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Lean In or Get Out: 11 Tips for Using Your Expertise to Create a Wickedly Successful Business |
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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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| 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 |
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Demand for This Commodity |
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The New Game in Town: Single-Family REITs |
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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 |
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Polish Your Online Image |
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Can I Still Fix A Mistake On My Tax Return? |
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Why You Don’t Need a Living Trust |
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How to Pick a Financial Planner |
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Cheapest 2013 Cars to Own |
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Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon |
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| The Tax Man Cometh: How to Avoid an Audit 101 As tax day approaches, author and CPA John Vento shares five tips to help you avoid trouble with the IRS after you’ve filed your returns. |
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| Healthcare Stocks Poised for Recovery Many healthcare stocks have been on a rollercoaster ride over the last few years, buffeted by both positive and negative forces. Among the positive forces are long-term demographic trends and advancements in medical technology. |
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| Five Telltale Signs Your Stock Will Double Every investor wants to own a stock with substantial price-appreciation potential. A doubling of the investment – a 100% return – is the milestone that most registers an investment as a success. If doubling your money is the goal, here are five indicators you need to consider. |
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| Being Street Smart This Is The Most Critical Time For The Market Since 2007! Sy Harding, Street Smart Report, the economic recovery has stumbled in the spring and summer of each the last three years. |
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| 12 Foolish Things We Do With Finances While April Fools’ Day is all about joking around, there’s nothing funny about some of the foolish things we do with our finances. Even the most money-savvy consumers are guilty of one of the following follies, so read on to see if you should wise up before it’s too late. |
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| April is Top Performing $DJIA, $DIA Month This April 1st is a busy day full of seasonal influences. As the first trading day of April and the second quarter, it has enjoyed exceptional strength over the past 18 years. |
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| Being Street Smart Better Investing Performance With Much Lower Risk! Sy Harding’s, Street Smart Report, advice – avoid individual stocks. At least one-third of investing risk, and probably more, can be eliminated by avoiding individual stocks altogether and simply investing in sector or market indexes via index mutual funds and ETF’s. |
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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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| Tax Time Overhaul:
Ten Ways To Make the Most of This Year’s Tax Return Author and CPA John Vento says there is no better time of year to draw attention to how much money we’re paying Uncle Sam. He provides some advice to help you maximize your post-tax return savings. |
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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 Dines Letter’s Seasonalities: April Rally Ahead? James Dines, The Dines Letter: Based on the DJIA, April has been the top-performing month in the past 63 years. Indicators predict better market action in the first half of April than the last half. |
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| Remain Invested But Alert! Sy Harding: Investors are returning, after four straight years of pulling money out of the stock market. The rally should have further to go. |
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| It’s a Bull Market for Now! 6 Ways to Grab it by the Horns Here are smart financial moves everyone can make to potentially take advantage of the new stock market high says Rick Rodgers, retirement specialist. |
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| Being Street Smart Here Is What Investors Need To Realize After The Terrific Jobs Report! Friday’s employment report that 236,000 new jobs were created in February was well ahead of the consensus forecast for 160,000 new jobs. And the unemployment rate fell from 7.9% to 7.7%. But investors should not get carried away with the thought that the report indicates the economy and stock market now have clear sailing ahead. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Humpty Dumpty By Thomas Henning: "All of the king’s horses and all of the king’s men have met at the G-20 meeting over in the mother country to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Like Humpty Dumpty, their hustle is a hollow, busted shell." |
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| Best of the Big Fund Families Many investors might look to a single fund family to populate their portfolio, either out of compulsion – if, for example, their 401(k) plan offers only funds from one brand – or convenience, says Nellie S. Huang, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Below, she looks into picks from the most well-known fund shops, Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, Vanguard and Pimco. |
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| Things Every Investor Should Know in the Current Economy Here are 5 things we think every investor should know in this economy |
