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DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd., $6.47, symbol DRT on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 84.0 million; Market cap: $553.5 million; www.dirtt.net), designs and builds customized office interiors. DIRTT stands for “doing it right this time.” The company believes its ICE 3-D software lets it deliver pre-made, customizable interiors faster and more efficiently than traditional construction methods. DIRTT first sold shares to the public at $3 each and began trading on Toronto in November 2013. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, the company’s revenue rose 33.1%, to $62.1 million from $46.7 million a year earlier. DIRTT gets 80% of its revenue from clients in the U.S., so it gains from a higher U.S. dollar. As well, increased demand from the financial services, real estate, retail and scientific industries offset a decline in projects from oil and gas companies....

IAMGold has mines in West Africa, Quebec and South America, but its most valuable asset in today’s weak gold market is its cash position.

Today, Pat McKeough revealed his 3 Best U.S. Stocks of the Year in the latest issue of Wall Street Stock Forecaster. You can be among the first to see these picks and act on his recommendations. And you can save on a full year of Pat’s top U.S. stock recommendations in Wall Street Stock Forecaster…starting with a 30-day free trial. Choose your best price now....

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PLEASE NOTE: Today, Pat McKeough revealed his Top 3 Aggressive Stocks of the Year in Stock Pickers Digest. You can still be among the first to see these picks and act on his recommendations.

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WAL-MART STORES INC., $62.68, New York symbol WMT, is closing 269 of its less profitable stores; it currently has 11,600 outlets worldwide.

Of the total, 154 will be in the U.S., including all 102 of its smaller Walmart Express locations....

PLEASE NOTE: Today, Pat McKeough revealed his Top 3 Aggressive Stocks of the Year in Stock Pickers Digest. You can still be among the first to see these picks and act on his recommendations. And you can save on a full year of Pat’s top stock recommendations in Stock Pickers Digest…starting with a 30-day free trial. Choose your best price now...

We’re still positive on the long-term outlook for stocks. But in a time of rising market volatility, plunging commodity prices and international tension, it’s more important than ever to diversify, rather than focus on a single pick of the year. Moreover, we find lots of attractive long-term buys among the stocks we cover.

With that in mind, we’ve chosen to highlight three picks from our Stock Pickers Digest recommendations....

ALAMOS GOLD $3.40 (Toronto symbol AGI; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (604-681- 2802; www.alamosgold.com; Shares outstanding: 255.5 million; Market cap: $921.0 million; No dividends paid) took its current form in July 2015, when Alamos Gold merged with Stock Pickers Digest recommendation AuRico Gold. The combined firm owns the Mulatos mine in Mexico and the Young-Davidson project in northern Ontario, which holds as much as 5.6 million ounces of gold. Young- Davidson started up in 2013 and will reach full production this year. In the three months ended December 31, 2015, Alamos’s gold production rose 5.7%, to a record 104,734 ounces from 99,083 a year earlier. The company holds cash of $320.8 million U.S., which it will use to complete Young-Davidson and increase its gold output from 380,000 ounces in 2015 to over 400,000 this year....

ALAMOS GOLD $3.40 (Toronto symbol AGI; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (604-681- 2802; www.alamosgold.com; Shares outstanding: 255.5 million; Market cap: $921.0 million; No dividends paid) took its current form in July 2015, when Alamos Gold merged with Stock Pickers Digest recommendation AuRico Gold.

The combined firm owns the Mulatos mine in Mexico and the Young-Davidson project in northern Ontario, which holds as much as 5.6 million ounces of gold....

Sound balance sheet and positive cash flow mean Major Drilling is well positioned to profit when commodity prices rebound.