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Regulators are not required by the Constitution, but Congress, perverse as it is, is the body closest to the people, getting put up for election regularly. � Of course Congress should oversee financial regulation and monetary policy from�an unelected Federal Reserve. �That's their job.

I'm not saying that the Congressmen themselves understand these things well enough to do anything �� but that's true of most laws, etc. �If the Federal Reserve says they are experts on these matters, past bad results notwithstanding, Congress can get people who are experts as well to aid them in their decisions on laws and regulations.

The above is not my main point, though. �I have a specific example to draw on: municipal bonds. �As the Wall Street Journal headline says, are they "Safe or Hard to Sell?" �For financial regulation, that's the wrong question, because this should be an asset-liability management problem. �Banks should be buying assets and making loans that fit the structure of their liabilities. �How long are the CDs? �How sticky are the deposits and the savings accounts?

best stocks to invest in: Marathon Oil Corporation(MRO)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Barclays analyst Thomas Driscoll and team see more dividend cuts and equity raises coming for oil & gas stocks like Apache (APA), Devon Energy (DVN),�Encana (ECA), Anadarko Petroleum (APC), and Marathon Oil (MRO). They explain why:

• [By WWW.THESTREET.COM]

  Cramer said he tried to buck this trend by investing in EOG Resources (EOG) and Marathon Oil (MRO) but was wrong on both counts. In the case of EOG, even having the best properties wasn't enough to ward off the collapse in oil prices. Meanwhile, Marathon's decision to spin off its refining business left it with no cushion to stem its losses.

• [By Jon C. Ogg]

  Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) shares were up a whopping 209.9% at $18.08 on Wednesday, and the 70.5 million shares at the close was almost 5 times normal trading volume. Marathon Oil has a consensus analyst price target of $18.12 and a 52-week trading range of $6.52 to $18.55. The company has a total market cap of $15 billion.

• [By Joshua Bondy]

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  Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO  ) recently spun off its downstream assets into Marathon Petroleum. Marathon Oil's development of the Bakken and Eagle Ford are the main changes boosting its production volumes. Year-over-year, its second quarter U.S. volumes increased 38%. The Eagle Ford alone averaged 80 Mboepd and the Bakken averaged 39 Mboepd.

best stocks to invest in: Xplore Technologies Corp(XPLR)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Monica Gerson]

   

  General Mills, Inc. (NYSE: GIS) is expected to report its quarterly earnings at $0.60 per share on revenue of $3.86 billion. Pier 1 Imports Inc (NYSE: PIR) is projected to post a quarterly loss at $0.05 per share on revenue of $420.05 million. Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is estimated to report its quarterly earnings at $2.03 per share on revenue of $847.79 million. Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is projected to report its quarterly earnings at $2.40 per share on revenue of $4.49 billion. Worthington Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WOR) is expected to report its quarterly earnings at $0.64 per share on revenue of $692.48 million. Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is projected to post its quarterly earnings at $0.29 per share on revenue of $94.64 million. UniFirst Corp (NYSE: UNF) is estimated to report its quarterly earnings at $1.34 per share on revenue of $366.28 million. Exfo Inc (NASDAQ: EXFO) is expected to post its quarterly earnings at $0.06 per share on revenue of $60.87 million. OMNOVA Solutions Inc. (NYSE: OMN) is projected to report its quarterly earnings at $0.14 per share on revenue of $205.40 million. 8Point3 Energy Partners LP (NASDAQ: CAFD) is estimated to post a quarterly loss at $0.01 per share on revenue of $11.60 million. Park Electrochemical Corp. (NYSE: PKE) is expected to report its quarterly earnings at $0.22 per share on revenue of $35.30 million. Xplore Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: XPLR) is projected to post its quarterly earnings at $0.01 per share on revenue of $24.00 million. Investors Real Estate Trust (NYSE: IRET) is expected to post its quarterly earnings at $0.14 per share on revenue of $56.87 million. Tel-Instrument Electronics Corp. (NYSE: TIK) is estimated to post earnings for the latest quarter. Aethlon Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEMD) is expected to post a quarterly loss at $0.20 per share. Ossen Innovation Co Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ: OSN) is projected to post ea

best stocks to invest in: Akorn, Inc.(AKRX)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lisa Levin]

  In trading on Friday, healthcare shares fell by 0.62 percent. Meanwhile, top losers in the sector included Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKRX), down 17 percent, and BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDSI), down 14 percent.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Shares of Endo International (ENDP) have tumbled 40% today after it said profits would fall well short of analyst expectations thanks, in part, to plunging generic drug prices. Leerink’s Jason Gerberry and team look for specialty pharmaceutical companies that have similar business models–and find Akorn (AKRX), Perrigo (PRGO), and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA). They explain:

best stocks to invest in: Express Scripts Holding Company(ESRX)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Express Scripts Holding Company (NASDAQ: ESRX) is expected to post its quarterly earnings at $1.22 per share on revenue of $25.20 billion.

