*** TEMN Rising... Look for Increased Volume ***

(OTCBB: TEMN) Team Nations Holdings, Corp. contnued to move higher by jumping upwards for its second session in a row, crossing strong resistance and is setup to see an increase in its upward directional continuation.

 

With the flurry of news announcement during recent weeks, TEMN's fundamentals are looking stronger and stronger.  

 

Monday's rise on increased volume - amongst many other bullish indicators - have possibly setup shares for another sharp rise upwards in the near-term.

 

As you could see by the chart below, a break past $0.035 could catapult shares.

 

Take a look at a detailed chart that describes what the indicators are saying for TEMN and its potential for a rally...

 

 

 

  

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Team Nation Holdings has solid fundamentals and is clearly on a path towards growth, which could bode well for early entrants.

 

Hence, look for TEMN to witness another increase in market appreciation and liquidity in the near-term.

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Building Yield: 15 Consumer Goods Dividend Stocks

Over the next several weeks I plan to look at different sectors that have traditionally been very friendly to dividend investors. Each of these sectors have attributes that make the companies in them potentially desirable to long-term buy-and-hold dividend growth investors. Understanding these attributes will hopefully help us to select the very best companies for our income portfolios. First up the Consumer Goods Sector…

Consumer Goods Attributes

Demand for household and personal care products is generally stable and not affected by changes in the economy or other factors. There are certain things people will continue to purchase no matter how bad the economy gets. If you lose your job, you probably won’t stop bathing, washing your clothes, brushing your teeth or stop buying toilet paper. Given the relatively low price of most consumer goods, consumers often prefer to pay a few pennies more for a name brand that they are confident with.

Raw material costs is a primary driver of profitability, and the larger more established companies are in a better position to negotiate better terms. Growth comes from a growing population and expanding into emerging markets where the people are starting to earn a wage they can not only life on, but begin to buy things we consider necessities.

Consumer Goods Companies

Below are several leading Consumer Goods companies that I follow. The companies selected have a dividend yield in excess of 2.25% and have raised their dividends for at least 5 years (all but one are in excess of 10 years).

McCormick & Company (MKC) | Yield: 2.3% | Growth: 8.3% | Years: 24
McCormick & Company Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes flavor products and other specialty food products to the entire food industry.

J.M. Smucker Company (SJM) | Yield: 2.6% | Growth: 7.6% | Years: 12
J.M. Smucker Co.’s products include coffee, fruit spreads, peanut butter, shortening and oils, ice cream toppings, health and natural foods, and beverages. The Folgers coffee business was acquired in November 2008.

Colgate-Palmolive (CL) | Yield: 2.6% | Growth: 12.5% | Years: 47
Colgate-Palmolive Company (Colgate) is a major consumer products company that markets oral, personal and household care, and pet nutrition products in more than 200 countries and territories.

Weyco Group, Inc. (WEYS) | Yield: 2.7% | Growth: 15.0% | Years: 29
Weyco Group, Inc. distributes, wholesale & retail, men’s branded footwear in the U.S., Canada, Europe; offers casual footwear, dress shoes and accessories under Florsheim, other brands.

Coca-Cola Company (KO) | Yield: 2.8% | Growth: 7.3% | Years: 48
The Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest soft drink company, KO also has a sizable fruit juice business.

Bemis Company, Inc. (BMS) | Yield: 2.8% | Growth: 2.2% | Years: 27
Bemis Company Inc. is a leading maker of a broad range of flexible packaging and pressure-sensitive materials.

Pepsico, Inc. (PEP) | Yield: 2.9% | Growth: 6.5% | Years: 38
PepsiCo, Inc. is a major international producer of branded beverage and snack food products.

V.F. Corporation (VFC) | Yield: 3.0% | Growth: 2.1% | Years: 36
V.F. Corp is global apparel company, with leading shares in denim and daypacks. It is transforming itself into a designer and marketer of lifestyle apparel brands.

Procter & Gamble (PG) | Yield: 3.0% | Growth: 7.0% | Years: 54
The Procter & Gamble Company is a leading consumer products company markets household and personal care products in more than 180 countries.

Sonoco Products Co. (SON) | Yield: 3.1% | Growth: 1.9% | Years: 27
Sonoco Products Co. makes paper and plastic packaging products serving various industries and markets in more than 85 countries.

