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Mercedes Benz Wins Big in Hybrid Awards: Echo Automotive Completes Positive Tests in Hybrid Market


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LONDON--February 7, 2013:

Mercedes Benz triumphed in the recent Business Car Manager SME Company Car of the Year Awards 2012, The new Mercedes-Benz E 300 BlueTEC Hybrid managed to win two categories including Best Overall Company Car for SMEs.  Meanwhile in the same industry Echo Automotive completed positive tests with their Hybrid option specifically with the major of Indianapolis.  Shares of Echo Automotive closed higher yesterday in a positive day for the stock, climbing 12% on the trading day with $7 million in volume.

Cereplant continued its positive move forward in the OTC markets on Wednesday with the stock closing higher by more than 47%.  Cereplant shares moved towards the 0.05 cent mark after trading north of $3 million on Wall Street yesterday.

Cannabis Science shares which have received much attention over the last week in trading pulled back slightly yesterday after a number of strong trading days over the last week based on price performance and volume.  Cannabis Science traded lower by 9.5% in a heavily traded day for the stock with over $6 million exchanging hands.  In the same industry Growlife, Inc. also pulled back slightly in trading on Wednesday with the stock lower by just 4% on over $4 million traded.  Shares of Growlife had been higher in early trading and pulled back later in the day.

Swingplane Ventures started the day with a positive move to the upside and pulled back in afternoon trading.  Shares of Swingplane Ventures have been on a steady run higher over the last two weeks and pullbacks are to be expected.  We will see if shares can get back to positive upside trading in the markets today.

To round off our review from trading in the markets on Wednesday this week we looked at shares of Titan Pharmaceuticals.  The shares have also been on an impressive run over the last year trading from 0.60 cents up to a 52 week high of $2.53.  Titan Pharmaceuticals did pull back slightly in trading on the street yesterday to the $2.16 level.