5 Best Up And Coming Stocks To Invest In Right Now

5 Best Up And Coming Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Radware Ltd.(RDWR)

Radware Ltd. provides application delivery solutions and network security solutions to banks, insurance companies, manufacturing and retail, government agencies, media companies, and service providers worldwide. The company offers AppDirector Intelligent Application Delivery Controller for data center optimization and to eliminate traffic surges, server bottlenecks, connectivity disconnects, and downtime for business continuity; and Alteon Application Switch application delivery controller that supports local, global, and transparent load-balance, multi-homing network load-balance, and bandwidth management capabilities. It also provides AppXML, which offers XML and Web services communications for mission-critical applications; AppWall, a Web application firewall (WAF) appliance that secures Web applications; LinkProof that manages wide area networks and Internet traffic for networks; Content Inspection Director, a smart redirection and dynamic policy enforcement device to meet contemporary carrier needs; and Session Initiation Protocol Director, an application delivery controller for application vendors, telecom equipment manufacturers, and system integrators. In addition, the company offers DefensePro Intrusion Prevention and Denial of Service products that protect against worms, bots, viruses, malicious intrusions, and DOS attacks; Inflight, a hardware device that provides online and network-based monitoring solutions; and APSolute Vision, an appliance-based management and monitoring system for information technology staff to centrally manage distributed devices and check the performance and security of enterprise wide application delivery infrastructures. It markets and sells its products primarily through distributors and resellers in North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as directly to select customers in the United States. Radware Ltd. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Adv! isors' Opinion:

• [By Evan Niu, CFA]

  Rival ADC vendor Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR  ) also issued disappointing preliminary results this morning, with its own revenue projected at $45 million -- also below its guidance. Radware said sales were strong in the U.S. market but cited weakness in EMEA and China for its weakness.

• [By Evan Niu, CFA]

  What: Shares of Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR  ) have fallen by as much as 24% after the company announced disappointing preliminary earnings for the first quarter.

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Radware (Nasdaq: RDWR  ) reported earnings on July 25. Here are the numbers you need to know.

  The 10-second takeaway
  For the quarter ended June 30 (Q2), Radware met expectations on revenues and missed estimates on earnings per share.

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Top 5 Solar Stocks To Own Right Now

Top 5 Solar Stocks To Own Right Now: EMCORE Corporation(EMKR)

EMCORE Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides compound semiconductor-based products for the broadband, fiber optics, satellite, and solar power markets. The company operates in two segments, Fiber Optics and Photovoltaics. The Fiber Optics segment offers broadband products, including cable television, fiber-to-the-premises, satellite communication, video transport, and defense and homeland security products; and digital products comprising telecom optical, enterprise, laser/photodetector component, parallel optical transceiver and cable, and fiber channel transceiver products. This segment?s products enable information that is encoded on light signals to be transmitted, routed, and received in communication systems and networks. The Photovoltaics segment provides gallium arsenide (GaAs) multi-junction solar cells, covered interconnected cells, and solar panels for satellite applications; and concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) power systems for commercial and u tility scale solar applications, as well as GaAs solar cells and integrated CPV components for use in other solar power concentrator systems. The company markets its products through its direct sales force, external sales representatives and distributors, and application engineers worldwide. EMCORE Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By CRWE]

  EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq:EMKR), a leading provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber optic and solar power markets, reported that it is ramping production and shipping the Opticomm-EMCORE NEXTGEN OTP-1DVI2A1SU insert cards for the Optiva platform.

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Cisco Stock Could Dive by 15% Due to New Threats

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is involved in yet another internal restructuring of sorts, and the company has done what it can to manage its shares higher and higher. In fact, shares were up a sharp 28% year-to-date before Thursday. Now a new wave of networking coverage from Credit Suisse is casting a dark shadow on Cisco, and the implication is that shares could fall some 15%, if the thesis turns out to be accurate.

Credit Suisse initiated new coverage on shares of Cisco with a very unambitious Underperform rating. The firm issued a $21.00 price target, versus a $24.80 closing price on Wednesday.

Analyst Kulbinder Garcha believes that software-defined networking is going to be a threat to the traditional networking giants. He still thinks that Cisco is a high-quality company, but it also may be the most vulnerable of the old oligarchy. His biggest concern is that software-defined networking will shrink gross margins, even as Cisco tries to increase its services in the revenue mix.

Cisco has traded in a 52-week range of $16.68 to $26.49, and the consensus analyst target price is $26.77, according to Thomson Reuters. Its shares were down 1.2% at $24.48 in early Thursday morning trading. The call also was negative, or at least cautious, on two others.

Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) was started as Neutral. Its assigned price target was $20.00, versus a $21.66 close on Wednesday. Juniper shares were down only 0.4% at $21.58, against a 52-week range of $15.62 to $22.98. We would caution that the $20.00 price target is only marginally lower than the consensus price target of $21.32.

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Ubiquiti Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: UBNT) was given a cautious Neutral rating as well, and it had the least negative bias in Garcha’s call. He said:

We believe that Ubiquiti has created a relatively unique business model that can disrupt several markets in the networking space over time. However, we believe shares are fully valued, with strong near-term revenue momentum offset by medium-term competitive risks and possible margin pressure.

His target price of $33.00 was barely under the $33.14 closing price on Wednesday.

Hot Recreation Stocks To Buy For 2015

Hot Recreation Stocks To Buy For 2015: MarineMax Inc (HZO)

MarineMax, Inc., incorporated in January 1998, is a recreational boat dealer in the United States. Through 54 retail locations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Texas, the Company sells new and used recreational boats, including pleasure and fishing boats. It also sells related marine products, including engines, trailers, parts, and accessories. In addition, the Company provides repair, maintenance, and slip and storage services; it arranges related boat financing, insurance, and extended service contracts; it offers boat and yacht brokerage services, and it operates a yacht charter business. It is also retailer of Sea Ray, Boston Whaler, Bayliner, Cabo, Hatteras, and Meridian recreational boats and yachts, all of which are manufactured by Brunswick Corporation (Brunswick). In March 2013, it acquired Parker Boat Company's retail boat sales and service operations in Orlando and Daytona, Florida.

The Company is a dealer for Hatteras Yachts throughout the state of Florida (excluding the Florida panhandle) and the states of New Jersey, New York, and Texas; the exclusive dealer for Cabo Yachts throughout the states of Florida, New Jersey, and New York; the exclusive dealer for Boston Whaler in many of its markets; the exclusive dealer for Bayliner in many of its markets, and the exclusive dealer for Meridian Yachts in most of its markets. In addition, it is the exclusive dealer for Italy-based Azimut-Benetti Group for Azimut mega-yachts, yachts, and other recreational boats for the Northeast United States from Maryland to Maine and the state of Florida.

New Boat Sales

The Company sells recreational boats, including pleasure boats and fishing boats. The! products it offers are manufactured by Brunswick, the manufacturer of recreational boats, includ ing Sea Ray pleasure boats, Boston Whaler fishing boats, Cab! o Yachts, Hatteras Yachts, and Meridian Yachts. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011 (fiscal 2011), it derived approximately 48% of its revenue from the sale of new boats manufactured by Brunswick. During fiscal 2011, new boat sales accounted for 60.6% of its revenue. It offers recreational boats in most market segments. Hatteras Yachts and Azimut are two of the premier yacht builders. The motor yacht product lines include designs with live-aboard luxuries. Hatteras offers a flybridge with guest seating; covered aft deck, which may be fully or partially enclosed, providing the boater with additional living space; an elegant salon; and multiple staterooms for accommodations.