Avon Products, Inc. (AVP) | Yield: 3.1% | Growth: 4.8% | Years: 20
Avon Products Inc. is the world’s leading direct marketer of cosmetics, toiletries, fashion jewelry, and fragrances and has more than 5 million sales representatives worldwide.

The Clorox Company (CLX) | Yield: 3.4% | Growth: 9.3% | Years: 35
The Clorox Company is a diversified producer of household cleaning, grocery and specialty food products and is also a leading producer of natural personal care products.

H.J. Heinz Company (HNZ) | Yield: 3.8% | Growth: 1.9% | Years: 7
The H.J. Heinz Company produces a wide variety of food products worldwide, primarily 

condiments, convenience meals and snacks.

Kimberly-Clark Co. (KMB) | Yield: 4.1% | Growth: 6.7% | Years: 38
Kimberly Clark Corp. is a global consumer products company that produces tissue, personal care and health care. Its brands include Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Depend, Kleenex, Scott and Kimberly-Clark.

Leggett & Platt, Inc. (LEG) | Yield: 4.7% | Growth: 3.0% | Years: 38
Leggett & Platt Inc makes a broad line of bedding and furniture components and other home, office and commercial furnishings, as well as diversified products for non-furnishings markets.

POWRtec - read inside!

Innovative Products Will Alter the Energy Market First, let's have a brief look at what POWRtec's products can actually do and what sets them apart from other smart meters. A smart meter works like an ordinary electrical meter by recording the energy consumed, but unlike your normal meter it can both register when the electricity is used and report the information to the utility company and the consumer. This enables the utility company to adjust the amount of energy produced according to peak periods and may allow customers to relocate their energy consumption to hours when energy is cheaper. Because of the meters' ability to drastically reduce the levels of precious energy wasted, they are predicted to become standard within just a few years. To read more about POWRtec (OTCBB: POWT) and their smart meters and the value proposition to their investors, read on! For furthe r background information, please visit their website at http://www.powrtec.com . So the challenge is not to create a market for smart meters, but to excel in a business of competing manufacturers of meters. Fortunately, the competition is scarce at them moment. Here, POWRtec (OTCBB: POWT) has several advantages. First, a core element in the company's strategy is a customer-oriented service. Opposed to many other technological companies, POWRtec has in-house R&D and the function holds a central place in the company's structure. This allows for tailor-made products that accommodate customers' needs. POWRtec has already developed a line of three-phase meters for, and in cooperation with, the Danish utility company DONG Energy (http://www.dongenergy.dk) to fit the specific needs of a Northern European market - need s that are quite different from of the Indian state of Bihar where the company has signed a letter of intent for 25,000 meters. These meters will deal with the Indian problem of widespread power theft by providing a tamper-proof, prepaid system, and if successful the project will require as many as 400,000 meters. The region may offer a market of an additional 3 million meters. With potential orders of this size, one of POWRtec's other advantages is important, namely its outsourcing of production to China. This makes for quick and cheap manufacturing which can easily be scaled to production by the millions. As POWRtec also has much lower overhead than is normal in the sector, the company is able to deliver products at very attractive prices. On top of the money saved in the long run by investing in smart meters, the modest prices of POWRtec's meters ensure even greater profitability here and now - a fact which naturally invites larger bulk purchase by utility companies.

The Clients Speaking of clients, let's have a look at some of the companies and governments that will have an interest in the products that POWRtec (OTCBB: POWT) offer. First and foremost are the utility companies that will typically be the ones to buy and distribute smart meters to their customers. They have several incentives to do so as the meters promise both gains in market share and higher ROI. Today utility companies are constantly in a dilemma between producing too little or too much energy. Too little and you risk blackouts, too much and you have wasted costly resources on energy that cannot be preserved and is thus never paid for. And energy which has caused unnecessary pollution. By monitoring when power is used and what for, the companies will be able to plan the production of electricity and avoid both blackouts and wasted energy. Furthermore, the efficient use of resources is limited by weaknesses in the power grid where energy is lost on the way to consumers. Until now it has been impossible to locate the exact position of these weaknesses, but with POWRtec's meters, a utility company can calculate voltage drops along the way with ensuing optimization of the power grid

Scarcity of Resources Leads to Increasing Rates - for POWRtec too While scarcity of resources is pushing energy prices upwards, utility companies will have increased focus on ROI. A rapidly increasing consumption of non-renewable sources continues to pu an even greater upward push on electricity prices. Therefore, an improved coefficient of utilization of the energy produced is a key element in any such strategy to gain higher returns. With POWRtec's smart meters, the utility companies can avoid passing on increased electricity prices to their consumers, but can keep the prices down due to smarter production and usage. This will place the utility companies using smart meters in an advantageous position compared to other companies with regular meters. Such a position will in turn result in greater market shares. Alternatively or simultaneously, a company may choose to let their prices foll ow the market and then achieve higher profits on the electricity sold. Whichever strategy any given utility company chooses for its large scale purchase of meters, POWRtec and its investors stand to gain.

