Hot High Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Commission turned up the heat on Spain and Slovenia Wednesday, warning that the two struggling countries are facing "excessive" problems fixing their economies, while France's government came under pressure to get its debt under control.

In its health-check of European Union countries with debt and deficit problems, the Commission singled out Spain and Slovenia as countries where swift action was needed. Both countries have been hit by recession, high unemployment, and ailing financial sectors.

The Commission's report recommended that the two countries must both move swiftly to fix their ailing banking sectors -- either through recapitalizing or winding down some banks -- to ensure a path toward sustainable growth.

As well as being the EU's executive branch in Brussels, the Commission is also the 27-country bloc's economic watchdog, with the power to identify and pressure countries with vulnerable economies into taking action.

Hot High Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Apollo Global Management LLC(APO)

Apollo Global Management, LLC is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pension and endowment funds, institutional investors, individual investors, pooled investment vehicles, and corporations. It manages client focused portfolios, hedge funds, real estate funds, and private equity funds for its clients. The firm invests in the fixed income and alternative investment markets across the globe. Its alternative investments include investment in private equity and real estate markets. The firm's private equity investments include traditional buyouts, distressed buyouts and debt investments, corporate partner buyouts, distressed asset, turnaround, corporate restructuring, special situation, acquisition, and industry consolidation transactions. Its fixed income investments include distressed debt, senior bank loans, and value oriented fixed income securities. The firm seeks to invest in chemicals; commodities; consumer and retail; oil an d gas, metals, mining, agriculture, commodities, distribution and transportation; financial and business services; manufacturing and industrial; media distribution, cable, entertainment, and leisure; energy, packaging and materials; and satellite and wireless. It seeks to invest in companies based in across North America with a focus on United States, and Europe. The firm employs a combination of contrarian, value, and distressed strategies to make its investments. It conducts an in-house research to create its investment portfolio. The firm seeks to acquire minority positions in its portfolio companies. Apollo Global Management, LLC was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in New York, New York with nine additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Roger]

  Apollo Global Management, LLC. (APO) is trading around $18. APO is an investment management company based in New York. This company recently went public. These shares have traded in a range between $17.65 to $19, since going public. Earnings estimates were not available at Yahoo Finance. The book value is stated to be $1.54. You can see the insider buying here.

  Who is buying at Apollo: The CFO, directors, and an officer at APO bought millions of dollars worth of shares at the initial public offering price of $19 per share. Since these shares are already trading below that level, I would wait to see where this stock finds support before buying a significant amount of shares.

Hot High Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Gulfside Minerals Ltd (GMG.V)

Gulfside Minerals Ltd., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties. It primarily explores for coal deposits, as well as for gold, silver, and copper deposits. The company holds interest in the Onjuul coal project located to the southwest of the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It also has options to acquire 100% ownership of 4 groups of mining claims, including the Northern Treasure, Bryer, Argonaut, and Golden Fleece groups, totaling 7761.95 hectares located in the northwestern British Columbia. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Best Stocks To Invest In: Evolving Systems Inc.(EVOL)

Evolving Systems, Inc. provides software solutions and services to the wireless, wireline, and Internet protocol (IP) cable markets. It offers Dynamic SIM Allocation solution that offers carriers a way to provide wireless services by activating and assigning resources to the wireless device when it is first used; and Tertio, a service activation solution for carriers to activate a new subscriber or to add a new service to an existing subscriber, as well as provides an operating environment to manage their voice, data, and content service needs for their IP networks. The company?s LNP and WNP software solutions comprise OrderPath order entry; NumberManager network provisioning; LNP DataServer data warehousing; VeriPort NPAC testing; and Verify product suite for monitoring carriers? application communications. In addition, the company provides billing mediation products, which include Evident that supports convergent voice, data, and content services, and enables the managem ent of data, allowing reconciliation of data inputs and outputs. Further, it offers network mediation products, including Mediation Central that supports a range of technologies that carriers deploy in their network, and provides support for wireline, broadband, transport, and wireless networks; and Traffic Data Management System, a product for wireline carriers to collect usage data from their circuit switch networks. The company also provides various professional and integration services for the design, customization, integration, and deployment of its products. It operates primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Greece, and Canada. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Vatalyst]

  Shares are trading around $6.90, against their 52-week trading range of $6.04 to $8.35. At the current market price, the company is capitalized at $74.62 million. Earnings per share for the last year were $1.71, and it paid a dividend of $0.20, yielding 2.90%..

  Evolution Systems is signing customers to its products at quite a pace. Latest is the selection of its Dynamic SIM Allocation solution by a Russian carrier. This follows sign ups in Africa and India. Its strategy of targeting developing economies is starting to pay dividends, and this should lead to increasing dividends for its shareholders. Its operating margin is almost twice that of rival Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR) – 14.3% versus 8.3% - and this is likely to improve further as business development costs turn to sales in the coming months. Buy for growth and income.

Hot High Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Aka Ventures Inc. (AKA.V)

Phoenix Copper Corporation engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties primarily in North America. It focuses on exploration for gold, silver, and copper. The company holds interests in the Long Valley Gold property located in the southern region of Mineral County, Nevada; and the Copper Joe, a porphyry copper-molybdenum prospect, situated in Mohave County, Arizona. It also holds an option to acquire a 60% interest in the Kabba Project located in Arizona; and an option to acquire a 75% interest in the Mine Canyon Project that covers 340 acres and is located in southern Arizona. The company was formerly known as AKA Ventures Inc. and changed its name to Phoenix Copper Corporation in September 2012. Phoenix Copper Corporation was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Hot High Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Abacus Mining & Exploration Cor (AME.V)

Abacus Mining & Exploration Corporation, an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Canada. The company, through a 20% interest in KGHM Ajax Mining Inc., holds a 20% interest in the feasibility stage Ajax copper-gold project located near Kamloops, British Columbia. Abacus Mining & Exploration Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.