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Investment thesis Zinco do Brasil (ZNBR) just announced that an industry veteran will be joining this American-Brazilian company, positive news. Managers who have demonstrated they are killers at business execution, and who have a history of always acting in the best interest of all shareholders are important to shareholder value. The appointment of Daniel Kunz is a significant move. Background A dynamic and important subset of the global mining industry are the so called "juniors". These are small- to medium-size market capitalization companies that are generally actively engaged in the development of mining assets, either through greenfields exploration, or the use of new geologic models to prospect for mining assets in over- looked or abandoned properties. For investors, juniors may offer characteristics similar to an investment in venture capital-early stage, high risk, but with a potential for high growth.Juniors can be at different stages of development-some operate small-scale

Today's weekly energy inventory report from the Department of Energy showed that crude oil stockpiles were higher than forecast, while gasoline inventories were a little lower than

La-Z-Boy Incorporated (LZB) Q4 2013 Earnings Call June 19, 2013 8:30 am ET Executives Kathy Liebmann - Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications Kurt L. Darrow - Chairman, Chief Executive officer and President Louis M. Riccio - Chief Financial officer and Senior Vice President Analysts Bradley B. Thomas - KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division Budd Bugatch - Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division Todd A. Schwartzman - Sidoti & Company, LLC Barry Vogel John A. Baugh - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Research Division Presentation Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the La-Z-Boy Fiscal 2013 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Ms. Kathy Liebmann, Director of Investor Relations of La-Z-Boy Incorporated. Ms. Liebmann, you may begin. Kathy Liebmann Thank you, Kevin. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for

AEGON NV (AEG) June 19, 2013 3:45 am ET Executives Willem van den Berg Alexander Rijn Wynaendts - Chairman of The Executive Board, Chairman of The Management Board and Chief Executive Officer Darryl D. Button - Chief Financial Officer, Member of The Executive Board and Member of The Management Board Analysts Michael van Wegen - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division Gordon Aitken - RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Research Division Ashik Musaddi - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division Farquhar Murray - Autonomous Research LLP Farooq Hanif - Citigroup Inc, Research Division Benoit Petrarque - Kepler Cheuvreux, Research Division Marcus Rivaldi - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Francois Boissin - Exane BNP Paribas, Research Division William Elderkin - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Presentation Willem van den Berg Good morning, everyone. Welcome at Aegon's Investor Conference. Today is about the execution of our strategy, and Alex will update you on

Taper. Taper. Taper. Taper. It's the Wall Street buzzword for the gradual reduction of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) plan: the monthly purchases of $40 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities and $45 billion worth of Treasury securities. QE is intended to keep liquidity high and interest rates low in the credit markets. The prospect of a taper is arguably causing interest rates to rise. However, no one knows for sure when the taper will begin. But they all have guesses. Laszlo Birinyi compiled Wall Street's predictions. Here they are: SEE ALSO: Your Ultimate Preview For The Most Anticipated Fed Announcement In A Long Time Join the conversation about this story »

In the war against cancer, much of the fighting is done by some of the smallest of pharmaceutical companies. I believe the reason for this is that they hope to become one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies. Of course very few of them actually make it to the top but some have such a strong pipeline of potentially helpful drugs that they either get taken over by one of the big drug companies or team up with one to become extremely successful.One such company is Galena Biopharma (GALE). With a market cap of under $200 million right now, the company is one of the "Davids" to battle "Goliath." With an impressive line up of cancer drugs, I believe GALE could become a major player in a significant portion of the drug market that battles cancer, breast cancer specifically. Galena's Focus Is On Pain As Well As Cure The cancer

For a while now Switzerland has been negotiating with the United States on measures that would give the Justice Department access to some details about American tax evaders with money in Swiss banks. Until now, that process was going pretty smoothly — it looked like the U.S. would strike a deal that would allow banks to bend some Swiss bank secrecy laws for American clients. That would mean the Justice Department wouldn't have to sue banks into oblivion for information. That's what killed old, venerated Swiss bank Wegelin & Co. But Switzerland's Lower House of Parliament isn't having that at all. For the second time this week they struck down the deal with the U.S., according to Bloomberg — a deal the Upper House passed twice, and the executive branch was urging lawmakers to push through. One member of Parliament said the deal was essentially handing the U.S. a "blank check for banks' misdeeds." Now there's fear that the U.S. will start a wave of indictments, picking banks off individually and hurting the Swiss economy. From Bloomberg: “One can hope that the U.S. side understands” the parliamentary rejection, (Swiss Finance Minister Eveline) Widmer-Schlumpf said today. “To hope, always is legitimate, also in politics. But one can’t be too disappointed if all hopes aren’t fulfilled.” Parliament had been asked by the government to approve the bill in an express procedure, allowing it to go into effect on July 1. The law wouldn’t have affected at least 12 financial institutions, among them Credit Suisse Group AG and Julius BaerGroup Ltd., who are already under investigation in the U.S. The government has said that it will do whatever it can to comply with the U.S. by decree, but that its powers are limited there. Back to the drawing board.Join the conversation about this story »

