PRINCETON, NJ, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Tickerspy (http://www.tickerspy.com), an investing website featuring over 250 unique, proprietary Indexes, announced the creation of the Business Development Company (BDC) Stocks Index, which includes among its components TICC Capital (NASDAQ:TICC), Blackrock Kelso Capital (NASDAQ:BKCC), Compass Diversified Holdings (NASDAQ:CODI), Fifth Street Finance (NYSE:FSC) and Hercules Technology Growth Capital (NASDAQ:HTGC).

To gain immediate access to the Business Development Company (BDC) Stocks Index, a complete list of its components, and various charts and related metrics, please visit the following link:

http://www.tickerspy.com/index/Business-Development-Company-(BDC)-Stocks?refer=prn15

The Business Development Company (BDC) Stocks Index is up 5.4% versus 4% for the Samp;P 500 over the last month, as investors look to these uniquely structured firms for their high payouts and potential for appreciation.  Components in the Business Development Company (BDC) Stocks Index offer an average yield of 7.7%, and the Index as a whole has outperformed the Samp;P 500 by over 5% since the start of 2008.  

Tickerspy Indexes use a net asset value calculation and cover a wide range of market sectors and segments, including dry bulk shipping stocks, Canadian energy trusts, gold and silver stocks, alternative energy stocks, money center banks, and many more.  Tickerspy also offers various other high-yield Indexes, including for closed-end funds, royalty trusts, MLPs, REITs and several others.

About Tickerspy:

Tickerspy is a free, stock market-focused website that lets users track proprietary Indexes and institutional holdings.  Tickerspy members can also track each others portfolios and share investment ideas and news.  In addition, Tickerspy members receive a free, customized daily email that includes portfolio performance, alerts, and news on the stocks they are tracking.

NOTE: This release was published by Indie Research Advisors, LLC, a registered investment advisor with CRD #131926.  Interested parties may visit adviserinfo.sec.gov for additional information.  Past performance does not guarantee future results. Investors should always research companies and securities before making any investments. Nothing herein should be construed as an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any security.

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PRINCETON, NJ, Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Tickerspy (http://www.tickerspy.com), an investing website featuring over 250 unique, proprietary Indexes, announced the creation of the Business Development Company (BDC) Stocks Index, which includes among its components The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX), Apollo Investment (Nasdaq: AINV), Prospect Capital (Nasdaq: PSEC), Ares Capital (Nasdaq: ARCC) and Pennant Park Investment (Nasdaq: PNNT).

To gain immediate access to the Chinese Internet Stocks Index, a complete list of its components, and various charts and related metrics, please visit the following link:

http://www.tickerspy.com/index/Business-Development-Company-(BDC)-Stocks?refer=prn14

The Business Development Company (BDC) Stocks Index is up 4.3% versus 1.5% for the Samp;P 500 over the last month, as investors look to these uniquely structured firms for their high payouts and potential for appreciation.  Components in the Business Development Company (BDC) Stocks Index offer an average yield of 7.8%, and the Index as a whole has outperformed the Samp;P 500 by over 6% since the start of 2008.  

Tickerspy Indexes use a net asset value calculation and cover a wide range of market sectors and segments, including dry bulk shipping stocks, Canadian energy trusts, gold and silver stocks, alternative energy stocks, money center banks, and many more.  Tickerspy also offers various other high-yield Indexes, including for closed-end funds, royalty trusts, MLPs, REITs and several others.

About Tickerspy:

Tickerspy is a free, stock market-focused website that lets users track proprietary Indexes and institutional holdings.  Tickerspy members can also track each others portfolios and share investment ideas and news.  In addition, Tickerspy members receive a free, customized daily email that includes portfolio performance, alerts, and news on the stocks they are tracking.

NOTE: This release was published by Indie Research Advisors, LLC, a registered investment advisor with CRD #131926.  Interested parties may visit adviserinfo.sec.gov for additional information.  Past performance does not guarantee future results. Investors should always research companies and securities before making any investments. Nothing herein should be construed as an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any security.

CONTACT: Marcia Martin, tickerspy, +1-888-278-5515

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By Shiyin Chen

Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Oil climbed and gold advanced to a seven-week high, while Asian stocks snapped a three-day rally amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.

Crude for April delivery jumped 1.9 percent in New York to $91.38 a barrel as of 12:30 pm in Tokyo, gaining for a fourth day. Gold increased 0.4 percent and silver rose to a 30-year high. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slid 0.2 percent to 139.59. Standard amp; Poors 500 Index futures retreated 0.1 percent. US financial markets are shut for a holiday. The yen strengthened against 14 of its 16 most actively traded counterparts.

Libyan security forces attacked anti-government protesters, drawing condemnation from the US and Europe, while Chinese authorities blocked foreign news reports on protests across the country to stamp out any movement toward pro-democracy revolts. Rising fuel prices prompted China to increase retail gasoline and diesel prices for the first time this year after the central bank announced on Feb. 18 an increase in lenders reserve ratios, while Vietnam today said it will raise electricity prices.

