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Bull & Bear's Monetary Digest
Leading financial experts reveal their Top Stock Picks and Investment Outlook for Large and Small-Cap Stocks, Gold, Silver, Precious Metals Stocks, Mutual Funds, Domestic & International Markets...
 Drilling for Dollars
By Thomas Scarlett, InvestingDaily.com -- If the fragile economic recovery continues to gain steam, the booming energy sector will likely expand even more rapidly than it already has..
Investing versus Speculating: Lessons the penny stock investor can learn from Benjamin Graham
A New “National Interest” Idea for Getting Canada’s Oil to Market
By Keith Schaefer, Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin -- The energy sector is such a typical American-Canadian contrast. It’s like the Americans love to shoot guns, and the Canadians love to dodge bullets.
Investment Newsletter Digest -- Top performing newsletter editors offer their Buy/Sell on Biomerica, Inc., Microsoft, Yahoo!, Caterpillar, and precious metals trends.
Featured Company: Atna Resources -- Producing Gold at the Pinson Underground Mine, the Company’s 2nd Mine in Its Western U.S. Development Portfolio Targeting Annual Gold Production of 300,000 Ounces.
Featured Company: U.S. Silver & Gold: Low Risk, Low Capital Needs, High Growth Targeting 5 Million Ounces of Silver Production by 2015 |
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Bull & Bear's GOLD STOCK NEWS...
Gold: The Obituaries Are Premature
By John Ing, Maison Placements Canada -- Gold collapsed over
14 percent in two days in the sharpest tumble since 1983 raising fears that the twelve year bull market is over.
Mining Stocks: Digging Out of Hole?
By George Putnam, III, The Turnaround Letter -- Many of the mining companies, who produce the raw material for metallic commodities, have been among the worst performers in the market so far this year..
A Marvelous Buying Opportunity
By Dr. Hans Black, Interinvest Review & Outlook -- Most investors, as has been shown repeatedly throughout history, tend to flock into areas that are performing well and, therefore, by definition are performance chasers. Regardless of the story or the bubble it produces, few sit down to do fundamental analysis and ask “what is something really worth?”
It’s Still Fool’s Gold For A While Yet!
By Sy Harding, The Street Smart Report -- Long secular bull markets in any asset class tend to fool us into believing their prices only go up. Tulip bulbs, Beanie Babies, baseball cards, Florida real estate, Internet stocks. And they do only go up and it’s exciting – until their bubbles implode.
Investment Newsletter Digest
Precious Metals experts offer their opinions on the gold trend along with price targets, and their Top Gold & Silver Buys.
Featured Company: U.S. Silver & Gold Inc.
U.S. Silver & Gold: Low Risk, Low Capital Needs, High Growth; Targeting 5 Million Ounces of Silver Production by 2015.
Featured Company: Atna Resources Ltd.
Atna Resources Producing Gold at the Pinson Underground Mine, the Company’s 2nd Mine in Its Western U.S. Development Portfolio.
Profiled Companies: Argonaut Gold Inc., Aurcana Corporation, BacTech Environmental, Corporation, Batero Gold Corp., Puma Exploration, Teryl Resources Corp.
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| Klondex Mines Ltd, Discovers Visible Gold Mineralization |
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| Teryl Resources Corp. Signs Contract To Drill The Fish Creek Property, Fairbanks, Alaska |
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| U.S. Silver & Gold Reports First Quarter Financial and Operational Results |
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Why Gold Is The Ultimate Alternative Currency
When the governments undermines faith in the local currencies, people start searching for ways to protect their savings. Many investors searches have led them to alternative currencies that they are buying with the hopes that, unlike their local currency, the alternative will hold value and protect their portfolio. Commodity based currencies, such as gold, is the prime example of such a currency. |
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Lean In or Get Out: 11 Tips for Using Your Expertise to Create a Wickedly Successful Business
If you can’t lean in, get out? That’s what Vickie Milazzo recommends. She says women who are unhappy trudging up the corporate ladder should start their own businesses. She provides advice on how to use everything you’re really good at to bust out of the corporate world and start your own wickedly successful business. |
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 Bull & Bear's Investment Newsletter Digest
Leading financial experts reveal their Top Stock Picks and Investment Outlook for Large and Small-Cap Stocks, Gold, Silver, Precious Metals Stocks, Mutual Funds, Domestic & International Markets...