  Xerox Corp (NYSE: XRX) is estimated to report its quarterly earnings at $0.23 per share on revenue of $4.24 billion.

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Wall Street expects Express Scripts Holding Company (NASDAQ: ESRX) to post its quarterly earnings at $1.22 per share on revenue of $25.20 billion. Express Scripts shares rose 0.30 percent to close at $73.55 on Friday.

Top Gold Stocks To Buy Right Now

The Dow, the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 closed out Black Friday at record highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up higher from Wednesday��s close, up 0.36% at 19152.14. The S&P also posted another record finish, up 0.39% at 2,213.35.

More noteworthy: the Nasdaq Composite hit new highs as the index gained 0.34% on the day at 5,398.92. The Trump effect put the hurt on FANG stocks��Facebook (FB), Amazon.com (AMZN), Netflix (NFLX), and Google (GOOGL)��pushing the Nasdaq lower, but they appear to be recovering. Since Nov. 9 through Friday��s close, Facebook was down 2%, Amazon was up 1%, Netflix was down nearly 4%, and Google was down by more than 3%.

Gold, and silver spot prices continued to suffer on fears of rate hikes; both finished down for three consecutive weeks. However, copper hit a new 52-week high at $20.30 per pound, the highest settle value since June 12, 2015.

Some food for thought: Doug Porter chief economist of BMO Financial Group published a note titled ��U.S. Dollar: Smells Like Trump Spirit.�� Here’s an excerpt of the note:

Top Gold Stocks To Buy Right Now: Garmin Ltd.(GRMN)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Peter Graham]

  A long term performance chart shows shares of supplier Ambarella Inc being a homerun for investors compared�to GoPro Inc��s performance�while�Garmin Ltd (NASDAQ: GRMN), who��s Virb Action Camera intends to compete with GPRO��s offerings, has seen performance perk up a bit:

Top Gold Stocks To Buy Right Now: American Assets Trust, Inc.(AAT)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Markus Aarnio]

  Owens Realty Mortgage's competitors include American Assets Trust (AAT), Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE) and Boston Properties (BXP). American Assets Trust has seen five insider buy transactions and four insider sell transactions this year. American Assets Trust has a dividend yield of 2.78%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has seen 14 insider sell transactions this year. Alexandria Real Estate Equities has a dividend yield of 4.10%. Boston Properties has seen one insider buy transaction and four insider sell transactions this year. Boston Properties has a dividend yield of 2.43%.

Top Gold Stocks To Buy Right Now: JinkoSolar Holding Company Limited(JKS)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Paul Ausick]

  It is not often that a secondary stock offering sends a company��s shares higher, but we are seeing that very phenomenon Friday morning. Chinese solar PV maker JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) and stock image company Shutterstock Inc. (NASDAQ: SSTK) both priced secondary offerings this morning and shares in both companies have risen sharply.

• [By Paul Ausick]

  But the real news is the near vertical trajectory in share prices for the two stocks. This could be another manifestation of the market��s hunger for some momentum plays, as we noted earlier this morning the bump to share prices for both JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. (NYSE: JKS) and Shutterstock Inc. (NASDAQ: SSTK), both of which held secondary share sales this morning.

• [By Lisa Levin]

  JinkoSolar Holding Co (NYSE: JKS) dropped 9.88% to $16.87 after the company announced the offering of 3,500,000 American Depositary Shares.

  Fuwei Films (Holdings) Co (NASDAQ: FFHL) dropped 9.66% to $1.30. Fuwei Films' trailing-twelve-month ROE is -10.85%.

Top Gold Stocks To Buy Right Now: 21Vianet Group, Inc.(VNET)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Monica Gerson]

  21Vianet Group Inc (NASDAQ: VNET) shares rose 5.88 percent to $15.30 in the pre-market trading session as the company reported a $388 million investment by TUS Holdings.

Top Gold Stocks To Buy Right Now: Transocean Inc.(RIG)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Transocean (RIG) beat earnings forecasts and probably has enough cash but Jefferies analyst Eduardo Royes and team still consider its stock to be a bigger risk when compared to its peers (I’m guessing they mean Diamond Offshore Drilling (DO), Noble (NE) and Ensco (ESV), among others). They explain why:

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  We tweak estimates and raise our PT on lower opex in normalized (as with peers). Liquidity doesn’t look to be an issue in the next few years, but the overhang for�Transocean is unchanged��with 16 mostly older UDW floaters uncontracted today and our inability to see enough of an activity ramp to absorb re-entry of these rigs through 2018, downside risk is outsized versus peers. Normalized valuation feels reasonable, but it might give too much credit to UDW activity.