Youve got to be very concerned, particularly because it can affect the oil price, and if you have the oil price spike up another $20, $30, you could reenter a global recession, Bill Belchere, global chief economist at Mirae Asset Securities, said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Hong Kong.

The April contract for crude earlier gained as much as 2.2 percent to $91.70 in New York. The less actively traded March contract, which expires tomorrow, rose 1.3 percent to $87.30. Brent crude advanced 0.9 percent in London.

lsquo;Market Balance

The tensions in the Middle East, particularly in Libya with the uprising against Qaddafi, is having an impact, Ben Westmore, a minerals and energy economist at National Australia Bank Ltd. in Melbourne, said by telephone today. Its not a Saudi Arabia or an Iran, but it would have an impact on the market balance if you were to see oil supply limited because of these conflicts.

Amid the widening revolt in Libya, whose oil exports are equivalent to 8 percent of US consumption, leader Muammar Qaddafis son went on state television to warn that a civil war would risk the countrys oil wealth and invite a return of colonial powers.

Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, in a broadcast carried on US cable networks, said the Libyan army made errors in handling anti- government protests and that almost 100 people had been killed, less than half the toll compiled by Human Rights Watch. He also said that some demonstrators had captured military equipment.

Gold for immediate delivery rallied to $1,394.63 an ounce, the highest level since Jan. 4. Silver climbed 1 percent to $31.9875 an ounce, the highest level in 30 years.

Stocks Fall

About five stocks fell for every three that rose on MSCIs Asian index, following a 3 percent rise last week, its biggest advance since the period ended Dec. 3. The Shanghai Composite Index fluctuated after the Peoples Bank of China raised reserve ratios by half a percentage point. Vietnams VN Index slumped 4.4 percent, the most since November 2009, after Hoang Quoc Vuong, deputy minister of trade and industry, said average electricity prices will increase by 15.3 percent from March 1.

BlueScope Steel Ltd., Australias largest steelmaker, dropped 3.8 percent after saying its first-half loss widened. Samsung Engineering Co., which this month said it won a contract for a sewage treatment plant in Bahrain, slid 2.8 percent.

Losses were capped by a gain in commodity suppliers, with Inpex Corp., a Japanese oil explorer, rising 1.9 percent and Korea Zinc Co., which producers gold and silver, rallying 3.6 percent. PetroChina Co. added 0.8 percent in Hong Kong trading after the National Development and Reform Commission boosted gasoline and diesel prices by as much as 4.6 percent.

Yemen, Bahrain

Middle East stocks fell yesterday, with Dubais DFM General Index tumbling 3.7 percent. Egypts stock market, which last opened on Jan. 27, will remain suspended today. Libya became the latest focal point of demonstrations as uprisings that toppled leaders in Tunisia and Egypt spread to Yemen, Djibouti and Bahrain, prompting governments to crack down on calls for reform.

US futures indicate that stocks may fall when markets resume trading after the Presidents Day break today. The Samp;P 500 rose 0.2 percent on Feb. 18, a third day of gains, amid higher-than-estimated corporate earnings.

The Samp;P/Case-Shiller index of home values in 20 US cities fell 2.4 percent in December from a year ago, the biggest annual decrease in a year, according to a Bloomberg survey before tomorrows report. The National Association of Realtors will say on Feb. 23 that existing-home sales fell 1.5 percent to a 5.2 million annual pace, a separate Bloomberg survey showed.

The dollar traded at $1.3680 per euro from $1.3693 in New York on Feb. 18, after falling to $1.3716, the lowest level since Feb. 10. The yen rose to 113.68 per euro from 113.9, after earlier falling to 114.05, the lowest level since Nov. 22.

Won, Yuan

South Koreas won fell 0.5 percent to 1,117.10 per dollar, following its biggest weekly gain this year. Emerging-market stock mutual funds had their fourth consecutive week of outflows in the week ended Feb. 16, losing $5.45 billion, according to data compiled by research firm EPFR Global. It was the longest streak of outflows since October 2008, the Massachusetts-based EPFR said in an e-mail on Feb. 18.

Chinas yuan advanced to a 17-year high on speculation policy makers will let the currency gain to tame inflation. The central bank set the yuan reference rate at the strongest level since 2005 after Governor Zhou Xiaochuan was cited by China Business News as saying in Paris on Feb. 18 that exporters have room to survive more appreciation. The Group of 20 finance ministers said yesterday that theyll craft an early warning system for economic imbalances.

The yuan rose as much as 0.1 percent to 6.5658 per dollar earlier today, the strongest level since China unified official and market exchange rates at the end of 1993, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System in Shanghai. The spot rate traded at 6.5676 per dollar.

–With assistance from Susan Li in Hong Kong, Ben Sharples in Melbourne and Norie Kuboyama and Toshiro Hasegawa in Tokyo. Editor: Rocky Swift, Patrick Chu

To contact the reporter on this story: Shiyin Chen in Singapore at schen37@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Rocky Swift at rswift5@bloomberg.net.

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China’s stocks fell, extending last
week’s drop, after China International Capital Corp. said
inflation will jump this month and that investors should be
cautious over smaller companies because of valuations.