SPAR: 11 consecutive quarters of year-over-year revenue growth
HomeAway, Sweet HomeAway
Chiquita Brands well into turnaround
Retractable Technologies, Inc. Featured Stock of the Month
Opening our wallet and adding to our position in Coach
Google earnings: No fireworks, but still plenty to like
Super miners slouch toward bargain bin
Schlumberger carving out a two-year rounding bottom
Gold washout ‘intentional’ price destruction
Gold seasonality in full swing
Featured Company: U.S. Silver & Gold Inc. -- U.S. Silver & Gold: Low Risk, Low Capital Needs, High Growth ; Targeting 5 Million Ounces of Silver Production by 2015
Featured Company: Atna Resources -- Atna Resources Producing Gold at the Pinson Underground Mine, the Company’s 2nd Mine in Its Western U.S. Development Portfolio; Targeting Annual Gold Production of 300,000 Ounces
Featured Company: Maderas Futuro, S.A. -- Maderas Futuro Plants New Fast Growing Hardwood For Direct Ownership in 2013; Adding Timber to Your Investment Portfolio Provides Access to the Best Performing Risk-Adverse Asset Class of Past 30 Years
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Earn as Much as 4 Percent on Your Money
If you buy a Treasury bond, you know you’ll get back your principal. Start with dividend-paying stocks. Among individual stocks, Philip Morris International boasts high profit margins and exposure to developed and emerging markets. |
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An Aggressive Approach to Stock Investing
As anyone who has ever bought even one stock knows, getting rich fast in the market isn’t easy. Nobody knows for certain which stocks will surge and which will sink. |
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Polish Your Online Image
Even if you’re not looking for work, keeping your online persona clean will serve you well when a recruiter, business contact or even your current employer looks you up. |
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Can I Still Fix A Mistake On My Tax Return?
When I was doing my 2012 tax return this year, I realized that I could have claimed the child-care credit for my son’s summer camp expenses in 2011, but I didn’t know I qualified then. A. It’s not too late. |
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Why You Don’t Need a Living Trust
Living trusts are typically marketed as a way to avoid the cost and hassles of probate, the legal process used to determine that a will is valid and that your property is distributed according to your wishes. |
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How to Pick a Financial Planner
Picking an adviser is like choosing a mate. 1. Do some serious self-examination. 2. Master the alphabet soup. 3. A good man is easy to find. 4. Make sure you’re on the same page. 5. Nobody’s perfect. 6. Breaking up is hard ... and expensive. |
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Cheapest 2013 Cars to Own
Kiplinger’s asked Vincentric, an automotive-data firm, for the 2013 models in four categories with the lowest five-year ownership costs: Compact cars, Family sedans, Luxury sedans and Family crossovers. |
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 Bull & Bear's RESOURCE INVESTOR
 Water Stocks:High Quality at a Premium Price -- By Roger Conrad, InvestingDaily.com : I’ve often called oil the single most important commodity to the modern world. But when you come down to it, even black gold’s essential nature pales in comparison to water.
Will Cheap Natural Gas Change US Steel Production? -- Cheap natural gas unleashed from previously unreachable shale sources could eventually provide a boost to U.S. steel manufacturers, but the benefits have not shown up in their bottom lines just yet.
Gold and Currency Outlook -- By Axel Merk, Merk Investments -- Anyone who’s ever had a brick fall on one’s feet knows how much it can hurt. It’s little consolation if that brick is made of gold. What’s happening to the price of gold? And has our outlook changed, be that for gold, the U.S. dollar or currencies more broadly?
Positive Global Outlook for Nuclear Energy --
Nuclear power is going through some of its toughest ever years, but retains majority global policy support, delegates at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle conference heard.
Show Investors the Gold -- Excerpted from a research report by analyst John Ing, Maison Placements Canada: At one time hedging once boosted the industry’s profitability at the expense of balance sheets and earnings. Thankfully, hedging has become socially incorrect.
