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“Two Harbors Investment Corp. (TWO) is a mortgage REIT (or mREIT, as it is sometimes known). It buys, owns and manages both agency-backed (guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie) and non-agency-backed residential mortgages. It then generates revenues for shareholders primarily by the interest it earns on the mortgage loans. “Two...

Traditionally, investors thinking about retirement have invested in a mix of stocks and bonds designed to balance safety and growth. The closer to retirement or more risk-averse they are, the more of their portfolio they hold in bonds for safety and regular income. The system has even been institutionalized in...

Investors should be looking for great growth stocks that can multiply their investment many times.

The worst of the European crisis has passed. While many of the overleveraged countries on the continent still have major problems to solve, the European Central Bank’s actions last year have succeeded in keeping the monetary union together. And with uncertainty surrounding the eurozone’s fate removed, European equities are already...

Cabot ETF Investing System uses market timing indicators to minimize losses in bear markets and maximize gains in bull markets.

Cabot Small-Cap Confidential Editor Thomas Garrity discusses three attractive small-cap sectors.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . While most of you recognize this famous line as the opening to Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, you could use the line to describe dividend investing in 2012. On the one...

The market’s main trend is still up, but day-to-day action is getting choppier and the prospect of volatility looms. In today’s Stock Market Crash Course, the experts weigh the market’s oversold condition, which suggests a correction, against the indicators for further upside, including sentiment, acquisition activity and technical factors.

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I encourage you to develop a checklist to use before you decide to buy stocks. It should be strict enough to keep you out of trouble.

A sure-fire method to find strong stocks is to ferret out high-quality stocks with low PEGnD ratio.