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Individual Investors Stay Pessimistic – AAII Sentiment Survey
April 18, 2013 Individual investors remain pessimistic about the short-term outlook for stocks, even though bullish sentiment did improve in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next...2May2013 | vitalstocks | Comments Off | Continued
Value Alert – Generac Holdings, Inc.
Texas (Apr. 18, 2013) Wax Ink has issued a Loss of Investment Interest rating for Generac Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ...2May2013 | Wax | Comments Off | Continued
What You Should Do With Your Money Today
Yesterday’s terrorist attack in Boston, the plunge in gold prices and the 256-point plunge in the Dow have investors across the country asking, “What do I do now?” The answer – if you’ve been following The Oxford Club‘s advice all along – is “not much.” To understand...27Apr2013 | InvestmentU | Comments Off | Continued
Forget the Gold Bulls… and the Gold Bears
Gold cratered Friday and then again yesterday, hitting a two-year low on fears that troubled European countries will have to sell their reserves to cover the cost of increasingly expensive bailouts. The sell-off took the metal below the important $1,400 psychological threshold. Gold bulls are...27Apr2013 | InvestmentU | Comments Off | Continued
Steel Industry Stock Outlook – March 2013 – Zacks Analyst Interviews
About the Steel Industry Given the unique combination of strength, formability and versatility in steel; it is deployed across various industries including construction, transport, electrical appliances, food packaging and others. Steel products are classified into four broad...11Mar2013 | vitalstocks | Comments Off | Continued
Don’t Buy This Losing Investment Advice
At gonefishinportfolio.com, I recently updated The Oxford Club’s conservative asset-allocation strategy using Vanguard mutual funds and ETFs. It’s been a great decade, as this investment approach has not only beaten the S&P 500,...23Jan2013 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
Your Four Best Financial Resolutions for 2013
This is the time of year for making New Year’s resolutions. And I have four that are guaranteed to make your portfolio bigger, fatter and wider a year from now. So listen up: * Save more. All investment begins with saving. And unlike the performance of the stock market,...2Jan2013 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
AAII Sentiment Survey: Optimism at Second-Highest Level of 2012
December 20, 2012 Bullish sentiment rose to its second-highest level of the year, as bearish sentiment fell for the fourth time in the past five weeks in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise...23Dec2012 | Shawn | 0 comments | Continued
Warren Buffett: Tax Dodger?
I’m a longtime admirer of Warren Buffett. He taught me a lot about stock investing, including the most important thing about it I know: Forget about outguessing the market and focus instead on identifying businesses that are selling for less than they are worth. While Buffett is a...5Dec2012 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
New 401(k) Information
If you have a 401(k) plan, you should have received new documentation by today. Though it may seem like more fine type and regulatory jargon, the new documentation is actually expanded information about performance, fees and expenses. Be sure to read it. The expanded information is mandated...31Aug2012 | Shawn | 0 comments | Continued
Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Earns Dosage Approval
Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc. (RBGPY) recently announced that it has received approval for two new dosages (4mg and 12 mg) of Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone) sublingual film from the US Food and Drug Administration...30Aug2012 | vitalstocks | Comments Off | Continued
Covered Call Options: Earning “Rent” on Your Shares
Most investors think that when they buy shares of a company, the only thing they can do is hold onto them in the hopes of generating a profit. But in a volatile market environment like today, writing – or selling – covered call options are giving many shareholders the chance to generate...21Aug2012 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
(CY) Cypress Semiconductor Revises Ramtron Proposal
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (CY) has raised its all-cash bid to buy all of Ramtron International Corp.'s (RMTR) outstanding stock for $2.68 per share, a...24Jun2012 | vitalstocks | Comments Off | Continued
AAII Sentiment Survey: Bullish Sentiment Rises to a Six-Week High
June 14, 2012 Bullish sentiment rose to a six-week high, while bearish sentiment plunged in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months, jumped 6.6 percentage points to 34.0%....18Jun2012 | Shawn | 0 comments | Continued
Investing in a Low Interest Rate Market
In this incredibly low interest rate environment, there are some investments you’ll probably want to avoid, as well as some better choices for where to invest. For the last year, the effective federal funds interest rate has been 0.25%. The federal funds rate is considered one of the...4Apr2012 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
