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This should be music to any gold bug's ears, as it means old Bernanke will be dusting off the printing presses and working over time. I think today's GDP numbers will provide further proof that "something" needs to be done to stimulate the economy further.
Expect a massive amount of money to be "created" in this country over the next 1 to 2 years in order to prevent a deflationary death spiral, and to allow the U.S. federal government and individuals to chip away at their outstanding debts.
Expect gold prices to continue rising. Own gold bullion, own gold mining stocks, own gold ETFs. If you aren't yet in, now is the time to get on the gold train, boys.
Disclosure: I am still long on gold. And I will remain so for quite some time; I don't see any of our economic problems going away overnight. I still believe in the easy returns that stocks can provide, but I have beefed up my precious metal holdings because I truly do believe some day, in the not too far future, investors will practically be in DISBELIEF that gold once sold for less than $2,500 per ounce.
For entertainment purposes only; information provided may be
inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date. No warranties or guarantees
provided. Stocks, precious metals and ETFs can lose value.
UPDATED 7/30: Stocks on the July/August 2010 Outlaw Large Cap Premier Watchlist (subject to change; not a "buy" or "sell" recommendation):
Company / Symbol / Market Cap ($)
Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) 278.97B
Apple Inc (AAPL) 236.53B
Microsoft Corp (MSFT) 226.19B
PetroChina Company Limited ADR (PTR) 208.97B
China Mobile Ltd. ADR (CHL) 204.43B
BHP Billiton Limited ADR (BHP) 197.29B
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.A 194.08B
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.B 193.94B
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WMT 188.67B
The Procter & Gamble Company PG 176.74B
HSBC Holdings plc (ADR) HBC 174.68B
Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) RDS.A 174.36B
Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) RDS.B 174.17B
BHP Billiton plc (ADR) BBL 166.68B
International Business Machines Corp. IBM 163.46B
General Electric Company GE 162.39B
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (ADR) PBR.A 160.37B
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (ADR) PBR 159.16B
Johnson & Johnson JNJ 157.27B
JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM 156.45B
Google Inc. GOOG 156.08B
AT&T Inc. T 150.74B
Chevron Corporation CVX 147.52B
Vale (ADR) VALE 142.78B
Wells Fargo & Company WFC 142.71B
Vale (ADR) VALE.P 142.23B
Bank of America Corporation BAC 137.05B
Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO 133.36B
China Life Insurance Company Ltd. (ADR) LFC 122.93B
The Coca-Cola Company KO 122.36B
Oracle Corporation ORCL 120.23B
Vodafone Group Plc (ADR) VOD 116.93B
Intel Corporation INTC 120.46B
Pfizer Inc. PFE 117.52B
Citigroup Inc. C 116.77B
BP plc (ADR) BP 109.89B
Novartis AG (ADR) NVS 113.25B
Toyota Motor Corporation (ADR) TM 109.56B
Merck & Co., Inc. MRK 110.70B
TOTAL SA (ADR) TOT 109.18B
Hewlett-Packard Company HPQ 108.65B
Banco Santander, SA (ADR) STD 104.26B
PepsiCo, Inc. PEP 103.79B
Itau Unibanco Banco Holding SA (ADR) ITUB 95.66B
Telefonica SA (ADR) TEF 96.18B
GlaxoSmithKline plc (ADR) GSK 94.01B
Philip Morris International Inc. PM 93.69B
SPDR S&P 500 ETF SPY 91.34B
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV BUD 84.48B
Unilever NV (ADR) UN 83.48B
Siemens AG (ADR) SI 82.23B
