Zacks.com Announces That Vivian Lewis Highlights the Following Stocks: Teva, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, Tenaris, ICICI and SGL.CHICAGO -- Vivian Lewis provides an update on the global holdings in her Buy and Hold Portfolio. Read about Teva (Nasdaq:TEVA), Companhia Vale do Rio Doce Summary Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) is a global diversified mining company, the second largest mining company in the world, and the largest logistics operator in Brazil. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :RIO), Tenaris (NYSE:TS), ICICI ICICI Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (NYSE:IBN IBN Internet Business Network IBN Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology IBN Institut Belge de Normalisation IBN Islamic Broadcasting Network IBN Integrated Business Network IBN Identification Beacon IBN Isolated Bonding Network ) and SGL SGL See Speculative Grade Liquidity Rating (SGL). (NYSE:SGG SGG Synthetic Greenhouse Gas SGG Superconducting Gravity Gradiometer SGG Sialosyl Galactosyl Globoside SGG Snow Gum Group (Australian project management consultant) ). Vivian Lewis is the editor of the Global Investing newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Highlights from the March 6 Featured Expert column by Vivian Lewis include: Taking Stock A sampling of the updates on holdings from the Buy and Hold Portfolio: For investors seeking wealth preservation and current income Teva (Nasdaq:TEVA) reported net Q4 profits up 10% at $305 million (45 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. ) and up 11% for the year and the first ever profit of over a million, $1.072 million ($1.59 per share). Vivian Lewis and her team excluded the costs of the Sicor takeover in 2004; without it, profits would have risen 223%. Sales were boosted by its MS drug, Copaxone, as well as generics and were up 6% for Q4 to $1.401 billion and for the year 9% to 5.3 billion. Bear Stearns The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms in the world. upgraded Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (NYSE:RIO) to "outperform" arguing that the price drop and a potential upside surprise on iron-ore pricing made the share attractive. The brokerage now expects iron ore prices to rise 15% this year vs 5% earlier. Producers are currently in talks with steel mills over prices. Bear thinks tight supplies and a spot market premium mean producers will prevail. Tenaris (NYSE:TS), which accounts for more than a third of the value of the Merval (Argentine stock market index), enjoyed a 40% surge in its shares in Jan., with the bullish atmosphere pervading the steel sector, and the boom in the oil industry, for which it makes pipes. The outlook appears mixed. Other names in the Buy and Hold Portfolio include: ICICI (NYSE:IBN) offers a wide range of banking products and services to corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels. SGL (NYSE:SGG) is the world's largest manufacturer of carbon, graphite and composite materials composite material or composite, any material made from at least two discrete substances, such as concrete. Many materials are produced as composites, such as the fiberglass-reinforced plastics used for automobile bodies and boat hulls, but the for industrial and aerospace applications. 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