Oil rose to $70 a barrel on Monday after Nigeria’s main militant group said it attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil platform, outweighing a fairly bearish report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Fed sees the bright side… Bernanke says worst it over, inflation not a worry… Warren Buffett can’t see any green shoots… even after eye surgery… Alan Knuckman on how to survive a sideways stock market… Byron King says now’s a good time to book profits on this sector… Housing still out of whack… one chart foreshadows the market’s next move…

As the U.S. dollar remains strong some industries traditionally benefit – travel being one of them. And I’ve uncovered two stocks uniquely poised to profit…

The Brazilian stock market is on fire right now and they are immune to a lot of the ills that America is suffering from, like exposure to toxic assets.  Make sure you put a small portion of your portfolio into emerging markets like Brazil.

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Laura Cadden of Today’s Financial News points out that the “commodity choice for investors” is Lithium. With the high global demand and the U.S. governments’ plan to invest over $2 billion on hybrid technology,  Lithium is a smart investment.

Single home sales are slipping everywhere. Even here in Baltimore City where values had been holding firm, prices began dropping hard and fast in the past month.

As we anticipated when we recommended Argon ST, Inc. (NASDAQ:STST) in early December, its technological focus will keep the revenues coming for this defense contractor.