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  • To Make Money in the Stock Market, Follow the Stock Market
    Big day on the stock market yesterday... Amid doom and gloom from everyone that can read the business section of a newspaper, International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE/IBM) reported that its earnings in the first quarter of 2008 jumped 26% to $2.32 billion. IBM even raised its earnings forecast for the year.
  • Trading Strategies to Help You Survive Market Downturns
    Emotional investing is every investor's worst enemy. Holding a stock that's price is rising is a wonderful feeling. Watching the stock go even higher after you've sold it can be aggravating. But when markets are sinking, as they have been doing during the first quarter of 2008, many of you have ended up stuck with having to make the worst decision that unfortunately every investor has to make at some point -- should you hang in there or to throw in the towel?
  • Track Record of Success Could Mean Bigger Profits
    Not too long ago, I wrote about DeVry, Inc. (NYSE/DV) which runs DeVry University, Advanced Academics, Ross University, Chamberlain College of Nursing and Becker Professional Review. This company has distinguished itself with a long-term track record of operational growth and financial success for stockholders.
  • The Fastest Growing Economy in the World
    Surprising analysts, who had expected China's economy to start slowing this year like the economies of other countries, China reported yesterday that its economy grew by 10.6% in the first quarter of 2008.
  • Bond Buying Simplified
    So, here are the options for bond buyers: You could buy bonds with high yields with various maturities. Or, you could buy deeply discounted bonds — the so-called zero coupon bonds — to avoid reinvestment risk. Or, you could buy floaters, which are the bonds that vary in price as interest rates increase or decline.
  • Cheer Up — Some Stocks Are on the Rise!
    Is there any good news out there? Are there any stocks going up in this market? The answer to both questions is "yes." As always, there is money to be made in any market environment, as long as you own the right stocks. It's always been that way, and it always will be.
  • The Only Real Long-Term Threat to the U.S. Economy
    The bank crisis... the banks will get over it. Remember the bad loans to the tech industry, third-world countries, and the Resolution Trust fiasco of the 1980s? The banks always recover. So does Wall Street. The housing market crisis... it too will eventually go away. Property booms are followed by property busts. It has always worked that way.
  • A Roadmap Out of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper
    So, in August of last year, it became painfully clear that the U.S. subprime mortgage sector was nearing a complete collapse, being tied to the underhanded U.S. housing loans, to say the least. What started as a small brush fire in an obscure market segment spread quickly and violently, impacting other types of derivatives, regardless of the type of loans serving as underlying assets.
  • What If the Economists and Analysts are Wrong Again?
    Every major American newspaper and business magazine I saw last month carried at least one major article reporting that the U.S. economy was in a freefall with no end in sight. The worst might have been the last issue of "Business Week," with a front cover story about the recession. What if the newspapers and magazines are wrong about the economy?
  • Should Investors Finally Breathe a Sigh of Relief?
    Well, last week, many stocks that have more or less flatlined suddenly developed a pulse. An actual pulse! And now the questions I'm getting follow along this line of reasoning: has the market finally bottomed or is this one of those elated, yet false recoveries of a terminally ill patient?
  • Should You Buy Financial Stocks Now?
    Surely many of you have thought that now might be as good a time as any to go on a little shopping binge and to buy yourself some bank stocks at bargain prices. Unfortunately, that little voice in your head is no longer little and now it's screaming its head off with words such as "economic slowdown," "U.S. subprime debacle," "recession," and even "depression." So what is an investor to do?
  • Central Bank Woes: Inflation Risk and Economic Lows
    On any given day, central banks of the industrialized world face numerous challenges, the latest being skyrocketing food and energy prices caused by global imbalances between supply and demand. It is great that global demand is pushing world economies forward. However, as the supply also lags, prices surge, as does the risk of inflationary ripples adversely impacting economies in both developed and developing countries.
  • A Sparkling Micro-cap Gem
    The stock market wants to rally right now and we certainly deserve a little upside after a terrible first quarter performance. I don't think it's the beginning of a new trend — only a bounce in what is still a correction.
  • Smart Money Sees Tide in Stock Market Changing
    The stock market came roaring back yesterday... and it was no "April Fool's" joke. The stock rally was strong Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up a huge 391.47 points, or 3.2% — the best start to the second quarter for the stock market in over 50 years.
  • What Job Growth Says About Our Economy
    Is Canada's economy bouncing back or should the relative health demonstrated by the labor market be taken with a grain of salt, considering its lagging nature? According to Philip Cross of Statistics Canada, December GDP decline was a fluke and "did not signal a major disruption in the economy, but was more an isolated air pocket related to a combination of cutbacks in the auto sector, mostly because of model changes and bad weather."
  • The Technical Outlook for the Stock Market
    Many years ago, Martin Zweig, a prominent financial advisor during the 1970s and 1980s, coined a catchy investment axiom: "Do not fight the Fed and do not fight the Tape." Applied to the present market, when the Fed is aggressively reducing interest rates and doing its best to resuscitate the financial markets, the odds should favor the long side. However, in contrast, the market tape remains unfavorable, with price, breadth and volume indices making new lower bear market lows.
  • NAFTA Again Under Fire
    Attacking NAFTA appears to have been a favorite sport among North American exporters and politicians for years. The recent barrage of fire came from Democratic presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. To this, Canada's three "stooges," the Prime Minister, the Trade Minister and the Finance Minister, responded with utmost disgust. Well, perhaps not "utmost," since all three would like to change a thing or two about NAFTA that bothered them as well, but they would not go so far as to bring the whole thing under very public scrutiny.
  • A Contrarian’s View on Wall Street's New Best Friend
    While pessimism about the economy rises daily... And while the economic figures released each week are more dismal... I'm taking the contrarian view again. For now, the stock market tells me that the worse for the economy for 2008 is over…

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