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The world's top teleconference solutions provider Polycom pins high hopes on the Korean market, which has robust growth potential as businesses look overseas and the government encourages telecommuting.
Country manager of Polycom's Korea unit, Chun Yoo-jin, said the nation's technological infrastructure and new work culture also offer favorable conditions for the business.
"The Korean market is still at a growing stage in terms of its share in the global video conferencing market. The Korean market holds a meager 2 percent share," Chun said in an interview with The Korea Herald.
Polycom tops the world's video conferencing market in terms of share, followed by Tandberg. Polycom Korea is one of its fastest growing operations with its revenue jumping a whopping 1,300 percent between 2003 and 2009, according to Chun.
Korea's telecommunications and information technology infrastructure offer opportunities.
In Korea, high-definition video conferencing accounts for 90 percent of the market, whereas the corresponding figure in Europe has not exceeded 50 percent, he said.
Korean corporate bosses also see video conferencing as an attractive option as they favor face-to-face communications, he said.
"There is little resistance for the adoption of video conferencing among Korean management. The management is vigorously introducing video conferencing and embracing a videoconferencing culture," he said.
The Lee Myung-bak administration has also been pushing for "energy-saving work" such as telework, as part of its green initiative.
"The government has put emphasis on telework to create a flexible and environmentally-friendly work environment. We expect this to give fresh growth momentum to the local video conferencing market," he said.
Polycom's Korean customers include Hyundai Construction & Engineering, CJ Group and POSCO. Videoconferencing helps companies communicate more efficiently with customers and between operations at home and abroad.
Not only large businesses, but small- and medium-sized ones, the government, educational and medical fields are introducing videoconferencing.
The California, U.S.-based Polycom competes with Norwegian Tandberg, which was acquired by Cisco Systems Inc., the world's top network equipment maker. Polycom and Tandberg control three-fourths of the video conferencing products market, a growing industry as businesses try to cut travel costs.
In the face of competition from Cisco-Tandberg, Polycom is strengthening its cooperation with Microsoft, IBM, BT, Juniper Networks, Siemens Enterprise and other leaders in unified communications and networking solutions, he said.
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Fast main track and firm turf course. Main track played fair. Turf played fair with a pair of wire jobs, a stalker, and a late runner making up the four winners on that surface.
No riding or training doubles on the day. PVal, my rider to watch on Monday, captured one race, and my trainer to watch Tom Amoss saddled a winner as well.
On the analysis front, I got home tops Why Not Be Perfect ($29.20) and Castnet Kent ($11.20). I also tabbed the 5th race exacta ($31), a couple of pick 3's, and the late double ($61.60).
Fair Grounds Preview – Dec 31st
A 9-race program will be run on Thursday at the Fair Grounds. Partly cloudy skies are expected with a high temperature of 62. Pick 6 carryover of $8,070.
My trainer to watch on Thursday is Sturges Ducoing. The veteran conditioner is clicking at a 20% rate at the current meet. He has a pair of contenders with Placid Stream (4-1) in the 3rd and Auto Be A Bear (3-1) in the finale.
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Sandy • With 30 saves in eight games this season, Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando is tied for third-most in Major League Soccer, and is on pace to record his biggest save total since his first season with RSL.
That's not necessarily a good thing.
"Thirty-plus chances on goal in eight games is way too much," the veteran said after training Tuesday.
The losses of center back Jamison Olave and midfielder Will Johnson this offseason combined with early-season injuries to back line starters Nat Borchers and Chris Wingert had RSL ready for some bumps.
"It's something we were prepared for with the changeover," Rimando said. "We're still trying to figure that out."
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Right back Tony Beltran said the team's defensive four has to be sharper and more focused.
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Coming off a 2-0 loss at Los Angeles, coach Jason Kreis had a somewhat different take.
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Stock loss? It'll help at tax time
Treatment of short-term and long-term losses is different, but either may get you a reduction in taxable income, and therefore tax owed.
This post is by Kay Bell at Bankrate.com.
