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Dear Inner Circle Member,


Last week I wrote about “mental chewing gum-type” market indicators: the kind that keep your mind busy in the same way that chewing gum keeps your jaw busy, while providing comparably little nourishment. You can contrast them with what I’d call “food-for-thought” indicators....

A: Alphabet Inc., $942.90, (Nasdaq symbols GOOG [class C non-voting] and $961.81, GOOGL [class A voting], Shares outstanding: 640.7 million; Market cap: $658.8 billion, www.abc.xyz), has been one of our top tech buys of the past few years....

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BLACKBERRY LTD., $11.52, Toronto symbol BB, provides wireless communication services, mainly to businesses and government agencies.


The stock jumped 12% this week after an arbitrator awarded the company $814.9 million U.S....

Intel Corp. has now applied its chip-making expertise to faster-growing fields, with earnings jumping more than 15% in the last fiscal year.

A: In late 2013, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed a law that allows foreign companies to drill for oil for the first time since the sector was nationalized in 1938. The legislation was passed by Congress on December 13, 2013, and ratified by a majority of Mexican states.


Private companies are now allowed to sign contracts to drill for oil and gas in partnership with heavily indebted state-controlled firm Pemex, which will get a share of the profits.


The law was controversial in Mexico, but Pemex’s oil output has declined for more than a decade due to a lack of investment....

Dear Inner Circle member,


Here’s the text of the most-recent letter I sent to our Portfolio Management clients in late January:


“In 2017, déjà vu could turn out to be the investor tool of the year.


History always tries to repeat itself, but never quite succeeds—especially in the stock market....

Dear Inner Circle Member,


Here’s the text of the most-recent letter I sent to our Portfolio Management clients in late January:


“In 2017, déjà vu could turn out to be the investor tool of the year.


History always tries to repeat itself, but never quite succeeds—especially in the stock market....

WESTJET AIRLINES $22.74 (Toronto symbol WJA; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (1-877-493-7853; www.westjet.com; Shares o/s: 118.9 million; Market cap: $2.8 billion; Dividend yield: 2.5%) has partnered with McDonald’s Canada (its parent, McDonald’s Corp., symbol MCD on New York, is a recommendation of our Wall Street Stock Forecaster newsletter) to serve the restaurant chain’s McCafe Premium Roast coffee on board its aircraft.


On December 1, 2016, WestJet began offering a complimentary McCafe Premium Roast coffee to all passengers across its fleet of Boeing 737 and 767 aircraft....

ADOBE SYSTEMS INC. $108.39 (Nasdaq symbol ADBE; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (408-536-6000; www.adobe.com; Shares outstanding: 497.2 million; Market cap: $53.9 billion; No dividends paid) is now joining with Microsoft (symbol MSFT on Nasdaq and a recommendation of our Wall Street Stock Forecaster newsletter) to integrate each other’s cloud computing products.


Microsoft Azure will host Adobe’s business software tools, including Adobe Marketing Cloud, Adobe Document Cloud and Adobe Creative Cloud....

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