(AAPL) How to Find the Next Apple – Picking High-Growth Companies
Apple’s share price exceeded $500 this week, giving it the largest market cap of any U.S. company. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) so successfully sells computers, phones and other electronic gadgets that recently announced fourth-quarter...23Feb2012 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
(KSS) Kohl’s Beats Expectations and Raises Dividend
Kohl’s Corporation (KSS) reported its operating earnings of $1.81 per share in the fourth-quarter 2011, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny. The earnings, however, surpassed the prior-year quarter’s earnings by 9%. The...23Feb2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued
(HES) Investing in Iraqi Oil
In Douglas Adams’ iconic The Hitchhiker’s Guide...23Feb2012 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
(DD) E.I. du Pont de Nemours Inks $100M Deal with Yingli
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Com (DD) inked a $100 million deal with the Chinese solar energy technology manufacturer Yingli Green Energy (YGE), whereby DuPont will supply...15Feb2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued
Freddie Mac Tramples on Taxpayers Again
Right now, a lot of investors and business news junkies are incensed by Freddie Mac’s move to profit by intentionally giving their customers bad service. And they should be. They just shouldn’t be surprised… Because this is merely the latest of many examples of the government sponsored...3Feb2012 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
The Commodities Supercycle
The rise of commodities may not be a fad. Instead, it may be a product of social behavior and theory. I present to you the premise of the “commodity supercycle.” The concept is more than vague investor intuition; its theory is based on the work of twentieth-century economists who...3Feb2012 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
Stock Market News for January 17, 2012 – Market News
The New Year had begun on a bright note for investors with the markets witnessing positive momentum on its first trading day of the year. However, the markets have suffered from uncertainty in the weeks that followed after the lingering European debt crisis came back into focus. With the American...17Jan2012 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued
AAII Sentiment Survey: Bearish Sentiment above Average for 4th Week
December 8, 2011 Bullish sentiment rebounded in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey, but bearish sentiment stayed above average for the fourth consecutive week. Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months, rebounded...9Dec2011 | Shawn | 0 comments | Continued
North Dakota Oil Production Rivals OPEC
by Ryan Fitzwater, Investment U Research Wednesday, November 30, 2011 By now you’re probably familiar with the Bakken shale formation – but just in case… Located under North Dakota and Montana, oil was first discovered in the Bakken in 1951. Only problem was that...30Nov2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
“Gasland” Brings Natural Gas Fracking Concerns to Light
by Ryan Fitzwater, Investment U Research Tuesday, November 29, 2011 By now you’re probably familiar with the various shale gas and oil plays across the United States. We’ve known about these shale formations for decades. The only problem was that back then, the technology...30Nov2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
Is China Being Overvalued?
by Jeannette Di Louie, Investment U Research Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Once upon a time, the term BRIC meant something. Brazil, Russia, India and China were all seen as rising stars in the global economy, and investors couldn’t get enough of them. Not so much anymore....30Nov2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
North Dakota Edges U.S. Closer to Energy Independence
by David Fessler, Investment U Senior Analyst Tuesday, November 29, 2011: Issue #1653 Williston, North Dakota is a dusty, prairie town. It’s just a...30Nov2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
Proposed European Bailout Plan Comes Up Short
by Jason Jenkins, Investment U Research Wednesday, November 30, 2011 The plan to increase the capacity of the Eurozone’s European Financial Stability...30Nov2011 | InvestmentU | 0 comments | Continued
Thanksgiving Holiday – Turmoil in Europe Continued
While the U.S. was focused on feasting, football and shopping, the turmoil in Europe continued. The situation there continues to deteriorate. No longer are the problems confined to the small, relatively insignificant economies around the Mediterranean. This week, they even spread to Germany, where...28Nov2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued
U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Fall Again
Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell again this week. This week they fell by 10,000 but only after the previous week was revised up by 3,000. So regardless if you count it as a drop of 10,000 or 7,000, we are still at 390,000. That was better than the expected level of 400,000. We...10Nov2011 | vitalstocks | 0 comments | Continued