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| Best Stocks to Buy in 2012 By Thomas Lee, JP Morgan U.S. Equity Strategist 2011 is a year most investors would like to forget. Even though equity markets are essentially flat year to date, the S&P 500 saw a 300-point range – a 9% rally followed by a 22% drop, followed by a 20% rally. In its U.S. Year Ahead 2012 report, J.P. Morgan listed the top equity investment ideas for 2012. In the report they have recommended 65 stocks, out of which 28 stocks have an upside potential of 30% and more. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Duke Ellington Was Right By Thomas Henning The late American treasure, Duke Ellington, once wrote in one of his essays on music: “There are only two kinds of music: good and bad.” As in music, there are two kinds of technical analysis: good and bad. |
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| The European Flu of 2011 By Dr. Hans Black, Interinvest Review & Outlook A financial and political crisis is underway in Europe... The main issue is that on top of having to sustain costly welfare states, European nations need to bail out a financial system still laden with bad debts. |
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| Being Street Smart The Truth About Election Years! By Sy Harding, Street Smart Report 2012 is a Presidential election year, and the stock market is almost always positive in election years. Right? At least that assurance has been a supposed truism for many decades, and repeated as fact each year in numerous interviews and financial columns... But it’s just not true. |
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| Gold Volatility Breeds Equity Opportunities Mike Niehuser Beacon Rock Research, Special to The Gold Report Volatility in the markets isn’t going away any time soon and Mike Niehuser, founder of Beacon Rock Research, expects 2012 to be a year of extreme swings. In this exclusive Gold Report interview, Niehuser shares his market outlook and names a host of companies that are positioned to take off. |
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| Was 2011 The End of The Gold Rush? By Peter Schiff, CEO, Euro Pacific Precious Metals For such a wonderful year for precious metals investors, the final calendar quarter left little to celebrate. |
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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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| On The Cutting Edge Each quarter Friess Associates, managers of the Brandywine Funds, share samples of innovative ideas that cross their research team’s radar screen even though opportunities to invest in them may lie in the future or never surface. Some of these innovations might be showing up near you already while others fail to evolve into practical applications. |
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| U.S. Dollar & Currencies: Review and Outlook By Axel Merk & Kieran Osborne, Merk Funds In 2012, policy makers around the world may be driven by the realization that the theme of 2011 was not a Euro-specific crisis, but simply another stage in a global financial crisis. |
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| A Claim That Your Computer is Infected Could Be a Lie The experts at Consumer Reports Money Adviser have advice on how not to get taken in by these scams. |
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| REITs Prove to be Surprisingly Reliable By Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing It may seem surprising that some forms of real estate have been among the most reliable of investments. Real estate investment trusts, known as REITs, invest in and own properties such as shopping centers, apartments, offices and industrial facilities. Readily accessible investments, these are sold directly like stocks or through mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. |
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| 10 Year-End Bounce Candidates: When the Calendar Makes Winners Out of Losers The extreme volatility that we’ve experience this year has produced a particularly interesting crop of year-end bounce candidates. |
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| How to Invest $10,000 in 2012 Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing, poses the question, “How would you invest $10,000 in the coming year?” to a panel of investment experts. They are spreading the hypothetical ten grand among a wider number of investments. Some are increasing risk based on the possibility of economic improvement. |
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| Luxury Retailer Stocks Primed for Holidays Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing: Luxury retailers such as Coach Inc., in handbags and leather goods, and Tiffany & Co., in jewelry and specialty items, will likely continue to please their stockholders this holiday season |
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| Tax planning 2011: Smart moves to make now The year is winding down, and before long you’ll find yourself caught up in holiday festivities. But before you start having too much fun, take some time to evaluate your tax situation for 2011. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Kicking The Can. What Does That Tell You? By Thomas Henning Answer: 1. A cohesive international banking system is an absolute necessity for the One-World Order. 2. The Bilderboyz will do anything to save it. 3. They’re failing. |
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| Northwest Mining Stock News Silver Valley Mining Update – Part III By Tom Wobker, Pennaluna & Company This is the last of three special Silver Valley Mining Update issues. Taken together, they give you the big picture changes in the Silver Valley mining industry over the past couple of years. |
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| The Top 25 Corporate Tax Dodgers Twenty-five of the nation’s 100 highest-paid CEOs took home more pay than their corporations paid in federal corporate income taxes last year… |