Plummeting stock prices can cast a dark cloud over anyone's finances. However, at tax time, these capital losses can produce a ray of write-off sunshine.
When you sell any pharmaceutical flops or banking blunders, you can use them to offset gains from more successful ventures -- or even a portion of your everyday income.
A capital loss is the result of selling an investment at less than the purchase price or adjusted basis. Any expenses from the sale are deducted from the proceeds and added to the loss.
The key point is that capital losses are only losses after you sell them. A stock sitting in your portfolio with a deflated price may cause you distress, but it doesn't do you any tax good until you dump it. (The sale of personal-use property, such as a car, doesn't get this favored tax treatment. Such losses can't be deducted as capital losses.)
You can recoup a percentage of a true loss from the taxman. This is one of the best deductions available to investors. A capital loss directly reduces your taxable income, which means you pay less tax. It makes for a nice consolation prize.
Post continues below.It's touching that the Internal Revenue Service wants to give you a break when the stock market tanks. However, this doesn't mean the weighing and applying of capital losses is simple.
You must fill out Schedule D, where you'll discover that losses are categorized as short-term and long-term, just like gains. The value of the deductible loss depends on how the loss is applied. Sadly, the taxpayer doesn't get to choose.
Here's how it works:
- Short-term losses counterbalance those expensive short-term gains. What's left at the end of Section I of Schedule D is the net short-term capital gain or loss. If there were no gains, then obviously the net would equal the total loss.
- Long-term losses are applied to long-term gains. The result, at the end of Section II of Schedule D, is the net long-term capital gain or loss. Again, if you only have a loss, then the net is a negative number.
- Next, you combine the short-term and long-term results. At this point, a loss in one section can offset a gain in the other section. For example, if you have a net short-term loss of $1,000 and a net long-term gain of $1,200, then you'll pay tax on only $200.
- If there's still a loss, you can deduct up to $3,000 from other income.
- If you had a really bad year and ended up with a net loss of more than $3,000, you can carry forward the leftover portion to next year's taxes. The unused loss can be applied to next year's gains as well as up to $3,000 of earned income. A big loss can be used as a deduction indefinitely -- another important reason to keep good records.
In an effort to catch rich parents who were trying to circumvent investment taxes by putting assets in the names of their children, the "kiddie tax" was enacted in 1986. Don't be confused by the name. Under this law, a kiddie portion of taxes usually is quite large.
Basically, the law requires a child's investment earnings over a certain amount to be taxed at the parent's higher tax rate until the child reaches a specific age, 19 or 24 if the child is a full-time student.
If parents find themselves liable for more investment income than they had planned because they had to cover the taxes on their children's asset earnings, one of the easiest ways for that parent to reduce or eliminate the unexpected gains is to sell assets that produce offsetting losses.
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Thank you Kay, for passing along this useless information. Wow, we are so lucky to be a part of this wonderfull financial debacle! Just keep stuffing money into the market and it will be good for you even if you lose everthing! You'll get a tax break!
How about this, Kay, why are we forced to put our "Retirement" money into the Stock Market? Explain that to us little investors! Why is our money being forced into a program that can strip away all of our savings that we are supposed to depend on to keep us from being a "Burden" on Society when we get too old to work? Why isn't there a "Defined Benefit" plan for us old people to keep our "Retirement" funds in? A 401k is just a "Defined Loss Plan"!
Anybody who doesn't have tax losses (and tax-loss carryforwards) from the last few years hasn't been much of an investor.
For all the evil rich haters and class enviers, you can get your shorts in an even bigger bind hyperventilating over all the "rich" who will reduce their tax bills this year because they've LOST money in the stock market.
Next year, you can obsess some more when the second tier deduct all their losses from speculating in gold.
