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11 Surprising Investment
Predictions for 2010
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Dear Investor,
StreetAuthority's Market Advisor
letter, whose 2009 stock predictions are up +65.6%
(beating the market almost four-to-one) is once again going
out on a limb with a series of startling new forecasts.
Get ready to profit from our predictions for 2010, which include...
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Israel will
launch an airstrike in 2010 against Iran's
underground uranium-enrichment plant in the mountains
near Qom. Iran will retaliate by showering missiles on
Tel Aviv and will blockade the Strait of Hormuz. Oil
prices will soar to $185 per barrel
in the panic. For an obvious way to profit read on. |
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The swine flu
pandemic will worsen in 2010. If it metastasizes
globally, it could kill 71 million people. To fend off
catastrophe, the U.S. and other governments will spend
billions on antiviral drugs and vaccines. This could
lead to huge profits for two drugmakers profiled below. |
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2010 will be a breakthrough year for bio-generic drugs.
This is the surest locked-in profit play coming out of
the healthcare storm. We profile our best bet later in
this report. |
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A change in official GAAP accounting rules will
send one of America's best-loved tech stocks
into orbit. The new rule will boost reported
earnings by +58% -- a killer catalyst for the
stock. See below for exactly how this will work. |
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Detroit will release a car in 2010 that gets 230
miles per gallon. For distances
under 40 miles, it will run solely on batteries,
allowing millions of commuters to go gas-free
indefinitely. But don't buy the car -- buy the battery
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Microsoft
will buy out a national retail chain with 5,264 stores,
giving it instant access to millions of new customers.
Investors who own the retailer's stock will pocket a
windfall profit of +61%. But play it another way and you
could earn +1,300%. See below for full details. |
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Sugar prices will plummet.
After a monster 11-month move from 12 cents to 26 cents
per pound (hitting its highest level since 1981) sugar
is due for a breather in 2010. We've found a safe and
cheap way to play the move that can turn $3,000 into
$27,000 in a matter of weeks. |
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Treasuries will crash as interest
rates skyrocket from 3% to 7% in a year. The Federal
Reserve will raise rates aggressively in 2010 to fight
inflation. Bond investors will lose trillions. But
shrewd investors who position themselves in
"reverse-bond" securities will clean up. See below for
details. |
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The release of Windows 7 will unleash a tidal wave of
business spending, spurring sales up and down the IT
chain, from chips to PC makers to retailers. For the
biggest beneficiaries, see below. |
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The U.S. dollar will continue to plummet in 2010.
Trillions in unpayable liabilities are coming due on
Social Security and Medicare. Meanwhile, Washington
spends money like a drunken sailor. Keep reading to see
how every cent it drops can make you richer. |
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The world's 8th largest economy will legalize
marijuana in 2010. This will raise $2 billion in tax
revenue, save hundreds of millions in law enforcement
and prison costs, and spark a rush into the stock of the
only pharmaceutical company using marijuana to treat
swine flu. More on this further in this report. |
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They Told Us We were Crazy to Go Public With Our
Predictions |
My name is Nathan Slaughter. I'm Chief Investment
Strategist at the StreetAuthority Market Advisor
letter. These are the investments that my eight-man
research team and I believe will offer the most
explosive profit potential in 2010 and beyond.
All of these
forecasts, and several more, are described in depth in a
report we've just released. It's called
called Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010,
and you can get a free copy with a trial subscription to
the
StreetAuthority Market Advisor. But in this
letter, I'd like to share the report's highlights with
you.
For years now, we've been sending letters like this
alerting investors to the market's most pressing dangers
and opportunities. When we began doing this, people told
us we were crazy. ''You're bound to be wrong
sometimes,'' they said, ''and that will kill your
sales.''
But we felt that investors wanted clear and unhedged
forecasts. And we were determined to provide them for
all to see. What's more, we knew we had developed some
exclusive forecasting methods that have given us great
confidence in these predictions.
As it turned out, investors
have enjoyed reading our reports, because everyone's
interested in getting a handle on the future. When they
saw that our analyses made good sense, and a good many
(though certainly not all) of our forecasts came true,
our subscriptions soared.