The Global Green Wave With increasing pressure on resources, energy is moving ever closer to the centre of the political scene, and governments around the world are committing themselves to lower their countries' CO2-emissions. A smarter utilization of the existing resources is an integral part of this. Such optimization is ideal because it does not entail reductions in industrial output and individual living standards, but focuses on limiting energy produced but not used. By the beginning of 2009 there were approximately 253 million electricity meters in the EU alone. The same year the third Energy Package was approved by the European Parliament and proposed that '80 % of all electricity customers should have smart meters by 2020.' (Berg Insight: http://www.berginsight.com/). Because of the union's goals for reductions in energy consumption, the monitoring of ene rgy is not only in the interest of private actors, but also of governments. Similar trends are seen in the US, and with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 '[t]he US department of energy announced massive investment in the renewable industry including $60bn in clean energy investments, which will include $11bn in a smart grid system' (http://www.businesswire.com). Already Canada, the UK, and a number of European countries have bought limited tranches of differen t types of smart meters, and more are planning to do so in the future. POWRtec is in a position to cover the needs of the diverse range of countries interested in limiting their energy waste and the company already has several orders and pilot projects around the world. By investing in POWRtec now, you'll be sure to be on the wave once worldwide projects start rolling and gaining speed.

POWRtec - A Promising Investment To sum up, POWRtec (OTCBB: POWT) is in a favourable position to exploit a number of market trends which combine to make an investment in the company a profitable one. The prices of the stocks will benefit from both the sale of POWRtec's products - or from potential acquisition of the company by a third party. As suppliers of energy the utility companies have a special interest in the services that POWRtec can offer. Not only do POWRtec's tailor-made meters promise a thorough optimisation of the resources used - they are also cheap and produced in a way that can easily be adjusted and scaled according to the customer's needs. A utility company may choose to buy POWRtec's convincing products to gain a competitive edge or decide to acquire the entire company to prevent competitors from getting their hands on the meters altogether. Others with a possible interest in acquisitions include technology companies that want to absorb the progressive R&D work done at POWRtec. Finally, governmental institutions around the world are increasingly concerned about how to best use the existing energy resources, resulting in a booming market for products that can provide such optimisation. Put together, all of these factors make for a bright future f or POWRtec and its investors.

New and Agile - a Winning Combination We at SpotOnStock believes we may see as much as a 100% increase in the next couple of weeks, and a 5-600% increase before year end. Therefore, it is our recommendation that you do your due diligence and start to pool shares in POWRtec (OTCBB: POWT) TODAY before the stock goes through the roof. The right timing is NOW! The opportunities are literally endless for POWT, as are your opportunities for profit. So what are you waiting for? Don't let this opportunity pass you by!

New Spotlight Stock is.. IDGI

Possible Breakout: Hurry and turn your attention to IDGI, volume is coming in quickly and this one has seen much higher levels in the past!

http://theincacollection.com/cms.php?id_cms=18

  

IDGI is a super-sub penny like many of our recent winners. 

Inca Collections has rebranded their company and is expanding into a new face of retail. This could end up being a great ground level opportunity!

Start your research right away: http://theincacollection.com/ 

Inca has been well known for the past ten years for their chic swim suit line but they have also introduced a new line of eco-friendly hemp clothes!

Inca Designs announced this morning record breaking sales and the expansion of 50 new retail locations world wide!

IDGI is nearing the one cent mark. If it pushes past this resistance level, there's no telling what might happen from here!http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=idgi&p=D&yr=0&mn=3&dy=0&id=p38448808884

Since IDGI changed their focus to selling to the retail sector they have opened some of the biggest names in the industry including 20/20 Kids,25 Park, Atlanta Beach, Everything but water, Blue Heaven Boutique, Breeze, Esperanza Resort, Kersner International, and the Ritz-Carlton Hotels.  