DreamWorks Animation (NASDAQ:DWA) Chief Executive Jeff Katzenberg said that his company’s new forays into television production will yield $100 million in revenue this year, with that number swelling to over $200 million in 2015. Amid news that DreamWorks will partner with Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Germany’s Super RTL channel, Katzenberg detailed the integral role television will play in the future. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! “We are moving very aggressively into the TV business,” Katzenberg said. “Television is a transformative line of business and we expect going forward it will be a significant source of revenue.” The company will create a billion-dollar library consisting of over 1,200 new TV episodes in the next five years, according to Bloomberg. The studio hopes to produce at least 300 hours of programming in the deal with Netflix, using original DreamWorks characters. The gross profit margin — the percentage of revenue after costs are deducted — will be 30 percent, similar to the company’s movie business, Katzenberg said. Additionally, the revenue projections don’t include money from potential merchandising popular with children, such as clothes and toys. Television programming will largely be inspired by DreamWorks classics, such as “Kung Fu Panda” and “Madagascar,” but will also serve to augment new releases like “Turbo” with TV shows comprised of the same characters. NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! Additional TV programming will come from characters in the Classic Media library, which DreamWorks bought last year, popular titles of which include “Casper the Friendly Ghost” and “Lassie.” Classic Media is expected to provide $50 million in TV revenue this year, according to Katzenberg. In partnering with Netflix, DreamWorks essentially tabled the idea of creating its own cable channel. “To start a cable channel from scratch today, the barriers to entry are very, very high,” Katzenberg said in a phone interview. “The success of Netflix, the spectacular growth they have had and the strong family audience there created this opportunity. We are more than happy to be on someone else’s platform. There’s nothing wrong with that.” NEW! Discover a new stock idea each week for less than the cost of 1 trade. CLICK HERE for your Weekly Stock Cheat Sheets NOW! The partnership was even more important after both companies failed to reach carriage deals with Viacom (NYSE:VIA). Netflix is still trying to negotiate a deal with Viacom, hoping to acquire shows from children’s network Nickelodeon, but has just seen the cable company strike a deal with Netflix-rival Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) to host shows from Nickelodeon and MTV. Meanwhile, DreamWorks’ relationship with Viacom is strained after the film company chose News Corp’s (NASDAQ:NWS) Fox to take over film distribution instead of Viacom’s Paramount. Investing Insights: Can Dish Network Continue This Bullish Run? Read the original article from Wall St. Cheat Sheet

The changing environment in the oil and gas sector has drawn attention to many of the sector's servicing companies. The "shale revolution" is positive news for this part of the industry as the number of wells required for fracking is much greater than the typical oil fields previously used. As such many established companies will see a strong rise in demand over the coming years which presents interesting investment opportunities. Prospects for increasing demand are not restricted to shale reserves. Deep water drilling has seen strong growth over the past 5 years as existing onshore wells decline. The inevitable rise of oil and gas exploration and production in more expensive areas will transpire which could leave deep water drilling and shale plays with a bulk of the future opportunity.One company that is well placed to capitalize on both the rise in deep water drilling and shale oil and gas

Every mREIT (mortgage real estate investment trust) stock has been absolutely decimated in the last month. My favorite mREIT is American Capital Agency (AGNC) and it has been crushed. Annaly Capital (NLY) recently traded under $13.00 for the first time in years. Armour Residential (ARR) was trading below $5.00 for the first time, while Invesco Mortgage (IVR) dipped below $18.00 for the first time in over a year. Despite the pressures on share prices, the latter two stocks were able to maintain their dividends, while AGNC just cut its dividend by 16% to $1.05. This cut was less than expected, as it was widely believed it could be cut to $1.00 or less. At the time of this writing shares are up 2.5% premarket (6/19/13) on the news. But will the dividend boost be enough to counter any news out of Fed this week, which will impact all