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Earnings Season: What To Watch Next Week…

| July 8, 2011 | 0 Comments

What a rally… Stocks have been on an absolute tear over the past two weeks.  In fact, the broad markets haven’t seen a rally like this in over a year. The tech heavy Nasdaq is leading the way with a 9% gain while the S&P 500 and Dow bring up the rear with a 6% […]

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Jobs Report: What To Watch For Next Week…

| July 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

Here it is… Today’s the start of the third quarter.  And that means the markets have been subjected to the ‘window dressing’ effect in recent weeks. What’s that mean? Mutual fund and portfolio managers use the final days of each quarter to buy into top performing stocks.  You know, the ones they didn’t have in […]

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Stock Investing: Your Trading Plan for Next Week…

| June 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

Greek debt problems have been a major source of concern in recent weeks.  And investors used these worries as an excuse to book profits, sending the markets lower. But with the S&P 500 dropping 7.3% since early May, investors were looking for a reason to jump back into stocks this week. And they got a […]

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Stock Investing: Your Trading Plan for Next Week…

| June 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

Greek debt problems have been a major source of concern in recent weeks.  And investors used these worries as an excuse to book profits, sending the markets lower. But with the S&P 500 dropping 7.3% since early May, investors were looking for a reason to jump back into stocks this week. And they got a […]

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The Startling Truth About Consumer Spending

| August 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

The results are in. It looks like unemployment insurance benefits are the key to our economic recovery.  It’s an ugly development.  But it’s creating a unique opportunity for you to profit. Let me explain… Right now the unemployment rate in the U.S. stands at 9.5%.  That’s 14.6 million Americans who are unemployed.  (I’m not even […]

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Are These Dog Stocks For You?

| January 5, 2010 | 0 Comments

Once a year I write about the “Dogs of the Dow” investment strategy.  It’s a simple technique popularized a few years ago by book called Beating the Dow.  It was originally published in 1991 and seems to have taken on a life of its own. The book describes a simple strategy. Just buy the ten […]

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