In our predictions for 2009, for
example, we told our readers to expect a big move in
nanotechology. Our nanotech pick shot up +293.1%.
We also predicted that a small group of drilling stocks
clustered near the Arctic Circle would explode in price.
Our pick in this sector is up +210.0%.
We further claimed that the "best
sci-fi speculation of the year" would be a powerful
technology called RFID... and that three stocks would
skyrocket. Our picks are up +42.1%...
+88.9%... and +309.5%.
Add them all up and our predictions for 2009 are up
+65.6%. That's almost four times the +17.3% return of
the S&P 500.
Of course, there's no guarantee that our new forecasts
will be as profitable as our earlier ones. But imagine
how much better off you'd be today if you'd had a
reliable set of market predictions in hand a year ago.
At this pivotal economic juncture, on the cusp of a
recovery that could light a fire under the market, these
could be the most profitable recommendations in our
history.
So, without further ado, let me
get to our new forecasts. Please bear in mind that when
I discuss a specific investment, we are a totally
independent publisher, with no affiliation to any
brokerage or investment products. We don't even accept
advertisements. We don't make a nickel from anything but
subscription revenues.
When you run an investment
publication on subscription fees alone, you're not in
business long unless your advice makes money for your
customers. So please consider this letter a free sample
of what Market Advisor
readers receive every month.
Please also understand that in
a letter like this, I'm able only to hit the highlights.
To get the full story on each of these opportunities, I
urge you to request a copy of the full report. It's
yours as a free bonus with a trial subscription to
StreetAuthority Market Advisor. (As part of this offer, even
if you cancel your subscription and receive your money
back, you can still keep the special report.)
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Oil Will Soar in 2010 -- Bursting Through
Its Old Top and Hitting $185 per Barrel
Enjoy
oil now while it's cheap, because it will cost twice as
much next year.
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We predict that Israel will launch an airstrike
in 2010 against Iran's uranium-enrichment plant
buried under a mountain range 100 miles
southwest of Tehran. Iran will retaliate by
showering missiles on Tel Aviv and will blockade
the Strait of Hormuz.
Oil prices will soar to $185 per barrel in the panic.
Even if Israel doesn't attack Iran, oil
prices are under serious pressure. Declines in
production, exploration and the dollar will
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easy oil has been found... big strikes are now extremely
rare... and two major oil exporters -- Indonesia and
China -- now import the stuff.
Meanwhile, the world's largest fields are all
declining... from the Persian Gulf, to the North Sea, to
the Gulf of Mexico, to Alaska.
OPEC is shutting off the spigot. OPEC has cut
production by 12% of its capacity -- dramatically
reducing the amount of oil coming to market.
Plus the dollar is weakening... and crude oil thrives
on a weak dollar. When it doubled from July 2007 to July
2008, soaring from $74 to $147 a barrel, a major
catalyst was the rapid decline of the dollar.
Global energy exploration is off sharply and future
supplies are already jeopardized. When oil dropped after
its 2008 surge, expensive energy projects like oil sands
were put on hold. Oil drilling activity dropped 43%,
with year-over-year oil exploration in the United States
alone down 38%. Bids for offshore drilling rights in the
Gulf of Mexico dropped by 80%.
Bottom line: With a weak dollar and reduced
production bolstering oil prices, we'll see a dramatic
spike in crude oil as the world economy picks up. And if
war breaks out in the Mideast, as we think it will, all
bets are off.
The best way to profit? In the stocks of a few large
integrated oil companies that are trading at bargain
prices.
In Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010,
you'll find two oil giants currently trading at
multi-year lows. These companies have more cash in the
bank than debt on their books. What's more, they are
steadily increasing their dividends.
These companies can continue to post profits even if
oil and natural gas prices drop. They have multiple
profit centers and their refining and marketing profits
will expand if spot prices decline.
A third favorite is an offshore deep-driller that
recently made the world's largest oil discovery in 32
years. It is doubly attractive as a foreign company
because it will get an additional boost as the dollar
slides.
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Best ''Fear Trade'' of 2010: The Swine Flu Pandemic
Will Worsen and a Handful of Biotech Stocks Will Soar
The
swine flu virus will spread in 2010. The media circus may have
quieted down, but more than 70 countries now report cases of the
virus and the number is growing.