Unilever plc (ADR) UL 82.32B
America Movil SAB de CV (ADR) AMOV 78.55B
America Movil SAB de CV (ADR) AMX 78.53B
ConocoPhillips COP 79.96B
Sanofi-Aventis SA (ADR) SNY 80.51B
Eni SpA (ADR) E 79.07B
Fomento Economico Mexicano SAB (ADR) FMX 80.13B
McDonald's Corporation MCD 75.41B
Verizon Communications Inc. VZ 79.04B
Abbott Laboratories ABT 75.62B
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. GS 75.25B
CNOOC Limited (ADR) CEO 74.24B
Schlumberger Limited. SLB 71.07B
Royal Bank of Canada (USA) RY 71.20B
AstraZeneca plc (ADR) AZN 69.88B
British American Tobacco (ADR) BTI 70.09B
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (ADR) SNP 69.08B
Ecopetrol SA (ADR) EC 68.07B
Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (ADR) ABV.C 67.77B
Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (ADR) ABV 67.31B
Statoil ASA(ADR) STO 66.64B
Occidental Petroleum Corporation OXY 66.12B
Lloyds Banking Group PLC (ADR) LYG 65.60B
The Walt Disney Company DIS 65.81B
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (ADR) DCM 65.32B
United Technologies Corporation UTX 65.20B
QUALCOMM, Inc. QCOM 64.11B
Banco Bradesco SA (ADR) BBD 62.89B
United Parcel Service, Inc. UPS 62.88B
Visa Inc. V 63.04B
3M Company MMM 60.69B
Westpac Banking Corporation (ADR) WBK 60.25B
Toronto-Dominion Bank (USA) TD 59.88B
Novo Nordisk A/S (ADR) NVO 58.61B
SAP AG (ADR) SAP 58.69B
UBS AG (USA) UBS 55.32B
Barclays PLC (ADR) BCS 55.50B
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. (ADR) HMC 54.75B
Comcast Corporation CMCSA 54.51B
Comcast Corporation CMCSK 54.32B
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (ADR) MTU 54.28B
Barclays PLC (ADR) BCS 56.22B
Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. (ADR) TSM 53.78B
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 52.98B
Kraft Foods Inc. KFT 51.05B
The Bank of Nova Scotia (USA) BNS 49.85B
Amgen, Inc. AMGN 50.53B
American Express Company AXP 51.88B
France Telecom SA (ADR) FTE 50.97B
Suncor Energy Inc. (USA) SU 50.10B
The Boeing Company BA 50.55B
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (ADR) MBT 51.46B
Credit Suisse Group AG (ADR) CS 48.66B
Canon Inc. (ADR) CAJ 48.19B
The Home Depot, Inc. HD 47.42B
Banco Santander (Brasil) SA(ADR) BSBR 49.18B
Alcon, Inc. ACL 46.04B
ArcelorMittal (ADR) MT 48.67B
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) TEVA 45.97B
HSBC Holdings Plc PRFD 'A' HBC-A 45.56B
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA (ADR) BBVA 44.66B
SPDR Gold Trust (ETF) GLD 45.64B
Altria Group, Inc. MO 45.50B
US Bancorp USB 45.35B
Bristol Myers Squibb Co. BMY 42.87B
Diageo plc (ADR) DEO 42.98B
ABB Ltd (ADR) ABB 44.82B
Ford Motor Company F 41.19B
Bristol Myers Squibb Co. BMY 42.87B
Barrick Gold Corporation (USA) ABX 41.58B
CVS Caremark Corporation CVS 40.72B
EMC Corporation EMC 40.84B
Colgate-Palmolive Company CL 40.50B
Eli Lilly & Co. LLY 40.53B
Medtronic, Inc. MDT 39.82B
China Telecom Corporation Limited (ADR) CHA 40.15B
Deutsche Bank AG (USA) DB 39.78B
Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (ADR) RBS 38.53B
Canadian Natural Resource Ltd (USA) CNQ 38.26B
Target Corporation TGT 37.90B
Morgan Stanley MS 37.45B
Emerson Electric Co. EMR 36.78B
Union Pacific Corporation UNP 36.64B
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (ADR) ERIC 36.92B
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (ETF) EEM 36.89B
News Corporation NWS 36.17B
News Corporation NWSA 35.52B
UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH 35.24B
Time Warner Inc. TWX 35.11B
NIKE, Inc. NKE 34.76B
