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We took a look at Slack Technologies in an Advice for Inner Circle Members email earlier this year. That was just before the company went public through a direct listing on the New York exchange. In opting for that process, it avoided the traditional and usually costly initial public offering, or IPO (see more on that below).

Direct Public Offerings (DPOs) aim to minimize broker involvement and cost....

Gut reactions to U.S. political developments play an enormous role in stock-market sentiment these days—more than any time since the 1930s. Some Republicans think President Trump is sure to keep the U.S. economy growing nicely for years to come, assuming he wins a second term....

The Tesla/Elon Musk saga provides real-life examples of several investment concepts that play a big role in our investing system. It’s a particularly good illustration of the third of our three rules for investment success: downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.

Tesla has spent much of the past six years in that limelight....

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CAE INC. $32 (Toronto symbol CAE; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 265.0 million; Market cap: $8.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.8; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.cae.com) is a leading maker of flight simulators for commercial and military aircraft....

It’s natural to think you profit best from technology by investing in shares of tech leaders. But this can lead to disappointments. Tech stocks are highly volatile. Some early leaders flame out. Others go through long setbacks due to industry downturns, corporate restructuring, regulatory issues and so on.

Journalists and economists make the same mistake as investors....

A: HSBC Holdings plc (ADR), $43.51, symbol HSBC on New York (ADRs outstanding: 4.0 billion; Market cap: $175.1 billion; www.hsbc.com), is a U.K.-based bank and financial services company.

HSBC has shifted its focus to Asia in recent years after cutting back its operations around the world following the global financial crisis in 2008....

Barclays plc reported a much lower loss in the most-recent quarter on stronger results for its equities trading operations and rising activist pressure to focus on its retail banking business.