Your thoughts and opinions on Cortex Business Solutions? CBX is its ticker. Your opinions are always well thought out and appreciated. Thanks.

Cortex Business Solutions, $0.47, symbol CBX on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 153.0 million; Market cap: $71.9 million) offers on-line services that help its customers make their businesses more efficient by cutting costs and streamlining purchasing and distribution.

Through its “Cortex Trading Partner Network” the company aims… Read More

Deal still on despite oil-rig explosion

APACHE CORP. $95 (New York symbol APA; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 364.3 million; Market cap: $34.6 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.1; Dividend yield: 0.6%; WSSF Rating: Average) still plans to go ahead with its purchase of Mariner Energy Inc. (New York symbol ME),… Read More

APACHE CORP. $92 – New York symbol APA

APACHE CORP. $92 (New York symbol APA; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 337.3 million; Market cap: $31.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.3: Dividend yield: 0.7%; WSSF Rating: Average) produces oil and natural gas from properties in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Egypt and… Read More

Dear Pat: Thank you very much for your valuable advice. I was wondering about the following fund, and what your opinion is: ING Risk Managed Natural Resources Fund. Looking forward to your response. Thank you!

ING Risk Management Natural Resources Fund, $15.92, symbol IRR on New York (Units outstanding: 22.4 million; Market cap: $357.4 million), is a closed-end fund that holds stocks of companies in the energy, natural-resources and basic-materials industries.

Most of ING Risk Management Natural Resources Fund’s portfolio… Read More