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  • Sector Watch: Payment processing stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Like most things that go the way of the Internet, so, too, goes commerce. This bodes well for CyberSource Corporation (Nasdaq:CYBS) and CAM Commerce Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:CADA), two companies benefiting from the move to online banking.

  • Sector Watch: Restaurant stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    With casual dining restaurant stocks plummeting this year on recession fears, happy hour has now extended itself into the stock market, especially in the case of Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. (Nasdaq: BWLD) and BJâs Restaurants Inc. (Nasdaq: BJRI).

  • Sector Watch: Industrial services stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Furmanite Corporation (NYSE: FRM) and Team, Inc. (Nasdaq: TISI) are capitalizing on the growth opportunities in the industrial infrastructure sector by providing the repair services that keep it operating.

  • Sector Watch: Specialty Internet sites

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Bankrate.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: RATE), and Move, Inc.âs (Nasdaq: MOVE) Realtor.com stand to benefit investors who roll the dice in the general direction of these two mortgage shopping websites.

  • Sector Watch: Supplier consolidation stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: 1

    Supplier consolidation is creating opportunities for DXP Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: DXPE) a supplier of maintenance, repair and operations services, and KHD Humboldt Wedag International, Ltd. (NYSE: KHD), a provider of plant design and equipment procurement services.

  • Sector Watch: Energy infrastructure stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    With global energy demand expected to rise 54% by 2025, Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. (Nasdaq: GIFI) and Hiland Holdings GP, LP (Nasdaq: HPGP) are benefiting from increased oil exploration activity and production spending by oil companies.

  • Sector Watch: Diagnostic imaging

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    To many, a picture is worth a thousand words. For Virtual Radiologic Corporation (Nasdaq: VRAD) and NightHawk Radiology Holdings (Nasdaq: NHWK), two of the nationâs leading diagnostic imaging companies, a picture can be worth a thousand diagnoses.

  • Sector Watch: Solar energy stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    As oil prices rise, alternative energy sources are becoming increasingly affordable, which spells potential success for Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ) and EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq: EMKR), two small caps rooted in the solar energy sector.

  • Sector Watch: Debt collection stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: 2

    Portfolio Recovery Associates (Nasdaq: PRAA) and Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. (Nasdaq: AACC) are two debt collection specialists profiting from the ever-expanding opportunities of an unpaid credit card here and an unpaid auto loan there.

  • Sector Watch: Seismic data stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Rising energy prices have encouraged many oil and gas companies to step up exploration activities, thus creating demand for the seismic data services provided by Mitcham Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIND) and Dawson Geophysical Company (Nasdaq: DWSN).

  • Sector Watch: Food safety

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Over the past five years, the food-safety market has more than doubled in size to $1.6 billion and two companies benefiting from the growth are Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) and Strategic Diagnostics Inc. (Nasdaq: SDIX).

  • Sector Watch: Bandwidth providers

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Switch & Data Facilities Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: SDXC) and RRSAT Global Communications Network Ltd. (Nasdaq: RRST) are two companies that provide services that address rising bandwidth demand.

  • Sector Watch: On-demand software

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Salary.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: SLRY) and Taleo Corporation (Nasdaq: TLEO) are two leading providers reaping the benefits of the growing on-demand software need.

  • Sector Watch: Energy stocks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: 4

    With average crude oil prices having risen 26% since 2005 and expected to climb another 12% next year, opportunities still abound for small-cap exploration and production companies such these two small caps.

  • Sector Watch: The price of premiums

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    While competitive pressures are pushing rates and premiums down for many property and casualty insurance providers, these two small caps are continuing to post robust growth due to their niche focuses.

  • Sector Watch: Gold Rush stock picks

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    The sector with the Midas touch these days is gold, the price of which on Tuesday climbed to a near three-decade high of more than $825 an ounce. Here are two small-cap gold stock picks.

  • Sector Watch: Wind energy

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: 3

    Propelling forward the idea of alternative energy sources are wind turbinesâmachines that produce electricity from converted kinetic energy in wind. Check out why two small caps in particular have been benefitting from rapid growth in this alternative energy sector.

  • Sector Watch: Sales management software

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    These two small caps offer software and services that help businesses improve employee recruiting and employee sales incentive plans.

  • Sector Watch: Sizzling opportunities

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: 2

    These two small caps provide services enabling electric utilities to increase grid reliability and available electricity capacity during periods of peak demand.

  • Sector Watch: Specialty consumer finance

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: 3

    With many Americans living paycheck to paycheck, a new lending segment has evolved to meet the needs of this group of customers. Two of the biggest players are small caps EZCORP and First Cash Financial Services.

  • Sector Watch: Cleaner coal

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: 4

    Helping coal burn clearner is a dirty business, but somebody's got to do it.

  • Sector Watch: Outsourcing healthcare

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: 2

    Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are utilizing outsourced nurse staffing to supplement their own recruitment and retention efforts. Here are two companies benefitting from the trend.

  • Sector Watch: Wireless communications

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    These two small caps are benefitting from the surge in wireless demand.

  • Sector Watch: The gaming industry

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Gaming is a high growth business. Here's a look at two small caps that are poised to benefit.

  • Sector Watch: Transaction processing services

    |Lisa Springer |User Rating: N/A

    Long-term contracts with U.S. governmental units and agencies. What could be better?

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