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Holding cash is not a successful long-term investment strategy, especially where inflation reduces the value of cash.

Fossil Group (FOSL) is an international designer, marketer and distributer of consumer fashion accessories. Fossil’s products are distributed in myriad ways: wholesale in countries where it has a physical presence, direct to the consumer through its retail stores, from websites and through third-party distributors. Fossil’s wide...

from AlphaProfit Sector Investors’ Newsletter Year 2015 can be a good one for Nucor (NUE) as many profit drivers are set to converge. Nucor should realize benefits from its recent $770 million Gallatin Steel acquisition and the Special Bar Quality expansion project. The steel maker also stands to profit from further...

One solid idea that falls a bit outside the growth stock spectrum is Outerwall (OUTR), previously Coinstar.

I think the bulls and the bears are fighting it out on a pretty even basis.

Stocks are rebounding in a renewed rise and so far, they’re looking good. The Dow Industrials, for instance, is at a one month high and...

History tells us that the general tendency of the U.S. stock market has always been up in the long run.

It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who follows equity markets that 2014 wasn’t a fabulous year for growth stocks.

There are lots of moving parts to a successful growth stock portfolio. There’s buying, which I always think of as “the fun part.”

These days I’m relatively bullish. Not only did the market snap back powerfully from its early-December retreat, but we saw a couple of “blast-off” indications—rare signs of power that almost always portend solid market returns during the next three to nine months.

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The trend toward increased celebration of the individual parallels a trend that’s been going on among countries.

When I’m looking to buy a stock or put on an option trade, I don’t look for a company like J.C. Penney.

If you take the behavior of the sun in the sky as a metaphor for the stock market, there’s one lesson to be learned.

Hughes Management is a research-oriented investment firm. As such, it intends to invest only in those companies of which it has in-depth knowledge, which includes a thorough understanding of a company’s business lines, its future earnings prospects, management, liquidation value, and its plans for growing its deposit base. Book value...

Envision Capital Management®, Inc. manages portfolios of fixed income securities for individuals. Marilyn Cohen, founder and chief of investment strategy along with portfolio manager, Alex Anderson, have had distinguished careers with two of the largest bond companies in the world--Cantor Fitzgerald and Wells Capital. They know the limitations...

Markman Capital Insight LLC is a investment research and guidance firm focused on helping independent investors and traders reach their financial goals. Based in the Northwest but global in vision, our company provides unbiased, unvarnished and up-to-the-minute information, analysis and leadership on the futures, equity and credit markets to thousands...

Published almost every Monday (44 issues a year). The IWB covers the entire investment universe including Canadian, U.S. and foreign stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, fixed-income securities, and more. As well, we provide valuable tax-saving advice, warn you about financial scams, offer several high-performance model portfolios, and much more. Our investment...

Global Commodity Investing gives you fast-reading, timely alerts that put you on top of the very latest and best commodity investment opportunities: Energy—both fossil and renewable; Key metals—both precious and industrial; and Agriculture—including processors, producers and basic food stuffs. This is not about day trading and it’s certainly not about...

In the stock market, September is usually a time of increased purpose, as the giants of Wall Street return from their summer vacations (after Labor Day), tanned, re-energized and ready to grapple with the market and its challenges.