The World
Health Organization is has raised its pandemic alarm to full
alert for the first time since 1968.
One million Americans are already infected. The X
factor is that epidemiologists don't know how it will react
when it mixes with regular seasonal flu, which already kills
36,000 Americans a year.
Public health officials say an influenza
pandemic could kill 71 million people worldwide. To fend off
catastrophe, the U.S. and other governments around the world
are spending billions to stockpile antiviral drugs and
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The U.
S. government has already set aside $1 billion to develop the
vaccine to fight the virus. A nationwide H1N1 vaccination program
will cost between $3 billion and $18 billion.
The strong government response to this pandemic could
lead to big profits for several drugmakers. You'll find their names
in Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010.
Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis are
all working on vaccines. It's too soon to tell who will win the
fattest contracts. But they are all so large that even a
billion-dollar contract won't do much for the bottom line.
In contrast, the CDC recently awarded a $35 million
development contract to a small biotech company. This is the sort of
company you should be looking to buy.
We especially like a small clinical-stage
biopharmaceutical company based in Maryland. When the swine flu
story hit the news in April, this small flu-vaccine maker was
trading for 81 cents. A day later the stock hit $3.88.
That's a +379% jump in price overnight. A few small
fortunes were made from this one simple fear trade.
After surging as high as $7.79, this stock is now back
in the $4 range. If the swine flu hits 40% of the U.S. population,
as the Centers for Disease Control projects could happen, this stock
could go on a rocket ride. You'll get full details on it in your
free copy of Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010.
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Best Government-Driven
Investment of 2010:
Bio-Generic Drugs
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As the healthcare
debate reaches fever pitch, it's clear that big changes are coming.
As with any massive regulatory overhaul, some companies are cowering
in fear of the proposals -- but others are chomping at the bit.
Partisan rancor aside, we all have a common enemy in spiraling
costs. So it stands to reason that companies trimming fat from the
system will have powerful allies on both sides of the political
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That makes the healthcare IT sector a safe bet.
But stocks in this niche are already pricey. For real upside we like
companies working to develop generic substitutes for biotech drugs.
These medicines save lives, but can also be prohibitively expensive
(cancer drug Avastin costs up to $100,000 annually).
We think a resistance to cheaper biotech equivalents
will soon melt away. Generic prescriptions now account for almost
70% of all pills taken nationwide. These inexpensive alternatives
have saved more than $730 billion over the past decade.
Biotechs have fended off generic imitators until now,
but the copycats are about to break through. Bipartisan legislation
pushing for a formal FDA approval pathway has been introduced in
both the house and Senate.
By next year, we'll see the FDA approving biogeneric
medicines in the United States. The lure of shaving off one-third
off the $40 billion we spend on biotech drugs each year will prove
irresistible.
The investment implications are huge. Washington's move
will have a big impact on biotech companies like Amgen and Genentech,
as well as traditional drugmakers like Merck who want to get into
generic biotech.
In Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010 we
profile the company that is best positioned of all to profit from
the FDA's move. A regulatory green light could send this stock
soaring.
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Best "Sleeper" Play of the Year:
An Obscure Accounting Rule Change Will Send
One of America's Most-Loved Tech Stocks Into Orbit
One of
America's premier technology companies has a funny problem: too much
cash.
You see, it conservatively accounts for sales by
spreading revenues over two years. But it gets the cash upfront. So
its reported earnings are tiny compared to its actual cash flow.
The official GAAP earnings investors see don't reflect
this company's impressive profits. But that may soon change. A new
accounting rule is in the works that would let the firm book most of
its revenue upfront.
Last quarter, its earnings per share would have been
+58% higher under this new rule.
Once the new rule is approved, Wall Street analysts
will jack up their earnings estimates, the company's reported
earnings will surge... and the stock will attract millions of new
growth investors.
You know this company. You probably use its products.
And it's a great stock to own regardless of its accounting policies.
For the full details, including the best timing to take
advantage of this catalyst, send for your free copy of Hottest
Investment Opportunities for 2010.
