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If you could hop into a time machine and return to the fall of 2007, when Britney Spears topped the charts with Gimme More and Michael Clayton led at the box office, what stocks would have delivered the most stunning returns going forward?
I believe our focus on dividend-paying stocks will continue to guide us through the rough times ahead.
President Obama’s proposal to extend the Bush tax cuts along with unemployment benefits, child tax credits, business tax cuts and the Making Work Pay credit seemed to have made investors relatively optimistic today, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average remained above last night’s close of 11,362.19 almost all day. The […]
At GEARS we have developed unique tools to find improving fundamentals companies when their share price is depressed and identify deteriorating fundamentals companies when their share price is extended. To perform that analysis, we have created an accurate set of fundamental performance metrics and a share price volatility calculator.
September was a good month for the market as well as a good month for my own account. Seemingly climbing a wall of worry about renewed real estate foreclosures and concerns about the implementation of healthcare reform, and seemingly endless government red ink, the market found the S&P opening up at 1049 on September 1st and closing at 1,141 by the end of trading on September 30th. This marked the best September in over 50 years for stocks.
The month of August has been a challenge for the economy, the financial markets and for my own portfolio. While not yet committed to calling a 'double dip' in the economy, clearly the pace of the rebound has diminished threatening an economic drop back into full-blown recession.
Disclaimer: John Mooney owns GOOG in his Covestor Under-Capitalized Sectors model. August 4, 2010: T. Rowe Price (the investor, not the firm he founded) isn’t mentioned much today, but in the mid-twentieth century he was well-known as one of the first modern proponents of growth stocks. He had clear criteria […]
The S&P Best of Breed model managed by Conrad Leifur is designed with the goal of outperforming the S&P 500. It does so by investing in large and liquid S&P 500 stocks that have the potential to outperform others within their sector while maintaining representative sector weights. Another goal of […]
Author: Robert Freedland Disclaimer: Robert owns ECL, CHD, MCD, MMM, SYY, T and TJX in his Covestor Buy and Hold Value Model. July continued the recent pattern of volatility, but the bias has been to the upside as the S&P which opened near 1,000 at the beginning of the month […]