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Daily Market Beat
And It Begins…
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Is MIT Partnering With The Makers
Of “The Forever Battery”?
The brilliant minds at MIT have just developed a new design to make batteries smaller, longer lasting and more efficient…
By joining forces with the company behind “The Forever Battery” – they could go into production now – and introduce a new era for portable power (and create Millionaires out of shareholders, almost overnight!).
Get the name of the company that could produce MIT’s battery design by following this link!
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In This Issue
Hot Air For The Next Bubble (SA)
Energy Industry’s Next Superstar (TF)
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And It Begins… (Shawn Ambrosino)
If you loved (or hated) my article yesterday on Obama’s next big bubble, you’re gonna love (or REALLY hate) this…
But don’t say I didn’t tell you this was going to happen.
Recently, UCLA students to time out of their busy “Occupy Las Angeles” schedule to gather in protest against an estimated 32% hike in their tuition.
I’m all for exercising you’re American right to assemble, but the students gathered on the UCLA campus, holding signs reading, “No Fee Hikes” and “Wanted: Leadership”, are protesting the wrong institution.
They should be making the trek east to “Occupy The White House” in order to get their grievances heard…
Because it’s not the fault of the UCLA President, but the President of the USA for calling for $1 Trillion in “relief” for those holding student loans.
But college students never seem to understand how the real world works anyways…
That is until they find themselves living in it.
But how could they when so many institutions of higher learning are teaching them the wrong lessons?
Of course colleges are going to have to hike their tuitions…
How else are they going to afford to stay in business, now that the US government wants to subsidize student loans?
And we all know what subsidize means, right?
It means “promise to pay… maybe”.
And who’s footing the bill? You, me and everybody else who actually pays taxes, because last time I checked, there are no such things as “money trees”.
Just as there are no magic beans, fairy godmothers or agoraphobic dwarves who horde their gold.
All that money has to come from somewhere…
And from here on out (if this loony bill passes), that money will be coming from taxpayers.
But that’s not something co-eds think about.
A graduate student was quoted with saying, "We are bailing out the banks, we are bailing out Wall Street. Where is the bailout for public education?"
And while I can’t agree with that statement, I can understand where this line of thinking comes from…
I mean, how many college students do you know of that wouldn’t take a handout?
Give me, give me, give me…
That’s the way of things now…
But the problem still arises: What happens when there isn’t anything left to handout?
Money is finite…
Despite what the liberal perception is.
And while education is an important tool, it’s not something that is or should be guaranteed by the US Constitution.
And that’s the way it should stay…
But, God forbid you say this in public, lest you be labeled a bigot or an elitist.
The truth is a college education should be a privilege…
Any spot at a University should be coveted, reserved for those who work hard enough to reap the fruits of their labor…
It should be an entitlement.
Let the cream rise to the top, as they say…
Let a student’s hard work and determination dictate whether or not a person can move on to college…
Not government funding.
Is this an elitist statement?
Maybe, but if knowledge is power, doesn’t it make sense to keep that power in check?
If the Founding Fathers believed in a system of checks and balances, shouldn’t we?
Something to think about…
Dividend Tripling Valero Set To Release Earnings (Tim Fields)
Next Tuesday could be a really big day for refining and marketing company, Valero Energy Corporation (VLO)…
All the eyes of Wall Street waiting and watching.
The company is set to release their earnings data, and from the looks of it, analysts think it will be a really big quarter.
The average estimate of analysts is for net income of $1.73 per share, which represents a jump of more than 300% from the company’s actual earnings for the same quarter a year ago.
However, hitting that target may be a little difficult as oil seems to be on doing everything but rising.
Now, since rumors broke, that $1.73 per share average has danced all over the place from $1.23, $1.56 and now the current projection…
For the year, analysts are projecting profit of $4.32 per share, a rise of more than twofold from last year.
Looking at the company’s last quarter, Valero missed estimates by 17 cents, coming in at net income of $1.30 per share instead of the estimate of $1.47 per share…
But all in all, in the first quarter, the company beat estimates by 37 cents.
Valero has seen some very strong quarters and that equates to double digit gains in regards to revenue percentage for the past 4 quarters.
Combine that with the fact that Valero has averaged a hefty growth of 25.4%, with the biggest boost coming in the most recent quarter when revenue rose 43.7% from the year earlier quarter…
And we’re looking at an amazing stock in VLO.
Recent Noteworthy News:
This morning, the company released a very strong signal to investors, as they upped their dividend rate from $.05 per share to $.15.
Is this 300% dividend rate increase a sign of things to come with their November 1st earnings release? I think so… and I believe we can expect a banner day from Valero.
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Oil is Dead. Nuclear? Dead. Wind, Hydro, Solar? All Dead In The Water…And This Almost Inextinguishable Fuel Source That’s Putting The Final Nails In Their Coffin.
Get the name of the company being dubbed “The Death of Fossil Fuels”
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Quote of the Day
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
--Will Durant--
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