With all of the media buzz that surrounds next-generation smartphones and their new apps, it's hard for investors to get too excited about good old-fashioned telecoms these days. That's a shame, since these companies can be a rich source of dividends for income investors. Many pay 5% yields, and some yield as high as 9%.
Most of these high-yielding telecoms were founded decades ago to provide local and long-distance landline telephone services to rural communities.

Source: Advanced Currency Markets | G10 Advancers and Decliners vs USD EUR 0.09 GBP 0.08 CHF -0.06 JPY -0.26 The euro has rallied strongly over the last 24 hours as speculation mounts that Greece is close to resolving some of the outstanding issues standing in the way of securing further bailout cash.

Investing for gain entails risk, right?  The real question is how much to pay for the risk.  Stated otherwise, how much of a discount should an investor require for the level of risk in an investment?  Economists have given us all sorts of fancy models to determine fair pricing.  Not one has been able to top the seminal work of Harry Markowitz, William Sharpe and Merton Miller with their Capital Asset Pricing Model.  The world has been so impressed with the CAP-M as it is fondly referenced in business schools the trio was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.  

The Critical Metals Report: No year has brought higher highs and lower lows to the rare earth space than 2011. Do you expect the same volatility in 2012?
Byron King: The short answer is yes. In this market, anything is possible. In 2011 we saw highs toward the beginning of the year because there was a lot of enthusiasm for the technology metals space. We experienced lows towards the end of 2011 because there was a general market selloff. It didn’t matter if you were stock-picking. The falling tide sucked everything down.

Interesting spot we are in - 200 day simple moving average to the top, 200 day exponential moving average to the bottom.  Amazing how one-two sentences changed the whole complex of the day - the S&P 500 was trading in the 1273s pre market, above resistance, with yet another gap up open -  before Draghi crushed the free and easy money crowd, and it's been downhill since.

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Recently Alaska Airlines announced plans to begin regular flights using a blend of fossil jet fuel and bio-jet fuel.  At least seventy-five of its flights in the month of November will be power by a blend