March.  [...]

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