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During my decades of experience advising investors and writing about stocks, I have learned many lessons.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been explaining how to build a safe income portfolio by layering investments with different yields and risk levels (How to Build A Safe Income Portfolio Part I and Part II). I introduced the idea of an “Income Portfolio Pyramid” that works like...

“We are raising our near-term rating on Nokia Corp. (NOK, NYSE) to BUY from HOLD on stronger growth prospects in mid-tier and low-end phones and signs of sustainable margin recovery at Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). Using the forum of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the mobile industry’s...

Cabot Heritage Corp., publisher of 12 investment advisory services, has named Jacob Mintz the new editor of Cabot Options Trader.

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...

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

With distrust of banks high, monetary policy easy and a sequence of financial crises still in short-term memory, it’s no surprise that many investors today are interested in investing in gold and precious metals as a hedge against inflation, financial panic, geopolitical unrest and other worries. Plus, the recent history...

A 30-second commercial during this year’s Super Bowl, broadcast on Sunday, reportedly cost around $3.8 million. What kind of company can afford to shell out that much for half a minute of the nation’s attention? Historically, beverage and car companies, as you can see in the infographic from Harvard Business Review...

Apple (AAPL) has lost about 33% of its value over the past six months, very publicly. As the stock’s slide has continued month after month, more and more holdouts, including some of our Digest contributors, have been selling. Earlier this month, the stock hit a new 52-week low. So it’s not surprising...

There is no perfect method of investing in stocks. What really matters is matching the system’s pros and cons with your own personality. I base this on meeting and corresponding with hundreds of other investors.

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

After a super-strong January, the major indexes spent February consolidating their gains. Technically, the rally is still intact.

“Legg Mason, Inc. (LM) is a global asset management company providing investment management and related services to institutional and individual clients, company-sponsored mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles. It has $654 billion in assets under management as of January 31, 2013, up from $649 billion a month...

Now is a good time to review what Mike Cintolo considers the #1 rule for growth stock investors--cutting losses short.

“The ProShares Ultra FTSE China 25 Fund (XPP) delivers twice the return of the FTSE China 25 Index. The FTSE China 25 is an index that follows the performance of the largest 25 Chinese stocks. [It’s] the Chinese equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a measure designed...

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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“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...

The Dow could be about to suffer a 5% to 9% correction, Richard Moroney says in today’s Stock Market Crash Course. Of course, predicting the timing of the pullback is tricky, so we consult with Stephen Todd and John Gray for a look at the technical indicators. Plus, we take...

I can’t resist noting that today one of the 10 Forever Stocks, Tesla Motors (TSLA), jumped 21% at the market open.

Cabot Top Ten Trader Editor Mike Cintolo wrote this about a month ago: “As the general market has heated up, we’ve noticed more and more ‘Bull Market stocks’—brokerage, investment bank and asset management firms, each of which directly benefit from higher stock prices and increased trading activity—pushing to new highs.” The market...