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    • Thu Sep 25th 17:35 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Pharmaceuticals: Pfizer Is a Buy
      Abbott has a more diversified mix of businesses with diagnostics/nutrionals as summarized below from their last earnings report:

      -global sales growth of 14.8% to $7.3 billion (B)

      -pharmaceutical sales ($4.1B) growth of 16.7% led by Humira (a biological agent for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis), which experienced a 48% growth in sales for 1H08 at $1.1B with a forecast for sales of $4.3 billion for 2008

      -medical product sales ($1.4B) growth of 14.7% driven by diagnostics sales ($0.9B) growth over 17%

      -nutritional sales ($1.2B) growth of 21.3% thanks to strong results in emerging markets

      Abbott Labs reported total sales for the first half of 2008 of $14.1B with $6.5B in the USA and $7.6B internationally. The Company posted a diversified mix of healthcare business units with 56.5% of sales from prescription drugs, 16.5% from nutrional products, 12.5% from diagnostics, and about 6.5% from vascular products such as stents. The Company increased its earnings-per-share guidance from a range of $3.20 - $3.25 to $3.24 - $3.28, excluding specified items, reflecting growth of about 15% along with expected sales growth in the mid-teens for the full year.
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    • Thu Sep 25th 08:58 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Pharmaceuticals: Pfizer Is a Buy
      Thats why I included link to my previous articles on Pfizer instead of repeating the same thing in this article:
      www.google.com/cse?cx=...
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    • Mon Aug 25th 14:09 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Carbon Allowance Futures Commence U.S. Trading
      Trading on CCX:
      www.chicagoclimatex.co...

      Trading on NYMEX Green Exchange:
      nymex.greenfutures.com...
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    • Thu Aug 21st 14:15 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Global Carbon Trading Index - Updated
      Index Universe on Carbon Trading:
      www.indexuniverse.com/...

      ETF Trends on Carbon Trading:
      www.etftrends.com/2008...

      Hard Assets Investor.com on Carbon Trading:
      www.hardassetsinvestor...

      2-Year Chart for Climate Exchange (London: CLE):
      finance.yahoo.com/q/bc...=
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    • Thu Aug 21st 13:16 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Global Carbon Trading Index - Updated
      The World Bank - State & Trends of the Carbon Market [2008 PDF]:
      siteresources.worldban...
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    • Tue Aug 19th 18:09 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Climate Exchange: Uniquely Positioned to Benefit Carbon Credit Trading Expansion
      You would probably need to open a global stock trading account with E*TRADE to buy shares of Climate Exchange (London: CLE). Many of the smaller ex-US stocks don't trade often or at all even if you find a pink sheet ticker such as CXCHY.

      However, while E*TRADE offers investors the opportunity to invest in foreign markets such as London and others; my own experience with this system is disappointing. First, strength in the US Dollar will impact investment returns since trading in the foreign markets only occurs in the local currency. Secondly, in my experience I was not able to place a trade online for the stocks and foreign markets that I attempted to place and had to call a broker for assistance, but he entered the order wrong and it was never filled. Finally, the currency conversion does not carry a commission, but you will not receive a favorable rate; so E*TRADE makes money on the spread between the real-time currency conversion ratio and what they offer to retail investors.

      Since I no longer use my E*TRADE global account, I wrote the following article for a trading strategy for carbon credit companies:
      mikehav.blogspot.com/2...
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    • Wed Aug 13th 12:25 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bullish on Telcos
      Here is info on dividend history over the past year for CEL:

      Cellcom Israel Ltd. announced that it has declared a cash dividend in the amount of NIS 2.76 per share, and in the aggregate amount of approximately NIS 270 million (the equivalent of approximately $0.77 per share and approximately $76 million in the aggregate, based on the representative rate of exchange on August 11, 2008; the actual $ amount for dividend paid in $ will be converted from NIS based upon the representative rate of exchange published by the Bank of Israel on September 4, 2008). The dividend will be payable to all of the Company's shareholders of record at the end of the trading day in the NYSE on August 25, 2008. The payment date will be September 8, 2008.

      Cellcom Israel Ltd. announced that the Company's Board of Directors declared a cash dividend in the amount of NIS 2.65 per share, and in the aggregate amount of approximately NIS 258 million (the equivalent of approximately $0.77 per share and approximately $75 million in the aggregate, based on the representative rate of exchange on May 13, 2008; The actual $ amount for dividend paid in $ will be converted from NIS based upon the representative rate of exchange published by the Bank of Israel on June 4, 2008). The dividend will be payable to all of the Company's shareholders of record at the end of the trading day in the NYSE on May 27, 2008. The payment date will be June 10, 2008.

      Reuters reported that Cellcom Israel Ltd.'s Board declared a cash dividend of ILS7.18 per share ($2.10) or a total of ILS700 million to be paid on April, 14. This includes a dividend for the fourth quarter of ILS1.78 per share and a one-time extraordinary dividend for the year of ILS5.4 per share.

      Cellcom Israel Ltd. announced that it has declared a cash dividend in the amount of NIS 2.06 per share, and in the aggregate amount of approximately NIS 201 million, the dividend will be payable to all shareholders of record at the end of the trading day in the NYSE on August 23, 2007. The payment date will be September 6, 2007.
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    • Wed Aug 13th 11:08 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      A Global Transport ETF Strategy
      See my blog post on this at:
      mikehav.blogspot.com/2...
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    • Mon Aug 11th 16:42 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      A Leveraged Investment Vehicle for the Global Rail Industry
      Thanks, Cam - See the updated post on this idea at my blog with 36 total companies:
      mikehav.blogspot.com/2...
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    • Mon Aug 11th 12:53 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      A Global Transport ETF Strategy
      IYT now has 4 airlines out of 20 total stocks, which is worse than previous total of 3 airline holdings
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    • Wed Aug 6th 09:54 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Carbon Prices Fall Along with Oil and Other Commodities
      Author Disclosure: Long EcoloCap Solutions (OTCBB: ECOS)
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    • Tue Jul 29th 07:25 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      5 Stock Market ETFs that Have Defied the Bear Market
      What do you think about HealthShares Enabling Technologies (HHV) - up 2.6% YTD?
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    • Sun Jul 27th 11:27 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bullish on Telcos
      I update the index quarterly with the last update on 5/5/08 - the historical prices for ETF ticker are $20.64 from a year earlier and $23.77 on 5/5/08.
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    • Sun Jul 27th 11:11 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      A New Way for Investors to Sail the Seas
      I don't own any of the shares and all of the research was done by me as a new ETF idea, as with all of the other ETF ideas I have posted.
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    • Tue Jul 22nd 14:33 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      NationCapShares: An ETF Idea for Developed, Emerging and Frontier Markets
      XOM is the only US-based company included in the 30 active components and it has outperformed the S&P 500 over the last 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, and 10 years. Also, why do you assume this data would apply to all other developed, emerging, and frontier markets/companies based outside of the US? Finally, this is a semi-active index with a performance-based rating system in place with quarterly rebalancing rather than a passive index which simply selects the largest market cap company from each nation.
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