David Hudson, Former Senior Enlisted Leader, National Guard Bureau

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If Bill Nasgovitz likes these stocks, you should too. This is the last of the Core Fore investing articles.

A 40-year veteran of small-cap investing Bill Nasgovitz never used to concern himself much with the broader macro picture of the US economy. A dedicated bottoms-up value investor Nasgovitz simply concentrated on what he did best: finding successful pint-size companies trading at bargain basement prices.Now that’s changed.“Our collective financial health is a mess ” Nasgovitz tells Minyanville. “And it doesn’t seem to matter to our elected officials. They’re more worried about water-boarding than setting Social Security Medicare and entitlements on sound financial footing. The macro picture is so faulty.”For Nasgovitz the fiscal fiasco in Washington has created tension and ...

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Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC) yesterday bagged a five-year $599 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide laser rangefinders. Northrop Grumman is supplying the army with its universal terrain lightweight designators/rangefinders since 2002. Till date, the company has delivered more than 800 of the systems to the Army. This contract will boost the dwindling backlog [...]

(NOC) Northrop Grumman Bags Army Contract

The Boeing Company (BA) yesterday announced that it will record a $1 billion charge in the third quarter of fiscal 2009. The company attributed the charge from a delay in producing a new version of the 747-8 series freighter jet, leading to slow sales and late design changes. The aircraft competes with Airbus’ A380 series [...]

(BA) The Boeing Company to Digest $1 Billion Charge Related to 747-8 Series Freighter jet

Hello Friends!  Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting my blog, Stock Picks Bob's Advice!  As always, please remember that I am an amateur investor, so please remember to consult with your professional investment advisers prior to making any investment decisions based on information on this website. As is part of my blogging, I wanted to share with you a 'swap' I made out of my position in Haemonetics (HAE) and into Oshkosh (OSK).  Both of these are mid cap stocks but that is where the similarity ends.   On Monday, August 3, 2009, I sold my 50 shares of Haemonetics (HAE) at $55.08 after what I viewed as both technical weakness[More...]

Spotlight On: Aerospace & Defense After a six-year run of improving performance, resulting in a composit industry share price performance approximately three times better than the S&P 500 Index, the U.S. aerospace and defense industry finds itself in transition and facing uncertainty and, perhaps, leaner times ahead.  With core defense spending expected to slow, U.S. defense contractors need to identify additional revenue sources for the coming years. The near term should see some interesting merger and acquisition activity, mostly smaller deals by larger contractors to fill in capability gaps - particularly in the security, defense electronics and aftermarket service business areas. Taking the uncertainty of current economic conditions into consideration, it is difficult to[More...]

Schaeffer's analyst Colleen S. King takes a look at the major news of the day on Wall Street.

Colleen King takes a look at news on the Street after the market close.

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