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Tungsten stocks may offer some speculative appeal for investors—but they have some unique risks
You can’t fake a record of dividends, but a high dividend yield can be grounds for caution.
How to find undervalued stocks? One way is to use market pessimism to unveil some value-stock gems
Top-quality high growth dividend stocks can give investors the best of both investment worlds—capital gains and income
If you were about to begin your investing career, you might want to have a list of the most important things you could do to be successful. This is that list.
We have distilled many years of experience into the 10 practices that successful investors most often follow....
This past week, after Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped out of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, the media began referring to the “Trump ascendancy.” Use of the phrase has since exploded. Google comes up with 374,000 hits for it. (In contrast, Google only finds 289 results in a search for “Romney ascendancy.”) The term seems to reflect a widely shared, negative point of view. “Ascendancy” started out as a reference to the rise to power in Ireland by a coalition of Protestant landowners, clergy and professionals, starting in the 1600s. Most historians would agree that the “Protestant Ascendancy” helped bring on a long stretch of poverty, mass emigration and intermittent starvation for the Irish. Judging by results of the Google search, the widely shared view about the Trump ascendancy is that it could be an awful thing for the economy and stock market. I bring this up because I see it as one more example of an orthodoxy that can cost you money by warping your stock-market decisions....
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The U.S. election year stock market rule can be profitable for investors in any political climate
Conservative investors have many opportunities to profit from aggressive investments. Here are some tips.
In all kinds of markets, investors may ask, “Is now a good time to buy stocks on margin?” The market has been going down for a year or so, and this appeals to bargain-hunting investors. In contrast, some investors only start to think about margin investing when stocks have been shooting up. Others pay less attention to market trends, and instead zero in on financial fundamentals or market-shaking news developments. The right answer to the question is all about your personal goals, finances and temperament. It has little to do with the market outlook. Buying stocks “on margin”—that is, using borrowed money to buy securities, regardless of whether you borrow from your broker or some other source—has certain key properties that apply in any market....