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Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Cell Phones, Corporate News, Handhelds, Hot Deals
We've received a few emails over the last few days from readers asking about switching to AT&T Next so that they can get the new iPhone 6 on Friday for no money down. AT&T has been notifying some customers who are mid-contract that they can switch to a Next plan at no charge, doing away with contracts going forward. Of course, there are those who are still under AT&T's grandfathered "unlimited" data plan, but others simply want to know if programs like AT&T Next and Verizon Edge are worth it, or if they're rip-offs. The thing is, early upgrade plans like Next and Edge basically allow you to divorce the act of owning and paying for a phone, from paying for cellular service. If you play your cards right, you'll actually come out ahead financially, and you'll be able to upgrade to a new device whenever you want. Let's walk through a scenario of buying a phone with AT&T Next.
All currently available mainstream plans feature two components: a data charge, and a line charge. We will ignore the data charge aspect from here on out, because it's the same regardless of what plan you choose.
AT&T Next offers you a lower monthly line charge ($15 less for data plans under 10GB, $25 less for 10GB and over) in exchange for them not giving you a large subsidy when you buy your phone. Next plans never involve a contract, and you can get out of them at any time, penalty free, by paying off the balance you owe on your phone.
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Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Software
Microsoft has started sending out invitation to select press to its Windows 9 reveal event that will take place in San Francisco, California on September 30th. Microsoft execs Joe Belfiore and Terry Myerson will both be on hand to talk about "what's next for Windows and the enterprise." At the end of the event, we expect the company to release a Windows 9 Technical Preview that will allow developers and enterprise users to take the new software for a test drive to get apps updated and deployment scenarios tested. New features for Windows 9 include Cortana integration, virtual desktops, a new Start menu, Notification Center, and a refreshed UI that will see flatter icons (similar to Apple's OS X Yosemite.)
Apple shatters record with 4 million iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus pre-orders in first 24 hours
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Cell Phones, Corporate News, Handhelds
Silencing critics who said it was late to the party with larger smartphones, Apple announced that it sold over 4 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units in the first 24 hours of pre-order availability. Apple hasn't specified how many people pre-ordered the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 versus the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus (and we don't expect them to, as evidenced by iPod and iPad sales numbers never being broken down by model,) but it is clear to see that many people didn't just want a bigger phone—they wanted a bigger iPhone.
The 4 million figured is mind-blowing, as it equates to about 166,667 iPhone 6 smartphones sold per hour. To put it into even clearer context, prior to the iPhone 6, the biggest pre-order period for Apple was last year's iPhone 5s and 5c, which saw "just" 2 million pre-orders in the first 24 hours. A year later, Apple doubled that number with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. With the iPhone 5s and 5c, Apple later announced that is sold 9 million units in the first three days. It will be interesting to see what the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus end up selling in the first weekend of availability in comparison.
Since the devices went on pre-order, the iPhone 6 is now sold out, showing a 7-10 day backorder. Meanwhile, the larger iPhone 6 Plus is showing a 3-4 week wait. If you want to get your hands on either of these new Apple smartphones sooner, you'll need to wait in line at an Apple Store or carrier store and hope there's enough stock this Friday morning.
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Excited about the announcements of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus from today's We Wish We Could Say More event? If you are wondering when you can get your hands on one, you won't have to wait long. As we reported a couple months ago, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will both go on sale on September 19th in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, and Singapore. That's the day you'll be able to go to an Apple Store, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or your local wireless service carrier and buy an iPhone 6 (as long as it's in stock.) If you'd rather have it sent to you so that you can avoid the lines, you can pre-order the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus starting this Friday, September 12th. It may be an exercise in patience though, as iPhone pre-orders in the past have resulted in crashed Web sites, lost orders mid-checkout, and other frustrations.
iPhone 6 Plus: 5.5-inch Retina HD display, optical image stabilization, bigger battery for $299
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The iPhone 6 wasn't the only larger smartphone that Apple announced today at the We Wish We Could Say More event—meet the iPhone 6 Plus. Featuring a 5.5-inch 1080p Retina HD display, the iPhone 6 Plus is the biggest smartphone that Apple has released to date. It's got a display that's a full 1.5-inches larger than that of the iPhone 5s. Be sure to check out the details on the iPhone 6, since the iPhone 6 Plus has a fairly similar feature set. However, there are a few key differences other than size.