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| The Bernanke Shock The financial world was shocked this month by a demand from Germany’s Bundesbank to repatriate a large portion of its gold reserves held abroad. By 2020, Germany wants 50% of its total gold reserves back in Frankfurt |
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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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| 7 Mistakes to Avoid on Your 2012 Tax Return Here is a list of the seven common mistakes and missed deductions to help you prepare your 2012 tax return. |
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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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| Are IPOs Good for Innovation? For many entrepreneurs, it is a dream on par with finding the Holy Grail: an initial public stock offering that can turn a startup into the next Google and a 20-something founder into the next mega-millionaire. |
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| 5 Ways to Avoid a Tax Audit Here are five tips from Steven Aldrich, CEO of Outright, an online accounting system, for small business owners on how to avoid a tax audit. |
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| A Wickedly Successful New Year: Nine Strategies to Help You Stop Enduring and Start Creating a Life That REALLY Works Looking for something with more impact (and sticking power) than the usual doomed-to-fail resolutions? Vickie Milazzo wants you to make 2013 the year you finally buck up and start living the life YOU want to live! |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon “The Sign” By Thomas Henning Reality is not a salable product. Instead, exploit the situation and make money. For the savvy player, a breakdown will be the “SIGN.” |
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| For Peace of Mind in the New Year, Resolve to Protect Your Assets “You shouldn’t have any non-exempt assets in your name,” Hillel Presser says. “The goal is to ‘own’ nothing but control everything.” Presser suggests these resolutions for safeguarding your wealth in the event of a lawsuit: |
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| Is Your Company Naughty or Nice? How to Stay On Your Customers’ “Nice” List This Holiday Season How will your customers view the service they receive from you this holiday season? Will you delight them…or disappoint them? Ron Kaufman provides a breakdown of service behaviors that will decide whether you land on their naughty or nice lists this year. |
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Fifteen Tips for Making Sure |
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Advice You Can “Trust”: Four Tips for Taking |
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| Eight End-of-Year “Must-Dos” for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners As the New Year approaches, it pays to take a breather and spend some time thinking about the big picture. Entrepreneur and author Bill McBean lists eight very specific things you can do, starting now, to set your business up for success in 2013 and beyond. |
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7 Tips for Investing in Art |
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A Warning For Gold From Inflation, The Dollar, And Mining Stocks! |
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| Is The Economy Already Beginning to Stumble Again? Sy Harding: Was the economic pick-up only temporary, the optimism premature? This past week’s economic reports are not encouraging. |
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| How to Use Power Questions to Turn Your Office Holiday Party into a Career-Boosting Event Talk too much about yourself or have too many cocktails, and the office holiday party can turn into a missed opportunity if not a disaster. It doesn’t have to be that way, says Andrew Sobel. |
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| Consumer Reports: Verizon Ranked The Best Major Carrier, AT&T Ranked The Worst Verizon was once again rated the best of the major providers, netting good scores for voice and data service quality, staff knowledge and issue resolution. Sprint and T-Mobile following behind Big Red, and AT&T staying in last position. |
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| Fossil Deserves Another Look From shares’ 2009 lows to their 2012 peak, FOSL stock produced more than a 10x return. Now that shares have pulled back more than one-third from those recent highs, we think this name deserves another look. |
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| The Pros and Cons of Reverse Mortgages What do Robert Wagner, Pat Boone, Fred Thompson and Henry Winkler have in common? If you’ve watched TV lately, you probably know the answer: They are all celebrity spokesmen for companies that offer reverse mortgages. |
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| Reasons to Be Bullish – At Least For A While! Sy Harding, Street Smart Report Online: After stumbling again in the summer months, the U.S. economy is clearly back on track – if politicians smarten up and prevent it from going over the fiscal cliff. |
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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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| 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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| Fifteen Tips for Making Sure You Are Better Off Four Years from Now One important question keeps popping up during the presidential elections: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Though the recession and the hardships that followed mean many Americans can’t answer that question with a simple “yes” or “no,” personal finance guru Eric Tyson suggests it might be more to your benefit to ask yourself a slightly different question: What can you do now to ensure you are better off in four years, no matter who gets elected? |