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Best Automotive Investment of 2010: Detroit
Will Release a Car that Gets 230 Miles Per Gallon
A pal of
mine brags about getting 50 miles per gallon in his Toyota
Prius. But that's nothing compared to the 230 mpg that GM's
new Chevy Volt will get.
For distances under 40 miles, the Volt runs on
electricity. Then it switches to gas and the generator
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If you commute
less than 40 miles a day you could swear off gasoline forever. Just
plug in the car at night to recharge.
GM isn't the only American carmaker going electric.
Ford is planning a battery-powered car based on the Focus. And of
course Toyota has the Prius... and Nissan the Leaf.
This growing wave of battery-powered cars doesn't mean
car makers are a good buy. It means battery makers are a good
buy.
But we're looking for profits far from Detroit. The
United States is behind the technology curve here. China is the
leader.
While the Department of Energy is giving $2.6 billion
to private industry to advance our battery technology, a Chinese
battery maker is selling cutting-edge technology it has already
developed.
These aren't your father's Die Hards. These are
state-of-the-art rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that outperform
anything else being made.
What's more, these batteries are 100% nontoxic. The CEO
actually drinks the company's battery fluid to prove the point.
Finally, they're cheap. Instead of using expensive
robots on automated assembly lines, it uses cheap Chinese labor. It
pays China's top engineering graduates about $700 a month, which
wouldn't cover a GM shop steward's weekly wages.
The more the world's carmakers rely on batteries, the
more this company will sell of them. It already dominates the
Chinese market and will inevitably build a larger footprint
throughout the world. Buying it now is like buying stock from Sam
Walton when all he owned was a couple of dime stores. See our full
write-up in Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010.
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Best Takeover Play of 2010:
Microsoft's Next Shopping Spree Could Earn You +1,300%
This past
February Microsoft hired a veteran Wal-Mart executive to create a
chain of brick-and-mortar retail stores. Apple has changed computer
marketing with its hip stores, and Microsoft is serious about
regaining lost ground.
Wal-Mart executives get things done fast. And it's a lot quicker to
buy what you need than to build it brick by brick -- especially when
you have enough cash to buy anything you want.
Microsoft has $8.3 billion in cash on hand, and no long-term debt.
It is one of just seven U.S. companies with a triple-A credit
rating.
The company we think it will buy has an international
footprint of 5,264 stores. They tend to be in shopping centers and
strip malls... places where people already eat, shop and work.
This is precisely where Microsoft wants to extend its
reach. Buying this retailer will give Microsoft an instant
competitive advantage over Apple, which has only 250 stores.
Overnight, it achieves a footprint that otherwise would take years
to build.
So what's the profit potential here? Institutions own
91% of the target company's shares and they have suffered through a
-54% decline in the past two years. I doubt they'll approve a merger
that doesn't help make them whole, especially from a company that
can afford to pay up. An acquisition at $45 a share would give
shareholders a 61% premium and still price the company at less than
its historical valuation.
You have two ways to play this, depending on how
aggressive you want to be: Buy the stock and wait for a takeover
announcement that includes a rich premium... or position yourself
for a huge payday with call options.
In Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010 you
will see $1 options that could easily move to $14 if Microsoft
pounces on this stock as we expect.
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Best Commodity Play of 2010: Short Sugar and Buy Wheat
You
want to see a financial mania? Don't look at stocks, look at
sugar.
Sugar recently hit its highest price in 28 years as
production in Brazil and India collapsed thanks to El Niño. Sugar
prices touched 26 cents per pound, the most it's fetched since the
shortage of 1981.
Take a look at this chart:
When a
market goes vertical like this, a sell-off usually follows. Sugar
has already dropped a few cents from its high, but it could drop a
dime in a hurry. If you're short 10 sugar contracts, that's $112,000
in your pocket.
But don't play the futures on sugar. It's too expensive and
risky. In Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010,
we explain a far safer strategy where you can still take
advantage of a monster move in sugar.
If sugar retraces even half its move to the downside,
you can turn $3,000 into $27,000 this way... likely in just
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long side of our double-barreled commodities trade is wheat.
After a long slide, the wheat market has finally come off its lows.
