Top Warren Buffett Stocks To Watch Right Now

Happy Friday! There are more good news articles, commentaries, and analyst reports on the Web every week than anyone could read in a month. Here are eight fascinating ones I read this week.

Nothing but net
Dilbert creator Scott Adams quips on why investing is harder than it looks:

When I watch LeBron James jump from the free-throw line, rotate 360 degrees in the air, and dunk a basketball, I always say to myself "Now I know how to do that, too!" It's the same feeling I get from watching Warren Buffett invest. I mean, how hard could it be? As far as I can tell, all you do is make folksy pronouncements and neglect trimming your eyebrows for decades. Mr. Buffett says the market is inefficient and he has opportunities and information not available to the average person, but I haven't been average since LeBron taught me to dunk so that's not an issue for me.

This is your brain on life
Psychology Today lists 50 cognitive biases we all fall for. Here are some of my favorite:

Top Warren Buffett Stocks To Watch Right Now: Trifast(TRI.L)

Trifast plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of industrial fasteners and associated components. Its fasteners include machine screws, self-tapping screws, thread forming screws, socket products, nuts, and washers, as well as fasteners for sheet metal, fasteners for plastic, security fasteners, thread-locking nuts, and micro-diameter fasteners. The company supplies its components in steel, stainless steel, aluminum, nylon, brass, titanium, and other corrosion resistant materials. In addition, its products comprise cables, clips, plastic parts, connectors, switches, springs, batteries, hinges, levers, handles, brackets, hooks, pins, keys, spacers, and stays. The company primarily serves the aerospace and defense, audio visual, automotive, marine, petrochemical, railway, information technology, sheet metal, medical, home appliances, electronic, electrical, plastic moulders, telecom, general industrial, and renewable energy sectors. It operates in the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, southern Ireland, Holland, Poland, the United States, Mexico, Malaysia, China, Singapore, and Taiwan. Trifast plc was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Uckfield, the United Kingdom.

Top Warren Buffett Stocks To Watch Right Now: Raytheon Company(RTN)

Raytheon Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides electronics, mission systems integration, and other capabilities in the areas of sensing, effects, and command, control, communications, and intelligence systems, as well as mission support services in the United States and internationally. It operates in six segments: Integrated Defense Systems, Intelligence and Information Systems, Missile Systems, Network Centric Systems, Space and Airborne Systems, and Technical Services. The Integrated Defense Systems segment provides integrated naval, air, and missile defense and civil security response solutions. The Intelligence and Information Systems segment offers intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, advanced cyber solutions, weather and environmental solutions, and information-based solutions for law enforcement and homeland security. The Missile Systems segment develops and produces weapon systems, including missiles, smart munitions, close-in weapon systems, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles, and directed energy effectors for the armed forces of the U.S. and other allied nations. The Network Centric Systems segment provides net-centric mission solutions, including integrated communications systems, command and control systems, combat systems, and operations and precision components for the U.S. federal, state, and local government customers, as well as civil customers. The Space and Airborne Systems segment designs and develops integrated systems and solutions for missions, including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; precision engagement; unmanned aerial operations; and space. The Technical Services segment provides training, logistics, engineering, product support, and operational support services for the mission support, homeland security, space, civil aviation, counterproliferation, and counterterrorism markets. Raytheon Company was founded in 1922 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Smith]

  According to the DSCA, contractors including Raytheon (NYSE: RTN  ) , Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT  ) , Boeing (NYSE: BA  ) , General Electric (NYSE: GE  ) , and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD  ) will participate in providing the requested services, as well as equipment to include:

• [By Rich Smith]

  Department of Defense contract officers on Tuesday announced a total of 13 contract awards worth more than $1 billion in aggregate. Notable winners among publicly traded companies included several Army contract awards, including:

  Britain's BAE Systems' (NASDAQOTH: BAESY  ) Land and Armaments division won a $28.7 million modification to a previously awarded contract to supply M88A2 heavy equipment recovery combat utility lift and evacuation system vehicles to the U.S. Army. Work on the contract should be complete by March 31, 2014. Raytheon's (NYSE: RTN  ) Thales Raytheon Systems joint venture was awarded a $23.1 million modification to a previously awarded contract to supply Sentinel Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe kits, and spares, to the Army. Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT  ) , while not ordinarily considered a defense contactor, seems particularly well-suited for the contract it won -- a $10.8 million award to support Army Deployable Universal Combat Earthmover vehicles. Called "DEUCE" for short, these are essentially Army tractors, and so far the Army has ordered $67.1 million of them from Caterpillar under this contract.

