A pretty strong week for the markets, and animal spirits are maybe getting revved up again... we'll see what surprises come along to spook investors again, but the year is certainly starting out with some optimism.  I expect that'll get the hype-tastic newsletter promos rolling even more heavily, but here's what we covered last week...

Lots of interest in energy stocks of late, so we started with Adam O'Dell's pitch about his favorite North Dakota oil company... just click here for that one.

From oil we moved on to diesel, looking into Keith Kohl's "American Diesel Crisis" and his favorite way to play it... just click here for the Thinkolator results on that one.

And "alternative energy" didn't want to be left out, so we dug into Nick Hodge's "lithium boom story you're NOT being told" -- and yes, we can tell you what the story is, just click here.

Thanks to some reader questions, we even spent a moment on nuclear power -- though that's just an update of an older story about a "Next Paladin Energy" tease.  It's here if you're interested.

And in the Friday File this week I muse a bit on some of the “value” stocks that are getting “momentum” attention from Louis Navellier and others, and talk about why I'm selling a stock I've held for years... and buying a new one off of our watchlist.  Just click below for the details...