Prices bottomed out on October 2 at $4.41 per bushel -- its cheapest
price in almost three years.
So far this year, weather conditions have been great.
This is what pushed wheat prices down to new lows almost every week.
But even the slightest hint of bad weather can turn the markets on a
dime -- and trigger a powerful bullish move.
Twice in just the past year wheat has spiked over $7 a
bushel. It could easily do so again if any weather disruption occurs
in the next few months. In that case, a long position in wheat is a
quick path to wealth.
With
colder, wetter weather sweeping through the Midwest and hampering
the harvest, the crop might come in smaller than predicted. We
predict a rally in wheat up to $7 per bushel within six months.
At around $5 a bushel now, you make $50 for each cent
it moves in a futures contract. That's $10,000 profit per contract
on the next spike to $7. If the news is extra poor, and wheat jumps
back to the $11.40 per bushel it hit in March 2008, you could walk
away with $32,000 -- per contract.
In Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010,
you'll see also how play the most active commodities without leaving
the stock market. You don't need to get involved with commodity
brokers or futures contracts. You'll also find ways to increase your
leverage and reduce your risk... all while sticking to widely held
securities, with enough volume to get in and out quickly and safely.
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Best Bond Play of 2010: Short Treasuries
PIMCO's "bond king" Bill Gross calls U.S. Treasuries the "last,
great financial bubble" and "the most overvalued asset in the world,
bar none."
We're not going to argue with the man who manages more
bond money than anyone else in the world. And we can certainly see
his logic...
Under Obama's breathtaking spending, the federal budget
deficit will jump to an all-time high of $1.5 trillion this fiscal
year. Over the coming decade, it will swell by another $9 trillion.
As the global economy recovers interest rates and
inflation will rise sharply. Under no scenario are today's
historically low interest rates on U.S. Treasuries sustainable.
Just step back and look at history. The 10-year
Treasury note yield has been in a long-term decline since the early
'80s when it reached 15.8% at the height of inflation. It is now at
3.4%. But the gargantuan government bond issuance to fund the U.S.
debt bubble will push yields steeply higher in coming year -- and
bond prices steeply lower.
We understand why the Fed is trying to clean up the
mortgage-backed securities mess. But in trying to save the financial
system by snapping up these toxic securities the Fed has simply
created another dangerous credit bubble. You can't cure a problem
caused by too much debt by issuing more debt.
Bottom line: Bond investors are being presented with a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get their money out of U.S.
Treasuries at a generational top. Sell what you have now... and
position yourself for profits in the "reverse-bond" securities we
profile in Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010.
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Play of the Year: The Release of Microsoft's Windows 7
Will Unleash a Tidal Wave of Business Spending
There
wasn't much hoopla surrounding the release of Microsoft's latest
operating system. The company deliberately kept the buzz to a
minimum. But we are convinced that the release of Windows 7 will
prove to be a much bigger catalyst than Windows Vista, and will spur
sales up and down the IT chain, from chips to PC makers to
retailers.
The previous version of Windows (Vista) was a sore
disappointment. Big corporations shied away from the new software,
and most opted to stand pat rather than make costly upgrades.
Vista's failures have set the stage for an ever bigger
replacement cycle this time around. Companies of all shapes and
sizes that didn't make the leap to Vista are still relying on aging
Windows XP systems. Hundreds of millions of outdated PCs worldwide
need upgrades. We predict Windows 7 will be just the right fuse to
spark an explosion in pent-up enterprise spending.
Who will profit most? Not Microsoft. Vendors that
supply components like semiconductors and hard drives will make the
biggest gains.
My staff and I like the near-term prospects for one
particular PC maker that will be shipping 140,000 new computer
systems per day... plus a retailer whose shelves are already loaded
with Windows 7-related merchandise. You get the full write-up on
these stocks in Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010.
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U.S. Treasury Sales Will Collapse, Ending the
Dollar's Reign as the World's Reserve Currency
Who owns
America?
It might not be who you think. You have to
go all the way back to the American Revolution (when foreign
supporters like France bought our war bonds), to find so
much U.S. debt held by foreigners.