Investment Newsletter Digest -- Money Managers, Newsletter Editors, Analysts give their Top Resource Stock Picks, Precious Metals Trends, Oil & Gas and a Uranium stock
Featured Companies:
>> Atna Resources -- Producing Gold at the Pinson Underground Mine, the Company’s 2nd Mine in Its U.S. Development Portfolio; Targeting Annual Gold Production of 300,000 Ounces
>> U.S. Silver & Gold --
Low Risk, Low Capital Needs, High Growth Targeting 5 Million Ounces of Silver Production by 2015
>> Also Profiled: Teryl Resources Corp., DTS8 Coffee, Co., LTD.,Maderas Futuro S.A. |
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Bull & Bear Featured Company:
U.S. Silver & Gold Inc.
U.S. Silver & Gold: Low Risk, Low Capital Needs, High Growth ; Targeting 5 Million Ounces of Silver Production by 2015...READ MORE |
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 Bull & Bear Featured Company:
Atna Resources
Atna Resources Producing Gold at the Pinson Underground Mine, the Company’s 2nd Mine in Its Western U.S. Development Portfolio
Targeting Annual Gold Production of 300,000 Ounces |
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Bull & Bear's TECH STOCK REPORT
Leading financial experts reveal their Top Stock Picks and Investment Outlook for Large and Small-Cap Stocks, BioTechs, Chips, Hardware, Software, Telecome, Connectivity and Emerging Tech Stocks, Mutual Funds, and their Market Outlook...
Three Big Data Stocks to Watch
By Chad Fraser, InvestingDaily.com -- The world creates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, according to International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM). To put that in perspective, 90% of the data that exists today – everything from blog posts to readings from electronic sensors on bridges, trucks and oil rigs – was created in the last two years alone
Cisco Systems: Tech Stock for the New Age
By Genia Turanova, The Complete Investor -- Technology stocks aren’t what they used to be, whether you view them through a growth or an income prism. Amazingly, today more than one-third of large-cap tech stocks offer higher yields than the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury
Turning Your Smartphone Into a Mobile Wallet
By Lisa Gerstner, Kiplinger’s Money Power
Hedge Funds Are Buying 3 Rallying Technology Dividend Stocks
Looking to trade technology stocks that offer dividend income and show the potential to rise in value? Rebecca Lipman, Kapitall Wire, created a stock list with this in mind.
Digest of Tech Stock Strategies
Top performing newsletter editors offer their Buy/Sell on Apple, Intel, Yahoo, Amazon, and more tech stock trends... |
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Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon
Game Over
By Thomas Henning
Ignore the blather spewed forth by the various political and banking bozos. It’s game over. To operate on any other premise would be folly. The One-World-Order is imploding from the internal rot of Keynesian-induced fiat garbage and the overload of unserviceable debt. |
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A Marvelous Buying Opportunity
Dr. Hans Black examines some of the reasons behind gold’s decade long bull market, as well as its more recent price weakness. While central banks have reason to want to see gold prices fall, Dr. Black argues that the recent weakness is a wonderful buying opportunity and reiterates his opinion that gold prices should be substantially higher in the next three or four years. |
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The Dines Letter’s Seasonalities: May
The month of May used to be an inauspicious month for new buying, but it has been improving. |
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A New “National Interest” Idea for Getting Canada’s Oil to Market
Keith Schaefer, Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin |
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 The New Game in Town: Single-Family REITs
The U.S. housing market’s continuing recovery has spurred the formation of real estate investment trusts (REITS) that buy, renovate and rent out large numbers of distressed single-family homes, opening the housing market to investors who have no interest in becoming landlords themselves.
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Demand for This Commodity
is Still Soaring – It’s Time to Buy Coffee
By Dominic Frisby: After oil, it’s the most widely traded commodity in the world by volume.
Global consumption is growing at a rate of 2-3% a year. But in China it’s growing by 40% a year, according to some analysts. |
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Bull & Bear Featured Company:
DTS8 Coffee Company, Ltd.
Shanghai waking up to the smell and taste of “DTS8 Coffee”; DTS8 Coffee Co. Ltd. now licensed to roast and sell “Don Manuel” brand premium Colombian coffee in China Market...READ MORE |
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Bull & Bear Featured Company:
Maderas Futuro, S.A.
