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Barclays On Internet Stocks: Eight Mega Trends To Watch

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Mark Melin
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In a 135 page report titled “Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads,” Barclays added coverage to eight new companies and outlined its “uber,” or highly positive, bullish outlook on Internet stocks.

The report reasons that because people are “sharing more, communicating more, watching more and buying more online” that the stocks that “touch consumers the most often are going to be the big winners.”

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Citing eight trends to watch, the report then goes deep into research on eight Internet stocks, giving overweight ratings to the likes of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)  while Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) earned an underweight.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.