Nokia Corporation (ADR) NOK 34.34B
Infosys Technologies Limited (ADR) INFY 34.37B
EI du Pont de Nemours & Company DD 34.18B
ING Groep NV (ADR) ING 34.45B
DIRECTV DTV 33.75B
POSCO (ADR) PKX 33.40B
Imperial Oil Limited (USA) IMO 33.40B
Bank of Montreal (USA) BMO 32.90B
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited (ADR) CHU 32.70B
Honeywell International Inc. HON 32.69B
iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund (ETF) EFA 32.61B
Wipro Limited (ADR) WIT 32.48B
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. FCX 32.33B
MetLife, Inc. MET 32.22B
PNC Financial Services PNC 31.45B
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation BK 31.20B
Thomson Reuters Corporation (USA) TRI 30.98B
VMware, Inc. VMW 30.89B
Research In Motion Limited (USA) RIMM 30.77B
The Dow Chemical Company DOW 30.77B
Monsanto Company MON 30.62B
Texas Instruments Incorporated TXN 30.23B
Apache Corporation APA 30.11B
Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (ADR) PHG 29.92B
Goldcorp Inc. (USA) GG 29.79B
Lowe's Companies, Inc. LOW 29.77B
Gilead Sciences, Inc. GILD 29.75B
The Southern Company SO 29.39B
Carnival plc (ADR) CUK 29.34B
BlackRock, Inc. BLK 29.00B
Newmont Mining Corporation NEM 28.99B
Potash Corp./Saskatchewan (USA) POT 28.86B
Canadian National Railway (USA) CNI 28.82B
PulteGroup, Inc. PHA 28.64B
Walgreen Company WAG 28.62B
Devon Energy Corporation DVN 28.50B
Sony Corporation (ADR) SNE 28.28B
Repsol YPF, SA (ADR) REP 28.26B
Accenture Plc ACN 28.07B
Corning Incorporated GLW 28.25B
Carnival Corporation CCL 27.81B
Southern Copper Corporation (USA) SCCO 27.24B
MasterCard Incorporated MA 27.26B
eBay Inc. EBAY 27.56B
Lockheed Martin Corporation LMT 27.55B
Exelon Corporation EXC 27.61B
Baidu, Inc.(ADR) BIDU 27.16B
Halliburton Company HAL 27.43B
Deere & Company DE 26.68B
National Grid plc (ADR) NGG 26.53B
Panasonic Corporation (ADR) PC 26.44B
Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF VWO 26.76B
Dell Inc. DELL 26.46B
Kimberly-Clark Corporation KMB 26.06B
Baxter International Inc. BAX 25.80B
Southern Copper Corp SCCU 26.18B
Praxair, Inc. PX 25.80B
Sasol Limited (ADR) SSL 25.89B
EOG Resources, Inc. EOG 26.13B
Manulife Financial Corporation (USA) MFC 25.85B
Prudential Financial, Inc. PRU 25.48B
Dominion Resources, Inc. D 25.17B
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (ADR) SID 25.20B
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (USA) CM 25.16B
Simon Property Group, Inc SPG 25.27B
Rio Tinto plc (ADR) RTP 24.82B
Enterprise Products Partners LP EPD 24.74B
FedEx Corporation FDX 23.62B
Costco Wholesale Corporation COST 24.19B
The Travelers Companies, Inc. TRV 24.72B
American International Group, Inc. AIG 23.94B
Danaher Corporation DHR 24.54B
Celgene Corporation CELG 23.99B
TransCanada Corporation (USA) TRP 23.71B
American International Group, Inc. NOW 23.34B
American International Group, Inc. AFF 23.55B
Telecom Italia SpA (ADR) TI 22.79B
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation APC 22.56B
Express Scripts, Inc. ESRX 25.17B
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (ADR) MITSY 23.41B
General Dynamics Corporation GD 22.52B
EnCana Corporation (USA) ECA 24.13B
AFLAC Incorporated AFL 22.19B
BCE Inc. (USA) BCE 22.91B
Tenaris SA (ADR) TS 22.79B
Marathon Oil Corporation MRO 23.09B
HDFC Bank Limited (ADR) HDB 22.20B
General Mills, Inc. GIS 23.00B
Duke Energy Corporation DUK 22.51B
WellPoint, Inc. WLP 22.31B
Medco Health Solutions Inc. MHS 24.92B
NextEra Energy, Inc. NEE 21.82B
ICICI Bank Limited (ADR) IBN 20.96B
Franklin Resources, Inc. BEN 20.69B