In 1970, foreigners held just 3.8% of U.S. federal
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China
is the largest holder of U.S. debt. It holds more than $800 billion
in U.S. treasuries -- 11% of the total. They see what is happening
in Washington and they're nervous. China is calling loudly for the
creation of a new reserve currency. So is Russia.
Meanwhile, we're spending money we don't have.
Our budget deficit is 13% of GDP. That's twice as big as our
next-largest deficit since World War II.
Plus we're on the hook for $100
trillion in future payments for Social Security,
Medicare and Medicaid, and government pensions.
Guess what? Federal tax receipts come to $2.4 trillion
a year. How are we going to pay $100 trillion without
massive tax increases... defaulting on the government's
promises... or both? None of which is exactly bullish
for the future of the dollar as the world's safe-haven
reserve currency.
As
exporters like China and India focus on domestic
consumption to replace sliding sales to the U.S., demand
for our debt will dry up... and the days of the U.S.
dollar as the world's reserve currency will be numbered.
To see how to profit from this mega-shift read on...
Best Currency Play of 2010
Let's
be clear: The U.S. dollar will continue to plummet in 2010.
Currencies thrive on a positive balance of trade. But
the U.S. is by far the world's largest debtor nation. Foreign
central banks are ditching the dollar at a historic rate. Only 37%
of their new foreign exchange holdings now go into greenbacks.
(Historically, it's been the exact inverse, with 63% of new reserves
going into dollars.)
What are they using to replace the dollar? The euro and
yen. The two currencies account for almost all of the
new non-dollar reserves.
Think about how poorly that speaks of the dollar. Even
the euro -- the currency of a bitterly divided union of
nations -- and the yen -- the currency of a country
that's been in recession for a decade –are now both more
attractive than the dollar.
We think the dollar will remain under selling pressure
for the next several years. Nothing out of Washington
inspires confidence otherwise. Especially our all
time-record budget deficit -- the highest of any nation
in recorded history.
Rather than bemoaning the fate of the dollar, we plan
on making money from it. Sure, the euro and yen will
continue to rally as the world pulls reserves away from
the dollar. But our favorite currency play right now
might surprise you: it's the Norwegian krone.
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This
under-the-radar currency is a perfect safe haven. It just might be
the best currency in the world.
I have been bullish on Norway for several years now.
The reason is simple: what is good for oil is good for Norway.
Norway is a fiscal beacon: it actually has a budget
surplus -- in contrast to the deepening deficits in the U.S., Europe
and Japan. And its positive trade balance of 5% per cent of GDP is
the biggest in the industrialized world. (Which explains why the
cost for insurance against a default by the Norwegian government is
the lowest of the world's ten most-traded currencies.)
If you're worried about inflation, you need a
commodity-based currency like the krone that rises in
tandem with raw material prices. With our bullish
outlook for oil we expect the krone to steadily
appreciate for at least the coming year.
In Hottest Investment Opportunities for 2010
we'll show you how to double, triple or even quadruple
your money in only two months if the Norwegain krone
rises five cents against our greenback. This is highly
likely in the coming year, as skittish investors
continue to flock to the safety of commodity-backed
currencies. With the investment we recommend you know
your risk in advance and you cannot lose more than you
put up initially.
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Most Surprising Economic Story of 2010 -- Marijuana
California is in serious trouble. It has the lowest credit rating of
any state and record 12.2% unemployment.
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Its budget
deficit is now $15 billion and is expected to reach $42
billion next year. While many states face budget shortfalls,
only California's is more than one-third of its general
fund. The state is so short on cash that it paid bills with
IOUs from June through September. Its credit rating has been
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But an unlikely white knight could
gallop in to save California's economy: marijuana.
A bill to legalize pot for adults is before the
California legislature. The bill would regulate the cultivation of
marijuana and impose a $50 per ounce fee on sales.
By legalizing and taxing pot the state would reap huge
new revenues: $2 billion a year. Pot is California's biggest cash
crop, worth $14 billion a year. Vegetables are a distant second,
taking in $5.7 billion. California's famous grapes generate just
$2.6 billion.
But instead of getting a cut of its #1 business, the
state now spends money it doesn't have trying to shut down the
industry and jailing its users.
