Market Comments From TheStockMasters 4/3/2007

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Published
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Oil is trading at under $66 a barrel, to this we say "so what?". 

With summer Gas Pricescoming, expect prices to go up at the pump, and they already are. Let’s just take a look at gasoline in West Virginia – prices have gone up 19.2 cents a gallon in the past month. The average price today is $2.74 for a gallon of regular, up from $2.54 a month ago, according to AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Expect $3 a gallon this summer America. So look for the Oil & Gasoline stocks to prosper. Which stocks you ask? We’ve got the magic pick for you in our March newsletter but we’ll give you two for free: BP Plc (BP) and Suncor Energy (SU). Oil still runs the world and will for years to come.

Stock Tips What a great day on the Market. But not for Phoenix Footwear (PXG), their stock is down 24% today with shares trading around $3.40. Yesterday they reported a quarterly loss of $23.4M, or $2.95 per share, from a profit of $71,000, or a penny per share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenue fell 13% to $28.9M for the quarter. However for 2006 revenue grew 29% to $140.6M but their net loss of $20.4M made last year a bad one.
Right now would be great timing for a takeover. Or perhaps the public just doesn’t care to buy its H.S. Trask and Tommy Bahama footwear anymore? Things can’t get much worse for PXG and considering their revenue is growing, so perhaps this company can turn things around. The Masters expect things to get worse before they get better with analysts just waiting to put in the downgrades. Might catch a bounce on this one but we’ll watch for now.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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