The iPhone 6 Plus display has the same 16x9 aspect ratio as the iPhone 6, 5s, and 5c, but packs in more pixels due to the 1920x1080 resolution. The result is a 401 pixel-per-inch density, resulting in 185% more pixels than the iPhone 5s. That means it'll be a lot sharper. It's also thinner at 7.1 millimeters, compared to 7.6 for the iPhone 5s.
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Apple Watch announced, available early 2015 for $349
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After months of rumors, the iWatch has been made official, and it's called the Apple Watch. For the first time since the death of Steve Jobs, Tim Cook mentioned that he had "One more thing…" to talk about after unveiling the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Introducing the device as a precise and customizable timepiece that is also a comprehensive health and fitness device, the Apple Watch was unveiled with pride.
A video, narrated by Jony Ive, explained how the watch works. Users navigate using the touch display, as well as a Digital Crown on the side (similar to dials you find on analog watches) that allows you to navigate, zoom, and scroll without covering up the display with your fingers. The Apple Watch display can sense touch and swipes, as well as force.
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Apple cuts iPhone 5s price to $99 with contract
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Ater announcing the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus during its We Wish We Could Say More event, Apple announced that it was cutting the price of the iPhone 5s in half. You'll now be able to pick up the 16GB iPhone 5s for $99 with a two-year contract.
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Today, Apple will be holding its We Wish We Could Say More event where it's expected to reveal the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iWatch, and a new mobile payment processing system. Some are also expecting an update to the iPad Air, and the Apple TV set-top box. This is shaping up to be one of the biggest Apple keynote events in company history—certainly the biggest yet for Steve Jobs successor, Tim Cook—and the company wants you to see it all go down, live as it happens. Here's how you can watch today's Apple Event:
- If you have an Apple TV, Apple has added a dedicated Apple Events channel. Fire it up at 10:00am PDT (1:00pm EDT), and you'll be able to tune in. You need to have a second- or third-generation Apple TV running software version 6.2 or later.
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Google continues to slowly-but-surely make Google Glass more widely available. Now, anyone willing to put down $1,500 can head to the Google Play store and grab the Google Glass "Explorer Edition," previously only available to those who'd scored an exclusive invitation. Yep, here at the end of 2014 Google still hasn't been able to get a mass consumer version of Glass out the door, so the expensive beta developer product is all you can get for now. Alongside Glass, buyers can also pick up accessories like frames, a custom earpiece, and shades.
The Glass Explorer Edition was originally announced in February 2013, with many predicting that a cheaper consumer version would follow in late 2013 or early 2014. Over a year-and-a-half later there still seems to be no sign of it on the horizon. At Google I/O 2014, Google's biggest event of the year, Glass didn't get a mention at all.
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Cybermen in Weight Loss Shock!
Images emerged last night from a location shoot of the new Cybermen episode from Doctor Who Series 7, and it seems that despite our previous concerns, a new look for the metal monsters has been revealed!
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You'll need to open the spoiler tags below to view the images (via Combom), which reveal the new-look Cybermen lining up and stomping (no major surprises there!)
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As you can see, the creatures from Mondas or Telos (as opposed to the Cybus factories, we presume) are sleeker, more Batman-esque than the previous Iron Man-taunting version. This sleeker look is welcome, but a far cry from the original 1960s versions which Neil Gaiman has claimed to be a fan of.
We're quietly confident that Neil Gaiman can breathe some genuine new life into the Cybermen so that we can overlook their virtual non-appearance in Closing Time and other ultimately unsatisfying Cyber-stories.
If anyone can do it, Gaiman can!
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The best designed Cybermen by far. Absolutely love it.
With a cracking script from Gaiman I am sure this could be the story that brings the Cybermen back to their rightful place in the universe.