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| The Dines Letter’s Seasonalities: November Reversal November’s Seasonalities are somewhat bullish for the Dines Gold Stock Average (DIGSA) but are flat for the Dines Silver Stock Average (DISSA). Obama’s magic number on Election Day! |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Audit the Fed? Why Bother By Thomas Henning Fed-babble has become a holy dogma and, as such, is sacrosanct. The savvy player cannot change it, only exploit it to try to profit and to try to keep the profits in the pernicious atmosphere of inflation, taxation, and confiscation, which is sanctified by the holy dogma of Fedology.s |
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| Cash Homebuying Peaked in 2011 Despite the lowest mortgage rates in a lifetime, the percentage of homes purchased with cash nearly doubled between 2006 and 2011, going from 22% to 40%. |
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| Fight the Inflation Boogeyman Axel Merk, Merk Funds: Investors are concerned about inflation. But how can investors attempt to inflation-proof their portfolios? Buy TIPS? Short Treasury bonds? Stocks? Real Estate? Commodities? Gold? Currencies? Or should investors regard those warnings about inflation as fear mongering? |
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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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| U.S. Dollar: Don't worry, be happy May we suggest a Twitter version of the statement by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement: “Don't worry, be happy!” No, the economic outlook hasn't improved. In fact, the Fed may want you to take a valium to stomach the ride ahead. |
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| What Did the Federal Reserve Say? The Federal Open Market Committee launched a third round of economic stimuluS. Here’s what the Fed said in the statement it released and our translation of what it meant in plain English. |
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| All Brewers Will Soon SellThe Unthinkable: Wine Coolers According to Reuters, an economic downturn and healthier consumption habits have quietly turned the industry on its heels. Young professionals are looking for light and refreshing drinks during nights out, and seem to prefer the 2% alcohol content over the regular 4%+ in regular brews. |
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| The New American Dream: Why Unleashing Your Inner Entrepreneur Is the Only Way Out of This Mess When half of college graduates can’t find jobs, and those of us who do have jobs can barely pay the bills, the system is clearly broken. |
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| 5 Scams to Avoid in Summertime By Barbara Diggs, Bankrate.com Summertime seems to offer scammers a lot of opportunities to catch us out of our routine...It’s best to keep your eye out for red flags and stay vigilant, even when you’re trying to relax. |
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| 8 Ways to Avoid Getting Conned By Carole Moore, Bankrate.com In the language of con artists, you’re a “mark.” And when you fall for one of their scams, you’re a successful mark. No one wants to hand over money to thieves, but scam artists are becoming more sophisticated with each passing technological advance. |
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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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| 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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| Best Burgers for Your Buck Here’s a look at some of the largest burger makers’ standard beef burgers in the country compared to that beauty you’ll serve up in the backyard. |
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| Junior Mining stocks, Anecdotal Points to Keep in Mind… Our analysis still indicates that we are in a long-term bull market in gold and most hard assets. While we have had and still expect many more “pit stops” to occur, historical indications project a cycle that has many more years to run. |
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| The Dines Letter’s Seasonalities for September Septembers have more monthly declines than any other month of the year. Additionally September has been Nasdaq’s worst month since 1971. Septembers are favorable for gold shares. Opportune time to buy silvers on weakness. |
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| Gold Discoveries Not Keeping Pace with Mined Production Metals Economics Group’s (MEG) recently released study, Strategies for Gold Reserves Replacement: The Costs of Finding and Acquiring Gold, reports that 99 significant gold discoveries (defined as a deposit containing at least 2 million oz of gold) have been reported so far in the 1997-2011 period, containing 743 million oz of gold in reserves, resources, and past production as of year-end 2011. |
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| Henning: The Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon All The King’s Horses… By Thomas Henning And all the king’s men can’t put Humpty-Dumpty together again. Blackbeard Benny has led the vote-buying government bozos elected by the hopeless helots to the free lunch La La Land to facilitate a central bank plunder of assets. Now there is nothing left to plunder and the hollow Humpty-Dumpty shell is busted. |
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| Dispel Retirement Rumors Planning for retirement is tough enough these days; living in retirement can be even tougher. That’s why it’s important to avoid being misled by the growing number of myths surrounding the difficult job of preparing for and living in a financially comfortable retirement. |
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| The Return of the Gold Standard In Peter Schiff’s, CEO of Euro Pacific Precious Metals, book, The Real Crash: America’s Coming Bankruptcy – How to Save Yourself and Your Country, he devoted a full chapter to the merits of the historical gold standard and reasons to reinstate it. What he did not mention and few investors notice is that central banks are already returning to gold as the ultimate safe haven asset. |
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| When Your Website Powers Your Business Do yourself a favor, when you've made the decision to open your business or sell your product online, make sure you have all the tools to make it successful. Make sure you hire the right developer. Here are a few tips to help you find that person… |