Hatteras Yachts and Cabo Yachts are convertible yacht builders and offer designs with live-aboard luxuries. Convertibles are primarily fishing vessels, which are well equipped to meet the needs of even the most serious tournament-class competitor. Hatteras features interiors that offer luxurious salon/galley arrangements, multiple staterooms with private heads, and a cockpit that includes a bait and tackle center, fishbox, and freezer. Cabo is known for spacious cockpits and accessibility to essentials, such as bait chests, livewells, bait prep centers, and tackle lockers.

Sea Ray and Meridian pleasure boats target both the luxury and the family recreational boating markets and come in a range of configurations to suit each customer's particular recreational boating style. Sea Ray sport yachts and yachts serve the luxury segment of the recreational boating market and include living accommodations with a salon, a fully equipped galley, and multiple staterooms. Sea Ray sport yachts and yachts are available in cabin, bridge cockpit, and cruiser models. Meridian sport yachts and yachts are available in sedan, motoryacht, and pilothouse ! models.

The fishing boats the Company offers, such as Boston Whaler and Grady White, range from entry level models to advanced models designed for fish! ing and w! ater sports in lakes, bays, and off-shore waters, with cabins with limited live-aboard capability. The fishing boats feature livewells, in-deck fishboxes, rodholders, rigging stations, cockpit coaming pads, and fresh and saltwater washdowns. The ski boats it offers, such as Malibu, Axis, and Nautique by Correct Craft, range from entry level models to advanced models.

Used Boat Sales

The Company sells used versions of the new makes and models it offers and, to a lesser extent, used boats of other makes and models generally taken as trade-ins. During fiscal 2011, used boat sales accounted for 19.0% of its revenue, and 77.1% of the used boats it sold were Brunswick models. It also sells used boats at various marinas and other offsite locations throughout the country. In addition, it offers the Sea Ray Legacy warranty plan available for used Sea Ray boats less than six years old. The Legacy plan applies to each qualifying used Sea Ray boat, which has pa ssed a 48-point inspection, and provides protection against failure of most mechanical parts for up to three years.

Marine Engines, Related Marine Equipment, and Boating Parts and Accessories

The Company offers marine engines and propellers, substantially all of which are manufactured by Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick. It sells marine engines and propellers primarily to retail customers as replacements for their existing engines or propellers. It also sells a range of marine parts and accessories at its retail locations, at various offsite locations, through its print catalog, and through the Website portal. These marine parts and accessories include marine electronics; dock and anchoring products, such as boat fenders, lines, and anchors; boat covers; trailer parts; water sport accessories, such as tubes, lines, wakeboards, and! skies; e! ngine parts; oils; lubricants; steering and control systems; corrosion control products, service products ; high-performance accessories, such as propellers and instr! uments, a! nd a complete line of boating accessories, including life jackets, inflatables, and water sports equipment. It also offers novelty items, such as shirts, caps, and license plates bearing the manufacturer's or dealer's logos. The sale of marine engines, related marine equipment, and boating parts and accessories accounted for 6.2% of the Company's during fiscal 2011 revenue.

Maintenance, Repair, and Storage Services

The Company provides maintenance and repair services at most of its retail locations, with extended service hours at certain of its locations. In addition, in many of its markets, it provides mobile maintenance and repair services at the location of the customer's boat. The Company performs both warranty and non-warranty repair services. It derives the majority of its warranty revenue from Brunswick products. Its maintenance and repair services are performed by manufacturer-trained and certified service technicians. At many of the Company's locations, it offers boat storage services, including in-water slip storage and inside and outside land storage. Maintenance, repair, and storage services accounted for 8.9% of its revenue during fiscal 2011. This includes warranty and non-warranty services.

F&I Products

At each of the Company's retail locations, it offers the customers the ability to finance new or used boat purchases and to purchase extended service contracts and arrange insurance coverage, including boat property, credit life, and accident, disability, and casualty insurance coverage (collectively, F&I). The Company also offers third-party extended service contracts under which, for a predetermined price, it provides all designated services pursuant to the service contract guidelines during the contract term at no additional charge to t! he custom! er above a deductible. Credit life insurance policies provide for repayment of the boat financing contract if the p urchaser dies while the contract is outstanding. Accident an! d disabil! ity insurance policies provide for payment of the monthly contract obligation during any period in which the buyer is disabled. Property and casualty insurance covers loss or damage to the boat.

Brokerage Services

Through employees or subcontractors that are licensed boat or yacht brokers, the Company offers boat or yacht brokerage services at most of its retail locations. It also offers for sale brokered boats or yachts, listing them on various Internet sites, advising its other retail locations, and posting them on its Website, www.MarineMax.com. Its maintenance and repair services, including mobile service, also are generally available to its brokerage customers.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By John Udovich]

  As we head towards Black Friday, small cap specialty retail stocks United Online, Inc (NASDAQ: UNTD), TravelCenters of America LLC (NYSE: TA) and MarineMax, Inc (NYSE: HZO) have the distinction of being the best performing small cap specialty retail stocks for this year (according to Finviz.com) with gains of 181.2%, 123.8% and 71.8%, respectively. With those returns in mind, what are these small cap specialty retail stocks doing right and will the performance last through the all important holiday season? Here is what new and existing investors and traders alike need to know or consider:

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10 Best Restaurant Stocks To Invest In 2015

10 Best Restaurant Stocks To Invest In 2015: Einstein Noah Restaurant Group Inc (BAGL)

Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc. (ENRGI), incorporated on October 21, 1992, is an owner/operator, franchisor and licensor of bagel specialty restaurants in the United States. ENRGI operates under the Einstein Bros. Bagels (Einstein Bros.), Noah's New York Bagels (Noah's) and Manhattan Bagel Company (Manhattan Bagel) brands. ENRGI operates in three business segments: the Company-owned restaurants segment, the manufacturing and commissary segment, and the franchise and license segment. The Company-owned restaurants segment includes the restaurants that it owns. The manufacturing and commissary segment produces and distributes bagel dough and other products to its Company-owned restaurants, licensees and franchisees and other third parties. The franchise and license segment earns royalties and other fees from the use of trademarks and operating systems developed for the Einstein Bros., Noah's and Manhattan Bagel brands.

During the fiscal year ended Jan uary 1, 2013 (fiscal 2012), ENRGI acquired eight restaurants and opened an additional 15 Company-owned restaurants. It closed one Company-owned restaurant during fiscal 2012. On January 31, 2012, the Company sold a Company-owned restaurant. As of January 1, 2013, it had 816 restaurants in 39 states and in the District of Columbia. In January 2013, the Company opened an Einstein Bros. franchise in Montana. Its product offerings include fresh-baked bagels and other bakery items baked onsite, ma de-to-order breakfast and lunch sandwiches on a range of bagels, breads or wraps, gourmet soups and salads, assorted pastries, premium coffees and an assortment of snacks. Its manufacturing and independent distribution network delivers ingredients that are delivered fresh to its restaurants.

Company-owned restaurants

Einstein Bros.! offers a menu that provides food for breakfast and lunch, including fresh-baked bagels and hot breakfast sandwiches, freshly prepa red lunch sandwiches, cream cheese and other spreads, specia! lty coffees and teas, soups, salads and other menu offerings. Noah's is a neighborhood-based bakery/deli restaurant that serves fresh-baked bagels, hot breakfast sandwiches, made-to-order deli-style sandwiches, cream cheese and other spreads, specialty coffees and teas, soups, salads and other menu offerings. Manhattan Bagel provides a traditional New York style boil and baked bagel. Manhattan Bagel also serves a range of grilled sandwiches, freshly made deli sandwiches, freshly prepared breakfast sandwiches, soups, and a range of other fresh-baked sweets. Similar to Einstein Bros. and Noah's, Manhattan Bagel also features a line of fresh brewed coffees and specialty coffee/espresso beverages. During fiscal 2012, ENRGI generated approximately 90% of its total revenue from restaurant sales at its Company-owned restaurants.