Cenovus Energy Inc (ADR) CVE 21.01B
iShares S&P 500 Index (ETF) IVV 20.99B
Illinois Tool Works Inc. ITW 21.46B
Baker Hughes Incorporated BHI 20.70B
Automatic Data Processing ADP 21.07B
Gerdau SA (ADR) GGB 20.67B
Rogers Communications Inc. (USA) RCI 20.64B
Syngenta AG (ADR) SYT 20.45B
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO 20.85B
Teck Resources Limited TCK 20.72B
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP KMP 20.68B
Prudential Public Limited Company (ADR) PUK 20.51B
Johnson Controls, Inc. JCI 18.98B
Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd (ADR) CHT 20.32B
Norfolk Southern Corp. NSC 20.37B
Covidien plc COV 19.99B
The Mosaic Company MOS 20.51B
Viacom, Inc. VIA.B 20.00B
Viacom, Inc. VIA 19.90B
Nomura Holdings, Inc. (ADR) NMR 19.85B
CSX Corporation CSX 19.76B
State Street Corporation STT 19.68B
Time Warner Cable Inc. TWC 19.52B
Yahoo! Inc. YHOO 19.38B
Kellogg Company K 19.36B
Allergan, Inc. AGN 19.28B
Yum! Brands, Inc. YUM 19.15B
Capital One Financial Corp. COF 18.26B
Enbridge Inc. (USA) ENB 18.97B
Bank of America Corporation Leveraged Index Return Note (LIRN) Linked to the S&P 500 SZE 18.96B
Starbucks Corporation SBUX 18.91B
CME Group Inc. CME 18.82B
Broadcom Corporation BRCM 18.33B
Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd. (ADR) SHG 18.76B
iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund (ETF) TIP 18.66B
American Tower Corporation AMT 18.74B
Stryker Corporation SYK 20.20B
PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (ETF) QQQQ 18.30B
Raytheon Company RTN 18.38B
Motorola, Inc. MOT 18.55B
SYSCO Corporation SYY 17.92B
The Charles Schwab Corporation SCHW 17.82B
PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (ADR) TLK 17.60B
ACE Limited ACE 18.03B
SLM Corp. PRFD 'A' SLM-A 18.03B
Archer Daniels Midland Company ADM 17.57B
BB&T Corporation BBT 18.27B
Public Storage PRFD 'N' PSA-N 17.54B
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (ADR) MFG 17.05B
Northrop Grumman Corporation NOC 16.80B
Tyco International Ltd. TYC 16.89B
Korea Electric Power Corporation (ADR) KEP 17.19B
Hitachi, Ltd. (ADR) HIT 17.27B
The TJX Companies, Inc. TJX 16.96B
Hess Corp. HES 17.27B
American Electric Power Company, Inc. AEP 17.09B
The Chubb Corporation CB 16.91B
Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. PEG 16.87B
PACCAR Inc PCAR 15.97B
Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT 16.57B
McKesson Corporation MCK 17.41B
BT Group plc (ADR) BT 16.02B
BARCLAYS BANK PLC USD INTELLIGENT CARRY INDEX ICI 16.72B
Genzyme Corporation GENZ 16.68B
ProShares UltraShort DJ-UBS Crude Oi ETF SCO 16.63B
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. CTSH 16.57B
Las Vegas Sands Corp. LVS 16.55B
Reynolds American, Inc. RAI 16.53B
Precision Castparts Corp. PCP 16.49B
Telmex Internacional, SAB DE CV (ADR) TII 16.40B
Talisman Energy Inc. (USA) TLM 16.38B
PG&E Corporation PCG 16.36B
Public Storage PSA 16.32B
Yanzhou coal mining Co. (ADR) YZC 16.25B
Vornado Realty Trust PRFD 'G' VNO-G 16.16B
Waste Management, Inc. WM 16.11B
National-Oilwell Varco, Inc. NOV 15.86B
Becton, Dickinson and Co. BDX 15.73B
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. (ADR) FMS 15.70B
YPF SA (ADR) YPF 15.69B
Kyocera Corporation (ADR) KYO 15.47B
Loews Corporation L 15.43B
Adobe Systems Incorporated ADBE 15.35B
Cummins Inc. CMI 15.22B
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. APD 15.20B
NetApp Inc. NTAP 15.20B
CRH PLC (ADR) CRH 15.15B
The Allstate Corporation ALL 15.09B
Ford Motor Co. (DE) PRFD 'A' F-A 14.99B
ProLogis PRFD 'G' PLD-G 14.95B
Transocean LTD RIG 14.93B
