"They don’t get much more blue-chip than General Electric (NYSE: GE)," says Nilus Mattive. In his top-notch Dividend Superstars, he looks at the industrial gaint, with its 4.4% yield.

"Evergreen International Balanced Income (NYSE: EBI) churns out monthly dividend distributions that provide a yield of over 10%," says Paul Tracy, editor of The ETF Authority.

"Renewable fuels and clean energy, beaten down since last fall, are now primed for a major comeback," says Eric Roseman in The Commodity Trend Alert. Here's his ETF play.

"Two Royce funds are joining our universe says Walter Frank, editor of the long-running MoneyLetter. Here's a look at Royce Global Value (RIVFX) and Royce Micro-Cap (RYMCX).

"US Global Investors (NASDAQ: GROW) is Frank Holmes’s five-star fund family, Texas," notes Mark Skousen, who now features the mutual fund operator in The Turnaround Trader.

"Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL) has offered low risk and steady gains for several years as the utility recovered from a brush with bankruptcy," says Roger Conrad in The Utility Forecaster.

"You can lock in extraordinary yields right now from Business Development Companies," says Adrian Day.In his The Global Analyst he reviews a trio of mezzanine finance firms.

"Most investors should  hold some foreign positions in their portfolios," says Leonard Goodall in his No-Load Portfolios. Here, he looks to Latin America and Northern Europe.

Using a "volume reversal" strategy, Mark Leibovit has been consistently ranked among the top newsletter timers. In his VRTrader, he looks at the outlook for stocks, oil, gold & silver.

"I’ve long favored Russia, building my case around energy and the infrastructure boom taking place," says Yiannis Mostrous in Silk Road Investor. Here's his top energy plays.

Jim Trippon's new book, Becoming Your Own China Stock Guru, has just been released.

The book explains what areas of China's economy will grow the most quickly in the next 12 months, and more importantly, how you can profit from them. To order the book, click here.

Mark Skousen's latest book, “EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World” (Wiley & Sons), is available for $16.47 (plus shipping) from Amazon.com (retail price is $24.95).

In EconoPower, economic experts focus on solving real-world problems, such as health care, public education, and world poverty. Included is a discussion of the new field of behavioral finance, featuring economists as Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, and Jeremy Siegel.

Sy Harding, editor of Street Smart Report, has just published Beat the Market the Easy Way -- an update to his prescient 1999 book, How to Prosper in the Coming Bear Market. His new book is an exceptional and in-depth review of seasonal market patterns and their application to long-term timing.

For 40 years, Dick Davis has been one of the investment world's leading authorities, noted for his straight talk and common sense. In The Dick Davis Dividend, he shares a lifetime of insights into the investing process.