Manufacturing and Commissaries

ENRGI operates a bagel dough manufacturing facility in Whittier, California and has contracts with two suppliers to produce bagel dough and sweets to the specifications. These facilities provide frozen dough, partially-baked frozen bagels and fully baked sweets for its Company-owned restaurants, franchisees and licensees. These operations provide the restaurants with food products, such as sliced meats, cheeses, and/or certain salad ingredients. It has recipes and production processes for the bagel dough, cream cheese and coffee. Frozen, or partially baked and frozen, bagel dough is shipped to all of its Company-owned, franchised and licensed restaurants where the dough is then baked onsite. Its purchases other ingredients used in the restaurants, such as meat, lettuce, tomatoes and condiments, from a select group of third party suppliers.

Franchise and Licensing

ENRGI offers Einstein Bros. franchises to ! qualified! area developers. As of January 1, 2013, the Company was registered to offer Einstein Bros. franchises in 49 states and the Distr ict of Columbia. It also has a franchise base in the Manhatt! an Bagel ! brand. Its licensees are located primarily in colleges and universities, hospitals, airports and military bases. As of February 25, 2013, it had 28 development agreements in place for 136 total restaurants, 34 of which have already opened. During fiscal 2012, it opened 13 franchised locations and 27 licensed locations. During fiscal 2012, approximately 3% of its total revenue was generated by the Company's franchise and license operations.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Peter Graham]

  The Q1 2014 Potbelly Corp (NASDAQ: PBPB) earnings report is scheduled for after the market closes on Tuesday, May 6th, with investors and traders alike who follow either the sandwich restaurant chain stock (which debuted last October and is down some 44% for retail investors) or who are into potential small cap peers like Cosi Inc (NASDAQ: COSI), Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc (NASDAQ: BAGL) and Panera Bread Co (NASDAQ: PNRA) should be paying attention. Aside from the Potbelly Corp earnings report, it should be said that the Q1 2014 Panera Bread Co earnings report was last Tuesday while the Q1 2014 Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc earnings report came last Thursday and the the Q1 2014 Cosi Inc earnings report is likely scheduled for Monday, May 12. However, Potbelly Corp has attracted a bit of attention for its potential growth trajectory as well as its vision to be the "Neighborhood Sandwich Shop."

• [By MARKETWATCH]

  SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Wall Street hedge-fund investor David Einhorn was active in the last quarter of 2013, taking new stakes in technology and energy companies, while trimming existing holdings in insurer Aetna (AET) , NCR Corp (NCR) ! ! and WPX Energy (WPX) , according to an SEC filing Friday. Einhorn's Greenlight Capital picked up stakes in Anadarko Petroleum (APC) , BP (BP) , McDermott Intl. (MDR) , Micron Technolgy (MU) and Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) , according to the latest 13F filing. He trimmed stakes in Aetna, Einstein Noah (BAGL) and WPX Energy, according to the filing.

• [By John Udovich]

  At the end of last week, small cap sandwich stock Potbelly Corp (NASDAQ: PBPB) had a delicious surge of 120% for its IPO – meaning its probably a good idea to see whether its still worth getting in on the action plus take a look at the performance of peers Cosi Inc (NASDAQ: COSI), Panera Bread Co (NASDAQ: PNRA) and Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc (NASDAQ: BAGL) as Subway remains private. I should mention that competing with Subway in the sandwich business is a tall order as they have 40,229 restaurants in 102 countries and territories as of early September – making them the largest single-brand restaurant chain and the largest restaurant operator globally. However, Potbelly Corp and its peers Cosi Inc, Panera Bread Co and Einstein Noah Restaurant Group aren't slugging it out directly with Subway.

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5 Best Sliver Stocks To Invest In 2015

5 Best Sliver Stocks To Invest In 2015: Rochester Medical Corporation(ROCM)

Rochester Medical Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of PVC-free and latex-free urinary continence and urine drainage care products for the home and acute care markets. Its home care products include a line of silicone and latex male external catheters for managing male urinary incontinence; intermittent catheters for managing both male and female urinary retention, including Magic 3 line of silicone intermittent catheters; and the FemSoft Insert, a soft, liquid-filled, urethral insert for managing stress urinary incontinence in adult females. The company manufactures male external catheters in six models, including UltraFlex, Pop-On, Wide Band, Natural, Clear Advantage, and Transfix catheters; and intermittent catheters in four versions that include standard, antibacterial, hydrophilic, and antibacterial personal catheters. Its acute care products include a line of standard Foley catheters and Strata brand of Foley catheters; and Strata-NF Catheter, an antibacterial Foley catheter that reduces the incidence of hospital acquired urinary tract infection. The company?s primary customers include distributors, extended care facilities, and individual hospitals and healthcare institutions. It markets its products under the Rochester Medical brand name through a direct sales force in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, as well as through independent distributors in other international markets. The company also supplies its products to various medical product companies for sale under private label brands owned by these companies. Rochester Medical Corporation was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Stewartville, Minnesota.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Back in February, my colleague David Englander noted that a potential buyout was one reason to buy shares of Rochester Medical (ROCM). Today, Rochester agreed to be purchas! ed by CR Bard (BCR) for $262 million.

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Calling all cash flows
  When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Rochester Medical (Nasdaq: ROCM  ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

• [By Monica Wolfe]

  Gabelli then made two separate buys into Rochester Medical (ROCM). On Sept. 4, the guru upped his stake by over 30% and on Sept. 5, Gabelli added an additional 10.21%. The guru purchased a total of 227,600 shares at an average price of $19.90 per share. Gabelli now holds on to a total of 750,110 shares, representing about 6.12% of the companys shares outstanding.

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Best Building Product Companies For 2015

Best Building Product Companies For 2015: Hillenbrand Industries Inc. (HRC)

Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. manufactures and provides medical technologies and related services for the health care industry worldwide. It offers patient support system, safe mobility and handling solutions, medical equipment rental services, surgical products, and information technology solutions, as well as non-invasive therapeutic products for acute and chronic medical conditions. The company rents and sells patient support systems, which include various bed systems, and integrated and non-integrated therapeutic bed surfaces for use in high, mid, and low acuity settings; and non-invasive therapeutic products and surfaces for the prevention and treatment of various acute and chronic medical conditions, including pulmonary, wound, and bariatric conditions. It also provides rentals and health care provider asset management services for moveable medical equipment, such as ventilators, defibrillators, intravenous pumps, and patient monitoring equipment; mobility solutions, inclu ding lifts and other devices used to move patients; architectural products comprising headwalls and power columns; and health care furniture solutions. In addition, the company develops and markets various communications technologies and software solutions primarily to improve patient safety at the point of care; and surgical products, including a range of positioning devices for use in shoulder, hip, spinal, and lithotomic surgeries, as well as platform-neutral positioning accessories for operating room tables. It sells its products primarily to acute and extended care health care facilities through direct sales force and distributors. The company was formerly known as Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. in March 2008. Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Batesville, Indiana.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lisa Levin]

  Hill-Rom Holdings (NYSE: HRC) ! dropped 14.43% to $37.74 after the company reported weaker-than-expected Q1 results and lowered its outlook. The company also announced its restructuring program.

• [By Stephen Simpson, CFA]

  On the antennas side, PCTEL antennas can be used in a wide variety of applications from mobile radio to WiFi to GPS and machine-to-machine communication. PCTEL management defines the company's core addressable market as a 5% to 10% slice of a $30 billion market for process automation, smart grid, public safety, fleet management, and enterprise WLAN. Companies ranging from Harris (HRC) to Deere (DE) to Cisco (CSCO) have used PCTEL antennas, and Cisco incorporates the company's antennas into their higher-end wireless products.