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| The Global Economic Crisis: It’s the Global Fiat Monetary System, Stupid! Ken Coleman, The Investment Tracker: The current global economic crisis will not cease until there is a serious overhaul of the global monetary system. Fiat monetary policy more often than not entices currency manipulation… |
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| Insight: Market Makers 2011: What they do and no longer do Over the last twenty years, we have seen an enormous decline in the number of true market makers in the junior mining stocks and it’s even worse than it was six years ago. |
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| Understanding Personal Bankruptcy in Difficult Times Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing: Stressful economic periods lead to stressful family finances, which in turn can lead to bankruptcy filings. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Gurgle, Gurgle in Blah-Blah Land By Thomas Henning Those sounds that you hear are the sinking gasps of the One-World Order S.S. Keynesian Titanic as it plunges into the dark depths of the Atlantic Ocean. A few survivors are floating on the surface. They are content. They are long-term investors. The brain-dead Zombies have their cell phones to their ears, happily oblivious to their condition as they blather in blah-blah land. |
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| Protecting Yourself Against Identity Theft Data breaches and identity theft are becoming more common and widespread. There is no way to predict where and when it will happen next, but you can?take steps to protect yourself to avoid many of the consequences of identity?theft. |
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| Dollar Cost Averaging Smooths Out Volatility Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing: Wouldn't it be nice if you could smooth out all the rough spots in your personal investments? Many investors have wondered just that during this frenetic market year that is constantly being buffeted by world events. |
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| The Trader Blahs By Adrienne Toghraie, Trader’s Success Coach Are you experiencing the trader blahs? If so, you have a lot of company. A significant number of traders and others in the financial markets right now are stuck deep in the blahs. |
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| Market Turbulence Forcing People to Reassess Gifting, Wills and Estates By Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing Turbulent financial markets haven’t squelched generosity altogether in 2011, but they do have Americans thinking long and hard about the importance of their assets. |
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| Should You Buy Gold Through an ETF? By Doug Hornig, Casey Research For those who aren’t already familiar with the workings of this innovative way to “own gold,” it’s worth going over a few of the details, because there are some common misunderstandings regarding the ETF. |
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| Where in the World to Invest in 2011 The world is not an easy place in which to invest these days. To make any headway, investors must exhibit the patient determination of an explorer such as Marco Polo. |
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| The Dines Letter’s Seasonalities: October, The Bear Killer October is usually an advantageous time to buy on weakness. Good time to buy gold and silver shares. |
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| Take Cover in a Turbulent Market Covered call writing is a low-risk approach to boost your returns Call options against Barrick Gold, Goldcorp and the SPDR Gold Trust is a way of creating an income stream. |
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| On The Recent Gold Pullback Fundamental’s still point to gold’s long-term viability, this bull market has a long way to run, and the rise up ahead looks even steeper from these levels. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Monkeys at the Zoo By Thomas Henning The game is over. There is nothing left for the central banks to plunder, and the debt is onerously unserviceable. The panicked banking stooges in the world’s politboros don’t have the gelt to deliver the promised free lunch to the tapped-out, brain-dead zombies who have sold their freedom for that free lunch. Watching these central bank clowns is like watching zoo monkeys re-arrange the deck chairs on the S.S. Keynesian Titanic. |
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| The Dine’s Letter Seasonalities: September 4th quarter favorable time to accumulate precious metals shares By James Dines, The Dines Letter Stocks: Since 1950 the Dow-Jones Industrial Average (DJI) has had 24 rising Septembers and 37 downers, a bearish bias. Taking both the S&P 500 and the DJI back 61 years, Septembers had more monthly declines than any other month of the year. Additionally September has been Nasdaq’s worst month since 1971. |
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| When They Are Wrong, Analysts May Dig in Their Heels When they are wrong about quarterly earnings forecasts, analysts may stubbornly stick to their erroneous views, a tendency that might contribute to market bubbles and busts, according to research coauthored by John Beshears of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
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| Top 5 Cheapest Ballparks Believe it or not, there’s affordable baseball to be watched. These ballparks still offer the most bang for the buck. |
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| On The Cutting Edge Each quarter Friess Associates, managers of the Brandywine Funds, share samples of innovative ideas that cross their research team’s radar screen. Here are some recent ideas... |
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| Andrew Leckey: Successful Investing Weathering Turbulent Markets with Prudence and Patience Average investors can cope with occasional rainy days in the markets. Enduring constant thunder and lightning is not so easy. ALSO: Andrew Leckey answers questions for The Bull & Bear readers: Jack in the Box has uphill battle against economic downturn; cell tower leader, American Tower continues growth; T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation Fund; borrowing money from your IRA, and more… |