If they restore credibility to the Cybermen, it will be a wonderful episode. But it would be great to see them with cloth faces, cumbersome outsized chest units, human hands, and weird sing-song voices. The Tenth Planet Cybermen are really unsettling, and truly amazing, even after all these years. Rather than being humans buried inside machines, they should be poised on the line between human and robot, looking as if they might tip either way.
Such a shame they were shunted down a path to being stomping robots. There are few better moments in the history of Doctor Who than their first ever scene with the Doctor.
I can't believe no-one's posted this yet but…. EXCELLENT!
David F as well as Gaiman himself have both stated what I've been saying for a while and obviously, there are more people out there with the same wish. Bring back the originals from tenth Planet. I'm actually really astonished that the Moff—who's all about scaring people in creative ways, hasn't taken the Cybermen back to their beginnings, when they were the creepiest of of all. All that being said, the new design looks better than the Cybus—-who never made sense even appearing in our reality anyway.
They look great. Sleek, less of a bulky toy. I'm not sure how much say Gaiman himself would have had in the final design.
I've always loved the Cybermen in the classic series, from the Target Troughton novelised versions through to the excellent Earthshock design (probably my favourite classic Cyber-tale.)
Like a lot of other fans, I've been rather disappointed by the way the Cybermen have been treated in the last few years, so easily beaten everytime, they've become a bit of a joke. Which is a shame as I've always loved the bulky Cybus-style. It's rather telling that the best Cybermen moment in recent stories was the scene in the Underhenge from The Pandorica Opens, ie: not a dedicated Cybermen story.
I'm cautiously optimistic about this upcoming story. Letting Gaiman loose on an established Who monster intrigues me hugely. He's already done a fantastic story bringing the TARDIS to the heart of the action, let's hope he can do the same to the Cybermen. They deserve a really great episode where there's a real sense of danger about them.
This gorgeous redesign of them is just the icing on the cake. Really nicely done – they look sleek, more manouverable. It's a proper upgrade, evolving the Cybus look, with nice nods to past designs. Can't wait to see what Gaiman does with them!
I approve of the slimming down to the costume. The new series Cybermen were overdue for a makeover as well, although I do agree with people that taking them back to the beginning would be nice. With modern costuming budgets, materials and effects they could make early Mondasian Cybermen properly scary these days and not all clunky. Maybe its time for another audio adaptation? Do a version of "Spare Parts" for the TV series.
Frankly though, I'd love it even more if they could realistically render the 'future' Cybermen from the comic strip "The Flood". Those were really cool.
I think if anybody's expecting to see a return of the Mondasian Cybermen, they're going to be very disappointed. When the Daleks came back it was easy to update them with present-day techniques, but I don't think anybody in today's BBC wants to see the old Cybermen make a return.
Fantastic design, well done whoever did that. Remains to be seen if Gaiman can do a scary story but for me the Cybermen need their old 60s mythology and Troughton mojo back, seems Gaiman may agree, time will tell. But when will it be shown?


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Git, the open source distributed software version control system pioneered by Linux founder Linus Torvalds in 2005, is now gaining real momentum with developers. But don't count out rivals like Mercurial and the still-dominant Apache Subversion platform.
In the past three years, the Eclipse Community Survey on open source development has seen Git grow from 2 percent adoption in 2009 to nearly 13 percent this year, says Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond, who has assisted with the survey. "Pretty impressive," he says. "It's one of the reasons Eclipse has adopted Git as a supported alternative to Subversion for Eclipse projects."
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Git also is gaining in adoption among the Ruby community, open source projects, and younger developers, Hammond says. "There's a joke on our team: Show me a developer under 24 and I'll show you a Git user." IDC analyst Al Hilwa also sees the growth spurt: "It appears to have taken the world by a storm. Of late, it sure appears that Git is being used more than its competitors for open source projects."
Torvalds cites a change in attitudes as assisting with adoption of distributed version control and Git. "I think what has happened is that it took even kernel people a few years to get used to the whole distributed model, and now a lot of the people who were early adopters -- both inside and outside the kernel community -- have caused the model to become much more widely known and understood," he says. "Once you really understand the things that a truly distributed model like Git brings to the table, you really are never going to go back to the centralized model."
