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Stock Market Predictions 2012

The recent stock market crash has unnerving echoes of the banking crisis in 2008.

The difference is that much of the crippling bad debt carried by banks has now been passed on to governments (and their taxpayers). Oh, and banks still have an unquantifiable level of bad debt anyway. Not good.

The FTSE 100 endured a torrid week in early August, losing 10 per cent. Massive volatility followed with the FTSE 100 dipping below 5000 points. It hit a low of 4944.

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That was a drop of nearly 20 per cent, down from more than 5900 a month earlier.

The slump handed back nearly all of the gains made in the past year.

Stock Market Predictions 2012: Lexington Realty Trust (LXP)

 Lexington Corporate Properties Trust operates as a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT). The company acquires, owns, and manages a portfolio of office, industrial, and retail properties net-leased to corporate tenants in the United States. It also provides investment advisory and asset management services to institutional investors in the net lease area. As of June 30, 2005, the company operated 185 properties and managed 2 properties. Lexington Corporate Properties Trust has elected to qualify as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. As a REIT, it would not be taxed on the portion of its income, which is distributed to shareholders, provided it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in New York City.

Stock Market Predictions 2012: FirstCity Financial Corp. (FCFC)

 FirstCity Financial Corporation operates as a financial services company. The company operates in two segments, Portfolio Asset Acquisition and Resolution, and Special Situations Platform. The Portfolio Asset Acquisition and Resolution segment acquires portfolios of performing and non-performing commercial and consumer loans, real estate assets, and certain other assets at a discount to their legal principal balances or appraised values; and services and resolves these assets in an effort to maximize the present value of the ultimate cash recoveries. The Special Situations Platform segment provides investment capital to privately-held middle-market companies through flexible capital structuring arrangements. Its capital investments primarily take the form of senior and junior financing arrangements, as well as include direct equity investments, common equity warrants, leveraged buyouts, and distressed debt transactions. The company operates principally in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. FirstCity Financial Corporation was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Waco, Texas.

Stock Market Predictions 2012: Primus Guaranty LTD. (PRS)

 Primus Guaranty, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment manager and as a credit derivative product company. It manages credit swap and cash investment portfolios of its affiliates; and collateralized loan obligations, collateralized swap obligations, investment fund vehicles, and separately managed accounts on behalf of third parties. The company also provides management, consulting, and information technology services to its affiliates. In addition, it sells credit swaps primarily to global financial institutions and credit swap dealers against investment grade credit obligations of corporate and sovereign issuers. The company offers credit swaps on a single specified reference entity, multiple reference entities, and asset-backed securities. Primus Guaranty, Ltd. was founded in 1998 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Stock Market Predictions 2012: Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (ATW)

 Atwood Oceanics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in offshore drilling, and the completion of exploratory and developmental oil and gas wells. The company owns semisubmersible rigs, semisubmersible tender assist rigs, jack-up drilling rigs, and submersible drilling rigs. As of November 22, 2010, it operated nine mobile offshore drilling units located in offshore southeast Asia, offshore Africa, offshore Australia, offshore South America, and the Mediterranean Sea. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Stock Market Predictions 2012: Federal Signal Corp. (FSS)

 Federal Signal Corporation designs and manufactures a suite of products and integrated solutions for municipal, governmental, industrial, and commercial customers worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Safety and Security Systems, Fire Rescue, and Environmental Solutions. The Safety and Security Systems segment offers various systems for automated license plate recognition, campus and community alerting, emergency vehicles, first responder interoperable communications, industrial communications and command, municipal networked security, vehicle classification, parking revenue, and access control. This segment also provides products, such as lightbars and sirens, public warning sirens, and public safety software. The Fire Rescue segment offers articulated and telescopic aerial platforms for rescue, fire fighting, and maintenance purposes. This segment sells its products to municipal and industrial fire services, civil defense authorities, rental companies, electric utilities and industrial customers. The Environmental Solutions segment provides various self-propelled street cleaning vehicles, vacuum loader vehicles, municipal catch basin/sewer cleaning vacuum trucks, and water blasting equipment. The company was founded in 1901 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Stock Market Predictions 2012: Domtar Corporation (UFS)

 Domtar Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of uncoated freesheet paper, papergrade, fluff, and specialty pulp products in North America. The company operates in two segments, Papers and Paper Merchants. The Papers segment offers business papers, including copy and electronic imaging papers, which are used with ink jet and laser printers, photocopiers, and plain-paper fax machines, as well as computer papers, preprinted forms, and digital papers. It also provides commercial printing and publishing papers consisting uncoated freesheet papers, such as offset papers and opaques used in sheet and roll fed offset presses and digital printing; and publishing papers comprising tradebook and lightweight uncoated papers used primarily in book publishing applications, such as textbooks, dictionaries, catalogs, magazines, hard cover novels, and financial documents. In addition, this segment offers converting and specialty papers, which consist of base papers that are converted into finished products, such as envelopes, tablets, business forms, and data processing/computer forms. It sells papers to paper merchants, office equipment manufacturers, stationers, retail outlets, commercial printers, converters, and end users. The Paper Merchants segment involves in purchasing, warehousing, selling, and distributing business papers, printing and publishing papers, and industrial products to commercial printers, publishers, quick copy firms, catalog and retail companies, and institutional entities. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Stock Market Predictions 2012: NTS Realty Holdings LP (NLP)

 NTS Realty Holdings Limited Partnership engages in the development, construction, ownership, and operation of multifamily, and commercial and retail real estate properties. As of June 30, 2011, it owned 23 properties, including 6 commercial properties, 15 multifamily properties, and 2 retail properties located in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky; Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida; Indianapolis, Indiana; Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee; Richmond, Virginia; and Atlanta, Georgia. NTS Realty Capital, Inc. and NTS Realty Partners, LLC serve as the general partners of the company. NTS Realty Holdings Limited Partnership is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Stock Market Predictions 2012: Skystar Bio Pharmaceutical Company (SKBI)

 Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical Company engages in the research, development, production, marketing, and sale of veterinary healthcare and medical care products in the People?s Republic of China. Its products include veterinary medicine for poultry and livestock; micro-organism products; bio-pharmaceutical veterinary vaccines; and feed additives. The company offers its products through distributors and directly to customers. Skystar Bio-Pharmaceutical Company is headquartered in Xi?an, the People?s Republic of China.