Next year Californians
will vote to do a 180-degree about-face on the pot war, by
legalizing marijuana statewide. Recent polls show that 60% of voters
might approve the change. (In fact, Oakland already taxes cannabis
sales, to the tune of $1 million a year.)
How can investors profit from California's bold move?
With a small pharma that has applied to the FDA for fast-track
approval of its marijuana-based medicine to fight swine flu.
The company is at the forefront of medical marijuana
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Decade:
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There's no doubt among rational analysts that the safest, cheapest
and cleanest form of energy is nuclear.
But the future of nuclear energy doesn't lie in large,
gigawatt-size plants. It lies in very small ones, the size of a
backyard hot tub, that can be delivered on the back of a truck.
These plants can be buried and run maintenance-free for
up to 10 years, and produce enough electricity to power 20,000
homes. At about $25 million each, any town big enough for a Wal-Mart
could have an almost infinite supply of cheap power.
These small, portable and self-contained "nuclear
batteries" are ideal for remote locations disconnected from the
power grid. You can't have a Chernobyl because there are no moving
parts. And it doesn't use enriched uranium. Nobody will steal it
because it is literally too hot to handle. It would be like stealing
a barbecue with your bare hands.
The technology was developed by the government's
nuclear labs at Los Alamos. It has been licensed to a company that
already has orders and will be in production in 2013. Amazingly,
this is not widely known. There has been little press coverage. So
the most striking innovation in the energy field in decades will hit
the general public out of left field.
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Just as chemical catalysts speed reactions between
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Catalysts come in all shapes and sizes. But here are
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A surprise takeover announcement -- Like we saw
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our shares jumped +23% in a single day. (We made a total of +78% on
that one in less than two years.)
A killer new product -- Like the iPod, which
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of billions of dollars to the firm's market cap... and catapulted
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Radically new business conditions -- Like the
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products. This major new catalyst for Caterpillar pushed up its
revenue by +100%, its profit by +220%, and its stock price by over
+200%.
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Near Canada's Arctic Circle, in weather that can freeze
human flesh in seconds, an intrepid diamond driller is
hoping to repeat a massive strike made nearby 17 years ago.
Investing doesn't get any riskier than this, but the company
has delivered the goods before: The last time it found
diamonds, its stock exploded 118-to-1, turning $10,000 into
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Civil war in The Congo may completely cut off the outside
world's supply of cobalt. This scarce metal is urgently
needed for America's defense effort. (It is virtually
impossible to make a jet-fighter engine without this
high-strength alloy agent.) Cobalt prices are likely to
soar, racking up windfall profits for farsighted investors.
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A tiny electronic ID device, virtually undetectable when
embedded under the skin, could hit the market in 2010.
Driven by homeland-security concerns -- and because it is
more convenient, secure and accurate than outmoded means of
personal identification -- sales may soar and make its early
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Commercial space flights might become available to the
public by 2013. Hundreds of space tourists will spend
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In a desperate attempt to shore up a falling dollar, the
U.S. government might impose currency controls. Getting
assets out of the country would become borderline
impossible. There will be only one sure way left to protect
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A new way to cash in on nanotechnology may make early
investors rich. This is an opportunity of enormous
proportions, similar to cellular in 1985. Some analysts are
calling this the ''opportunity of the century.'' |
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A classic turnaround play might occur in a small medical
company that was blindsided by the FDA in June. Its stock
plunged -70% overnight. The firm is now meeting with the
agency to defend its product. If the FDA reverses its stance
the stock could bounce back from $5 to $20, for an instant
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Apple will team up with either Ford or GM to produce the
first iCar -- and dealers won't be able to keep them on the
lots. The car will integrate iPod music and video. Americans
spend a lot of time in their cars and will love bringing
their entertainment along with them. |
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A cell phone will hit the market that can work on nothing
but water. Powered by a micro fuel cell and hydrogen
generator, all you'll need to do is add water and you're
good to go. Down the road, the same company will make fuel
cell batteries that can power anything you can use in your
pocket (cell phone, radio, mp3 player, etc).
None of these things will happen overnight. And they are all
risky speculations... so don't bet your mortgage money on
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