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TheUtopian -> RE: Stocks that are doing well in the recession (3/25/2009 12:06:49 AM)
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Just a quick assessment :
The forty-percent pop in cellular companies is directly related to some monster, under-the-radar, merger/acquisition activity, complete within the framework of local providers being bought up by the likes of AT&T, Verizon, etc...
Where I am here in Oregon, we went from a choice of six local providers down to three. AT&T acquired two of them, and another, US Cellular, acquired the other.
Coincidentally, after signing on with AT&T, my rate plan has jumped about twenty percent in cost.
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The market's rethinking this one, too. Starbucks stock has now jumped 55% from the lows .
Starbucks, on the other hand, was flirting with near historic lows over the last nine months...And its my belief that with some recent positive talk from the administration--related to markets--, and some of this new stimulus money dedicated to some fairly large infrastructure projects, the trickle-down effect will prop up a "creature comfort'' icon like Starbucks before nearly anything else.
If I were personally investing in the market : I would heavily research some of the upstart Bio-medical/nano-technology stocks directly related to innovations within the stem cell framework.
Some very big things that are commercially applicable related to stem cell research are on the horizon. I think we'll see a ''cure'' for male-pattern baldness in the not to distant future--- that is directly related to this type of research.
And some will both balk and laugh at this, but its highly likely that within five to eight years, we'll see a '' Nano bubble '' constructed that may bring about a nice rise in the standard of living for a certain bloc of the population.
Of course new gains in the frontier of solar and other types of alternative energy will continue to reap rewards for those who've set their sights.
- R
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