This Week's Barron's Roundup

Editor's note: Welcome to Stockpickr's "Barron's Roundup." Each weekend, James Altucher presents Stockpickr portfolios related to articles in the latest issue of Barron's.

Speaking of Dividends: This Barron's column highlights the latest dividend increases, initiations and cutbacks. This week's issue has information on Pfizer(PFE Quote - Cramer on PFE - Stock Picks) and Exelon(EXC Quote - Cramer on EXC - Stock Picks).

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Top Insider Purchases of the Week: Insider purchases are a lot more predictive than insider selling. Barron's lists the stocks that insiders are buying, and we build a portfolio with those stocks. There's been interesting activity in IMAX(IMAX Quote - Cramer on IMAX - Stock Picks), Chesapeake Energy(CHK Quote - Cramer on CHK - Stock Picks), GE(GE Quote - Cramer on GE - Stock Picks) and Fuel-Tech(FTEK Quote - Cramer on FTEK - Stock Picks).

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Barron's Summaries: Each week, Barron's publishes bullish and bearish stories on a variety of stocks. We present summaries of those stories in this portfolio. This week's issue includes bullish stories on Trex(TWP Quote - Cramer on TWP - Stock Picks) and Robert Half International(RHI Quote - Cramer on RHI - Stock Picks).

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Research Reports: The latest analyst research reports highlighted by Barron's, including reports this week on Goldman Sachs(GS Quote - Cramer on GS - Stock Picks) and Morgan Stanley(MS Quote - Cramer on MS - Stock Picks).

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Latest Activist Hedge Fund Purchases: Which companies are the top hedge funds chasing? This week's list includes names like Transmeta(TMTA Quote - Cramer on TMTA - Stock Picks), CSX(CSX Quote - Cramer on CSX - Stock Picks) and PDL BioPharma(PDLI Quote - Cramer on PDLI - Stock Picks).

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Barron's Best and Worst Tech Stocks Of 2007: Barron's discussed the best and worst technology stocks for 2007 in this week's "Technology Trader" column. Some of the names mentioned were First Solar(FSLR Quote - Cramer on FSLR - Stock Picks), Baidu.com(BIDU Quote - Cramer on BIDU - Stock Picks) and Charter Communications(CHTR Quote - Cramer on CHTR - Stock Picks).

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Bill Miller Of Legg Mason Stock Holdings: Barron's took a look at some of the holdings of Bill Miller's (LMOPX Quote - Cramer on LMOPX - Stock Picks)Legg Mason Opportunity Trust and (LMVTX Quote - Cramer on LMVTX - Stock Picks)Legg Mason Value Trust. Miller has recently been adding to positions in some housing stocks, including Lennar(LEN Quote - Cramer on LEN - Stock Picks) and Centex(CTX Quote - Cramer on CTX - Stock Picks).