Inca Designs also uses an eco-friendly fiber from the Alpaca.

Alpacas are an environmentally friendly livestock that produce a renewable, luxurious fiber. This fiber is unique. Alpaca is a very fine, lustrous, silky and long stable fiber. Similar to wool, but it is warmer, not prickly, and does not contain lanolin, which makes it hypoallergenic.

Stacy Josloff, an accomplished designer, spent over ten years as a high profile sales executive at Ralph Lauren and MaxMara, before heading up the luxury brand inca.

  

 In the most recent 2010 collection, Josloff surpassed expectations with a contemporary vision not often seen in the luxury swim market, designing and producing resort wear that has a distinct air of elegance. With bold camouflage, zebra and lace, Inca is trendy yet chic and wearable.

 

With volume heating up and this big news out, we could see IDGI make a huge run!

Amazon (AMZN) Takes on Netflix (NFLX) Streaming Video

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has always embraced new technology in its never-ending pursuit of consumers’ digital dollars. From its one-stop retail model to its Kindle electronic reader, Amazon continues to break new ground in the modern retail business.

But it has had a few notable blunders in its quest to stay the dominant shopping site for Americans. When music made the jump from CD to MP3, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and its iTunes all but cornered the market in 2003. Amazon didn’t open its own MP3 store until late 2007. And as Netflix(NASDAQ: NFLX) has revolutionized the home video biz via online streaming, Amazon has been left in the dust selling DVDs and the occasional downloadable movie with nary a streaming title to be seen.

But at least on the streaming video front, the online retailer is looking to make up lost ground. Amazon.com is overhauling its premium shopping service to help it evolve into an on-demand, instant video streaming akin to Netflix.

Rather than start up a new brand and service for streaming, Amazon is using its premium Prime membership service as a springboard. Technology blog Engadget ran a story over the weekend that an unnamed Amazon Prime member could suddenly access on demand streaming video option amongst Amazon’s other Video On Demand options. A screenshot of the option reads: “Your Amazon Prime membership now includes unlimited commercial-free, instant streaming of 5,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost.” The option was quickly removed from Amazon’s pages and the company declined to comment, but reports this week indicate the sneak peek will become a reality very soon.

Leveraging Prime as a Netflix competitor is a wise move, since there is a built-in audience of loyal Amazon.com surfers to fuel the first push. Also, this will help Amazon win more physical goods sales if it works. The $79 per year service has traditionally offered users shipping discounts like free two-day shipping on every order. If Amazon could lure Netflix customers away with a cheaper service — a Netflix Instant Streaming subscriptions costs $95.88 per year when you add up the monthly fees — and a broader selection of titles, Amazon Plus could be the next big thing for the company.

And the marketing potential is enormous. Just imagine — you watched the first few seasons of The Office by streaming them on Amazon Prime. When the latest season debuts on DVD, you get an email or a coupon to buy it. Netflix simply can’t compete with that model without launching a retail storefront of its own.

Though the initial report of just 5,000 titles would indicate Amazon Prime will lag behind Netflix, other evidence suggests Amazon is working fast to bolster its streaming video content library. In September of last year, the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon was in talks with Fox parentNews Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS),  Viacom (NYSE: VIA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and others to provide television content to its rumored “Netflix competitor.” The company also purchased the remaining shares of Lovefilm International, a U.K.-based video rental and streaming video service similar to Netflix, earlier this month.

Amazon seems to have all the pieces necessary to take on Netflix in place. All that’s left now is to see where the audience goes.

Source:Investorplace

Oil Prices: Egypt's Crisis Could Hurt Europe First

Some crude oil prices brushed $100 a barrel Monday as fears escalated that the violence in Egypt would spread to other parts of the oil-producing Middle East. But so far, no reports have surfaced that the disturbances in Egypt have disrupted oil deliveries.

Brent crude oil surged to $99.97 a barrel on London's ICE futures exchange, up about 5% since the beginning of last week, when violence spread from Tunisia to Egypt. In U.S. trading, West Texas Intermediate shot up 1.7% on Monday, but was still somewhat cheaper than Brent crude, its European counterpart.

Julius Walker, a senior analyst at the International Energy Agency in Paris, says the organization has received no reports that oil shipments were being delayed, but the website of the agency that runs the Suez Canal has been shut down by the ban on Internet use in Egypt, so a precise reading isn't available.

"Nothing has been affected. It's just the worry of it," Walker says.

A Chokepoint for Europe-Bound Oil

Egypt is a small oil producer, and its output is almost exactly equal to what its own needs are. The concerns at the moment, however, are the Suez Canal and the SUMED pipeline that runs parallel to the canal.

Walker says the IEA reckons that 1.5 million barrels of oil a day pass through the canal and another 1.1 million barrels go through the SUMED. That's about 2.5% of world oil production.

Most of that oil goes to Europe because oil from such places as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that goes to the U.S. is transported in so-called very large crude carriers capable of carrying 2 million to 3 million barrels of oil. Those massive tankers can't sail through the Suez Canal and instead go around the Horn of Africa.

Walker says if the Suez Canal were closed, it might add two weeks to the shipment times for oil reaching European refineries on the Mediterranean coast.

During the Suez crisis in the 1950s, the canal was closed by the Egyptians, who sank ships to block transit through the waterway. Crude oil shortages were widespread in Europe at the time.

Low Probability of Political Contagion
There seems little likelihood that will happen again. The major concern now is that the violence playing out in Egypt will catch fire in the rest of the Arab world. "The main risk is that of political instability spreading to Middle Eastern oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia," Goldman Sachs analysts said Monday in a research report. "Egypt's consumption and production are roughly balanced, creating little impact on oil supplies from the instability there. However, given the high level of affluence in the Gulf region, we see the probability of political contagion as relatively low."

Walker notes that oil prices were higher well before the crisis began in Tunisia earlier this month, moving from the $70- to $80-per-barrel range to around $90. U.S. gasoline prices are now at around $3.11 for a gallon of unleaded, up only two cents from two weeks ago.

Walker says the disconnect between Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate prices seems to have been caused by a big buildup of crude oil in the big Cushing, Okla., oil depot. That was caused by the arrival of vast amounts of crude from Canada, which pushed down prices in the U.S. to levels well below those in Europe. Still, if history has any lessons about oil supplies and prices, nothing can be taken for granted.

Source:Dailyfinance

Rambus Iron Condor Option Could Fly

Strategy works for slow-moving stocks

This article is from Dan Passarelli, options trader and educator and author of the Market Taker Edge newsletter.

One recent option trading idea in the Market Taker Edge newsletter is an iron condor on Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a technology licensing firm. This trade has one of the best risk-rewards I’ve seen in a while. It’s an excellent candidate for an income play, such as the iron condor. Iron condors are for range-bound stocks and this stock has been stuck in a range for months.

Iron Condors

Iron condors are four-legged strategies that might appear complex to the novice trader, but are actually rather straightforward. In an iron condor a trader sells an out-of-the-money put and buys a further out-of-the-money put for protection (i.e., a put credit spread); at the same time the trader sells an out-of-the-money call and buys a further out-of-the-money call for protection to the upside (i.e., a call credit spread). The gist is that the trader wants the underlying to remain between the two short strikes through expiration, hoping for all the options to expire worthless, and thus keep the premium. The maximum profit, therefore, is the initial premium received. The maximum loss is the higher call strike, minus the lower call strike minus the premium. Let’s examine this week’s RMBS iron condor play.

RMBS Trade

Sell the RMBS March 17-18-23-24 iron condor to garner a total of .35 or better (That’s $35 for one option contract, which covers 100 shares of stock.)

Specifically, buy the RMBS Mar 17 Puts, sell the RMBS Mar18 Puts, sell the RMBS Mar 23 Callsand buy the RMBS Mar 24 Calls all as one trade. If RMBS is between $18 and $23 a share at March expiration the trader keeps the credit received as profit. If RMBS is below $18 or above $23, the trade may end up a loser, with the max loss being .65 (that’s 24 minus 23, minus .35). The break-even points are $17.65 and $23.35.

Check the option chains for the latest RMBS March option prices.

Rationale

This wide range (between $18 and $23) that RMBS needs to stay between to reap the maximum profit offers a very high probability of success. RMBS hasn’t been outside of this range since August of 2010.

Option prices, in part, are based on the volatility component of their premium (the implied volatility). The implied volatility (IV) for RMBS options is very overpriced. That means that the options are overpriced. The .35 premium compared to the unlikely chance that this stock moves outside the range is a fantastic risk-reward. This is one of the best iron condor plays I’ve seen in a long, long time.

Source:Investorplace