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Deflation and "deflated balls: It's SuperBowl Time!

Last week words with "de" were popular. It started with Patriots winning their entry into SuperBowl with "defaulted" balls and ECB coming out with their strongest measures to deal with deflation which is setting in Europe. Interesting week indeed!
Next Sunday is SuperBowl and as always it's time to bet on who is going to win. While both teams are strong, my prediction is Seattle Seahawks would win. This could be good for Markets as SuperBowl Indicator (which is nearly 80%) accurate says that win from NFC would mean markets would end positive for the year. Or maybe it's reverse corollary. Already with so much stimulus, it's most likely that markets would end year with positive means NFC team (Seahawks) would win. Let's see what happens in 2015.
It's almost month into 2015 so it's time to recommend 15 picks for the year. Hopefully 2015 picks would do much better than 2014 picks. These picks are just an academic exercise. One needs to do his/her homework before deciding whether to invest or not

  1. OIL ($10.20)
  2. LNCO ($9.20)
  3. XLE ($75)
  4. CSIQ ($19.19)
  5. FGEN ($29.29)
  6. PTX ($8.64)
  7. SRPT ($12)
  8. FEYE ($33)
  9. BBRY ($9.99)
  10. BAC ($15.50)
  11. VALE ($7.70)
  12. MBT ($8)
  13. PEIX ($8)
  14. BLUE ($90)
  15. TWTR ($37)
I plan to track performance of these stocks (some of them are dividend paying such as LNCO) to see how their perform for 2015. Goof luck for your own research and invest carefully

/Shyam

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