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The Sterling Weekly for the week of June 4 , 2010 is now available. A copy of which can be viewed (here). In this week's edition of the Sterling Weekly, I ask is the market signaling a double dip?.

Our most recent Performance Report on the recommendations contained within the Sterling Prime Stock Newsletter can be found (here.) We are proud to announce that 18 of our last 20 recommendations were profitable. This is a 90% success rate with an average profit per trade of $0.70 per share. Additionally archived copies of our Performance Reports are available (here.)

* Our June 3rd, recommendation of DirectTV Group, Inc. 'DTV' @ $38.56 per share reached an intraday high of $39.87 per share for a gain of $1.21 per share.

* Our June 2nd, short sale recommendation of Arcelor Mittal 'MT' @ $28.85 per share, closed @ $26.64 per share on June 7th for a 5 day gain of $2.21 per share.

* Our June 1st short sale recommendation of Baker Hughes 'BHI' opened @ $37.45 per share and reached an intra-day low of $35.85 per share for a gain of $1.60 per share.

* Our May 20th short sale recommendation of Halliburton 'HAL' @ $27.12 per share, closed @ $22.80 per share on June 7th for a gain of $4.32 per share.

* Our May 19th short sale recommendation of Petroleo Brasileiro 'PBR' opened @ $35.56 per share, and reached an intra-day low of $33.08 per share on May 20th for a 2 day gain of $2.48 per share.

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NYSE ARCA Airline Index 'XAL'

Description: The NYSE Arca Airline Index (XAL) is an equal-dollar weighted index designed to measure the performance of highly capitalized companies in the airline industry. The XAL Index tracks the price performance of major U.S. and overseas airlines. The XAL Index was established with a benchmark value of 200.00 on October 21, 1994. The XAL Index is rebalanced quarterly based on closing prices on the third Friday in January, April, July & October to ensure that each component stock continues to represent approximately equal weight in the index. Additional information on the 'XAL' can be found at the exchanges product page (here.)

XAL Components

Company

Ticker

US AIrways Grp., Inc.

LCC

UAL Corp.

UAUA

AMR Corp.

AMR

Southwest Airlines Co.

LUV

Lan Airlines, SA.

LFL

Ryanair Holdings Ads.

RYAAY

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

DAL

Continental Airlines

CAL

Alaska Air Group

ALK

JetBlue Airways

JBLU

Gol - Linhas Aereas

GOL

Skywest, Inc.

SKYW

TAM, SA.

TAM

Our Analysis:

ETF: Our recommendation for an ETF that best racks the NYSE Arca Airline Index 'XAL' is the Claymoore/NYSE Arca Airline ETF 'FAA.'

ETF Description: Claymore/NYSE Arca Airline ETF (the Fund) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance of an equity index called the NYSE Arca Global Airline Index (the Index). The Index is a modified equal-dollar weighted Index designed to measure the performance of highly capitalized and liquid United States and international passenger airline companies identified as being in the airline industry, and listed on developed and emerging global market exchanges. The Fund's index provider is Archipelago Holdings Inc. (Arca), an affiliate of NYSE Euronext, Inc. The Fund will at all times invest at least 80% of its total assets in common stock, American depositary receipts (ADRs) and global depositary receipts (GDRs) that comprise the Index and investments that have economic characteristics that are substantially identical to the economic characteristics of the component securities that comprise the Index. Claymore Advisors, LLC acts as the Fund's investment adviser.

Recent articles and Reports:

Sterling Weekly, March 15th, 2010. Our expectations for the 'XAL' moving higher. Read more (here.)

A full list of all the indices tracked by Sterling Investments can be found (here)