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Here's how my picks from a month ago are doing (see posting Investing, February 26'09):

Company	Feb'25	Mar'23 (noon)	% change
PENN WEST ENERGY TRUST	9.00	10.96	22%
ENCANA CORP	38.32	45.1	18%
PETRO CANADA VAR	21.5	30.41	41%
SPECTRA ENERGY	13.23	14.53	10%
Merck	27.91	27.36	-2%
Pfizer	13.08	13.97	7%
J&J	53.96	52.7	-2%
Citi	2.52	3.07	22%

So, if you'd invested $1,000 in each of these stocks (for the total cost of $8,000) you could sell them for $9,151 today at noon (even assuming $10 per trade cost you'd still make $991).

As you can see the gains are primarily attributed to the Energy sector. My prediction in February was that oil price would not go further down (from $40 per barrel) and it did not - actually it's about $52 per barrel today.

The pharmaceutical stocks were flat over last month, I still think they'll be a good investment in the long run at current prices.