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Calling all cash flows
  When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Hill-Rom Holdings (NYSE: HRC  ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

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5 Best Freight Stocks To Invest In 2015

5 Best Freight Stocks To Invest In 2015: Forward Air Corp (FWRD)

Forward Air Corporation operates in two segments: Forward Air, Inc. (Forward Air) and Forward Air Solutions, Inc. (FASI). Through the Company's Forward Air segment, it is a provider of time-definite surface transportation and related logistics services to the North American deferred air freight market. It offers its customers local pick-up and delivery (Forward Air Complete) and scheduled surface transportation of cargo. It transports cargo that must be delivered at a specific time but is less time-sensitive than traditional air freight. As of December 31, 2011, it operated its Forward Air segment through a network of terminals located on or near airports in 85 cities in the United States and Canada, including a central sorting facility in Columbus, Ohio and 12 regional hubs serving key markets. It also offers its customers an array of logistics and other services including expedited full truckload (TLX); dedicated fleets; warehousing; customs brokerage; and shipment conso lidation, deconsolidation and handling. During the year ended December 31, 2011, approximately 23.9% of the freight it handled was for overnight delivery, approximately 61.3% was for delivery within two to three days and the balance was for delivery in four or more days. Through its FASI segment, it provides pool distribution services throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest and Southwest continental United States. Pool distribution involves managing high-frequency, last mile handling and distribution of time-sensitive product to destinations in geographic regions. In March 2013, it acquired Total Quality, Inc. In February 2014, Forward Air Corporation acquired Central States Trucking Co. and Central States Logistics, Inc. from Central States Inc.

Forward Air

The Company receives freight from air freight forwarders, integrated air cargo c! arriers and passenger and cargo airlines at its terminals, which are located on or near airports in the U nited States and Canada. It also picks up freight from custo! mers at designated locations via our Forward Air Complete service. It transports these shipments by truck through its network to its terminals nearest the destinations of the shipments. It operates scheduled service to and from each of its terminals through its Columbus, Ohio central sorting facility or through one of its 12 regional hubs. It also operates scheduled shuttle service directly between terminals where the volume of freight warrants bypassing the Columbus, Ohio central sorting facility or a regional hub. When a shipment arrives at its terminal nearest its destination, the customer arranges for the shipment to be picked up and delivered to its final destination, or it, in the alternative, through its Forward Air Complete service, deliver the freight for the customer to its final destination. Its airport-to-airport network consists of terminals located in the 85 cities. As of December 31, 2011, independent agents and FASI operate 18 and two of its Forward Air locat ions.

The Company operates direct terminal-to-terminal services and regional overnight service between terminals where justified by freight volumes. It provides regional overnight service to the markets within its network. Direct shipments also reduce the likelihood of damage because of reduced handling and sorting of the freight. It operates regional hubs in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Newark, Newburgh, Orlando, and Sacramento. During 2011, the average weekly volume of freight moving through its network was approximately 34.0 million pounds per week. During 2011, its average shipment weighed approximately 717 pounds and shipment sizes ranged from small boxes weighing only a few pounds to large shipments of several thousand pounds.

The Company's logistics and other servic! es allow ! customers to access services from a single source: expedited full truckload (TLX); dedicated fleets; cu stoms brokerage, such as assistance with the United States C! ustoms an! d Border Protection (U.S. Customs) procedures for both import and export shipments; warehousing, dock and office space; drayage and intermodal; hotshot or ad-hoc ultra expedited services, and shipment consolidation and handling, such as shipment build-up and break-down and reconsolidation of air or ocean pallets or containers.

Forward Air Solutions

Through the Company's FASI segment, it provides pool distribution services through a network of terminals and service locations in 19 cities throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Midwest and Southwest continental United States. Pool distribution involves managing high-frequency handling and distribution of time-sensitive product to destinations in specific geographic regions. Its customers for this product are regional and nationwide distributors and retailers, such as mall, strip mall and outlet-based retail chains. Its pool distribution network consists of terminals and service locations in the 19 cities. Its Forward Air wholesale customer base is comprised of freight forwarders, integrated air cargo carriers and passenger and cargo airlines. Its air freight forwarder customers vary in size from independent, single facility companies to international logistics companies, such as SEKO Worldwide, AIT Worldwide Logistics, Expeditors International of Washington, Associated Global, UPS Supply Chain Solutions and Pilot Air Freight. Its FASI pool distribution customers are consisted of national and regional retailers and distributors, such as The Limited, The Marmaxx Group, The GAP, and Aeropostale. The Company also participates in air cargo and retail trade shows and advertise its services through direct mail programs and through the Internet via www.forwardair.com and www.forwardairsolutions.com.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Seth Jayson! ] Calling all cash flows
  When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Forward Air (Nasdaq: FWRD  ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

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3 Dividend Stocks Are About to Pay Off

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on May 28, First Financial Bancorp (FFBC), Goldman Sachs (GS) and M & T Bank Corp. (MTB) will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. First Financial Bancorp will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.15 on July 1, Goldman Sachs will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.55 on June 27 and M & T Bank will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.70 on June 30.

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As a percentage of FFBC’s recent stock price of $16.29, this dividend works out to approximately 0.92%, so look for shares of First Financial Bancorp to trade 0.92% lower — all else being equal — when FFBC shares open for trading on Wednesday. Similarly, investors should look for GS to open 0.34% lower in price and for MTB to open 0.58% lower, all else being equal.

Below are dividend history charts for FFBC, GS, and MTB, showing historical dividends prior to the most recent ones declared.

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Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated :

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In general, dividends are not always predictable, following the ups and downs of company profits over time. Therefore, a good first due diligence step in forming an expectation of annual yield going forward, is looking at the history above, for a sense of stability over time. This can help in judging whether the most recent dividends from these companies are likely to continue. If they do continue, the current estimated yields on annualized basis would be 3.68% for First Financial Bancorp , 1.36% for Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated, and 2.30% for M & T Bank Corp.

In Tuesday trading, FFBC shares are currently up about 0.8%, GS shares are up about 1% and MTB shares are up about 0.4% on the day.

Mortgage Loan Rates Moderate, Lending Up

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting a rise of 1.3% in the group's seasonally adjusted composite index following a decline of 2.5% for the previous week. Mortgage loan rates decreased across the board last week.

The seasonally adjusted purchase index decreased by 0.4% from the last report. On an unadjusted basis, the composite index rose 0.3% week-over-week. The unadjusted purchase index decreased by 3% for the week, but is up about 6% year-over-year.

The MBA's refinance index rose 2% after dropping 5% in the previous week.

The share of refinancings rose from 60% to 61%. Adjustable rate mortgage loans account for 7% of all applications.

The average mortgage loan rate for a conforming 30-year fixed-rate mortgage decreased from 4.8% to 4.73%. The rate for a jumbo 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell from 4.78% to 4.71%. The average interest rate for a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage fell from 3.84% to 3.75%.

The contract interest rate for a 5/1 adjustable rate mortgage loan rose from 3.5% to 3.49%.

Mortgage interest rates remain near two-year highs and the decline in refinancings has been halted, at least for one week.

Purchase applications remain higher than they were a year ago and that is the best news out of the reports for the past few weeks. The modest increase in refinancings does not signal anything in particular.

Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net domains

Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you'll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new domain alternatives to .com, .gov or .edu, descriptive of whatever it is you're trying to do.

Are you an expert? There's .guru. Starting an organization? Try .club. Opening a restaurant in New York City? Consider .nyc. Running a daily news site? How about .today?

The new names, called generic top-level domains (gTLDs), might seem like they were created overnight. But seven years of international discussion and debate, and billions of dollars of investment are pushing these and hundreds of other new names into the market this year and next. And Internet enthusiasts and experts predict they'll cause the next online gold rush.

This will be true in particular for small businesses and start-ups, they say. Why? Because, just like in the bricks-and-mortar world, location matters. Businesses are only as good as a customer's ability to find them. And with 270 million Web addresses already claimed — 110 million of those .coms — it's getting harder to snap up a good one.

