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Juniper Networks (JNPR) was covered in a Lee Allen Report today and the stock is now at $17.65, down $0.14 (-0.79%) on volume of 1,579,364 shares traded. To see the report, and read Lee's plan...(Click the story link or go to http://www.marketintelligencecenter.com for the full story)

The company did warn about an iffy Q4, but there are positives on the horizon.

The first week of the year includes many impressive gains. Among the DJIA components, all 30 were up this week, and all ten sectors were up as well. That happened exactly four weeks ago too, but the index levels have not changed much in the interim. However, the psychology definitely has. At this point, traders are ...

"My top stock for 2009 is EZChip (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/quote.htm?sym=ezch) (NASDAQ: EZCH (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/quote.htm?sym=ezch))," says technology expert Paul McWilliams (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/ccount/click.php?id=2675) in Next Inning (http://www.thestockadvisors.com/ccount/click.php?id=2675). Indeed, the leading advisor believes the chip stock could double in 2009."I came as close as I've ever come to 'pounding the table' when suggesting that Next Inning readers buy EZCH when the stock was trading in the $6's and continue to believe the stock provides a very attractive balance between risk and potentially high rewards from its current price in the mid-$11's."EZCH has captured designs at tier one and tier two networking companies with its innovative and highly pipelined network processor (NPU) and I believe is set to do the same with its soon-to-be- released NPU aimed at the access markets."These design wins have been several years in the making and the products, which include the wildly successful Juniper (JNPR) MX series of routers and are just now building momentum."In addition to being used in the JNPR MX series, which is the fastest growing product line in the history of the company, I believe Cisco has designed in the new EZCH NP-3C in its highly promoted ASR9000. "EZCH flipped from an operating loss to an operating profit in Q3 2007 and has since grown its pro forma operating profit margin to 22.7%."My forecast suggests we should expect a pro forma EPS in 2009 that is comfortably above $1.00 per fully diluted share and that the company may end 2009 reporting a gross profit margin approaching 80%. "With what I view as a solid potential to grow revenues and profits for years to come and $1.90 in net cash per outstanding share, I think EZCH has the potential to double during the next twelve months."

Broadband Penetration: 7 Ways to Profit From Our Biggest Infrastructure Need by David Fessler, Advisory Panelist, Investment U Friday, November 14, 2008: Issue #886 As is usually the case, I’m sitting here writing from my comfortable home office in rural northeast Pennsylvania. I often marvel at the fact that even from my remote location, I’m able to do research and submit copy over a broadband connection. Of course, 20 years ago we never would have thought of broadband penetration as a necessary component to our nation’s infrastructure. Back then most of us interacted with our televisions far more than with our computers. Now, it’s hard for most of us to imagine life without a high-speed Internet connection, especially if you work from home as I do. For millions of Americans, broadband is the enabler for telecommuting, giving[More...]

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