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    President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States on April 18-22, 2006. This is sure to be an eventful visit as the U.S. has been putting pressure on Beijing to get their house in order ahead of the historic visit.

    Some of the issues that have been brought up include copyright thef

    Airbus Embellishes Jet Orders Every Year to Keep Up with The Boeing Company
    Although lately Airbus has chilled out a little on the embellishment of the orders given to it by both Corporate and Government Airlines or Government Agencies it seems the practice of counting your chicken before they hatch with bird flu is alive and well in the European Union with Airbus Company.You know I have a problem with Airbus and their claim of orders taken for new jet airlines. It claimed in Farnborough World 2000 Airshow, that it had sold 12 A330s (about 33 Billion Dollars if it were real) and none of them ever were built and no substantial deposits were taken, is this a kind of Proforma type hype to move the markets. What is the difference, it is still a lie. Why is this bad?Well, it hurts Boeing’s stock, who has to tell the truth and yet our government does not go after Airbus as they lie like a rug? What a complete double standard we have, but if Boeing did that they would be on them in 2 seconds like flys on mad cow dung. (This is an excellent analogy considering those agen
    It’s Tuesday April 11, 2006, and Alcoa (NYSE: AA) kicked off earnings season with blockbuster numbers, the estimate was 51 cents per share for the first quarter. Alcoa posted an EPS of 69 cents beating the estimate by 18 cents. This drove the stock up in after hours trading to a new 52 week high of $35.10 up from the $32.83 closing price on Monday.

    Companies of note that are scheduled to report today include General Electric (NYSE: GE) the estimate is $0.389 cents compared to an EPS of 38 cents a year ago and Universal Forest Products (NASDAQ: UFPI) the estimate is 63 cents compared to an EPS of 44 cents a year ago.

    We’ll list the companies of note that are reporting this week as their hits and misses may have some effect on their sectors.

    Readers Speak

    We received an email from one of our readers/listeners in regards to yesterday’s segment, where we mentioned that Mark Cuban had something to do with the movie “Akeelah and the Bee“, and we stand corrected, as it was LionsGate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF) and not Mark Cuban. This is why input from our readers/listeners is encouraged, so thanks for the email.

    Chinese President Hu Jintao

    Chinese President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States on April 18-22, 2006. This is sure to be an eventful visit as the U.S. has been putting pressure on Beijing to get their house in order ahead of the historic visit.

    Some of the issues that have been brought up include copyright theft

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    f $35.10 up from the $32.83 closing price on Monday.

    Companies of note that are scheduled to report today include General Electric (NYSE: GE) the estimate is $0.389 cents compared to an EPS of 38 cents a year ago and Universal Forest Products (NASDAQ: UFPI) the estimate is 63 cents compared to an EPS of 44 cents a year ago.

    We’ll list the companies of note that are reporting this week as their hits and misses may have some effect on their sectors.

    Readers Speak

    We received an email from one of our readers/listeners in regards to yesterday’s segment, where we mentioned that Mark Cuban had something to do with the movie “Akeelah and the Bee“, and we stand corrected, as it was LionsGate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF) and not Mark Cuban. This is why input from our readers/listeners is encouraged, so thanks for the email.

    Chinese President Hu Jintao

    Chinese President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States on April 18-22, 2006. This is sure to be an eventful visit as the U.S. has been putting pressure on Beijing to get their house in order ahead of the historic visit.

    Some of the issues that have been brought up include copyright thef

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    We’ll list the companies of note that are reporting this week as their hits and misses may have some effect on their sectors.

    Readers Speak

    We received an email from one of our readers/listeners in regards to yesterday’s segment, where we mentioned that Mark Cuban had something to do with the movie “Akeelah and the Bee“, and we stand corrected, as it was LionsGate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF) and not Mark Cuban. This is why input from our readers/listeners is encouraged, so thanks for the email.

    Chinese President Hu Jintao

    Chinese President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States on April 18-22, 2006. This is sure to be an eventful visit as the U.S. has been putting pressure on Beijing to get their house in order ahead of the historic visit.

    Some of the issues that have been brought up include copyright thef

    Payback Time!
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    d that Mark Cuban had something to do with the movie “Akeelah and the Bee“, and we stand corrected, as it was LionsGate Entertainment (NYSE: LGF) and not Mark Cuban. This is why input from our readers/listeners is encouraged, so thanks for the email.

    Chinese President Hu Jintao

    Chinese President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States on April 18-22, 2006. This is sure to be an eventful visit as the U.S. has been putting pressure on Beijing to get their house in order ahead of the historic visit.

    Some of the issues that have been brought up include copyright thef

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    President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States on April 18-22, 2006. This is sure to be an eventful visit as the U.S. has been putting pressure on Beijing to get their house in order ahead of the historic visit.

    Some of the issues that have been brought up include copyright theft, currency rates, markets barriers and beef bans.

    The question that needs to be answered during his visit is “Where is the Equity in Trade?”

    With an over $220 billion U.S. trade deficit with China, this is a question that needs to be answered.

    Metal, Metals, Metals

    As most investors already know one of the big movers have been metals, last week we mentioned a few companies that we see benefiting from the upward movement, they include Silver related companies Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE: CDE), based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Apex Silver Mines (AMEX: SIL), based in Denver, Colorado and Pan American Silver Corp (NASDAQ: PAAS), based in Vancouver B.C. Canada. Gold related companies include Corp (NYSE: GG) and Crystallex International Corp (AMEX: KRY).

    Gold has moved up past the $600 mark while Silver hit an quarter century high of $12.77, other metals that have been moving higher include Copper which hit $270, Palladium which moved higher to the $362 range, Zinc hit $1.33 while Aluminum hit $1.15.

    Keep in mind as the demand grows for top metals you can either own the futures contracts, which should be left to the sophisticated investor

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