Speculative Investment: They have a patent lock on technology which drills hard-rock intervals (oil & gas wells) 3x faster than conventional bits, saving the customer tremendious amounts of money.

Speculative Trade: Consession for a very large Venezualian gold mine is pending environmental approval. Since minerals are *already* nationalized, they should not be impacted by recent statements of Oil and Bank nationalization. Risk is that Chavez (Socialast President) just received delivery of 60-200K Russian rifles.

Investment: buying into the Eddy Lampert "hedge fund for the masses"

Investment: I like what management of Caremark and CVS said about indurstry transformation. I think they have great long-term prospects.

Investment: Should go up when interest rates are lowered. Like this better than BAC, because I think B of A screwed up by rebranding OEM MBNA cards. Also, I think WB's acquisition of GoldenWest was a good one: IMHO they will not do as badly as the street thinks with their ARM loans... they have a good history during recessions.

Investment: WAY too cheep on fwd earnings, and WAY undervalued compared to RIG and DO.

Investment: In this stock to stay diversified. Also, declining dollar play. Finally, infrastructure may pick up late 2007.

Investment: I work there, and have employee stock options + stock purchase plan shares. This is my tech stock in a (hopefully) diversified portfolio.