Hot Promising Stocks To Own For 2014

Australia’s merchandise trade balance for August fell short of economists’ expectations, but the data revealed a couple of promising trends, particularly for investors in the country’s resource sector.

Although Australia’s trade deficit narrowed considerably in August, to AUD815 million from a revised deficit of AUD1.375 billion the prior month, it was still more than twice as wide as the AUD400 million consensus among the 23 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Australia tends to run persistent trade deficits, with the balance of trade averaging a monthly deficit of AUD323 million over the past five years and an average monthly deficit of AUD1.2 billion over the trailing year.

To be sure, the dollar value of Australia’s exports of goods and services has climbed fairly steadily since its near-term bottom in September 2012, with the latest monthly figure of AUD27.1 billion showing a 13.7 percent improvement from that low. In fact, the precise figure for August is just AUD829 million below the all-time high set back in September 2011.

Best Communications Equipment Stocks To Own For 2015: Flow International Corporation(FLOW)

Flow International Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a technology-based company providing waterjet cutting, surface preparation, and cleaning solutions in the United States, Europe, Asia, and internationally. The company?s products include ultrahigh-pressure water pumps and power waterjet systems used to cut and clean materials. It also offers ultrahigh-pressure surface preparation and industrial cleaning systems used in waterjet cleaning for coating removal; and consumable parts used by the pump and cutting heads during operations, such as seals and orifices, as well as provides related services. The company sells its consumable parts online through flowparts.com in the United States and floweuropeparts.com in Europe. It offers its products to various end-user applications and industries, including automotive, aerospace, paper, job shop, and stone and tile industries. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Kent, Washington.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Flow International (FLOW) has gained 9.6% to $3.99 after it reported a loss of 2 cents a share, below forecasts for a 1 cent profit. Profits were hit by currency fluctuations and a $1.6 million charge.

Hot Promising Stocks To Own For 2014: WellPoint Inc.(WLP)

WellPoint, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. The company offers various network-based managed care plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets. Its managed care plans include preferred provider organizations; health maintenance organizations; point-of-service plans; traditional indemnity plans; and other hybrid plans, including consumer-driven health plans, hospital only, and limited benefit products. The company also provides various managed care services comprising claims processing, underwriting, stop loss insurance, actuarial services, provider network access, medical cost management, disease management, wellness programs, and other administrative services to self-funded customers. In addition, it offers specialty and other products and services, including life and disability insurance benefits; dental, vision, and behavioral health benefit services; radiology benefit management; personal health care guidance; and long-term care insurance. Further, the company serves as an intermediary providing administrative service for the Medicare program that offers coverage for persons, who are 65 or older and for persons who are disabled or with end-stage renal disease. WellPoint, Inc. markets its products through a network of independent agents and brokers, consultants, in-house sales force, or Internet. The company, formerly known as Anthem, Inc., was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  The delay isn't the first for Obamacare. Back in April, the administration had to delay the planned national insurance marketplace known as the Small Business Health Options Program until 2015, benefiting insurance carriers Aetna (NYSE: AET  ) , UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH  ) , and WellPoint (NYSE: WLP  ) by giving them more time to figure out how to comply with the small-business provisions of the health care law. The move also has ramifications for employer fines, as the program was narrowed to allow employers to choose only a single plan rather than a broader set of plan choices. As Fool contributor Keith Speights observed at the time, that might lead some midsize employers to drop their coverage rather than getting shunted into a single and potentially inadequate plan.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Shares of Humana have gained 1.1% to $96.77 today, while United Health (UNH) has risen 0.2% to $70.94, Aetna (AET), which reported earnings today, has fallen 0.3% to $68.04 and WellPoint (WLP) has advanced 1.1% to $86.55.

• [By Wallace Witkowski]

  In a recent note, Goldman Sachs highlighted 20 companies (excluding financials and utilities) it sees as top contributors to revenue growth for the third quarter. Of those companies, Amazon.com, WellPoint Inc. (WLP) �, McKesson Corp. (MCK) , Boeing, Microsoft, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX) �, and United Technologies report in the coming week.

Hot Promising Stocks To Own For 2014: Sienna Resources Inc (SIE)

Sienna Resources Inc, formerly Habanero Resources Inc. is engaged in the identification, acquisition, exploration of mineral properties. These properties include gold, silver, and aluminous clay properties. The Company�� mineral property interests were located in Canada. Its mineral properties include White Gold Claims, Grande-Vallee North aluminous clay prospect, Haldane Silver Prospect and Lezai Prospect. The Ross Silver Property consists of approximately 44 contiguous mineral claims, adjoining the existing Haldane Silver Property. In May 2013, the Company acquired an additional 32 claims totaling 1,805 hectares in the Gaspe Bay region of Quebec. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Inyoung Hwang]

  Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) dropped 2.9 percent after the world�� biggest maker of luxury vehicles reported a decrease in third-quarter profit. Siemens AG (SIE) lost 1.3 percent after UBS AG cut its rating on Europe�� largest engineering company. Beiersdorf AG (BEI) rallied 5.3 percent after increasing its full-year sales forecast.

• [By Alexis Xydias]

  Loans of shares on Paris-based Renault, France�� second-largest carmaker, account for 0.92 percent, down from 2.25 percent in 2011 as the shares more than doubled, the data show. Stock on loan in Siemens AG (SIE), Europe�� largest engineering company, has declined to 0.78 percent of shares outstanding from 3.2 percent two years ago, Markit data show. Shares of Munich-based Siemens climbed 33 percent in that time.

• [By Robert Wall]

  The disposal plan comes as Eurostar gears up for its biggest expansion in years, with new e320 trains ordered from Siemens AG (SIE) due to link London with Amsterdam from December 2016, with stops in Antwerp, Rotterdam and Schiphol airport.

Hot Promising Stocks To Own For 2014: ProShares Short QQQ (PSQ)

ProShares Short QQQ is focused on daily investment results that correspond to the inverse (opposite) of the daily performance of the NASDAQ-100 Index. The NASDAQ-100 Index represents non-financial domestic and international issues listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market. The Fund takes positions in financial instruments (including derivatives) that in combination should have similar daily return characteristics as the inverse of the NASDAQ-100 Index. ProShares Short QQQ will not directly sell short the equity securities of issuers contained in the NASDAQ-100 Index. The Fund will concentrates its investments in a particular industry or group of industries to approximately the same extent as the Index is so concentrated. ProShare Advisors LLC serves as the investment advisor to the Fund. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By MONEYMORNING.COM]

  It's the ProShares Short QQQ (NYSE: PSQ). The good thing about this type of inverse ETF is that it pays you when the Nasdaq drops roughly on a 1-to-1 basis. For every percentage point the index goes down, PSQ rises by that amount.