The Alzheimers Index: With an anticipated 16mm people expected to suffer from Alzheimer's by mid-century (up from 5mm today thanks to the aging baby boomers) the race is on to seize that market. Barrons outlines the public companies and their drug trials that are closest to winning the race. The list includes WYE, PFE, LLY, and 8 others.

Bullish and Bearish: This is a portfolio of all the bullish and bearish stories about individual stocks including bullish stories on BRCM and DELL and a bearish story on FMD.

Barrons Activist Situations: Each week Barrons picks out the most interesting situations where activist investors are clamoring for change. This weeks list includes JOYG and BSG.

Barrons Insider Purchases:This week's insider purchases. We provide a little more color by detailing who it is that’s doing the buying. This week's list includes insider buying on BSC, BSG, and others.

Research Reports: Every week Barrons publishes research reports on various smallcap companies. We provide a portfolio of those stocks with synopses of the reports.

Asian Airlines: With globalism upon us, the Asian airlines are blossoming. Barrons identifies the cream of the crop and how to invest in them.

Low Price over Sales: Michael Santoli shows how the cheapest companies could be the ones with the lowest multiple of price over sales and lists the companies that are cheapest according to this ratio. His list includes energy company VLO and retailer FD.

Newsprint Index: the newsprint makes might not be in such bad shape after all with newspaper sales (and hence newsprint) booming in China.

Oil Stocks with Cheap Options: The Strike Price column notes that volatility is at its low point ever when it comes to the oil companies. There might be opportunity to buy the options of the cheapest of these because if volatility rises, the price of the options will go up.

The Gatekeepers – companies that can handle a slowdown: Some companies will do well, regardless of the economy, because they have something consumers will buy no matter what.

Fixed Income ETFs: Barrons profiles the latest batch of ETFs that buy bonds. This could be a useful diversification away from US equities.