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"Git has been gaining share for open source development largely because of its distributed architecture. It is designed by Linus Torvalds and used for Linux itself, so that gives it great credibility," says IDC's Hilwa. "Being distributed and having a native command-line interface does not make it easy, but there are plug-ins for the major IDEs."
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Should you buy BP bonds?
Yields for BP bonds have gone sky-high. Are bonds a smart buy?
Investors responded Tuesday by unloading BP bonds, sending yield soaring. The yield for one bond that matures in 2013 rose to 8.7%, The Wall Street Journal reported. Another bond that matures next year is getting an 8.5% yield.
That sounds awfully attractive. But before you consider bonds, you need to think about another "b" word: Bankruptcy. That's the real danger to BP bond holders, the Journal reports.
What are the chances that BP will head into bankruptcy? One money manager pegged it at 30%, according to the Journal. Of course, that was before news emerged that BP agreed to a $20 billion fund for claims related to the oil spill.
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One analyst told the Journal that while BP stock might be tempting, the more conservative bonds are a better buy at this point. (Another knock against the shares would be BP's decision Wednesday to suspend its $10 billion dividend.)
Even Fitch doesn't anticipate a BP bankruptcy. But the firm downgraded the energy giant for two main reasons, the Journal reported. First, government scientists suspect a much higher spill rate than BP had claimed -- which could lead to finds from the Justice Department. Second, the burden of that $20 billion escrow fund on BP's bottom line.
But there are some that do expect a BP bankruptcy. Credit investors are giving BP a 39% chance of defaulting in five years, Bloomberg reported. That was calculated by looking at BP credit-default swaps, which are sky high at this point.
BP may be able to avoid bankruptcy by sacrificing its BP Holdings North America unit, the New York Times reports. BP is actually made of up lots of smaller corporate entities, each with its own limited liability.
BP's North American unit has about $50 billion in assets, the Times reported, and BP could argue that those assets are the extent of its liability related to the oil spill.
"A more remote prospect is the insolvency of BP itself," writes Steven Davidoff. "I say this is remote because of the liability issues above and the fact that BP has $161 billion in long-term assets, providing it a big cushion."
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Biofuels are going to be a significant part of the road transport fuel mix going forward. Here are four exchange-traded funds to gain exposure to the trend.
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As governments continue to place an emphasis on renewable energy, the prospects for corn and sugar cane-based ethanol are promising, giving support to exchange-traded funds like Teucrium CORN (CORN), PowerShares Global Agriculture (PAGG), Market Vectors Agribusiness (MOO) and ELEMENTS MLCX Biofuels ETN (FUE).
In Brazil, the main source of fuel in automobiles is already ethanol as most of the nation's vehicles can either run solely on ethanol or utilize a flex-fuel system that can run on a mix of gasoline and ethanol. The success of Brazil's ethanol use has many other nations looking at it as a viable power source.
In Sweden, which has the highest number of ethanol stations in the EU, a law has been enacted which requires every gasoline station in the country to provide an alternative fuel. Furthermore, oil companies in Australia have started to provide E10 fuel -- a blend of 90% petroleum and 10% ethanol -- in gas stations, and Thailand has started actively selling E20, an 80/20 blend of petroleum and ethanol, as well as E85 fuel blends.
The trend toward using ethanol has even emerged in the world's two largest energy consumers. The second-largest, China, has started to embrace the idea of an ethanol blended fuel that would be used in automobiles, and is beginning preliminary implementation in five major cities.
As for the U.S., the Renewable Fuels Association reports that U.S. demand for ethanol is at an all-time high and is expected to continue growing. The importance of cleaner energy sources remains intact as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has increased the amount of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline to 15%, up from 10%, for cars and light trucks built in 2007 or later.
