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Barbara Findlay Schenck © Chris Mather/DogLeg Studios2010 marketing hits and misses

Business on Main's Barbara Findlay Schenck offers a rundown of this year's marketing winners and losers.

Jim Jubak5 rules for the wild year ahead

Amid the market's ups and downs, keep your eye on the long-term trend moving stocks upward. And should that trend break, prepare to run.

Jubak's Picks

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YGE11/22/2010Learn more
BBD11/17/2010Learn more
AIXG11/16/2010Learn more
CZZ11/12/2010Learn more
WBK11/10/2010Learn more
SLW11/8/2010Learn more
Warren Buffett and investing in gold © Stockbyte/SuperStockWhat's Buffett got against gold?

The Oracle of Omaha has become wealthy investing in companies that contribute valuable goods and services. Gold just sits there.

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Gordman Stores (GMAN)+14.99% 
EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (EZCH)+8.82% 
Insite Vision, Inc. (INSV)+8.57% 
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Ultra Petroleum CorpUPL
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New Energy Technologies IncNENE
Direxion Daily Energy Bear 3X SharesERY
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Market summary

$INDU$COMPX$INX$RUT.X$TNX.X
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EUR/USDGBP/USDUSD/JPYGold
1.323101.5612883.752091,399.10
+0.01008-0.00049-0.39791+10.80
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Market trends

Gainers% ChangeLast
Broadway Financial Corp (Delaware)+31.49%2.38
Vimm-Bill'-Dann Produkty Pitaniya OAO+27.59%31.26
Thomas Group Inc+24.39%2.30
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Inc+21.31%1.19
LiveDeal Inc+14.94%8.00
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc+18.35%7.29
Movado Group Inc+19.42%14.88
Rediff Com India Ltd+17.01%4.54
Gordmans Stores Inc+15.94%15.78
Ku6 Media Co Ltd+16.66%7.00
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Losers% ChangeLast
Greenhunter Energy Inc-14.96%1.08
Sun Healthcare Group Inc-14.02%9.75
Sun Healthcare Group Inc-14.02%9.75
Sun Healthcare Group Inc-14.02%9.75
Aeropostale Inc-13.02%23.31
CNinsure Inc-11.96%19.50
GEROVA Financial Group Ltd-11.69%22.51
Cascade Bancorp-8.63%6.63
Cagle's Inc-10.00%9.90
Chyron Corp-5.47%1.90
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Actives% ChangeVolume
Citigroup Inc+3.37%281,111,929
Bank of America Corp+2.91%154,628,410
SPDR S&P 500+1.12%82,912,447
Sprint Nextel Corp+3.98%80,166,318
Microsoft Corp+3.07%51,712,984
Financial Select Sector SPDR+2.36%46,428,844
Ford Motor Co+2.25%46,368,961
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index+1.75%38,481,009
Cisco Systems Inc-0.16%31,678,684
General Electric Co+1.90%27,563,713
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