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OTCPicks.com Stocks to Watch for Friday, August 1st HGLC, BDFC, CTGI, AGIX, AVLN, ZONS

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Our Stocks to Watch tomorrow include Hunt Gold Corp. (OTC: HGLC), B&D Food Corp. (OTCBB: BDFC), CSMG Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: CTGI), AtheroGenics Inc. (Nasdaq: AGIX), Avalon Technology Group Inc. (OTC: AVLN) and Zones Inc. (Nasdaq: ZONS).

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HUNT GOLD CORPORATION (OTC: HGLC)

"Up 150.00% on Thursday"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/HGLC.php

Hunt Gold Corporation is a Gold Mining & Exploration Company focused on the development and exploration of its Gold properties, namely "Mockingbird," "Ambassador," "Golden Eagle," "American Molygold," "Gladstone Lookout," "Lady Alde," "Lookout Silver," "Starlight," "American Flag," "Venezia," "Stormcloud," "Cherry," "Buffalo Limecap," "Red Cloud" and "Federal" interests.

B&D FOOD CORPORATION (OTCBB: BDFC)

"Up 75.00% on Thursday"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/BDFC.php

B&D Food Corp. acquires, organizes, develops, and upgrades companies in the food industry, with a focus on the coffee industry. The company, through its subsidiaries, produces and packages various kinds of coffee products, such as instant, ground, roasted, and soluble coffees, as well as various related beverages, including cappuccino, soluble spray dried, milk, agglomerated, instant tea, and chocolate beverages. It also offers milk powder, chocolate dust, and other products; and express coffee, food service, and coffee machinery rental services primarily to pubs and restaurants. B&D Food Corp. offers its products under Brazilian Best, Samba Cafe, Torino, Vivenda, Coffee Canaan, Marroscos, Metropolis, and Mendense Coffee brand names. The company was incorporated in 1995 and is based in New York, New York.

CSMG TECHNOLOGIES INCORPORATED (OTCBB: CTGI)

"Up 73.68% on Thursday"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/CTGI.php

CSMG Technologies, Inc., a development stage company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a technology management company. The company engages in financing, owning, developing, patenting, managing, licensing, and marketing technologies in Ukraine and other eastern European countries. It provides live biological tissue bonding technology that focuses on bonding living soft biological tissue used in surgical procedures, which eliminates the need for sutures, staples, sealants, or glues; and carbon dioxide separation of landfill gas technology that separates carbon dioxide and other impurities from the gas produced in landfills and converts the remaining gas to a cleaner, up to 98% pure methane gas for use in internal combustion engines or for sale to natural gas companies. The company, formerly known as Consortium Service Management Group, Inc., was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Corpus Christi, Texas with an additional office in Kiev, Ukraine.

ATHEROGENICS INCORPORATED (NASDAQ: AGIX)

"Up 52.75% on Thursday"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/AGIX.php

Atherogenics Inc., a research-based pharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, including diabetes and coronary heart disease. The company's V-Protectant technology based products include AGI-1067, a phase III clinical trial product for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis; AGI-1096, a phase I clinical trial antioxidant and selective anti-inflammatory agent for the treatment of transplant rejection; and other V-Protectant compounds for the treatment of cardiovascular and inflammatory disease. AtheroGenics has collaboration with Astellas Pharma, Inc. to develop AGI-1096 as an oral treatment for the prevention of organ transplant rejection. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Alpharetta, Georgia.

AVALON TECHNOLOGY GROUP (OTC: AVLN)

"Up 66.67% on Thursday"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/AVLN.php

Avalon Technology Group is a technology company with operations in software, manufacturing and security products. The Company and its affiliates currently conduct government sales under three GSA contracting vehicles including Minority Owned Women Business and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, which specializes in providing commercial and government entities with quality services, software and biometric technologies.

ZONES INCORPORATED (NASDAQ: ZONS)

"Up 53.49% on Thursday"

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/ZONS.php

Zones, Inc. is a single-source direct marketing reseller of name-brand information technology products to the small-to-medium-sized business market, enterprise accounts and public sector accounts. Zones sells these products through outbound and inbound account executives, a national field sales force, catalogs and the Internet. Zones offers more than 150,000 products from leading manufacturers including Adobe, Apple, Avaya, Cisco, HP, IBM, Kingston, Lenovo, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks, Sony, Symantec and Toshiba.

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