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) and Exelon(EXC Quote).

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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), Chesapeake Energy(CHK Quote), GE(GE Quote) and Fuel-Tech(FTEK Quote).

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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) and Robert Half International(RHI Quote).

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

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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), CSX(CSX Quote) and PDL BioPharma(PDLI Quote).

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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), Baidu.com(BIDU Quote) and Charter Communications(CHTR Quote).

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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)Legg Mason Opportunity Trust and (LMVTX Quote)Legg Mason Value Trust. Miller has recently been adding to positions in some housing stocks, including Lennar(LEN Quote) and Centex(CTX Quote).