In a nutshell, it appears like biofuels are going to be a significant part of the road transport fuel mix going forward, and the aforementioned ETFs are likely to reap some of the benefits.
1. Teucrium Corn is a pure play on corn, the primary commodity behind the production of ethanol, through futures contracts.
2. PowerShares Global Agriculture includes companies in its holdings that are likely to benefit from increased demand of ethanol such as Monsanto (MON) and Wilmar International.
3. Market Vectors Agribusiness includes companies like Potash (POT) and Deere (DE) in its top holdings, both of which are likely to reap the benefits of increased demand for ethanol and other commodities that are used in the production of ethanol.
4. ELEMENTS MLCX Biofuels ETN tracks a benchmark that consists of futures contracts on physical commodities that are either biofuels themselves or feedstock commonly used in the production of biofuels. FUE is heavily weighted in soybeans, corn, soybean oil and sugar.
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Why investors shouldn't overlook Wells Fargo
The 'littlest' big bank is on a tear in 2012.
Is Wells Fargo (WFC) the Rodney Dangerfield of the nation's biggest banks? It sure seems like the firm gets no respect.
After all, Wells Fargo is the country's fourth-biggest bank by assets, after JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C). Heck, it's larger than high-profile Wall Street titans Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS). And yet too often Wells Fargo seems to fall through the cracks when it comes to consideration of financial sector stocks.
Partly that's because Wells Fargo is really more of a giant regional bank. It's not an international player. And as the nation's largest commercial lender, Wells Fargo's future is tightly tied to the state of the U.S. economy. Indeed, about 95% of it's loans are domestic.
That makes Wells Fargo a less sexy name -- and prevents the firm from cashing in on international economic growth. On the other hand -- and this is no small concern -- it also helps insulate Wells Fargo from the debt crisis in the eurozone.
Whatever the reason, it seems the stock gets too little attention as a bet on big banks. That's too bad, because Wells Fargo has been on a tear ever since the market started rallying around Thanksgiving. The stock is up more than 9% year-to-date, beating the S&P 500 by 3 percentage points. More impressive, going to back to Nov. 24 when the most recent bull run began, Wells Fargo is up almost 30%, clobbering the broader market by 15 percentage points.
Wells Fargo delivered some of the best fourth-quarter earnings among financials this season. The bank's profit jumped 20%, helped by strong deposit and lending growth. Earnings per share beat Street estimates by a penny, and although revenue slipped 4%, the top line also eclipsed analysts' average estimate.
More important, revenue grew quarter-over-quarter, which was one of the biggest overhangs on the stock, notes Guggenheim analyst Marty Mosby, who rates shares a "buy."
"WFC's revenues increased this quarter by $1 billion sequentially," Mosby wrote in a recent note to clients. "The greatest investor worry for WFC has been revenue growth, especially significant net interest margin compression."
The bank also bounced back from a disappointing third-quarter report to show accelerating loan growth, a stronger balance sheet and improved expense leverage, all the while beating "relatively high expectations," notes Todd Hagerman, an analyst at Sterne Agee, who rates shares a "buy."
"Our sense is that WFC's attractive earnings multiple will continue to gain momentum as the company's strong underlying earnings power and top tier profitability metrics once again take center stage," Hagerman wrote in a recent note to clients.
Even after the run-up, shares in Wells Fargo still appear to offer a compelling value proposition. The stock currently trades at a 28% discount to its own five-year average on a forward price-to-earnings basis, according to data from Thomson Reuters. And by trailing earnings, the stock offers a 31% discount to its own five-year average.
Meanwhile, analysts' median price target stands at $35. Add in the 1.6% yield on the dividend, and Wells Fargo has an implied upside of about 18% in the next 12 months or so.
Given its improving fundamentals, attractive valuation and a string of better-than-expected U.S. economic news, Wells Fargo looks like an undervalued -- and underappreciated -- bank stock.
And if you like under-the-radar bank stocks, you might find this play on BB&T (BBT) interesting.
As of this writing, Dan Burrows did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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