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Tempur-Pedic (symbol TPX on New York), reported higher revenue and earnings in the latest quarter. Tempur-Pedic manufactures and distributes mattresses and pillows made from its proprietary Tempur pressure-relieving material.

In the three months ended December 31, 2010, Tempur-Pedic’s earnings rose 59.0%, to $46.3 million from $29.1 million a year earlier....

Every day from Monday to Friday, we post free investment reports on our website, TSINetwork. ca. We also email the reports to all our paying subscribers, and to anyone else who requests them. As a subscriber to Stock Pickers Digest, you’re in a particularly good position to profit from this free service. Our TSI Network dailies aim to educate you on best practices in investing. They cover a wide range of both aggressive and conservative investment topics. They also zero in on the risks and drawbacks of certain investing practices that you should avoid....

Aggressive investments have the potential to generate large returns compared to more conservative selections. But they can also give you bigger losses. As well, aggressive stocks tend to be more highly leveraged and volatile than conservative stocks. But there are ways to earn large returns with less risk in the part of your portfolio you devote to aggressive investing. Here are 4 principles we use to select stocks to recommend in Stock Pickers Digest, our newsletter for aggressive investing:

1. Limit aggressive holdings to 30% of your overall portfolio. Because aggressive stocks expose you to a greater risk of loss, we recommend limiting your aggressive holdings to no more than, say, 30% of your overall portfolio....

On January 21, Stock Pickers Digest, our newsletter for aggressive investing, will unveil a stock that’s well positioned for big gains in 2011. In fact, we think this potentially high return investment’s prospects are so bright we’ve named it Stock Pickers Digest’s #1 stock pick for the coming year.

Hidden pluses give this stock the potential for big gains in the months ahead

This Canadian firm is in a great position profit as the North American economy and consumer confidence continue to improve. Plus, it has recently signed agreements with other international firms that let it tap into rich new markets with less risk.

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CGI GROUP INC. $18.09, Toronto symbol GIB.A, is our Stock of the Year for 2011. Next week, Stock Pickers Digest, our newsletter for aggressive investors, will reveal its #1 pick for 2011. If you’re not already a Stock Pickers Digest subscriber, click here to learn how you can get one month—including the Stock Pickers Digest Stock of the Year—FREE. CGI is Canada’s largest provider of computer-outsourcing services. The company’s services help its customers automate certain routine functions, such as accounting and buying supplies. That lets CGI’s clients focus on their main businesses, and improve their efficiency. CGI is more speculative than most of our other recommendations. It does not pay a dividend, and its major shareholders control the company through multiple-voting shares. Its aggressive growth-by-acquisition strategy also adds risk....

PLEASE NOTE: Next week, Stock Pickers Digest, our newsletter for aggressive investors, will reveal its #1 pick for 2011. If you’re not already a Stock Pickers Digest subscriber, click here to learn how you can get one month—including the Stock Pickers Digest Stock of the Year—FREE. VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC., $35.46, New York symbol VZ, announced this week that it had signed a new multi-year deal with APPLE INC., $348.48, Nasdaq symbol AAPL. The agreement will let Verizon sell Apple’s hugely popular iPhone 4 smartphone, starting in February 2011. The deal should help both companies. Adding the iPhone will help Verizon compete with AT&T (see below), which until now had been the exclusive U.S. iPhone carrier....

PLEASE NOTE: Next week, Stock Pickers Digest will reveal its #1 pick for 2011. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to profit. ZARGON OIL & GAS LTD., $21.90, symbol ZAR on Toronto, is the new name of Zargon Energy Trust following its conversion to a dividend-paying corporation on January 7, 2011. The move is in response to Ottawa’s new tax on income trust distributions, which came into effect on January 1, 2011. Zargon must now pay corporate taxes. As a result, it plans to lower its monthly dividend by 22.2% with the February 2011 payment. That will give the stock a 7.7% yield....

I hope you are enjoying and profiting from our free TSI Network daily updates. Our dailies aim to educate you on best practices in investing. They cover a wide range of investment topics, and explain conservative strategies you can use to build the best portfolio for you, and expand your wealth with less risk. The advice you get in our daily updates, as well as our investment newsletters and services (more on these below) is based on the experience I’ve built up in more than three decades in the investment business (starting with a part-time job in high school)....

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific advice on successful investing. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investment strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Tip of the week: “Cut risk in your aggressive portfolio with our ‘sell-half’ rule.” Our “sell-half” rule says that if a stock you own has doubled, you should sell half so you get back your initial stake. Once you’ve recovered your initial investment, you’ll be able to think more clearly about the stock....

Ruby Tuesday (New York symbol RT) owns 676 restaurants in the U.S. Franchisees run another 140 U.S. outlets, and international franchisees operate 58 restaurants overseas. Ruby Tuesday is one of the stocks we analyze in Stock Pickers Digest, our newsletter for aggressive investing. Ruby Tuesday offers casual American dining. The company’s fall menu contains a number of new offerings, including Fit & Trim entrees, complimentary garlic cheese biscuits, additional side items and an improved Sunday brunch....