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ALPHABET INC., Nasdaq symbols GOOG $97.80 [class C: non-voting] and GOOGL $97.43 [class A: one vote per share], is your #1 Aggressive Buy for 2022.

The stock is the parent of Google, the world’s leading Internet search engine. It gets most of its revenue from online advertising.

In addition to search, Google also offers a variety of other services and products....

Canada legalized cannabis four years ago. Still, while demand has been steady, stiff competition has cut selling prices significantly. Meanwhile, advertising restrictions and plain packaging rules make it hard to build brands that win customer loyalty. Still, we think some companies have a distinct edge—including their prospects for added sales in the U.S....

A: No one can consistently predict currency movements. However, a hedged fund pays that fee whenever it has a hedge in place to avoid currency losses, regardless of whether the hedge produces a gain or a loss for the fund.

Note that even if the U.S....

Many investors over-emphasize investment predictions as a way to choose investments, especially when just starting out. It’s easy to understand. Following predictions can be easy and fun, like betting on tips at a racetrack or a casino.

Investing newcomers may also downplay portfolio balance and diversification....

FREEPORT-MCMORAN INC., $38.04, symbol FCX on New York, is one of the world’s largest publicly traded copper producers. The company owns mines in North America, South America, and Indonesia.

In late October 2022, Freeport-McMoRan reportedly entered discussions with Grupo Mexico SAB for the purchase of its Arizona copper smelter....

Traditionally, the price of most stocks, and the ETFs that hold them, drop during market declines. However, certain segments generally perform better than the overall market. Below, we highlight three ETFs focused on firms that produce and sell consumer staples....

A: Krispy Kreme Inc., $14.53, symbol DNUT on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 167.4 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; www.krispykreme.com), is a provider of doughnuts and other sweet treats in 31 countries....

As we’ve often said, we think spinoffs are about as close as you can get to a sure thing in investing. Statistics show that after a company sets up one (or more) of its businesses as a separate publicly traded entity and “spins it off,” the shares of both the parent and the spinoff generally do better than comparable companies for a number of years, if not decades.

We were so impressed by the proven long-term benefit of spinoff investing that we launched an investment advisory around it—our Spinoffs & Takeovers newsletter.

Of course, this “spinoff effect” can take months or years to show itself....

ALPHABET INC., Nasdaq symbols GOOG $96.58 [class C: non-voting] and GOOGL $96.29 [class A: one vote per share], is your #1 Aggressive Buy for 2022.

The stock is the parent of Google, the world’s leading Internet search engine. It gets most of its revenue from online advertising.

In addition to search, Google also offers a variety of other services and products....

GANNETT CO. INC. $1.57 remains a hold. The company (New York symbol GCI; Conservative-Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector: Shares outstanding: 146.7 million; Market cap: $230.3 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.1; Dividend suspended in 2020; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative; www.gannett.com) merged with GateHouse Media, and its parent company New Media Investment Group Inc....