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A: Edwards Lifesciences, $218.55, symbol EW on New York (Shares outstanding: 208.0 million; Market cap: $44.7 billion; www.edwards.com) is focused on technologies and products that treat structural heart disease and critically ill patients....
One key part of our Successful Investor approach is our “Limelight Rule”: Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker-media limelight.
This is a basic portfolio-construction principle. Heightened attention from brokers and the media is a poor guide to investment profits....
This is a basic portfolio-construction principle. Heightened attention from brokers and the media is a poor guide to investment profits....
Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of dividend investing vs. growth investing. The answers should help you determine the best stocks to hold for long-term portfolio gains
Seasonal investment strategies study the historical performance of stocks, bonds and other asset classes during specific times of year. They then aim to benefit from those patterns. However, these strategies are based on the past and do not always work. Holding stocks with strong fundamentals—and the potential to do well whatever time of year it is—can lower this strategy’s risk....
Momentum-based investing involves buying or selling stocks with rising or falling earnings and stock prices. It’s largely unconcerned with the absence of value markers like moderate p/e ratios or high dividend yields.
It’s a strategy that some investment managers, especially hedge fund, use to create and manage portfolios that hold long positions in stocks with positive momentum and short positions in stocks with negative momentum....
It’s a strategy that some investment managers, especially hedge fund, use to create and manage portfolios that hold long positions in stocks with positive momentum and short positions in stocks with negative momentum....
The price of gold has regularly hit multi-year highs since mid-May 2019. It’s not surprising then that investment flows into gold-linked ETFs are also rising rapidly.
Trade tensions between the two largest economies in the world, the U.S. and China, changes in monetary policy, looming concerns over Brexit, market volatility, geopolitical concerns and negative interest rates have all supported demand for gold investment.
Global gold-backed ETFs had $2.6 billion U.S....
The German economy is still the largest in Europe and ranks among the top-five globally. However, in the near term, it faces challenges as its all-important export industry deals with the U.K.'s threat to leave the European Union without a trade deal. It also faces slowing demand for its products in China and elsewhere....
August is traditionally a very quiet month for the launch of new investment products, including ETFs. But here’s one that’s brand-new to the market. We also look at another recent entrant to the ETF world, the Middlefield Group.
First Trust EIP Carbon Impact ETF $20.33 (New York symbol ECLN) includes listed energy companies that work to reduce carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions....
SNC-LAVALIN GROUP INC. $19 (Toronto symbol SNC; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares o/s: 175.6 million; Market cap: $3.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend yield: 0.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.snclavalin.com) has completed the sale of a 10.01% stake in Highway 407, a toll highway in southern Ontario, to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).
As a result, the CPPIB now owns 50.01% of the highway....
A: The iShares India 50 ETF, $34.71, symbol INDY on New York (Units outstanding: 21.7 million; Market cap: $753.2 million; www.blackrock.com/us), aims to track an index composed of 50 of the largest Indian stocks.
ETFs, such as this one, are a lot like conventional, open-end mutual funds....
ETFs, such as this one, are a lot like conventional, open-end mutual funds....