WednesdayJan 30, 2008 10:58 am

Fund.com, Inc. (ESVH.OB) Business Model Generates Revenue through Leads, Connecting Buyers and Sellers of Financial Management

It is a trend lately for consumers to go online shopping for financial services. They are conducting their research on different Funds and their styles in order to purchase the Fund and Financial service that best matches their financial needs. This is due to the complexity of recent financial products and consumers accelerating reliance on the internet as an information source. The company believes that this trend will continue and grow in popularity. Aging baby boomers nearing retirement are increasingly internet savvy. They look to the internet for everything from clothing, gifts, mortgages, and insurance. Research has shown that these…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 9:31 am

OTCPicks Featured Company: Cascadia Investments, Inc. (CDIN.PK) Provides Corporate Update

Cascadia Investments, Inc. (OTC: CDIN) recently provided and publicly shared their corporate status. The company is confined to building shareholder value by investing in prime selected real estate assets, and then actively managing each of the properties to create an increase in cash flow producing a maximum return on capital. The company completed over $2.7 million worth of real estate transactions alone in 2007. With eleven properties that contain twenty-one rental units located in Seattle and Tacoma, WA, the company looks to expand in the greater Northwest. Cascadia Investments, Inc. is a publicly traded real estate company that primarily focuses…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 9:28 am

StockEgg Featured Company: JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) Working with What They’ve Got

JetBlue Airways Corporation, a low cost airline, has been serving the air traveling public with enhanced customer service and better than average on-time rankings for the past several years. The market as a whole, however, has been struggling with fuel costs and the realities that they bring. Current oil prices have been hovering near $100 per barrel and are likely to go significantly higher in the longer term. Currently, JetBlue is pegging their 2008 jet fuel costs at $2.55 per/gal., a 21.8% increase from 2007. The company has recently announced it does not believe that the business model, currently in…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 9:18 am

OTCPicks Featured Company: Caledonia Mining Corp. (CALVF.OB) Announces Signing of Cobalt Off-take Agreement with Large Chinese Refiner

Caledonia Mining Corporation (OTCBB: CALVF) announced the signing of a cobalt off-take agreement with a large Chinese refiner. The agreement calls for Caledonia to supply a minimum of 21,000 tons of cobalt metal equivalent in the form of cobalt hydroxide from its Nama Cobalt Project over the next six years. The terms also call for the price to be based on the published monthly average for 99.3% cobalt from the London Metal Exchange, which involves a guaranteed "Take or Pay" minimum cobalt price of US $12/lb of cobalt metal. The company is currently outlining a detailed plan of the project…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 8:19 am

Life Insurance Goes to College

Most people think of life insurance as a way to protect their families from an unexpected loss of income, as a way to help the survivors go on without serious disruptions in their standard of living. It’s the reason why two out of three policyholders bought coverage.1 One often–overlooked consequence of losing an income earner is the possibility that dependent children may not be able to afford a college education. If you didn’t live to see your children off to school, would your insurance coverage be adequate to cover their tuition and related costs? And what if you do live…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 8:08 am

Daily Views for January 30, 2008

Company Tags: Amerco (UHAL); Public Storage (PSA); Sovran Storage (SSS); U-Store-It Trust (YSI); Wal-Mart Mexico (WMMVF); Westpac Bank (WBK); Kubota (KUB) 11am ET…January 30, 2008 --- Comment on Markets, Companies & Events in the News Trailer For Sale or Rent Wall Street has a way of bringing out the more practical views about current events. One theme getting visibility focuses on the public storage companies. If downsizing housing is in store for the millions forecast, the three most prominent could experience accelerated earnings growth. Consensus earnings forecast 5% - 10% growth for Amerco (UHAL: $70.00); Public Storage (PSA: $78.63) and…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 7:58 am

Shazamstocks Featured Company: Millennium Biotechnologies Inc. (MBTG.OB) Announces Certification of Surgex by the Banned Substances Control Group

Millennium Biotechnologies has announced this week that their newest development, Surgex, has been tested and certified into the Banned Substances Control Group (BSCG) certification program. Moving forward each batch of Millennium's line of Surgex products are now tested and certified not to contain substances such as hormones, steroids, stimulants or diuretics that are banned for Professional, Collegiate and Olympic sports. This news will bring Surgex to the front of the pack in the nutritional supplement market when it is widely marketed in the third quarter of ‘08. Surgex is a sports nutrition formula, clinically proven to address the nutritional concerns…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 7:44 am

FDA Gives Nod to Unigene Laboratories, Inc. (UGNE.OB) for Improved Drug Manufacturing Process

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today gave Unigene Laboratories, Inc. (OTCBB:UGNE) the green light for one of two proposed improvements to the manufacturing process of its hallmark osteoporosis drug, Fortical. Specifically, Unigene received the go-ahead to modify a key enzyme in its patented manufacturing process for calcitonin, an active ingredient in the nasal spray. The FDA is reviewing another production modification that could boost batch yields of the drug by a factor of three, according to the company. “In addition to reducing our manufacturing costs, these improvements should enable us to more easily increase our capacity if Fortical…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 7:12 am

Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. (CEMI.OB) Licenses Three New Rapid-Screening Tests for Use in Brazil

On Jan. 29, Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. agreed to license its patented Dual Path Platform (DPP™) technology for use in three disease screening protocols in Brazil. The funding for the project comes from Brazil's Ministry of Health, under the auspices of the Bio-Manguinhos unit of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The diseases addressed include Leishmaniasis, Leptospirosis, and stage-two positive HIV. In 2004, Chembio and Bio-Manguinhos entered into an analogous agreement based on one of Chembio's rapid result's tests for stage-one HIV. Leishmaniasis, or black fever, is a blood-borne parasitic infection caused by the sand fly. Leptospirosis, or Weil's disease, is a bacterial…

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WednesdayJan 30, 2008 6:12 am

Universal Detection Technology (UDTT.OB) is "One to Watch"

Universal Detection Technology (UDTT) is focused on developing, marketing, and distributing a large range of products purposed to combat the threat of terrorism. The company offers sophisticated surveillance equipment as well as cutting-edge airborne pathogen, radiation, and bioterrorism detection technology. With the assistance of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Company developed a bacterial spore detection system that provides uninterrupted monitoring of the air for unusual levels of bacterial spores such as anthrax. Universal Detection Technology has already provided its anthrax detection kits to the U.S. Army and sold two bacterial spore detection systems to the Government of the United Kingdom.…

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