  In addition to the new awards, the Pentagon also issued contract modifications to both BAE and to General Dynamics (NYSE: GD  ) on a pair of contracts to the effect that both firms are being given an additional six months to develop new prototype ground combat vehicles that the Army is considering as replacements�for its existing armored personnel carrier fleet. The value of GD's development contract on this project is said to have a maximum value of $180.4 million, while BAE's development contract maxes out at $159.5 million.

• [By Rich Smith]

  As already mentioned, 30 contractors are named as recipients, from well-known contractor names such as Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH  ) , General Dynamics (NYSE: GD  ) , Honeywell (NYSE: HON  ) , Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT  ) , and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN  ) , all the way down to small businesses with names like PrimeTech International, Metrostar Systems, and Tatitlek Training Services. It is divided into three groupings, with some of the work reserved for section 8(a) Small Businesses and other work only for Reserved Small Business. But the majority of the work is considered "unrestricted," and up for bidding by 19 of the 30 firms named.

• [By Rich Smith]

  A maker of advanced components and composite assemblies for commercial aviation, defense, and space companies, Reinhold is 85 years old and counts among its customers everyone from makers of commercial airline seats to Raytheon (NYSE: RTN  ) , which uses the company's components in the manufacture of Patriot-2 and Standard Missiles. In announcing the deal, HEICO called Reinhold's "significant presence on key missile defense programs ... very attractive."

5 Best Financial Stocks To Watch Right Now: China Housing & Land Development Inc.(CHLN)

China Housing & Land Development, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, management, and sale of commercial and residential real estate properties primarily in the People?s Republic of China. The company?s projects include multi-family residential, commercial, and hotel projects. It serves first time home buyers and first time up-graders. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Xian, the People?s Republic of China.

Top Warren Buffett Stocks To Watch Right Now: Nexen Inc.(NXY)

Nexen Inc. operates as an independent energy company worldwide. The company?s Conventional Oil and Gas segment explores for, develops, and produces crude oil and natural gas from conventional sources. This segment operates in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, and offshore West Africa, Colombia, and Yemen. Nexen?s Oil Sands segment develops and produces synthetic crude oil from the Athabasca oil sands in northern Alberta. The company?s Shale Gas segment explores for and produces unconventional gas from shale formations in northeastern British Columbia. Nexen Inc. was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Top Warren Buffett Stocks To Watch Right Now: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company(PHI)

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company provides telecommunication services in the Philippines. Its Wireless segment offers cellular mobile services; Internet broadband distribution and services; call center services; mobile applications development and services; software development and sale of maintenance and support services; mobile commerce solutions; mobile commerce platforms; mobile applications development and services; solutions and systems integration services; satellite communications services; and satellite information and messaging services. This segment also involves in the promotion of the sale and/or patronage of debit and/or charge cards; offshore financing and risk management activities for smart; international trade of satellites and global system for mobile communication, or GSM enabled global telecommunications; and delivery of GSM communication capability for the maritime sector, as well as operates as a content provider. The company?s Fixed Line s egment provides fixed line telecommunication services, such as local exchange, international long distance, national long distance, data and other network services, as well as infrastructure and related services. Its Information and Communications Technology segment offers integrated information and communications technology services focusing on infrastructure and solutions for Internet applications, Internet protocol based solutions, and multimedia content delivery. This segment also provides knowledge processing solutions, customer relationship management, Internet and online gaming services, and information technology consulting and professional services; and operates Internet data center under the Vitro brand name. As of December 31, 2010, the company had served approximately 49 million subscribers. It also resells software licenses, server solutions, networking products, storage products, and data security products. The company was founded in 1928 and is based in Makati City, the Philippines.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jonathan Yates]

  The economy is also expected to recover quickly from the storm's devastation, making Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (NYSE: PHI) more attractive to long-term investors than other communications firms such as BCE (NYSE: BCE), AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ).