Facebook is but One of Many Great Calls of this Column

Once again Thursday, activity was dictated by individual stocks, and one stock in particular enthused investors. It was Facebook (NYSE: FB), which followers of this column and our work published elsewhere would have owned in the low $20s based on our guidance. This follows a series of correct calls over the past year or two on J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP), Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) and J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) again in the opposite direction. That is not to mention our correct calls for gold, real estate and finance over past years, and many other precise predictions for names like Toyota (NYSE: TM) and others. We hope you have been following and will continue to follow. For more in-depth analysis and research visit our stock market blog.

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Facebook 1 of Many Wins

Market ETF	July 25, 2013	Year-to-Date
SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY)	+0.2%	+18.5%
SPDR Dow Jones (NYSE: DIA)	Unchanged	+18.6%
PowerShares (Nasdaq: QQQ)	+0.6%	+15.1%

Economic Events

ECONOMIC REPORT SCHEDULE
Economic Data Point	Prior Period	Expected	Actual
THURSDAY
Durable Goods Orders	+5.2% (R)	+1.5%	+4.2%
-Orders Ex-Transportation	+1.0%	+0.6%	0.0%
Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Index	-5	0	+6
Bloomberg Consumer Comfort	-28.4	NA	-27.3
Weekly Jobless Claims	336K	341K	343K
EIA Natural Gas Report	+58 Bcf	NA	+41 Bcf
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The economic data was positive Thursday, as seen above, but the durable goods orders figure ex-transportation is worthy of concern and examination. As readers of this column know, this is the figure that matters most for broad economic analysis, as the high ticket prices and long order to delivery time of transportation goods causes big swings in the top line figure.

Overseas Markets

EUROPE	CLOSE	ASIA/PACIFIC	CLOSE
EURO STOXX 50	-0.4%	NIKKEI 225	-1.1%
German DAX	-1.0%	Hang Seng	-0.3%
CAC 40	-0.2%	S&P/ASX 200	+0.0%
FTSE 100	-0.5%	Korean KOSPI	-0.1%
Athens ASE	+0.3%	BSE India SENSEX	-1.4%

Commodity Markets (11:46 AM ET)

WTI Crude	-0.1%
Brent Crude	+0.3%
NYMEX Natural Gas	-0.6%
RBOB Gasoline	-1.1%
Gold Spot	+0.6%
Silver Spot	+0.3%
COMEX Copper	+0.3%
CBOT Corn	-0.8%
CBOT Wheat	-0.4%
CBOT Soybeans	-2.8%
ICE Cocoa	-0.1%
ICE Sugar	+1.4%
ICE Orange Juice Conc.	+0.4%
CME Live Cattle	-0.6%

Corporate Events

REPORTING EARNINGS
Company	Ticker
THURSDAY
Under Armour	NYSE: UA
Sirius XM Radio	Nasdaq: SIRI
Biogen Idec	Nasdaq: BIIB
Harley-Davidson	NYSE: HOG
General Motors	NYSE: GM
Zynga	Nasdaq: ZNGA
Starbucks	Nasdaq: SBUX
Amazon.com	Nasdaq: AMZN
Cliff’s Natural Resources	NYSE: CLF
Gilead Sciences	Nasdaq: GILD
Raytheon	NYSE: RTN
BorgWarner	NYSE: BWA
Kennametal	NYSE: KMT

MOST ACTIVE STOCKS
BIGGEST GAINERS	% Gain
ALCO Stores (Nasdaq: ALCS)	+61%
Aktiebolaget Svensk (NYSE: EEH)	+55%
ONTX (Nasdaq: ONTX)	+50%
Facebook (NYSE: FB)	+30%
Bridgeline Digital (Nasdaq: BLIN)	+18%
Medidata (Nasdaq: MDSO)	+19%
ONEOK (NYSE: OKE)	+18%
Xoom (Nasdaq: XOOM)	+15%
Applied Micro Circuits (Nasdaq: AMCC)	+17%
Repros Therapeutics (Nasdaq: RPRXW)	+16%
BIGGEST LOSERS	% Drop
Sequenom (Nasdaq: SQNM)	-30%
AEterna Zentaris (Nasdaq: AEZS)	-22%
Crocs (Nasdaq: CROX)	-21%
Clearfield (Nasdaq: CLFD)	-17%
ICEL (Nasdaq: ICEL)	-15%
Ruby Tuesday (NYSE: RT)	-14%
Intellipharmaceutics (Nasdaq: IPCI)	-13%
Silicon Laboratories (Nasdaq: SLAB)	-12%
PostRock Energy (Nasdaq: PSTR)	-11%
Syntroleum (Nasdaq: SYNM)	-11%

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