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By Andrs Cardenal - March 23, 2012 | Tickers: EXPE, GOOG, PCLN, TRIP | 0 Comments

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The world is changing very fast, and information is available in ways we couldnt even imagine a few years ago. The travel industry is being revolutionized by many of the new possibilities that internet and related technologies provide, and investors have many opportunities to benefit from these changes.

Lets assume you are considering taking a well-deserved vacation with your family and are looking for the right destination, you will also need a lot of information about how to travel, the most convenient hotels and other important aspects. There is a big chance you may choose to get into Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and start searching for online information. Google has more than 65% of the online search market in the US, and the company leads the online advertising industry.

Google gives consumers the possibility to access many valuable services for free and monetizes the business by selling advertising. If you are planning a trip, you will probably use the Google search engine more than once, and other services like Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Images may be very helpful too. In fact, last December the company launched Google Flight Search, which represents the online giants newest push into online travel.

Competitors have complained about Google using its dominant power over online search to place its own flight search service above those of other players like Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN) and Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE). However, those two companies are still doing quite well when it comes to searching and booking flights, hotels and car rentals online.

These services are extremely useful for travelers; they provide an easy and convenient way to compare prices, check customers reviews and even execute online reservations in real time. Both corporate and vacation travelers are using these services every day more, and the online traveling trend is expected to get stronger in the future as more customers grow accustomed to its advantages and these businesses increase their range of services and value added.

Shares of Priceline were trading below $450 by mid-December and they recently made new all-time highs above $710. Investors may want to wait or a pullback considering the stock has been on such a strong run lately, but earnings and expectations look very strong. Priceline reported a 35.5% increase in sales for last quarter, although the company disappointed in earnings per share, guidance was much higher than expected and shares of Priceline rose by a 6.5% when it reported earnings on February 27.

Expedia has also had a big run lately; it recently hit new historical highs above $34, which is quite a rally from its price of around $28 in mid-December. The company reported some unexciting earnings per share figures in the last quarter blended with positive guidance from management. But although the recent trend in earnings looks similar for Expedia and Priceline, both companies are quite different from a long term growth perspective.

Priceline has increased earnings per share by a 65% annually over the last five years, and analysts are expecting a growth rate of more than 22.5% annually in the next five. On the other hand, Expedia shows an annual 14% growth rate for the last five years and analysts forecast a lower than 11% growth over the next five.

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By Belinda Cao - Wed Mar 21 20:51:08 GMT 2012

Chinese stocks listed in the U.S. climbed for the first time in four days, led by Internet companies, as China moves to bolster credit growth and ward off a worsening economic slowdown.

The Bloomberg China-US Equity Index (CH55BN) of the most-traded Chinese shares in the U.S. added 1.2 percent to 104.66 yesterday in New York, rebounding from an eight-day low. NetEase.com Inc. (NTES), the nations second largest online games operator, surged to a record after renewing its license for World of WarCraft in China. Online book seller E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (DANG) jumped the most in a week, while Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd. traded at the highest premium over its Hong Kong stock in four days.

The Peoples Bank of China announced yesterday it will expand a cut to reserve-requirement ratios to more branches of Agricultural Bank of China Ltd. from March 25. A total 23 billion yuan ($3.6 billion) has been freed up for loans by the moves, the central bank said. Data from home prices to retail sales signal that growth in the worlds largest exporter is slowing. Gross domestic product in the last three months of 2011 rose the least in ten quarters amid Europes debt crisis.

China will continue to be in an easing mode because of the slowdown they are having, and they are concerned about a hard landing, Dave Lutz, head of exchange-traded fund trading and strategy at Baltimore-based Stifel Nicolaus & Co., said by phone yesterday. The PBOC is nimble enough to force liquidity all the way through the system to help them mitigate a slowdown. There is an excellent chance for the rally in Chinese stocks so far this year to continue.

Chinas central bank has lowered the amount that must be kept in reserves by lenders twice since December and has kept interest rates on hold since July. The reserve ratio will be cut by 2 percentage points for 379 branches of Agricultural Bank, the nations third-largest lender, expanding a trial that previously lowered requirements for 563 branches in eight provinces, the PBOC said yesterday.

The iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund, the biggest Chinese exchange-traded fund in the U.S., advanced 0.4 percent to $37.42, snapping a three-day slump. The Standard & Poors 500 Index (SPX) slid for a second day, falling 0.2 percent to 1,402.89.

American depositary deposits of NetEase climbed 3.2 percent to $58.11, the highest price since they started trading in June 2000, data compiled by Bloomberg show. NetEases ADRs have increased 30 percent this year.

Beijing-based NetEase and Blizzard Entertainment Inc., owned by Santa Monica, California-based Activision Blizzard Entertainment Inc., renewed a license for NetEase to operate the World of WarCraft online multiplayer game in mainland China, the two companies said in a joint statement on March 20.

The license renewal for the most popular three-dimensional online game in China removes a key overhang on the stock, Richard Ji, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Morgan Stanley said in a research note yesterday.

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Just as we examine companies each week that may be rising past their fair value, we can also find companies potentially trading at bargain prices. While many investors would rather have nothing to do with companies tipping the scales at 52-week lows, I think it makes a lot of sense to determine whether the market has overreacted to the downside, just as we often do to the upside.

Here's a look at three fallen angels trading near their 52-week lows that could be worth buying.

Dial up this dividendDial-up Internet connections might be for the dinosaurs, and the days of high growth are long gone for United Online (Nasdaq: UNTD) , but that doesn't mean you should ignore the stock at these dirt cheap levels.

While revenue is more or less flat these days, United Online's strict cost controls keep profits moving slightly higher, which, in turn, keeps its dividend at very healthy levels. Currently yielding more than 8%, United Online could offer an investment payback in as little as nine years if it can keep that yield up! Former Internet service providing peer Earthlink (Nasdaq: ELNK) has taken to transforming itself into an IT company in order to save its petering revenue stream, leaving the low-cost ISP space almost exclusively to United Online. Clearly not the most exciting tech company by any means, United Online is trading at just 90% of book value and seven times forward earnings. I don't see the company getting much cheaper from here.

Foreign exchangeWho said students were the only thing you could exchange across continents? Telkom Indonesia (NYSE: TLK) is yet another foreign telecom that has wound up in the delectable dividend column.

The company is currently offering a dividend yield of 7.5% and has grown that yield by an annual rate north of 20% over the past decade. Foreign telecoms aren't going to knock your socks off with enormous growth rates, but their predictable levels of cash flow and lack of competition often make for a consistent dividend and slow but steady growth. Telkom Indonesia has grown revenue fourfold since 2001 and is valued at a reasonable 11 times next year's earnings. Relative to some domestic alternatives, this company offers a good balance of value and income, and it just might be a nice match for a conservatively run portfolio.

An ETF I can digOver the past couple of weeks it's become apparent to me just how inexpensive much of the gold sector has become. While I've had fun picking apart various gold miners that could be attractive plays, this week I'm going to suggest lumping them all together in the Global X Pure Gold Miners ETF (AMEX: GGGG) .

Not only does gold provide a great hedge against inflation -- and, in recent years, against market downturns -- but the fund itself offers a reasonably low 0.59% annual management fee. Its largest holding is Eldorado Gold (NYSE: EGO) , a company with rising short interest that I recently profiled as a solid income producer with expenses that are well under control and increasing output. I don't think you could go wrong with this basket in your portfolio.

Foolish roundupThis week's focus was on high-yielding dividends that could be had on the cheap and ways you can protect yourself from a toppy market and inflation. I'm so confident these three names will bounce off their lows that I'm going to make a CAPScall of outperform on each one.

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