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You need to remember that everything that made an investment risky can make it a great opportunity.
The Market Outlook section of our latest Investment Digest issue featured the chart below, from InvesTech Research. In addition, InvesTech Editor James Stack wrote: “The greatest profits in a bull market are made by long-term investors. Yet new highs in an aging bull market always tend to make conservative investors...
When investors perceive risk to be greatest (when the economic news is horrible) is when risk is actually lowest.
If all you’re doing is saving for the future, you (and your money) just aren’t working hard enough.
“Angie’s List, Inc. (ANGI Nasdaq) operates a customer-driven website where members can research, hire, rate, and review local professionals and services, including home remodeling, plumbing, roof repair, health care and automobile repair. The company went public in late 2011, but has only recently begun to create a considerable buzz after...
Interest rates have been at historically low levels for years now, which makes it easy for companies to raise money by issuing debt (which is supposed to help the economy grow) but makes it hard to live off the income from a portfolio of safe treasury and investment-grade bonds—as many...
There are two main reasons why simpler is better. First, many economic “indicators” don’t really affect the company or the stock.
Can I hold MLPs in my IRA? This is a common question from investors considering buying MLPs for income. While you are allowed to hold MLPs in a tax-advantaged account like an IRA, it is unwise. That’s because the IRS considers MLP distributions paid into an IRA “unrelated business taxable income,” or...
Are you interested in energy stocks, high yields or utilities? Then don’t miss the advice in today’s Investment of the Week, the latest installment in our Dick Davis Digest Contributor Interview Series. Today I’m talking to Roger Conrad, a long-time Digest Contributor who has just launched three new investment advisories. Energy...
With the stock market hitting one new high after another, some people are now asking, “Is the market too high?”