Top Shipping Stocks To Watch Right Now

By offering affordable prices and speedy shipping, Amazon.com�has forever changed the retail environment. As a result, big-box retailers, such as Target (NYSE: TGT  ) and Best Buy�must find new ways to attract consumers to their stores. For the world's largest electronics retailer, this means matching prices offered on Amazon.com�and rolling out store-within-a-store displays for brands like Apple and Samsung. Target has implemented similar strategies in its stores.

Despite these efforts, attracting more foot traffic to their stores remains a challenge for retailers. Perhaps revolutionizing the coupon will do the trick.

Modernizing the coupon
Who doesn't like a good deal? Target, known for its trendy products and discount prices, is currently testing a digital coupon service that centers on social media. The discount retailer, together with Facebook (NASDAQ: FB  ) , launched Target Cartwheel last week. With this new service, shoppers can unlock special coupons on hundreds of products, which they can then redeem in any Target store.

Top Shipping Stocks To Watch Right Now: Yongnam Holdings Limited (Y02.SI)

Yongnam Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, provides engineering and construction services primarily in Singapore, the Middle East, and other countries in Asia. The company�s Structural Steelworks segment offers engineering coordination, detailing, and fabrication and erection of structural steel services. This segment is also involved in the design, fabrication, supply, and erection of steel structural frames for long span aircraft hangars, high rise buildings, and commercial and industrial buildings, as well as for infrastructure related developments. Its Specialist Civil Engineering division provides modular strutting system for load carrying and providing clear spans. This modular strutting system includes laced universal beams of various cross-sections in modular lengths; single and double waler beams in various lengths, intermediate supporting beams, king posts, bracing, and waler support brackets; and a range of strut to waler joints to cover the used angles. The company�s Mechanical Engineering segment engages in the installation of mechanical equipment and plant; and supply, fabrication, and installation of mechanical components, as well as offers plant maintenance services. Yongnam Holdings Limited was founded in 1971 and is based in Singapore.

Top Shipping Stocks To Watch Right Now: Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc.(PNFP)

Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Pinnacle National Bank that provides commercial banking products and services to individuals, small-to medium-sized businesses, and professional entities in Tennessee. It offers various deposit products, including savings, checking, interest-bearing checking, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts. The company also offers commercial loans comprising equipment loans and working capital loans; commercial and residential real estate loans, and construction and development loans; and loans to individuals for personal, family, investment, and household purposes, including secured and unsecured installment and term loans, residential first mortgage loans, home equity loans, and home equity lines of credit. In addition, it provides various investment products, such as mutual funds, variable annuities, money market instruments, the United States treasury securities, bonds, fixed annuities, stocks , financial planning, asset management accounts, and listed options; fiduciary and investment management services for individual and commercial clients, including personal trust, endowments, foundations, individual retirement accounts, pensions, and custody services; investment advisory services; and insurance products primarily in the property and casualty area. Further, the company offers telephone and Internet banking, debit cards, automated teller machines, remote and direct deposit, and cash management services. As of January 17, 2012, it operated 29 offices in 8 Middle Tennessee counties and 3 offices in Knoxville. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Top 10 High Tech Stocks To Buy For 2014: Ascent Solar Technologies Inc.(ASTI)

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a development stage company, focuses on commercializing flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules using its proprietary technology. The company intends to manufacture roll-format PV modules that use copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) on a plastic substrate. Its proprietary manufacturing process deposits multiple layers of materials, including a thin-film of CIGS semiconductor material on a plastic substrate and laser patterns the layers to create interconnected PV cells or PV modules through monolithic integration process. The company would serve the building applied photovoltaic (BAPV) and building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) market, as well as specialty markets, such as defense, portable power, transportation, electronic integrated photovoltaic, and space and near-space. It has a strategic relationship with Norsk Hydro Produksjon AS to access customers in the BIPV/BAPV markets worldwide. Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. was founded in 200 5 and is based in Thornton, Colorado.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Chuck]

  Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.(NASDAQ: ASTI) closing price in the stock market Tuesday, Jan. 3, was $0.42. ASTI is trading -34.41% below its 50 day moving average and -50.53% below its 200 day moving average. ASTI is -89.37% below its 52-week high of $3.95 and 16.67% above its 52-week low of $0.46. ASTI‘s PE ratio is N/A and its market cap is $16.36M .

  Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. is a development stage company. ASTI focuses on commercializing flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules using its proprietary technology. ASTI intends to manufacture roll-format PV modules that use copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) on a plastic substrate.