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POT

120.15

133.10

Potash (POT)

POT -  Too hard right now... too hard.  Agriculture is under tremendous pressure right here.  I would prefer you go with - if you have to go with an ag stock - I am starting to think that the safer way to go is to buy DuPont (DD).  Let me just tell you the pecking order though... I now like Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) more than I like POT...  I still like Agrium (AGU) and Mosaic (MOS), but they're the old leaders, and they're going to be under a little pressure here.  Let's be careful.  The long-term thesis is good.  The short term may be the house of pain... 

DD

45.36

45.53

DuPont (DD)

See POT comments above for:
DD

ADM

40.85

41.03

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM)

See POT comments above for:
ADM

AGU

56.51

59.75

Agrium (AGU)

See POT comments above for:
AGU

MOS

81.00

87.22

Mosaic (MOS)

See POT comments above for:
MOS

ECL

47.37

47.58

Ecolab Inc. (ECL)

ECL -  You are a lucky man!... You're going higher!...  We've been liking ECL... We also like Chemed (CHE)...  ECL is a nice anti-cyclical stock that's just going to continue to do well.  I would pick some up here on that pullback that we had...

CHE

52.69

52.52

Chemed Corp. (CHE)

See ECL comments above for:
CHE

DLB

40.51

40.65

Dolby Laboratories Inc. (DLB)

DLB -  They have crushed DLB.  I don't know what to do about it.  All I can tell you is is that DLB has had a big run since we first recommended it.  It's had a pullback, but it's kind of neither here nor there...  I'm putting it solidly in the don't buy, don't buy... sorry.

KO

58.87

59.16

Coca-Cola (KO)

KO -  Now that's a tough one, because KO's the ultimate soft goods play, but when we met with the CFO, we felt very good about the quarter.  But it's too defensive right now for people.  I think the quarter's going to be great, but the multiple is stretched... Here's what we do with KO... If it goes under $55, we don't even think about it... but we don't look at it for six months, because KO may do nothing.  But it is a great stock to own longer term... It's the kind of stock I would buy on this discount for my kids.

Price target to buy:  Under $55.00

HNP

35.87

34.71

Huaneng Power International Inc. (HNP)

HNP -  Oh man, you need to have a China power stock?  I've got my hands full here with Exelon (EXC) and Buckeye Partners (BPL)... It's too hard... It's too hard.  Last night, I said, listen, it's time that you can dip your foot in Baidu.com (BIDU), and I was just deluged with emails saying, you moron, you idiot, you killer of capital...  But here's the deal... I think BIDU is the only one I'm going to go with and, if the rest of the Chinese market comes down, I will suggest Focus Media (FMCN).

BIDU

270.20

274.73

Baidu.com (BIDU)

See HNP comments above for:
BIDU

FMCN

47.32

48.36

Focus Media (FMCN)

See HNP comments above for:
FMCN

THC

4.28

4.79

Tenet Healthcare (THC)

THC -  Yes!  That's ridiculous... C'mon... This is a major situation that's going to benefit from lower interest rates.  It's got its act together.  I frankly don't understand how this stock stays under $4, if Hovnanian (HOV) can be up a dollar and Toll Brothers (TOL), up $3... It's preposterous! 

WGOV

55.71

56.94

Woodward Governor Co. (WGOV)

WGOV -  Hey, WGOV had a great quarter.  It got upgraded today by Bear... and I think that WGOV is on the comeback.  I would pull the trigger right here.  That was really good.  Of course, the stock came down like all the other industrials, but I like the quarter.

COP*

71.73

72.52

ConocoPhillips (COP*)

COP* -  I've been trying to figure whether to pull the trigger on COP* for my charitable trust, and, you know, sure enough, it's at $69, it looks absolutely horrible...  I'm like dying... I'm chokin'... And then it's like, wait a second... The stock was at $89.  Now it's at $69... It's right down in a straight line... it just reported a great quarter...  They're buying back stock aggressively... I know the oils are now hated... but do you know that COP*, today, when it was at $69, is at the exact same price... the last time it was at this price, oil was at $65 (a barrel)... I do not feel that COP* represents... (buzzer sounds)...  Now oil is in the $80s, and COP* is back at $69... Do we really believe... do we honestly believe that oil is going to $65?  I don't.  I think you buy COP* right here.  Expect that it might pull back a dollar.  But, you know what?  Oil stocks have come down too much.  They've come down much more than the commodity, and I don't think the commodity is going to go as low as people think.  So I'd pull the trigger right now, oils...  

UNH*

50.35

50.37

Unitedhealth Group, Inc. (UNH*)

UNH* -  Darn it all, they bought back something like $2 billion worth of stock...  The numbers weren't that bad... the medical loss ratio... I'm tired of hearing about that.  Frankly, I thought it was a darn good quarter.  And, if anyone was on the conference call, they'd know that they just stretched out some of the earnings... It was outrageous that that stock sold off so much... outrageous!  I think that UNH* is the buy of that whole group.  I would pull the trigger here, and I'm tired of the analysts telling me something that isn't true about UNH*.  I want stick with UNH*!

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