Sun Life Financial Inc. (USA) SLF 14.91B
Kohl's Corporation KSS 14.76B
Vornado Realty Trust PRFD 'F' VNO-F 14.68B
Cummins Inc. CMI 15.22B
HJ Heinz Company HNZ 14.45B
AngloGold Ashanti Limited (ADR) AU 14.65B
Sun Life Financial Inc. (USA) SLF 14.91B
CRH PLC (ADR) CRH 15.15B
Best Buy Co., Inc. BBY 14.56B
Biogen Idec Inc. BIIB 14.28B
Vornado Realty Trust PRFD 'E' VNO-E 14.49B
KB Financial Group, Inc. (ADR) KB 14.04B
Tennessee Valley Authority TVE 14.05B
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (USA) BAM 14.31B
Juniper Networks, Inc. JNPR 14.42B
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. CCE 14.12B
Sprint Nextel Corporation S 13.92B
Vornado Realty Trust VNO 14.39B
Chesapeake Energy Corporation CHK 14.12B
Banco Santander-Chile (ADR) SAN 14.34B
ASML Holding NV (ADR) ASML 13.92B
Entergy Mississippi, Inc EMQ 13.93B
Enersis SA (ADR) ENI 13.98B
Spectra Energy Corp. SE 13.75B
American International Group, Inc. AVF 13.52B
Telefonos de Mexico, SA (ADR) TFONY 13.36B
WPP PLC (ADR) WPPGY 13.26B
The Progressive Corporation PGR 13.17B
Telefonos de Mexico, SA (ADR) TMX 13.08B
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF VTI 13.29B
The Kroger Co. KR 13.12B
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. ISRG 13.10B
Empresa Nacional de Electricidad (ADR) EOC 13.49B
Consolidated Edison, Inc. ED 12.98B
Nidec Corporation (ADR) NJ 12.37B
Cardinal Health, Inc. CAH 12.04B
Southwestern Energy Company SWN 13.11B
Shire Plc. (ADR) SHPGY 12.69B
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) PN Cap Trust D Capital Securities PNU 12.71B
iShares IBoxx $ Invest Grade Corp Bd Fd LQD 12.69B
Nucor Corporation NUE 12.50B
Equity Residential EQR 12.71B
The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. EL 12.39B
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. TROW 12.42B
Campbell Soup Company CPB 12.27B
Sempra Energy SRE 12.46B
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. MMC 12.50B
iShares Lehman Aggregate Bond (ETF) AGG 12.31B
Coca-Cola FEMSA, SAB de CV (ADR) KOF 12.39B
Avon Products, Inc. AVP 12.47B
Veolia Environnement (ADR) VE 12.14B
Intuit Inc. INTU 12.14B
TELUS Corporation (USA) TU 12.32B
Symantec Corporation SYMC 12.14B
iShares Russell 2000 Index (ETF) IWM 12.29B
The Gap Inc. GPS 11.93B
salesforce.com, inc. CRM 12.35B
Williams Partners LP WPZ 12.24B
First Solar, Inc. FSLR 11.94B
Progress Energy, Inc. PGN 11.96B
Noble Energy, Inc. NBL 11.84B
Cardinal Health, Inc. CAH 12.04B
Aetna Inc. AET 12.01B
Progress Energy, Inc. PGN 11.96B
Pearson PLC (ADR) PSO 11.96B
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS (ADR) TKC 11.95B
First Solar, Inc. FSLR 11.94B
The Gap Inc. GPS 11.93B
Ingersoll-Rand PLC IR 11.85B
Noble Energy, Inc. NBL 11.84B
The Blackstone Group LP BX 11.80B
FirstEnergy Corp. FE 11.71B
Luxottica Group SpA (ADR) LUX 11.70B
Tyco Electronics Ltd. TEL 11.68B
Marriott International, Inc. MAR 11.62B
Lorillard Inc. LO 11.60B
Omnicom Group Inc. OMC 11.58B
St. Jude Medical, Inc. STJ 11.56B
Weatherford International Ltd. WFT 11.56B
Aluminum Corp. of China Limited (ADR) ACH 11.56B
Northern Trust Corporation NTRS 11.49B
Kinross Gold Corporation (USA) KGC 11.47B
Bancolombia SA (ADR) CIB 11.41B
Williams Companies, Inc. WMB 11.41B
Ecolab Inc. ECL 11.30B
Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA (ADR) EBR 11.28B
Crown Castle International Corp. CCI 11.28B
BARCLAYS BANK PLC IPATH DJ UBS SUGAR TR ETN SGG 11.19B
Coach, Inc. COH 11.18B
Fibria Celulose SA (ADR) FBR 11.09B
CPFL Energia SA (ADR) CPL 11.07B
Alcoa Inc. AA 11.05B