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From Confrontation to Calm: How to Ask Your Way |
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The Dines Letter’s Seasonalities: |
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Berkshire Hathaway 2012 Annual Meeting Notes Berkshire Hathaway’s 15 Biggest Stock Holdings |
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| ResMed Combating Sleep Disorders After several years of growing evidence, the medical community is beginning to understand the health damage caused by poor sleep. ResMed Inc. benefits from this growing awareness. |
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| Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon Nothing Left to Plunder By Thomas Henning With the founding of the Fed in 1913, the U.S. ceased being a sovereign entity. Instead, it became an object of asset plunder through taxes, inflation, and currency debasement. As a result of the plundering, one can take a Dollar bill and tear off a very small corner. That small corner is the Dollar. The remainder is the Rasbucknic. |
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What’s next for the U.S. Dollar? QE3? |
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| Being Street Smart Stop the Noise – U.S. Political Campaigns Are Way Too Long Sy Harding: It’s ridiculous that this country has to put up with a year or two of overwhelming and divisive political noise prior to its presidential elections. In Canada, by law election campaigns must run for a minimum of 36 days, but there is no mandated maximum time. Yet the longest election campaign in Canada in the last 100 years was in 1926, when the campaigning dragged on for all of 74 days. |
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Companies with Low P/E, High growth rate |
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| FINRA Fox Scandal Exposes Problems at the Top They are all foxes guarding the henhouse – the “industry” representatives in leadership at FINRA. But what a black mark for FINRA – the Wall Street self-regulator whose mission it is to supervise 4,420 brokerage firms in the United States – when one of its own Directors is himself accused of failing to supervise! |
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| Share Rollbacks: Good or Bad for Investors By Dudley Pierce Baker, TheGreedyGuru, Precious Metals Warrants As a general rule, we hate to see an announcement of a share rollback, however, there are exceptions which we cover below. Investors should always be aware that if a company has, say over 150 million shares outstanding, in our opinion, it is a potential candidate for a rollback and the announcement should not come as a surprise. |
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Penny Stocks Refused for Deposit – Why It’s Happening Now, How to Cope |
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Being Street Smart |
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Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon |
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Currency Wars: Gambling With Other Peoples’ Money |
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This One Potent Indicator Points to Big Trouble for China |
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More Impetus For Summer Correction! Another week of economic reports adds to the likelihood of a summer correction in the stock market again this year, and even to the possibility that it has already begun. |
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Stocks to Dump Now |
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Five Tips on Phantom Stock |
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Dillon Gage: Gold Can Surpass Its 2011 Price Peak Later This Year |
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How High Will The Gold Bull Climb? |
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Henning: Musings of a Stock Market Curmudgeon |
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Being Street Smart |
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SPECIAL REPORT... $1,766 Average Gold Price for 2012 2012 Outlook: Gold Forecasts From Banks, Brokerages |
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| Special Report from the PDAC: Experts Separate Good from Bad and Worse Juniors Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report, www.theaureport.com, provides coverage on the PDAC where investors accessed an impressive slate of newsletter writers and commodities pundits |
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| Brand-Name Stocks On Sale For $10 Or Less Investing in low-priced stocks is a lot like shopping at a discount-clothing store. You have to sift through piles of polyester before you find the cashmere. These three companies are the real goods. |
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| A New Generation of Annuities A new generation of annuities from Vanguard Group and Fidelity Investments is simpler and cheaper than most deferred variable annuities. |
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| Natixis Commodity Markets: 2012 Q1 Metals Review A Return to Calmer Waters There are numerous dangers in the months ahead that the metal markets must be careful to avoid. Price Forecasts for Copper, Aluminium, Lead, Tin, Nickel, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Silver, and PGMs. |
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| Ten New Year’s Tax Resolutions for 2012 Forget the new health club membership in January, and focus on these ten year-beginning tax resolutions to make the most of your 2012 |
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| Real Capital: An Insider’s Look at How Bain Capital Does Business Bain Capital, a private equity firm formerly led by Mitt Romney, has been placed squarely in the center of the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Financial expert and author Eric Tyson reveals why you shouldn’t believe everything you’re hearing about the company. |
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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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