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| 2011 Halftime Report: Gold, Oil and Copper Could See the Biggest Gains Frank Holmes, U.S. Global Investors thinks commodity price movements will fare better during the second half of the year. He believes gold, oil and copper are some of the commodities which could see the biggest gains. |
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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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| GOLD: Love Trade By Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors The debate in Washington and the turmoil in the world financial markets prompted gold to hit new record highs. |
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| The Dines Letter’s Seasonalities: August James Dines, The Dine’s Letter explores the August Seasonalities for the markets, gold and silver stocks. |
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| Taking Advantage of the Gift and Estate Tax Exemption – While It Lasts! The new Gift and Estate Tax Exemption, and how consumers – not just the ultra-wealthy – can take full advantage of it. |
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| Successful Investing: Andrew Leckey High-Yield Bond Investing Not For the Faint of Heart No pain, no gain. That’s the mantra of the high-yield bond investor who is willing to assume the default risk of a bond if its yield and price seem worth the wager. ALSO: Andrew Leckey answers questions for Bull & Bear readers on RadioShack Corp., Aeropostale Inc., FMI Large Cap Fund, TIPS and more. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Keystone Kops By Thomas Henning The central banks are busted. The sovereign countries are busted. The states, cities, and counties are busted. The individual banks are busted. The cell-phone-babbling, brain-dead zombies are busted. Any analysis of these clowns is a waste of time. They’re busted. |
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| T. Rowe Price: A “cash cow” T. Rowe Price has a wonderful business that generates tremendous cash flow and delivers a needed service in a high-quality way. The downside is that its stock price movements tend to mirror and magnify changes in the overall stock market. |
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| James Dines, The Dines Letter, Seasonalities: July and the “Traditional Summer Rally”? |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Epoch To Epoch By Thomas Henning The inflation argument ignores the concept that there is a debt saturation point whereby, as more debt stimulus is added to the economic model, that stimulus diminishes in its ability to generate productivity to service the debt. At some point, the additional debt overloads the economic model to the point of breakage. That point has been reached. |
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| Which to Buy: Short Sale or Foreclosure? In this buyer’s market, some homebuyers ask themselves: Will purchasing a short sale or foreclosure end in disaster – or yield a jackpot? |
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| 10 Most Expensive and Affordable Places to Live in the U.S. and Canada |
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| Jobs Report Rains On Soft Spot Hopes The Labor Department’s employment report pretty much took the hope out of Washington and Wall Street’s expectations that the economic slowdown in the first half of the year was just a soft spot that will quickly be replaced by strong growth in the current quarter and second half. |
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| 7 Credit Tips for the Golden Years Your finances change as you age, and so should your credit habits. |
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| Bank Stocks Slow to Show Recovery But Could Be Turning the Corner Andrew Leckey: Bank stocks favored by investors are few and far between these days. |
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| Lesson #1: Be a Benevolent Dictator (and Eight More Lessons for Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off the Ground) Michael Feuer, co-founder of OfficeMax, says now is the time to act on your great business idea. To help you get started, he offers a few of the lessons he learned building his own well-known, successful businesses. |
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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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| Successful Investing Careful Planning the Key to Comfortable Retirement The question of when to retire has never taken on greater significance. ALSO: Andrew Leckey answers questions for Bull & Bear readers on Allstate, Charles Schwab, Calamos Growth & Income Fund, Fidelity Fund, currency hedging and more. |
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| The Business of Growing: The Top Nine Challenges of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business and How to Tackle Them |
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| Saints and Sinners By Vita Nelson, The MoneyPaper many "Sinner" stocks have provided their investors with great returns over the years and not all of us are averse to owning them. |
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| Inflation Outlook Moderate Despite Spike in Energy Prices By Alan Levenson, Chief Economist, T. Rowe Price |
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| Food for Thought: The Effects of Price Increases on Food Stocks Not Always Universal By Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing The price of food is on the rise, but investors should be aware that this global phenomenon doesn't affect all food companies the same way. |
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| Being Street Smart Don't Be Fooled By The Jobs Report Last week confirmed that the economic recovery has stalled. |
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| Being Street Smart Too Many Similarities to a Year Ago! One year ago the stock market was celebrating first-quarter earnings reports, reaching for new highs, after recovering from a stumble on concerns about situations outside the U.S., notably rising inflation in Asia and the debt crisis in Europe. But the similarities up to this point are spooky and worthy of investors' attention. |
