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Filed under: Newsletters, Toll Brothers (TOL), Stocks to Purchase, Housing, Ideal Stocks for 2008

For 25 years, Steven Halpern, editor of TheStockAdvisors.com, has surveyed the leading financial newsletter advisors asking for their favorite stocks for the coming year. This article is one of 100+ ideas in the Best Stocks for 2008 report.

“Homebuilders have been in a slump, to state the least,” states Jim Farrish, editor of Sector Exchange.

“The technical charts on homebuilders look very similar to those of technology stocks during their rise from 1998-2000. In fact, the index has declined more than 70% peak to trough. Looking toward 2008 and the housing market, we could begin to see a turnaround.

“The begin is prone to be government aided, which is why we like this as an aggressive play, as the Federal government will put more money into fixing something than corporate America. Current proposals will not come close to fixing it, but will at least put a band aid on the situation and grant the healing process to begin.

“Our vote to benefit here would be Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL). The company has one of the better-looking balance sheets in the industry and management has done a fairly good job of dealing with this downside market.

“Its weekly chart shows a decline from a high of $55 to a current price of $22. Their stock has found support near the $19.50 mark and has developed a trading range since July with the top at $23.50. With the stock currently near the high end of the trading range, we would look for a breakout as a buy point.

“If sales increase throughout 2008, we would look for the stock to rise near the $34 mark. There are a lot of things that need to unite for this play to reach its goal, but then that’s what makes it an aggressive opportunity.

“Thus, our entry point would be a break above $23.50 or accumulate shares on a pullback near the bottom of the trading range. Our stop would be $18 and the target $34.”

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Filed under: Rumors, Products and services, World wide web, Google (GOOG), Next big thing, Technology

It’s hard to imagine Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) as anything but a search engine for most consumers and even business leaders. The company that probably has more grand ambitions than any I can think of may want to tackle providing computing horsepower to needy customers in the future, though — and in turn, become a service provider of sorts. This is on top of its ambition to become the largest advertising network the planet has ever seen.

The scale of Google’s global network and how it works technically would boggle the mind of many a Ph.D. It’s those brainiacs who designed the sprawling network of Google’s cheaper-by-the-dozen normal computer servers who are now trying to find more ways to utilize all that computing power outside of providing search results in a fraction of a second to billions of queries every month. As Google continues to build large data centers, what is it going to do with all that power? Become Skynet, the infamous, world-dominating global personal network from the Terminator movies? Nah — there are bigger business fish to fry.

Google’s ambition to provide computing horsepower in the “Cloud” for university research, national laboratory simulations and just about anything else where tons of computer heavy lifting is needed is what appears to be yet another arrow in the search company’s quiver. Massive advertising networks will provide the bulk of Google’s revenue for many years to come, but the company has so many tentacles into secondary revenue sources (just at the beginning) that it’s hard to keep track of them all. For Google’s Cloud computing project, though, it might just be that Google’s network will rule many areas of the world even outside the search advertising business where it remains king.

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