That opens up two major opportunities for start-ups: creating new registries around the new gTLDs, and registering domains (through registrars like GoDaddy) and building businesses around them.

Andy Churley is leading the charge for a Gibraltar, Spain start-up called Famous Four Media that raised $100 million in venture capital to create at least 60 new registries. So far, 15 have been approved by the domain name system's governing body, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). They include .trade, .webcam, .science and .men.

The investment is a big one — $185,000 to apply for a single registry, additional legal fees to defend against objections allowed through ICANN's approval process and, now, marketing and operational costs associated with creating a registry, Churley says. And Famous Four still competes with other entities for the other 45 names.

More common are! small companies snapping up new domains to serve certain industries, betting that more descriptive names will offer better exposure and help businesses save money on pay-per-click advertising and search engine optimization. For example, Mexico City start-up Punto 2012 on June 15 will release registries for .bar and .rest, marketing names to the restaurant and bar industry.

Luxury Partners of Beverly Hills, Calif., is targeting high-end boutiques, manufacturers, vehicles, consumers and retailers with .luxury. It hopes to be a central place for engagement around luxury brands and is charging a premium annual rate of $799.99 (and more) to get in early. Considering most names go for $10 or $20 a year, Luxury is betting big there will be interest in an elite domain community.

.CLUB Domains has raised $7 million to create the .CLUB registry, and so far has sold nearly 50,000 names to become the second most popular of the new domains (behind .guru with 56,000). Besides registering new names, the Florida start-up also offers tools to help start, grow and manage clubs and organizations, not typical offerings for a domain name registry.

But marketing is key for any registry or start-up entering the field, says Ben Anderson, product director for new gTLDs at NetNames, an established registry operator. Despite GoDaddy's ads, consumers are still generally unaware of the change to the domain name system. And Google, though it applied for nearly 100 of its own gTLDs, hasn't yet announced how it will rank the new domains in its search engine.

That's causing some hesitation among business owners and entrepreneurs to buy and promote the new domains. Fewer than 1 million names are taken so far, Anderson says.

"The word of caution (is) not many day-to-day Internet users understand that these TLDs exist," he says. "If you build up a business around one of them, will your consumers understand?"

But young companies like Churley's are bullish anyway. They believe it's only a matter of time ! — along! with some education and promotion from the likes of GoDaddy — for the power of descriptive names to prevail.

"It's like a rebirth of the domain name system," Churley says. "There is the opportunity to grow at a phenomenal rate and redefine how the domain name system works in the future."

Laura Baverman is a Raleigh, N.C.-based business journalist covering start-ups and entrepreneurship for regional and national publications. She previously covered entrepreneurship for the Cincinnati Enquirer, a Gannett newspaper. Baverman can be reached via e-mail at lbaverman@gmail.comor Twitter @laurabaverman.

Can you handle a $130 loss on the S&P 500?

In most things, it doesn't matter what the answer is if you aren't asking the right question. The most significant question no longer is whether a correction is going to unfold. We already have that answer. The probabilities favoring a "yes" answer are quite high and have been for a while. For those interested, refer back to The Market is Ripe for a Fall for the correction scenario as most recently outlined. The question one should be asking as we plod along towards that seemingly inevitable outcome is a) how do we get there and b) how long will it last and c) how far might it take us? Let's deal with each of these.

As to how do we get there, that is up to the market and requires one to continually read the supply and demand balance as it unfolds. For example, the article penned on Thursday evening last week and printed here on Friday, The Real Danger in Buying Stocks Now, spoke of an expected bounce to ensue on Friday after Thursday's hammering.

That same message was delivered on Thursday night's broadcast as well, and basically the setup as discussed was that although a bounce was telegraphed, time and price does not favor trying to trade the bounces anymore.

With Tuesday's price decline taking away most, if not all, of the past two day's gains, the question is, "Was that it for the bounce," and it appears the answer is yes. A big part of that answer is that now the Dow Jones Industrial Index has apparently decided to join the breakdown party as well.

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Note two items on this chart of significance. First, on Thursday's plunge, the bottom of the retest-and-regenerate range was tested and held — barely. Tuesday it cracked, which places the index in a range trade at best now.

Second, as part of breaking below that level, a bearish ABCD structure is now in place on the short-term timeframe projecting to $16,192. That's not a large number, but it completely nullifies the breakout, and if it follows through, it will break two swing points on the way down that make the target quite likely to get hit and potentially extended as well — all the way back to the bottom end of the large range it has been trading in.

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That leaves just the S&P 500 as the lone survivor of the slow meltdown, yet if one looks to the sectors that comprise the S&P 500, you would be hard pressed to find anything that looks able to push it higher. Of the three major sectors, the Industrial sector (XLI)  has come off the highs with volume expansion; has failed to regenerate higher; and has its own set of twin swing-point lows clustered just below current price.

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The financial sector (XLF)  has been a mess for months now, failing to even try to follow the broader S&P 500 higher. It has died on each attempt to get over the breakdown bar for over a month.

The only potential savior would be technology (XLK) , but it has failed at the highs twice now over the past two days. So the answer to question of "How we get there?" looks to be embedded in the fact that structural foundation is slowly caving in, which brings us to the next question of "How long it will last?"

Time is the Achilles heel of classical technical analysis, and although neoclassical technical analysis (TA) doesn't completely solve the time dilemma, it does take it a step forward. There are two aspects to timing in neo-TA, and one has to do with the setup that is in play right now.

That setup revolves around a break of multiple swing points across multiple timeframes. When this happens, it has an extremely high probability of carrying for a minimum of two to three bars on the longer-term timeframe which, in this case, is weeks. Thus, the expectation is that a breakdown should last two to three weeks, and that is where the weaker indexes in this market are now. Even the broad Nasdaq Composite on the daily and the weekly charts.

With the respect to how much in the way of losses, I am already on record as saying that a 5%-7% correction on the S&P 500 is to be expected. Some probably scoff at that as nothing to worry about, but if you lop a $100 to $130 points off of the S&P 500, I expect there will be more than a few heads turning.

So, there you have it. Take it for what it's worth and wrap a strategy around it if you so choose. Depending on your timeframe and aggressiveness, the possibilities of how you play this vary greatly.