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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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| U.S. Dollar - Review and Outlook Axel Merk and Kieran Osborne, present an updated economic outlook, highlighting their concerns for the U.S. dollar, and their assessment of global dynamics and the likely impact on currencies. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Markets at Tipping Points by Thomas Henning Currently, there is, I believe, a transitional phase from the old, imploding, inflationary epoch into the new deflationary epoch. |
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| Successful Investing Demand and Disasters Complicate Global Energy Picture The global energy picture has become more complicated in 2011, but investors are making some sense of it. ALSO: Andrew Leckey answers question for Bull & Bear readers on Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold, Time Warner, Netflix, short selling, and more. |
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| Libya: What It Means for Dividend Investors By Roger S. Conrad, Utility Forecaster For 41 years Libyan strongman Moammar Qaddafi was a thorn in the side of the West. He sponsored terrorist training camps and flaunted warm relations with other notoriously anti-Western, anti-capitalist and anti-democratic leaders. It shouldn't surprise anyone that markets always price in the worst-case for global events. Learn what stocks to avoid and what stocks might benefit from the Libyian crisis... |
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| Ten Traps to Avoid When Investing in Emerging Markets In this economy, it is important to understand the power that other countries possess and how they can affect the global market and your investment portfolio. From politics to natural disasters to financial crises, any number of foreign factors can influence the way our domestic financial investments work. |
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| Politics of Inflation by Axel Merk, Portfolio Manager, Merk Funds In arguing food inflation is not the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) fault, Fed Chairman Bernanke points the finger at everyone but him. Just as with a lot of Bernanke's policies, his argument may hold in an academic setting, but the real world is a bit more complicated. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon The Gravy Train is out of Coal by Thomas Henning The New World Order is finished. The needed elements of a viable banking system, a denial of the territorial imperative and a producing society have been replaced by insolvent banks loaded with worthless defaulting debt paper, individual countries shouting "every man for himself," and the zombies grabbing their pitchforks screaming for "social justice," as their self-indulgent, debt-laden, world implodes. The zombies, who can't understand buy low, sell high or spend less than you make, can't understand that the gravy train is out of coal. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon The Fed Isn't Stupid; It's Panicked By Thomas Henning The European bankers who own the Fed, which is headed up by Blackbeard Benny, are plundering pirates. They use taxes, inflation, fractional banking, and debt, instead of flintlocks and cutlasses |
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| Growth Versus Value Investing in 2011 Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing: Growth versus value investing is shaping up to be a horse race in 2011. |
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| The Dines Letters' Seasonalities: January Barometer often points direction of the entire year In the 61 Januarys since 1950 the DJIA has risen 39 times and declined 22 times, bullish around five out of eight times (64%). January is usually a bullish month for gold and silver shares, but if DISSA declines in January that would be a serious negative factor for silver-mining shares for all of 2011. |
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| Growth Expected to Continue in Emerging Markets in 2011 The emerging markets group is growing faster than the developed markets, but you need broad diversification because the leadership changes year to year. |
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| Encore, Encore! The Outlook for 2011 Walter Frank, Moneyletter.com: The odds are high at year-end that the U.S. will see decent growth in 2011. In terms of economic growth, the U.S. stands out. |
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| Being Street Smart Positive Year for the Market with Considerable Volatility and Scary Moments Sy Harding, Street Smart Report: The economy should continue its slow growth in 2011. The stock market, investor sentiment is now at extremes of bullishness and confidence regarding 2011. Next year will be the third year of this Four-Year Presidential Cycle, and there has not been a negative 3rd year since 1940. |
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| Book Review: Stock Trader's Almanac 2011 Next Super Boom to Start in 2017 Dow 38820 By 2025. January Barometer, Presidential Cycle Years |
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| ETFs Capture Market Attention, Investment Andrew Leckey, Successful Investing: The momentum of exchange-traded funds, which attracted new investor money at a rapid clip throughout 2010, is expected to continue unabated in 2011. |
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| Six Growth Stocks for a Successful 2011 This U.S. advisory has a stock-picking system that has worked well in the past, and it highlights its six top picks for gains in the coming year. |
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| Wake-Up Call: Top 10 Trends of 2011 After the tumultuous years of the Great Recession, a battered people may wish that 2011 will bring a return to kinder, gentler times. But that is not what Gerald Celente, publisher of Trends Journal is predicting. |
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