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Last Activity: Added WFC to bearish list on 05/25/08

Current Stock List:

Symbol	Return	Since
WFC	+4.16%	05/25/08
BBT	+21.40%	05/25/08
HCBK	+26.26%	05/25/08
HTS	+15.81%	05/25/08
MTG	-60.60%	05/25/08

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WFC

BBT Sy Jacobs' Picks for Continuing Credit Crisis - Barron's 05/25/08 — Sy Jacobs, founder of JAM Asset Management, foresaw the housing slump and subprime macro fallout. He now tells Barron’s that investors erroneously assumed Bear Stearns was a market bottom. More pain is ahead for the economy and financials in particular. Increasing defaults in banks’ co...

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ROCK-STAR INVESTORS

Rank	Name	Sharpe Ratio	Avg Return	Followers
1	noshoes	21.10	+34.44%	381
2	Gerald Greene	18.14	+71.24%	211
3	stockmarketfunding.com	17.66	+25.60%	55
4	akiralegrand	13.47	+14.32%	62
5	anup2104	12.13	+74.22%	40

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POPULAR STOCKS

Symbol	Company Name	Sentiment
MCD	McDonald's Corp.
SBUX	Starbucks Corp
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices Inc
GLD	streetTRACKS Gold
BA	The Boeing Company
MO	Altria Group Inc

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TODAY'S HEADLINES

LDK Solar's Growth Potential Offset by Gross Margin Pressure
by Paul Cheung (Zacks.com) about LDK

Cisco Systems Still a Wait and See
by Thomas Catino (Ant & Sons) about CSCO

The Merrill Lynch Diet: Starving Shareholders
by Zack Miller (BloggingStocks) about MER

Until Housing Improves, Don't Expect Stocks to Rebound
by J.D. Steinhilber (Agile Investing) about SPY

Google Blows Q2: Multiple Compression to Continue
by Henry Blodget about GOOG

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TODAY'S TOP PICKS

DNDN		Cancer Vaccines: Investing Opportunities beyond Dendreon (NASDAQ: D... by Mike Havrilla
CLDA		BioMed Research Reports: Clinical Data (NASDAQ: CLDA), Lpath (OTC: ... by Mike Havrilla
PARD		Biotech Stocks - Beware of The Covered Call Trap by Ivan Mutaftchiev
PBIO		Under the Radar Healthcare Stocks: Protox, Pressure BioSciences, Un... by Mike Havrilla
ISIS		ISIS - Last Tuesday's Drop Presents a Nice Buy Opportunity by Ivan Mutaftchiev

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