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AlamyCitizens Bank ranks the No. 1 financial institution among baby boomers. Each stage of life brings with it a unique set of challenges to overcome and benchmarks to hit -- and this is especially true when it comes to banking. Although financial institutions target millennials heavily, baby boomers (Americans born between 1946 and 1964) are still the most represented generation among today's banking customers. A December Gallup poll revealed that 89 percent of baby boomers have at least one checking, savings or money market account. With more than 75 million baby boomers in the United States, there's a greater demand for financial institutions that cater to the boomer lifestyle. 3 Things Baby Boomers Need Most From Banks The youngest baby boomers have reached seniority in the labor force, while the oldest members of this generation have entered retirement. Both ends of the spectrum have vastly different circumstances when it comes to income, but no matter their age, boomers have three main banking needs. 1. Customer Service. Customer service comes in many forms, whether from an in-person associate at a brick-and-mortar branch or an attendant at a small kiosk in a local grocery store. Boomers have grown up with institutions that rely on real-life, person-to-person transactions that allow them to talk through terms and conditions and have questions addressed. Physical bank branches are necessary in order to fulfill this service expectation. As more financial institutions have turned to online and mobile banking, some baby boomers who are slow to adapt to banking technology have been isolated as a result. 2. Retirement Planning. With the average life span in the U.S. expanding each year, and so many baby boomers on the road to retirement, the need for retirement planning resources becomes more and more pressing for many banking customers. "In my experience, the most stressful situation that baby boomers encounter is the fear of running out of money during retirement," says Jonathan Duong, a certified financial planner and president of the wealth management firm Wealth Engineers. "Although most baby boomers have several sources of retirement income, ranging from Social Security and pensions to their own retirement savings, many of them lack a true financial plan to help them understand how much they can spend in retirement," Duong says. "Not having a plan often leads to one of two negative outcomes: 1. The retiree lives a substandard retirement -- below what his or her income and savings can actually support -- due to the fear of running out of money. Or 2. The retiree overspends and then runs into the significant risk of outliving their savings." In addition to staying on top of income during retirement, boomers need the assistance of a financial adviser to understand the kinds of expenses that could become more costly over time, like health care. This awareness can mean the difference between boomers being financially unprepared in the next stage of their life or living a comfortable lifestyle after leaving the workforce. 3. Convenience. While baby boomers are seen as traditionalists when compared to Generation Y (those in their 20s and early 30s), the two generations have something in common -- they both want convenience. A 2013 Gallup poll found that 71 percent of boomers use online banking services at least weekly -- right in line with Generation X (70 percent) and Generation Y (72 percent). Millennials might be quick to adopt new technology, like mobile banking, but there are more tech-savvy boomers surfing the Web for their banking needs than previously thought. Efficiency and convenience play a major role in baby boomer satisfaction, which makes banking services like online banking and electronic bill pay appealing. 10 Best Financial Institutions for Baby Boomers Not all financial institutions are focused on the welfare of transitioning boomers, but there are a number of banks that still offer comprehensive services to this substantial population of customers. Based on specialty retirement and financial planning services, products and resources, accessibility and customer service, GOBankingRates identified the 10 best banks for baby boomers in 2014: 1. Citizens Bank -- Providence, Rhode Island 2. Frost Bank -- San Antonio, Texas (CFR) 3. Arvest Bank -- Lowell, Arkansas 4. BB&T -- Winston-Salem, North Carolina (BBT) 5. TD Bank -- Cherry Hill, New Jersey (TD) 6. Bangor Savings Bank -- Bangor, Maine 7. Huntington Bank -- Columbus, Ohio (HBAN) 8. Wells Fargo -- San Francisco (WFC) 9. USAA -- San Antonio, Texas 10. American Savings Bank -- Honolulu, Hawaii .

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Weatherford International Ltd. provides equipment and services used in the drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells worldwide. It offers artificial lift systems, which include reciprocating rod lift systems, progressing cavity pumps, gas lift systems, hydraulic lift systems, plunger lift systems, hybrid lift systems, wellhead systems, and multiphase metering systems. The company also provides drilling services, including directional drilling, ?Secure Drilling? services, well testing, drilling-with-casing and drilling-with-liner systems, and surface logging systems; and well construction services, such as tubular running services, cementing products, liner systems, swellable products, solid tubular expandable technologies, and inflatable products and accessories. In addition, it designs and manufactures drilling jars, underreamers, rotating control devices, and other pressure-control equipment used in drilling oil and nat u ral gas wells; and offers a selection of in-house or third-party manufactured equipment for the drilling, completion, and work over of oil and natural gas wells for operators and drilling contractors, as well as a line of completion tools and sand screens. Further, the company provides wireline and evaluation services; and re-entry, fishing, and thru-tubing services, as well as well abandonment and wellbore cleaning services; stimulation and chemicals, including fracturing and coiled tubing technologies, cement services, chemical systems, and drilling fluids; integrated drilling services; and pipeline and specialty services. It serves independent oil and natural gas producing companies. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

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  Weatherford International Ltd. (0.! 4%) (WFT)(WFT - $17.36 - NYSE), based in Houston, Texas, finally resolved its tax accounting problems and various government investigations, which had been on-going for several years. It is now focused on growing its core businesses, enhancing profitability, reducing leverage and improving capital efficiency. The company is targeting total segment operating profit margin to reach 20% by 2016 from 11.3% in 2013 and reducing debt to capitalization from 52% to 25%. It aims to realize $500 million in annualized cost savings and sell four non-core businesses. Also, Weatherford plans to spin-off a portion of its international drilling rig business by the end of 2014 or early 2015. All available free cash flow generated and proceeds from asset sales will be used to reduce debt.From Mario Gabelli (Trades, Portfolio)'s Value 25 Fund first quarter 2014 shareholder commentary. Also check out: Mario Gabelli Undervalued Stocks Mario Gabelli Top Growth Companies Mario Gabelli High Yield stocks, and Stocks that Mario Gabelli keeps buying Currently 0.00/512345

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  Shares of Weatherford International (NYSE: WFT) got a boost, shooting up 9.99 percent to $20.25 after the company reported upbeat quarterly earnings. Weatherford reported its Q1 earnings of $0.13 per share on revenue of $3.60 billion.

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Gallagher: SEC Fiduciary Rule Won’t ‘Stave Off’ DOL Redraft

A fiduciary rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission would not “stave off” the planned upcoming release of a fiduciary redraft by the Department of Labor, SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher said Tuesday.

“I don’t necessarily feel that people should take solace in an SEC rulemaking to stave off a DOL rule,” Gallagher said during a one-on-one discussion with Richard Ketchum, CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, during the self-regulator’s annual conference in Washington.

The rerelease of a DOL rule proposal to amend the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is “a very real issue, and we have to take it into account,” he said.

The SEC is “getting called out by all sectors” for moving slowly on a fiduciary rulemaking, Gallagher continued, “but it’s the best of what the SEC does: acting deliberately.”

Said Gallagher: “Some folks have come to us and said do a rulemaking because it will stave off Labor. I don’t like rulemaking to stave off other people; [An SEC fiduciary rule has] to make sense based on the merits. And I’m not convinced that [an SEC proposal] would” stop the DOL from reissuing a rule proposal.

DOL is “going to do what they do,” and DOL is “dealing with different issues and a very different statutory construct” under ERISA, Gallagher said. Plus, he said, Section 913 of the Dodd-Frank Act is “very limited” in the authority it gives. “It is important that our staffs are working closely together [on the fiduciary rulemaking], and they are.”

While SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White has said the commission would decide this year whether to move forward on a fiduciary rule, Gallagher said that “in many languages, 2014 can mean never.”

Gallagher, a Republican, who reiterated that he has yet to be convinced that an SEC fiduciary rulemaking is needed, also noted that he wasn’t sure whether DOL would stick to its planned August redraft release.

He also said that he worries about moves by special interest groups who see the fiduciary issue as a “great election year issue” to push for roll out of the DOL and SEC fiduciary rulemakings between now and the November elections.

Gallagher also revisited comments he made in a recent speech about the need to boost the number of advisor exams, and that the commission should fix the exam imbalance between brokers and advisors by allowing third-party advisor exams — including “potentially, defining the term ‘third party’ to include SROs in order to allow the SROs currently involved in broker-dealer oversight to conduct examinations of ‘dual hatted’ investment advisors as well.”

Gallagher said during the FINRA event Tuesday that the commission’s current seven-year exam cycle of advisors is leaving the agency vulnerable to missing another Madoff-type fraud. “We are just sitting there as an institution with our chin out waiting to get pummeled,” he said. “We’re not even ‘there’ with advisors” in terms of an adequate number of exams. /* .premium-promo { border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 10px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px; float: left; } .premium-promo li, .premium-promo ul { list-style-type: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; } .premium-promo li { margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0 0 10px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #ddd; } .premium-promo h3 { text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 11px; } .premium-promo h4 { font-size: 16px; } .premium-promo a { text-decoration: none !important; } .premium-promo .btn { background: #0069a1; border-radius: 4px; display: inline-block; padding: 5px 10px; clear: both; color: #fff; font-weight: bold; } .premium-promo .btn:hover { background: #034c92; } */ Gallagher suggested at the FINRA event that the SEC create a rule to allow advisors to have third-party exams. But such a rule, he said, would “not mandate SROs” (such as FINRA) to be the third party, noting that such a rule would “allow choice.”

