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Election bets: Advisors vote on McCain and Obama stocks

Posted Oct 3rd 2008 9:30AM by Steven Halpern (RSS feed)
Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Time Warner (TWX), India, China, Brazil, Newsletters, Mutual funds, Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Merck and Co (MRK), Canada, , Barclays plc ADS (BCS), EOG Resources (EOG), Presidential elections, Commodities, Oil, Agriculture, Stocks to Buy, Technology, General Dynamics Corp (GD), Israel, Green Stocks, Northrop Grumman (NOC)

This post is part of a series in which TheStockAdvisors.com asked financial experts to name their top stock pick if McCain or if Obama wins the election.

Which stocks would benefit from a victory by either Senator John McCain or Senator Barack Obama? To help investors sort through the sectors and stocks best positioned to benefit in a post-election environment, we posed this question to some of the nation's leading financial newsletter advisors.

Importantly, this is not a partisan report; each participating advisor has provided a favorite stock for both candidates, focused not on political preferences but unbiased stock analysis. Below we feature those stocks and ETFs that the advisors believe will be the winners depending on which candidate prevails.

McCain Stocks:

Roger Conrad - Comcast (NYSE: CCW)
Gregg Early - Elbit Systems (NASDAQ: ESLT)
Elliott Gue - Paladin Resources (Toronto: PDN)
Doug Fabian - Market Vectors Nuclear Energy (NYSE: NLR)
Vivian Lewis - Barclays (NYSE: BCS)
Bill Martin - CGG Veritas (NYSE: CGV)'
Yiannis Mostrous - Lonking Holdings (OTC: CIMHF)
Carla Pasternak - Eaton Vance Tax-Advantaged Dividend Income Fund (NYSE: EVT)
Nate Pile - SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE: GLD)
John Reese - General Dynamics (NYSE: GD)
Nathan Slaughter - USEC (NYSE: USU)
Paul Tracy - Shaw Group (NYSE: SGR)
Kelley Wright - CenturyTel (NYSE: CTL)
Tom Vass - Molex (NASDAQ: MOLX)
Martin Hutchinson - Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK), EOG Resources (NYSE: EOG)

Obama Stocks:

Roger Conrad - SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR)
Gregg Early - AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV)
Elliott Gue - SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR)
Doug Fabian - Industrial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLI)
Vivian Lewis - Cosan (NYSE: CZZ)
Bill Martin - Geron (NASDAQ: GERN)
Yiannis Mostrous - Dr. Reddy's (NYSE: RDY)
Carla Pasternak - Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP)
Nate Pile - Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)
John Reese - American Eagle (NYSE: AEO)
Nathan Slaughter - Fluor (NYSE: FLR)
Paul Tracy - Market Vectors Global Alternative Energy (NYSE: GEX)
Kelley Wright - Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH)
Tom Vass - Ingersoll Rand (NYSE: IR)
Martin Hutchinson - Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR)

Microsoft boots CIO Stuart Scott over company violations

Posted Nov 7th 2007 10:54AM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Rumors, Management, Microsoft (MSFT)

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced this week that it sacked its chief information officer, Stuart Scott, over violations of the company's policies. Although it's unclear to the media exactly what policies were violated, Scott's abrupt departure suggests an infringement of pretty large proportions.

Although a Microsoft representative referenced a "violation of company policies" along with an internal investigation, the world's largest software maker announced that Scott had been terminated as as last Friday. Now, this is no middle manager -- Scott was responsible for the entire global information technology infrastructure for the world's largest software maker. Call it a high-profile executive departure, even though Scott was not a large name in executive circles.

After 17 years at General Electric (NYSE: GE), Scott came to Microsoft in 2005, so he had really not been there that long. The question now is to find out if Scott really did something that warranted his dismissal, or if the direction he wanted to take the company's global infrastructure was at odds with company policy, whatever that may be.

After almost two decades at General Electric, it's hard to think that such a seasoned executive would violate any policy in such a short time with Microsoft. Is there a piece of the story that is not being told here? We're sure to find out if dirt starts flying soon in the blogosphere.

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Last updated: November 27, 2009: 08:18 AM

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