Week in Review: January 30, 2012 - February 3, 2012

The Week in Review lets you easily catch up on any Daily Updates you may have missed during the week. This is your opportunity to review the reports and analysis that may have the greatest impact on your investments.

This Week’s Reports

Stock market advice: Just one of these three investor mentalities is a plus

Tech stocks: Google’s push into social networking adds to its search engine dominance

Investor Toolkit: The best way to buy a home as a real estate investment

Stock trading advice: When to sell a weak stock

Commodity stocks: Two juniors with …read more »

Pat McKeough responds to many personal questions on specific stocks and other investing topics from the members of his Inner Circle. Every week, his comments and recommendations on a selection of the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And every Friday, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions.

This week, two junior commodity stocks were the subject of a question from one of our Inner Circle members: one is a drilling company with interests in North America, Panama and …read more »

Our investing strategy is a conservative one. We consistently recommend taking the long, rather than the short, view. But clearly not all stocks can be held indefinitely. A good portfolio is never a completely static one.

Bringing in good stocks will obviously invigorate your portfolio. It is equally true that some stocks that fail to perform just aren’t worth holding on to. That leads many investors to ask us just when they should let go of a weak stock and replace it with something new.

Our stock trading advice begins with …read more »

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific advice on successful investing, including real estate investments. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental tip and shows you how you can put it into practice right away.

Tip of the week: “Buy a house that suits your needs, and let the potential real estate investment profits take care of themselves.”

For most of us, a house is the biggest investment and consumer …read more »

Tech stocks continue to make headlines. Often, this is due to the competitive race to get new products on the market. Sometimes, it is due to the spectacular rise—or spectacular fall—of a tech stock’s share price. But successful investors look beyond the headlines, to a company’s measurable strengths and weaknesses, to judge its long-term prospects, as we do today with one of the best-known names in the industry.

GOOGLE INC. (Nasdaq symbol GOOG; investor.google.com) is the world’s leading Internet search engine. The search service is free, but it provides a platform …read more »

Investing is not an exact science. That’s why experience and judgment are just as essential as fundamental analysis in successful investing.

That’s also why a balanced temperament is so important. It can keep you on a steady course and help you avoid losses.

Here’s a piece of stock market advice that can help you judge your own temperament for investing.

Consider these three common investor mentalities. Do any sound familiar?

• Statistical bears. These overly cautious pessimists lack imagination. When doing their own investing, they zero in on a handful of statistical

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