EGA Emerging Global Shares Dow Jones Emerging Markets Metals & Mining Titans Index Fund EMT 11.04B
Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (ADR) CTRP 11.03B
Mead Johnson Nutrition CO MJN 11.03B
Boston Properties, Inc. BXP 11.00B
PPG Industries, Inc. PPG 10.98B
LG Display Co Ltd. (ADR) LPL 10.94B
Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo SA (ADR) TSP 10.93B
Nexen Inc. (USA) NXY 10.88B
The Hershey Company HSY 10.85B
priceline.com Incorporated PCLN 10.85B
Wynn Resorts, Limited WYNN 10.81B
The Western Union Company WU 10.78B
International Paper Company IP 10.74B
Edison International EIX 10.72B
iShares Russell 1000 Growth Index (ETF) IWF 10.69B
CenturyTel, Inc. CTL 10.68B
Zimmer Holdings, Inc. ZMH 10.65B
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. MRVL 10.62B
ConAgra Foods, Inc. CAG 10.60B
Discovery Communications Inc. DISCK 10.56B
Fidelity National Information Services FIS 10.56B
Smith International, Inc. SII 10.53B
Discovery Communications Inc. DISCA 10.51B
Grupo Televisa, SA (ADR) TV 10.42B
iShares MSCI Brazil Index (ETF) EWZ 10.40B
Vivo Participacoes SA (ADR) VIV 10.40B
M&T Bank Corporation MTB 10.30B
HCP, Inc. HCP 10.28B
SK Telecom Co., Ltd. (ADR) SKM 10.25B
Hartford Financial Services HIG 10.23B
Smith International, Inc. SII 10.53B
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY 10.22B
HCP, Inc. HCP 10.28B
Xcel Energy Inc. XEL 10.12B
Discovery Communications Inc. DISCB 10.11B
Compania de Minas Buenaventura SA (ADR) BVN 10.12B
CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc. CHRW 10.10B
Millicom International Cellular SA (USA) MICC 10.08B
PPL Corporation PPL 10.15B
Companhia Energetica Minas Gerais (ADR) CIG 10.05B
Agilent Technologies Inc. A 10.00B
CA, Inc. CA 9.96B
Reed Elsevier plc (ADR) RUK 9.78B
Kubota Corporation (ADR) KUB 9.81B
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. AMP 10.00B
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. NLY 9.90B
Dollar General Corp. DG 9.88B
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (USA) CP 9.75B
Philippine Long Distance Telephone (ADR) PHI 9.80B
Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd. (ADR) WF 9.65B
CBS Corporation CBS 9.66B
Aon Corporation AON 9.83B
Energy Transfer Partners, LP ETP 9.78B
Parker-Hannifin Corporation PH 9.76B
Sara Lee Corp. SLE 9.75B
Qwest Communications International Inc. Q 9.79B
Fifth Third Bancorp FITB 9.77B
Cemex SAB de CV (ADR) CX 9.85B
AEGON NV (ADR) AEG 9.81B
AutoZone, Inc. AZO 9.73B
Valero Energy Corporation VLO 9.70B
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. MHP 9.69B
CBS Corporation CBS.A 9.68B
CBS Corporation CBS 9.66B
Woori Finance Holdings Co., Ltd. (ADR) WF 9.65B
Cameco Corporation (USA) CCJ 9.65B
Paychex, Inc. PAYX 9.63B
Hospira, Inc. HSP 9.55B
SanDisk Corporation SNDK 9.53B
Sociedad Quimica y Minera (ADR) SQM 9.52B
TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. AMTD 9.32B
Cameron International Corporation CAM 9.30B
Agrium Inc. (USA) AGU 9.27B
Lihir Gold Limited (ADR) LIHR 9.26B
Gold Fields Limited (ADR) GFI 9.23B
Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. HST 9.18B
Brown-Forman Corporation BF.A 9.17B
The Clorox Company CLX 9.15B
Portugal Telecom, SGPS (ADR) PT 9.14B
Brown-Forman Corporation BF.B 9.13B
Analog Devices, Inc. ADI 9.12B
Delta Air Lines, Inc. DAL 9.05B
Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (USA) AEM 9.05B
Companhia Brasileira de Distrib. (ADR) CBD 9.03B
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. SWK 9.02B
Boston Scientific Corporation BSX 8.99B
Ryanair Holdings plc (ADR) RYAAY 8.96B
