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This post is one in a series in which more than 60 newsletter advisors share their Top Stock Picks for 2011. This special report is courtesy of TheStockAdvisors.com.

"Back in the days when Colombia was a political and military battleground, and leftist rebels regularly bombed the oil pipelines, investing in Colombian oil was only for people prepared to take enormous risks," says Frida Ghitis.

The contributing editor to Global Investing explains, "Now the landscape has changed considerably. Indeed our top stock idea for 2011 is now Columbian oil firm Ecopetrol (EC).

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The European Commission has launched a new antitrust investigation against software giant Microsoft, alleging that the company abused its market dominance, Reuters reported.

Following complaints by Norway-based Web browser company Opera, and a coalition of technology companies, the EU will inquire as to whether Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) broke EU competition rules to help its Web browser and its Office / Outlook products.

Microsoft's a focus, again

The inquiry comes four months after Microsoft lost its Europe appeal of a case in which officials ruled that the company had illegally tied its Media Player to the Windows operating system and had failed to disclose information that would make other server software company's products operate on the Windows system, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.

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