However, he conceded that how the SEC would oversee those third-party auditors would have to be determined.

In talking with reporters on the sidelines of the FINRA event, Gallagher clarified that given that the SEC already has the authority to examine advisors, the rulemaking regarding allowing third-party audits would delve into “how [the SEC] examines advisors,” giving advisors the option to get a third-party review.  

"I congratulate Gallagher on bringing that issue [of third-party exams] forward," Ketchum said during a coversation with reporters, noting that he see little political appetite for Rep. Maxine Waters' bill, the Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act of 2013, H.R. 1627, which would allow the SEC to collect user fees from advisors to fund their exams.

Mid-Afternoon Market Update: Markets Drift Higher Amid A Flurry Of Weekend M&A Activity

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Toward the end of trading Monday, the Dow traded up 0.10 percent to 16,507.49 while the NASDAQ surged 0.78 percent to 4,122.58. The S&P also rose, gaining 0.33 percent to 1,883.17.

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Technology shares gained about 0.68 percent in today's trading. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Intermolecular (NASDAQ: IMI), up 38.3 percent, and Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), up 9.4 percent. In trading on Monday, utilities shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.68 percent.

Top decliners in the sector American Electric Power Co (NYSE: AEP), down 2.5 percent, and FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE), off 2.5 percent.

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On Sunday, AT&T (NYSE: T) announced its plans to buy DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) for $48.5 billion, or $95 per share in a combination of stock and cash. The offer price of $95 per DirecTV share represents a 10 percent premium to closing price of $86.18 on Friday. The deal has a total value of $67.1 billion, including DirecTV's net debt.

Equities Trading UP
Ryanair Holdings plc (NASDAQ: RYAAY) shares shot up 7.51 percent to $54.81 after the company reported full-year results. Ryanair's net profit for the year ended March 31 slipped to 522.8 million euros ($716 million), versus a year-ago profit of EUR569.3 million.

Shares of InterMune (NASDAQ: ITMN) got a boost, shooting up 13.90 percent to $39.07 after the company presented Phase 3 ASCEND study of Pirfenidone in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Leerink upgraded the stock from Market Perform to Outperform.

InterMune (NASDAQ: ITMN) was also on the rise, gaining 13.61 percent to $38.98 after a Leerink upgrade appeared to get the street onto the bullish side.

Equities Trading DOWN
Shares of AstraZeneca PLC (NYSE: AZN) were 11.70 percent to $70.89 after the company's board rejected the new $119 billion takeover offer from Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). 3-earnings-lowers-fy14-guidance"> reported a rise in its fiscal third-quarter earnings and cut its FY14 forecast.

LifeLock (NYSE: LOCK) was also down, falling 15.33 percent to $10.99 after the company announced Friday that it had halted its mobile wallet service, shocking the street.

Provectus Biopharmaceuticals (NYSE: PVCT) was also down, falling 3.02 percent to $3.01, letting out some air after the company's opening on the NYSE Friday.

Commodities
In commodity news, oil traded up 0.54 percent to $102.13, while gold traded down 0.04 percent to $1,292.80.

Silver traded up 0.16 percent Monday to $19.36, while copper rose 0.56 percent to $3.16.

Eurozone
European shares were mostly lower today.

The eurozone's STOXX 600 dropped 0.14 percent, the Spanish Ibex Index fell 0.51 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB Index tumbled 1.60 percent.

Meanwhile, the German DAX gained 0.31 percent and the French CAC 40 rose 0.30 percent while UK shares slipped 0.12 percent.

Economics

The Treasury is set to auction 3-and 6-month bills.

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'The Flash' Trailer: 3 Things I Learned

As The Flash, Grant Gustin will confront a world newly overcome with superpowered meta-humans. Sources: YouTube, The CW.

Anyone wondering if Time Warner (NYSE: TWX  ) intends to build an integrated DC television universe got their answer yesterday when Stephen Amell, star of The CW hit Arrow, appeared in the The Flash trailer.

"Take your own advice.... Wear a mask," Amell says. Shortly after, we see Grant Gustin's awkward police scientist, Barry Allen, become the superhero known as The Flash. To me, it's a transformation that seems destined to have far-reaching consequences for fans of the DC universe and Time Warner investors. Here are three reasons why:

1. The DC television universe is overtly connected. Counting the pilot for The Flash, we now have three explicit crossovers with Arrow, which kicks off its third season on Wednesdays this fall. New episodes of The Flash will air Tuesdays in the same 8 p.m. timeslot. Proximity and shared resources makes it likely we'll see even more explicit stabs at creating a shared DC mythos. (Arrow co-creators Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti are also actively involved with The Flash, as is DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns.)

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Arrow star Stephen Amell appears in the pilot episode of The Flash. Credit: The CW.

2. The Flash will be a touchpoint for introducing more menacing meta-humans. Actor Tom Cavanagh plays S.T.A.R. Labs physicist Harrison Wells in the The Flash. In the trailer, he explains the vast repercussions of the superhero's birth. "A dimensional barrier ruptured, unleashing unknown energies into our world: anti-matter, dark energy, x-elements," Wells says. The message? Barry wasn't the only one transformed. Later in the trailer we see bank robber Clyde Mardon (played by Chad Rook) controlling the weather, making him the comic book villain fans will recognize as Weather Wizard and proving Wells' point.

In The Flash, S.T.A.R. Labs tracks mysterious, transformative energy crossing into our world. Credit: The CW.

3. More heroes are coming, soon. The Flash pilot also marks the second time we see a reference to Ferris Air in a CW show based on a DC Comics character, with the last appearance coming in the Arrow season one finale. There's a chance the show's creators are merely teasing fans here, but as fans themselves it's hard to imagine Kreisberg, Berlanti, and Johns not wanting to pay off the reference to Green Lantern at some point in either show. The mere possibility of an appearance should keep most of the core audience engaged.

Barry's first "test-run" is apparently set at a Ferris Air facility. Credit: The CW.

Regardless, Warners' integrated strategy comes at a good time since DC, unlike Marvel, is still in the early stages of expanding its live action universe. Anything that helps further the fan base for that world is bound be good for investors.

Now it's your turn to weigh in. What did you learn from The Flash trailer? Do you envision one or more explicit movie crossovers? Leave your take below, including whether you would buy, sell, or short Time Warner stock at current prices.

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JC Penney: Something for Everyone in Earnings Beat

Just like its stores, JC Penney’s (JCP) financial results had something for everyone–and shares of the beaten-down retailer have jumped as a result.

JC Penney report a loss of $1.15 a share, beating the Street consensus for a loss of $1.25, on sales of $2.8 billion, beating forecasts for $2.71 billion. Same-store sales rose 6.2%, above forecasts for 4%. JC Penney also said that its gross margin rose to 33.1% of sales, up from 30.8% from the same quarter a year ago. For those worried about JC Penney’s cash, the company said that it had received a $2.35 billion credit line to replace a $1.85 billion one.

Of course, JC Penney’s financial results would be incomplete without its guidance. For the full year, JC Penney said it expects same-store sales to “increase mid-single digits,” while gross margin should “improve significantly versus 2013.” Free cash flow should be breakeven, JC Penney said.

Color Belus Capital’s Brian Sozzi impressed:

JC Penney's 1Q14 report basically says this in a nutshell: the return to old school department store retailing principles (promotions), with an infusion of flare in key departments (teens, athletic wear), is a recipe that could bring the company to the land of profits for the upcoming holiday season.  Believe me, it's almost unimaginable to utter such words after having a sell rating on the stock for two years, and only issuing an upgrade on April 10.

But, push comes to shove, when the weather was conducive to spending the better merchandized JC Penney reconnected with its lapsed customers, disenchanted Target (TGT) customers (Target's apparel section in men and women has gotten very, very poor), and Kohl's (KSS) customers to deliver a quarter that removes the company further away from the bankruptcy equation.