ITT Corporation ITT 8.95B
Citrix Systems, Inc. CTXS 8.89B
DISH Network Corp. DISH 8.87B
KT Corporation (ADR) KT 8.95B
CONSOL Energy Inc. CNX 8.83B
Altera Corporation ALTR 8.84B
Reed Elsevier NV (ADR) ENL 8.96B
Expeditors International of Washington EXPD 8.81B
Rockwell Collins, Inc. COL 8.86B
El Paso Corporation EP 8.80B
Goodrich Corporation GR 8.86B
CIGNA Corporation CI 8.65B
Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 8.66B
Weyerhaeuser Company WY 8.75B
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. DO 8.46B
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This shows the crystal structure of MOF-200. Atom colors: UCLA blue = carbon, UCLA gold = oxygen, orange = zinc. Optical image of MOF-200 crystals. (Credit: UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; UCLA Department of Energy Institute of Genomics and Proteomics)
MOFs, sometimes described as crystal sponges, have pores -- openings on the nanoscale which can store gases that are usually difficult to store and transport. Porosity is crucial for compacting large amounts of gases into small volumes and is an essential property for capturing carbon dioxide.
The research could lead to cleaner energy and the ability to capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions before they reach the atmosphere and contribute to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans.
The research will be published July 23 in the print edition of the journal Science and is currently available in the journal's advance online edition.
"We are reporting the ultimate porosity of a nano-material; we believe this to be the upper limit or very near the upper limit for porosity in materials," said the paper's senior author, Omar Yaghi, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of both the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the UCLA-Department of Energy Institute of Genomics and Proteomics.
"Porosity is a way to do a lot with little," said Yaghi, who holds UCLA's Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Physical Sciences and directs the CNSI's Center for Reticular Chemistry. "Instead of having only the outside surface of a particle, we drill small holes to dramatically increase the surface."
With lead author Hiroyasu (Hiro) Furukawa, co-author Jaheon Kim and colleagues, Yaghi reports on two materials that not only break the porosity record, but do so by an extremely large margin. The materials are MOF-200, made at UCLA by Furukawa, a postdoctoral scholar in Yaghi's laboratory, and MOF-210, made at Seoul's Soongsil University in South Korea by Kim, a chemistry professor and former graduate student in Yaghi's laboratory, and colleagues.
"We have made not just incremental strides with MOFs," said Yaghi, whose research overlaps chemistry, materials science and engineering. "What is special about MOF-200 and MOF-210 is that they are approaching the limit of what you can get in a material. We may be able to design better structures, but they will not be easy to make."
Invented by Yaghi the early 1990s, MOFs are like scaffolds made of linked rods, with nanoscale pores that are the right size to trap carbon dioxide. The components of MOFs can be changed nearly at will, and Yaghi's laboratory has made several hundred MOFs, with a variety of properties and structures.
Since 1999, MOFs have held the record for having the highest porosity of any material. MOFs can be made from low-cost ingredients, such as zinc oxide, a common ingredient in sunscreen, and terephthalate, which is found in plastic soda bottles.