Maderas Futuro Plants New Fast Growing Hardwood For Direct Ownership in 2013; Adding Timber to Your Investment Portfolio Provides Access to the Best Performing Risk-Adverse Asset Class of Past 30 Years...READ MORE |
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Bull & Bear Featured Company:
Aurizon Mines Ltd.
Aurizon Mines Expanding Mining to New Areas at Casa Berardi
$5.5 Million in Net Profits, $199 Million in Cash and No Debt for Q3...READ MORE |
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Cheap Gold Stocks: Approach with Caution
If gold were a supermarket item, it would be in the marked-down aisle. |
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As Gold Crashes, One Contrarian Spots 'Buy' Sign
From Matt Gohd's contrarian perspective, when everyone is so overwhelmingly on one side of a trade, all the downside gets priced in and a vacuum of supply is created. It's that vacuum that Gohd thinks can create a 10 percent to 15 percent short-term move up and is designing option strategies for Wallach Beth's institutional clients. |
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Cyprus Finance Minister Sees Gold Sale Within Next Months
The Cypriot government plans to sell part of its gold reserves within the next months, a decision that needs to be approved by the country’s central bank, Finance Minister Haris Georgiades said. |
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These Three Triggers Will Produce A
Resurgence in Natural Resources Prices
Three trends will light a fire under natural resource prices and equities in the coming years, according Greg Dorsey, editor of Leeb’s Real World Investing. Buying small- to mid-cap equities now and holding them as a long-term option against the metal price is a winning strategy, whether you are talking about gold, silver, copper, platinum or palladium. |
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Increasing Demand for Palladium Can Only Mean Higher Prices
The stockpile for palladium has now about run out. In fact, only 250,000 ounces were sold into the market last year, and next to nothing is expected this year. This alone should result in considerable upward pressure on palladium prices. |
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How Much Gold Is There in the World?
Imagine if you were a super-villain who had taken control of all the world's gold, and had decided to melt it down to make a cube. How long would the sides be? Hundreds of metres, thousands even? |
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Your Genes May Affect Your Financial Decisions
If you get $10,000 to invest, where would you put it? Stocks? Bonds? A savings account? Your choice may be guided by more than your financial savvy. It could be in your genes. |
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5 Uncommon Ways to Boost Your Credit Score
Here are five ways you can boost your credit rating. |
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The Junior Mining Stocks?
Some Important Points Not To Be Overlooked!
The CanadianMineAnalysis.com now finds many junior mining stocks are currently selling at such low prices that based upon historical valuation benchmarks, here are some points may merit attention. |
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What’s Gold, Slabbed, and Outperforms Gold?
Gold has outperformed almost every other type of investment over the past 40+ years. Here we compare gold’s 40-year performance of a $10,000 investment in physical gold to the DJIA and S&P500 indices, and a Moody’s 30 Year Corporate Aaa Bond. |
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Five Mistakes Investors Will Make in the Next 12 Months
You never want to be in a position where one false move can wipe you out, particularly if you are actually trying to live off your portfolio. Here are the five biggest mistakes that investors make and how to avoid making them in the year ahead. |
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Would George and “Honest Abe” Make It in Today’s Business World?
Sometimes it seems the business world thrives on “harmless” small fibs, misdirections, and lies of omission. Honesty really is the best policy in business and in life. Here are seven solid reasons why… |
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How the Recession Has Changed
Retirement Planning
The economy may be recovering, but some of the changes wrought by the Great Recession may be long-lasting. Anyone planning for retirement, no matter what their age, needs to take those changes into account. Here are 3 tips for Baby Boomers. |
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Before You Invest in
Oil & Gas Master Limited Partnerships
The chase for yield has investors asking lots of questions about MLPs – Master Limited Partnerships. Below is an 8-point checklist every investor should know before adding MLPs to their portfolios. |
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 Bull & Bear Featured Company:
Aurcana Corporation
Aurcana Expects Q4 Commercial Production for Shafter Mine and Expands 43-101 at La Negra to 115 Million Oz. Ag; Shafter Mine to Produce 3.8 Million Oz of Silver in its 1st Year, 8-10 Million Oz of Silver by late 2013 ... READ MORE |
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 Your Child Can Retire with Millions!