  Tough to see the market growing enough to absorb uncontracted rigs. We commend�Transocean for figuring out how to materially lower its stacking costs on UDW rigs, and are willing to give�Transocean the benefit of the doubt that reactivation costs for some of these assets may not be significant today. That said, with the floater rigcount likely on pace to fall through YE16 (into the 150-160 range from 190 today), and given the seemingly low likelihood that floater activity in 2017 can do better than stabilize, oversupply conditions simply feel too great to allow for these rigs to come back for years to come (thus calling into question their longer-term economic viability). Although we do not believe there is a material technical disadvantage to Transocean’s older floaters, we suspect the first rigs to secure UDW work as (if) demand starts to emerge will be the currently committed 2013+ deliveries (“6th Gen V 2.0″ rigs), of which many roll off contract in 2017. What’s more, we suspect that more sister units to these 6G V 2.0 rigs will also come into contention for work as (1) better capitalized drillers will likely be w

• [By Jon C. Ogg]

  Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) was last seen trading up 17.1% at $12.91. Its volume of more than 42 million shares equated to right at 3 times normal volume. Transocean has a consensus analyst price target of $9.72 and a 52-week trading range of $7.67 to $14.50. The company has a total market cap of $4.7 billion.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Transocean (RIG) finally got around to taking out a loan backed by one of its offshore rigs, and while the size of the loan was bigger than expected–and nearly enough to cover its December maturities–the rate on the loan was higher than expected. Citigroup’s Scott Gruber and Craig Abramson explain:

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  After months of discussion, Transocean announced an offering for $600mm in secured notes due 2024. The notes will be secured by the Deepwater Thalassa drillship and will pay a coupon of 7.75%. The offering is set to close on October 19. Transocean expects to receive $583mm in net proceeds from the offering. The issuance will not be 1933 Act registered and instead will be a144A and Reg S filing to allow qualified purchases. Additionally, the notes will be callable after October 15, 2020. The Deepwater Thalassa began its ten year contract with Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A) in February 2016 at a rate of ~$500kpd.

  The size of the package is in line with previous commentary from management, but still larger than we would have expected given the essentially non-existent bid market for drillships. The company paid ~$900mm for the rig by its delivery in late 2015. We conservatively assumed the company would get $400mm per rig. The yield is higher than our assumption of ~6.5% given the stress in the offshore rig market coupled with the call option. The company is effectively refinancing the December 2016 5.05% notes (~$938mm outstanding) with a much higher coupon. As a result, the effective average interest rate is set to head towards 7% net of capitalized interest.

  The size of the package should be reassuring to investors who have remained cautious on Transocean due to liquidity concerns in the out years as capex and maturities simultaneously come due. Yet the rate raises the company��s interest burden. Thus we believe the news should have a modestly positive reaction on the stock.

  Shares of Transocean have gained 0.

Top Gold Stocks To Buy Right Now: Ambarella, Inc.(AMBA)

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Kumar Abhishek]

  In a warning of sorts, Ambarella (NSDQ:AMBA) slashed its Q4 earnings guidance and also guided for revenue of $86 million against analysts estimate of $90 million. GoPro contributes around 30% of Ambarella's revenue. So the guidance cut indicates a possible slowdown in business from GoPro. Also, the questions around supply issues still remain. Any further disruption in supply will push the sales to next year or worse, may even frustrate the consumer.

• [By Chris Lange]

  Ambarella, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMBA) released fiscal third-quarter earnings report after markets closed on Thursday. The company posted $1.11 in earnings per share (EPS) and $100.5 million in revenue. The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters called for $0.94 in EPS and $97.3 million in revenue. The same period from last year had $1.08 in EPS and $93.2 million in revenue.

• [By Peter Graham]

  ��Ambarella, Inc. (AMBA) has been all over the map over the last few years. It has defied gravity both to the up and to the downside, and although today's suggested short of the stock is strictly technical, we do believe its current share price has once again gotten a little out of line when you compare it to the rest of the markets' valuation metrics right now.

• [By Peter Graham]

  The Q3 2016 earnings report for small cap camera stock and new media company GoPro Inc (NASDAQ: GPRO) is scheduled for after the market closes on�Thursday (November 3rd). We��ve had GoPro Inc in our SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity (SCN EO) portfolio�in the past when it was still outperforming while�later on we suggested a�short-term short position in the�stock. In addition, we��ve had positions in semiconductor and high-definition video solutions stock�Ambarella Inc (NASDAQ: AMBA)�- a key supplier to GoPro Inc.

• [By Lisa Levin]

  Ambarella Inc (NASDAQ: AMBA) shares dropped 11 percent to $55. Ambarella posted stronger-than-expected results for its third quarter, but issued a weak revenue forecast for the current quarter.