Yaghi discovered the key to making highly porous structures, which he and colleagues reported in the journal Nature in 2004 (MOF-177 broke the previous porosity record, which had been held since 1999 by Yaghi's MOF-5) and in Science in 2005. Since then, chemists have been in a race to make higher and higher surface areas for materials, with the highest porosity.
Now Yaghi, Furukawa and Kim have made MOFs that are twice the porosity of MOF-177, three times the porosity of MOF-5 and 10 times the porosity of the most porous material prior to 1999. This means they can now store twice as much gas as they could in 2004, an enormous increase.
"If I take a gram of MOF-200 and unravel it, it will cover many football fields, and that is the space you have for gases to assemble," Yaghi said. "It's like magic. Forty tons of MOFs is equal to the entire surface area of California.
"This is only the beginning of MOFs," he said, "because now we can see the platform of materials on which we can build. In science, achieving the limit by experiment is magnificent, and now we can test the properties of these materials for various applications. Requirements for making a viable material for carbon dioxide capture are high capacity and high selectivity. We reported before on how to get high selectivity for carbon dioxide; now we are showing how to get high capacity. The industrial applications are being deployed or, in certain cases, are in the process of being developed. Many companies are working on the development of MOFs."
For example, BASF, a global chemical company based in Germany, makes large quantities of MOFs, which are sold by Sigma-Aldrich, a life science and high-technology company.
Yaghi, Furukawa and Kim also report in Science a record for carbon dioxide storage capacity. MOF-200 and MOF-210 take up the highest amount of hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide, by weight, ever achieved.
On Feb. 12 of this year, Yaghi, UCLA graduate student Hexiang Deng, Furukawa and UCLA colleagues reported in Science their creation of a synthetic "gene" that could capture carbon dioxide emissions.
Carbon dioxide is polluting Earth's atmosphere and damaging coral reefs and marine life -- impacts that are irreversible in our lifetime, Yaghi said.
With the new research, it is now possible to develop the synthetic gene with MOF-200 and MOF-210, giving it a much larger surface area.
"MOFs are a class of materials unparalleled by any other," Yaghi said. "MOFs are among the largest class of materials ever made, in number, variety and diversity of composition."
Furukawa, who has worked in Yaghi's laboratory for seven years, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo.
"Hiro discovered a way of evacuating completely the solvent that otherwise would fill the holes, which allowed access to the porosity," Yaghi said. "That was the magic."
Learning from 'As the World Turns' and 'Three's Company'
When Furukawa came to the United States on a Japanese fellowship, he spoke almost no English.
Yaghi, one of the world's great scientists, recalls without embarrassment how he watched "As the World Turns" and "Days of Our Lives" to learn English when he came to New York from Jordan at age 15.
"When I picked Hiro up," Yaghi said, "I thought, 'He has no clue about the world he is entering' -- America or my lab. I said to him, 'I will not talk with you until you buy a small TV and you watch soap operas every day; I want you to learn English.' The way I learned English was to read the newspaper with a dictionary and underline words I didn't understand. Almost every other line had an underlined word that I looked up, but you learn very quickly. I watched soap operas, too. I used to run back to my room from school to watch what happened. The stories don't move very fast; it's almost like doing research."
Furukawa took Yaghi's advice and watched reruns of "Three's Company."
"I couldn't understand it at first," he said, "but later, it was easy to follow."
How does Yaghi decide which students to accept into his laboratory?
"You have to look into their eyes and see whether there is passion and energy," Yaghi said. "Technical ability has to be coupled with the ability to harness your potential and elevate your mind."
Furukawa frequently works until 4 a.m., often on his computer at home.
"When I want to finish something, I like to keep working," he said.
"The best thing I learned from Professor Yaghi," Furukawa said, "is not chemistry but his way of thinking. When I joined his group, I was very surprised because I have never seen a professor who thinks like him in Japan. He publishes only exceptional results. That is why he is the leader of the field. He motivates us to find breakthroughs, new concepts and world records. The experience of working in his laboratory has definitely improved my mind and my thinking process."
The new Science research was funded by BASF, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences, and South Korea's Hydrogen Energy R&D Center (one of the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology's 21st Century Frontier R&D Programs).
Source: The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations by ScienceDaily staff) from materials provided by University of California - Los Angeles. The original article was written by Stuart Wolpert.