Vita Nelson, The MoneyPaper: Children can grow very rich – very easily – because they have TIME on their side. Time is an investor’s greatest ally. It is the key element in the power of compounding, and combined with investments in the stock market (where the average annual return has been nearly 11% since 1926), the results can seem like magic. Here is a 20-stock DRIP portfolio made up of stocks we like for long-term accumulation. |
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 Bull & Bear Featured Company:
BacTech Environmental Corporation
BacTech Environmental’s Bugs Eat Rocks
Option 3 (U.K.) Buys 19.9% of BacTech
Signs 5 Year Exclusive Agreement for Certain Former Soviet Countries... READ MORE |
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Bull & Bear Featured Company:
 Latin American Minerals, Inc.
Latin American Minerals Expands the Paso Yobai Gold Project Through Drilling and Bulk Sampling
New High-Grade Discovery Demonstrates the Potential for the Second Paso Yobai Gold Trend... READ MORE |
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Bull & Bear Featured Company:
 Puma Exploration -- Puma Exploration Discovers New High-Grade Silver-Gold Lens Using New Geological Model; Exploring Large Silver, Copper and Gold Projects in New Brunswick and Manitoba...
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No Money, No Problem:
Eleven Tips for a Start-up
Business with Very Little Cash (and a Great Idea)
Many entrepreneurs kick off their ventures on a budget so lean it’s beyond shoestring; it’s dental floss! That’s especially true in an era where credit is almost impossible to come by. Michael Houlihan, one of the founders of Barefoot Wine, explains how to get the biggest possible bang out of very few start-up bucks. |
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9 Major Retirement Planning Mistakes to Avoid
Much has been written about the classic financial mistakes that plague start-ups, family businesses, corporations and charities. Aside from these blunders, there are also some classic financial missteps that plague retirees.
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GDP: What’s It Good For?
A glance in the rear-view mirror suggests tangible economic progress over the last 60 years... for the last 80 years Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been the most prominent measure of economic growth. |
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BULL & BEAR CLASSIFIEDS / ADVERTISERS
Where ads are read for profit! |
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the Cosmos |
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From Confrontation to Calm: How to Ask Your Way
Through Ten of the Toughest Conversations You’ll Ever Have
Here are ten of the toughest, most awkward conversations you’ll ever have, and the powerful questions that will help manage them with ease. |
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Fifteen Tips for Making Sure
You Are Better Off Four Years from Now
To improve your financial outlook during the next four years, read on for a few of Tyson’s tried and true personal finance tips. |
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25 Worst Passwords of the Year
With ‘Password’ (Yes, That’s Right) and ‘123456’ Topping the List |
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Signs Your Spouse May Be Ripping You Off
By Jay MacDonald, Bankrate.com
Is your spouse cheating on you with money? Maybe. Have you noticed a few dead presidents missing from your wallet or purse lately? A growing number of checks cashed at the grocery store for more than the purchase amount? An unexplained drain on your 401(k) or home equity line of credit? |
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Financial Advice for Newlyweds
People are waiting longer to get married. This means people also have time to accumulate more debt by the time they_tie the knot. Here's how to avoid financial stress. |
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Protecting Your Assets - What to do if Disaster Strikes
With natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados in the news so often, and the economy still struggling to stabilize, consumers are rightly concerned these days about their financial future should serious trouble strike. |
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Lingo every investor should know
Now that many investors are taking another look at the stock market, these pesky three- and four-letter bits of shorthand may be heard more often. So FYI, here are the ABCs of acronyms you may hear on financial TV shows. |
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Documents You Need When Disaster Strikes
Financial advisers say people who identify and prepare key documents long before calamity strikes can avoid unnecessary damage to their personal finances in the wake of a fire, flood, hurricane or other disaster. What you need... |
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 Investment Heroes: Who’s Betting on America’s Future?
By Diana Carew and Michael Mandel , Progressive Policy Institute
American voters are finding it hard to get excited about this year’s presidential election. Job growth is slow. Economic growth is slow. Real wages have been essentially stagnant since 2009. It’s the same old story as when recovery began three years ago. We are in an atmosphere of economic uncertainty. |
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