Shares of JC Penney have gained 18% to $9.84 at 4:12 p.m. in after-hours trading, after dropping 2.8% today. Target has ticked up 0.1% to $58.26 after falling 1.8% today, and Kohl’s has risen 0.6% to $52.53 after declining 3.4% today.

Here’s More on Apple’s Long-Awaited Gadget

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The global tech giant Apple (AAPL) is about to launch the most awaited smartphone of the season, the iPhone 6, and the long wait of the gizmo geeks shall end by this September. The upcoming iPhone is expected to have much more new and interesting features, thus attracting the attention of gadget addicts.

Reality or Rumor?

The new iPhone is predicted to have a larger display, in the range of 4.8 inches to 5.5 inches, with 1136x640 pixel resolution. In fact, there is lot of buzz that this year too Apple might launch more than one iPhone just like it did last year in the case of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C.

The price range of the device is not yet confirmed but it is guessed that the contract-free version might cost around $549 for the 16GB, and $649 for 32GB. Rumors have it that the iPhone will have iOS8 which the Cupertino company is expected to release at the Worldwide Developer Conference scheduled in June. The latest feature in iPhone 6 will be the NFC chip which is a big attraction point for several buyers that will help make things such as mobile payments or making phone calls much easier.

Apple has always provided good storage internal capacity in the iPhones which till now has had a maximum limit of up to 64GB. But this time it has broken all records and set the limit up to 128GB expandable memory, just like that for iPad Air. This new limit for the storage is a boon for music and video addicts who may download and capture more than before.

What's New?

The introduction of sapphire screen in the new iPhone 6 is till now the best feature used. The screen is manufactured by melting aluminum oxide in specialized furnaces. When liquid aluminum oxide is allowed to cool slowly, it forms a large crystal. The sapphire crystal is cut out to form screens. Apple has signed a contract of $578 million with GT Advanced, the sapphire screen company. Rumor goes around that solar charging screens might be used in iPhone 6, but this looks far-fetched as the technology is yet to be released.

Apple is integrating heart rate and blood pressure monitors in the earpods of the headphone. Biggest rival Samsung (SSNLF) had released heart beat monitors at the back of their new smartphone Galaxy S5. It might also provide a slot for expandable storage. Flexible screen and wireless charging are the new features which the rival companies have already adopted but we are not sure yet that these feature will be found in the iPhone 6 or not.

Conclusion

The new iPhone will definitely have new and exciting features that will surely grab the attention of people worldwide and Apple loyalists are eagerly waiting for the launch of this new phone. With distinctive features such as the sapphire screen and the 128 GB memory it is sure to beat the records of all the other smartphones. Analysts are even predicting that the launch of the device will have a positive effect on the share price.

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3 Stocks Under $10 Making Big Moves

DELAFIELD, Wis. (Stockpickr) -- At Stockpickr, we track daily portfolios of stocks that are the biggest percentage gainers and the biggest percentage losers.

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Stocks that are making large moves like these are favorites among short-term traders because they can jump into these names and try to capture some of that massive volatility. Stocks that are making big-percentage moves either up or down are usually in play because their sector is becoming attractive or they have a major fundamental catalyst such as a recent earnings release. Sometimes stocks making big moves have been hit with an analyst upgrade or an analyst downgrade.

Regardless of the reason behind it, when a stock makes a large-percentage move, it is often just the start of a new major trend -- a trend that can lead to huge profits. If you time your trade correctly, combining technical indicators with fundamental trends, discipline and sound money management, you will be well on your way to investment success.

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With that in mind, let's take a closer look at a several stocks under $10 that are making large moves to the upside.

TearLab

TearLab (TEAR) operates as an ophthalmic device company in the U.S. This stock closed up 10.9% to $4.37 in Tuesday's trading session.

Tuesday's Range: $3.96-$4.38

52-Week Range: $3.80-$15.18

Tuesday's Volume: 751,000

Three-Month Average Volume: 427,577

From a technical perspective, TEAR exploded higher here right above its recent 52-week low of $3.80 with above-average volume. This stock has been downtrending badly for the last two months and change, with shares moving lower from its high of $8.28 to its low of $3.80. During that move, shares of TEAR have been consistently making lower highs and lower lows, which is bearish technical price action. That said, shares of TEAR are now starting to spike higher off oversold levels and it's starting to enter breakout territory above some near-term overhead resistance at $4.36. Market players should now look for a continuation move to the upside in the short-term if TEAR manages to clear Tuesday's high of $4.38 to $4.50 with high volume.

Traders should now look for long-biased trades in TEAR as long as it's trending above $4 and then once it sustains a move or close above $4.38 to $4.50 with volume that hits near or above 427,577 shares. If that move gets started soon, then TEAR will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $5 to $5.36, or even its 50-day moving average of $5.99.

Dehaier Medical Systems

Dehaier Medical Systems (DHRM), through its subsidiaries, develops and distributes medical devices and sleep respiratory and oxygen therapy products in the People's Republic of China. This stock closed up 4.1% to $4.98 in Tuesday's trading session.

Tuesday's Range: $4.80-$5.00

52-Week Range: $1.81-$12.89

Tuesday's Volume: 158,000

Three-Month Average Volume: 350,946

From a technical perspective, DHRM spiked notably higher here right off its 200-day moving average of $4.77 with lighter-than-average volume. This stock has been downtrending badly for the last three months, with shares sliding lower from its high of $12.89 to its recent low of $4.65. During that move, shares of DHRM have been consistently making lower highs and lower lows, which is bearish technical price action. That said, shares of DHRM are now finding support off its 200-day and this stock might be setting up for a near-term trend reversal.

Traders should now look for long-biased trades in DHRM as long as it's trending above its 200-day at $4.77 or above more near-term support at $4.65 and then once it sustains a move or close above Tuesday's intraday high of $5 with volume that hits near or above 350,946 shares. If that move kicks off soon, then DHRM will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $6 to $7, or even its 50-day moving average of $7.32.

Millennial Media

Millennial Media (MM) provides mobile advertising solutions to advertisers and developers in the U.S. and internationally. This stock closed up 3.2% to $3.55 in Tuesday's trading session.

Tuesday's Range: $3.40-$3.68

52-Week Range: $2.90-$10.48

Tuesday's Volume: 3.33 million

Three-Month Average Volume: 2.29 million

From a technical perspective, MM jumped higher notably here and broke out above its previous gap-down-day high of $3.60 with strong upside volume. This stock recently gapped down sharply from over $5.50 to its low of $2.90 with heavy downside volume. Following that move, shares of MM have now started to rebound off that $2.90 low and it's breaking out back into that gap with strong volume. Market players should now look for a continuation move to the upside in the near-term if MM manages to clear Tuesday's high of $3.68 with high volume.

Traders should now look for long-biased trades in MM as long as it's trending above Tuesday's low of $3.40 or above $3.25 and then once it sustains a move or close above $3.68 with volume that hits near or above 2.29 million shares. If that move gets started soon, then MM will set up to re-fill some more of that previous gap-down-day zone that started near $5.50.

To see more stocks that are making notable moves higher, check out the Stocks Under $10 Moving Higher portfolio on Stockpickr.

-- Written by Roberto Pedone in Delafield, Wis.

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At the time of publication, author had no positions in stocks mentioned.

Roberto Pedone, based out of Delafield, Wis., is an independent trader who focuses on technical analysis for small- and large-cap stocks, options, futures, commodities and currencies. Roberto studied international business at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and he spent a year overseas studying business in Lubeck, Germany. His work has appeared on financial outlets including

CNBC.com and Forbes.com.

You can follow Pedone on Twitter at www.twitter.com/zerosum24 or @zerosum24.