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Good Bye U.S. Savings Bonds, Hello Stem Cells, Farmland and India

The savings bond program has been emasculated. I don't think that EE bonds reset anymore. You're going to get that 1.3% for 30 years! The yield on the I bonds is also poor as mentioned. The bond prior to the current one had no yield above inflation - nada! And they dropped the maximum amount to $5000 from $30000. I socked away my kids' college money in the I bonds from 2004 to 2007 (instead of one of those 529 stock mutual fund plans -whew!), but they've really ruined it for that purpose now.

Our grandparents bought War Bonds to support the govt in tough times. Maybe the new administration should start a similar version for the little guy with some real yields to let people participate as a team in the economic recovery.

STO's Growth Will Blow Out Earnings

You've got to take technical analysis of the ADR chart with a grain of salt since the dollar has weakened so much over the past 5 years. You really need to do the analysis on the Oslo shares, STL.OL, where the volume is much higher and the confounding effect of the dollar is taken away. STL.OL has not broken through its nominal high of ~208 set back in May 2006. If you dividend-adjust the numbers, however, it is just barely making a new high just before the dividend record date. The state has increased its holdings this spring which has helped lift the shares. That state buying looks done for now. We'll see what happens after the stock goes ex-dividend. In 2006 it got clobbered.

STO's Growth Will Blow Out Earnings

And Norsk Hydro didn't take over the oil and gas operations. It's the other way around. Is your editor asleep?

STO's Growth Will Blow Out Earnings

www.statoilhydro.com/e...

The above link is the list of the 36 analysts that have registered with StatoilHydro. About 20 of them have US phone numbers. This notion that STO is some undiscovered company followed by one analyst is nonsense.