China Construction Bank Corp., the nation’s second-biggest
bank, fell 1.1 percent after the 21st Century Business Herald
said the bank regulator will require lenders to control growth
in loans to local government financing vehicles. Angel Yeast Co.
plunged by the daily limit, pacing losses for smallcaps, as the
food company’s profit missed analyst estimates. China Petroleum
and Chemical Corp. jumped the most in two months after
Securities Times reported the company’s 2010 profit including
minority interest may exceed 100 billion yuan.

“Investors don’t see any fundamental changes to support a
market rebound so far,” said Zhou Xi, a strategist at Bohai
Securities Co. in Tianjin. “It’s not time to talk about gains
but safe equity allocations.”

The Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks the bigger of
China’s stock exchanges, fell 19.6, or 0.7 percent to 2,695.72
at the 3 pm close. The CSI 300 Index slipped 1 percent to
2,954.23, led by declines for energy, health-care and consumer
staples companies. The CSI Smallcap 500 Index lost 2.4 percent
to 4,398.50, the lowest in five months.

The Shanghai gauge slid 2.7 percent last week, driving
valuations to 12.7 times estimated earnings, near the weakest in
two years. The index has lost 15 percent from an almost seven-
month high on Nov. 8, after the central raised the reserve
requirement ratio for banks and interest rates to curb inflation.

Inflation Outlook

China’s consumer price index may increase 5.5 percent in
January because of pressure from prices over the Chinese New
Year holiday, CICC said in a report today, referring to the
holiday that starts early next month. Inflation rose to a 28-
month high of 5.1 percent in November before slowing to 4.6
percent last month.

China Construction Bank fell 1.1 percent to 4.67 yuan. Agricultural Bank of China Ltd., the third-largest lender, lost
1.2 percent to 2.59 yuan.

The banking regulator will require lenders to “strictly”
control growth in loans to local government financing vehicles
in 2011 and will hold bank executives accountable for any
violations, the 21st Century Business Herald reported during the
weekend, citing an unidentified person.

The regulator will only allow a “moderate” increase in
loans to local government affordable housing programs this year,
the report said.

The CSI Smallcap 500 slid to the lowest since Aug. 25.
Still, the gauge trades at 43.4 times earnings, compared with
17.7 times for the CSI 300 Index. It has fallen 11 percent this
year after gaining 98 percent over the past two years.

Smallcaps Drop

Investors should be cautious about smaller companies
because their valuations may see a “remarkable” decline in
coming years, CICC, the top-ranked brokerage for China research
in Asiamoney magazine’s annual survey, said in a separate report.

Angel Yeast slid 10 percent to 35.61 yuan, the biggest loss
since June 19, 2008. Earnings per share in 2010 were 0.93 yuan,
according to a statement to the Shanghai exchange. This was
lower than the market consensus estimate, Zhao Jinhou and Wang
Qi, analysts at Shenyin amp; Wanguo Securities Co, wrote.

Kweichow Moutai Co., the biggest maker of baijiu liquor,
led declines for a gauge of consumer staples in the CSI 300,
falling 2.5 percent to 171.52 yuan, the lowest since Nov. 18.
The gauge, down 1.9 percent today, trades at 36.5 times reported
earnings after rallying 20 percent over the past six months,
according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

“This is going to be a quite challenging year for Chinese
equities,” Han Ching Choong, portfolio manager at Kriya Capital
Ltd., said in a Bloomberg Television interview.

Rail Stocks

China Petroleum and Chemical, known as Sinopec, jumped 1.2
percent to 8.80 yuan, its highest close since Nov. 15. The
company’s 2010 profit including minority interest may exceed 100
billion yuan, compared with 64 billion yuan a year earlier, the
Securities Times reported, citing a report from Money Weekly
magazine. Huang Wensheng, the Beijing-based spokesman of Sinopec,
didn’t reply to calls to his office and mobile phone.

PetroChina Ltd., the nation’s largest oil producer, added
1.4 percent to 11.28 yuan.

China Railway Construction Corp., the builder of more than
half of the nation’s railroads, surged 3.6 percent to 7.43 yuan,
the highest Nov. 11. The company was raised to “neutral” at
Credit Suisse Group AG, after the company said it will sell an
unprofitable contract to its parent for 2.08 billion yuan.

China will have 16,000 kilometers (9,940 miles) of high-
speed railway by 2015, Wang Zhiguo, vice minister of railways,
said. The total length of China’s railways may rise to 120,000
kilometers by then from 91,000 kilometers now, Wang said.

Bonds Preference

Chinese companies raised over three times more from bonds
than from equities this year in a record start for the debt
market as government efforts to restrain inflation curbed access
to loans and the stock market.

Corporate bond sales totaled 100 billion yuan ($15.2
billion) since Jan. 1, up 60 percent from a year earlier and the
most since Bloomberg started tracking the data in 1999. Domestic
currency share sales in 2011 total 28.8 billion yuan, down from
34 billion yuan a year earlier, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

–Irene Shen. Editors: Allen Wan, Richard Frost

To contact the Bloomberg News staff on this story:
Irene Shen in Shanghai at
ishen4@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Darren Boey at
dboey@bloomberg.net.

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