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If you are feeling good now, given last week’s market performance, then you are living in a fantasy world – just like the traders who took the market indicators up. What we have seen over the last week are acts of desperation... Read →
The arrest of Galleon Group's Raj Rajaratnam provides a glimpse into how far Wall Street will go to get an edge and make money. Whether guilty or not, it certainly shows that the average investor stands very little chance against these... Read →

Stock screening software can do in a nanosecond what it would have taken you days to do in the past. Screening stocks according to set criteria with a view to assessing their future potential for profit.

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Kraft is a company on the move, and one to watch. Now that it is out from the shadow of cigarettes (Altria), it is investing big money (almost $1.5 billion a year) marketing itself and its products as the “new Kraft.” If they... Read →
The markets ended a bruising week with a significant drop today – the Dow down 178, Nasdaq 33, and the S&P 20. It is bad enough to watch the value of one’s investments drop so precipitously. It is worse still to hear that... Read →

Would you marry for the money? The WSJ.com just reported on some interesting findings from a survey of 1,134 people nationwide with incomes ranging between $30,000 to $60,000. The results are pretty surprising.

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Today's volatility is extraordinary. It is times like these when shorting becomes a necessary strategy. Anyone can come up with a list of shorts -- and on down days, they are mostly right. But there is one that has broken all records... Read →

The biggest investment mistakes that I have ever made - from Xerox to Friedman Billings to Canadian oil trusts - have all involved the chase for dividends. I've been reading Billytickets, and while he makes some good points, I believe that investors might be better served to chase corporate bonds in this environment than dividend stocks.

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The low interest rate environment we're in makes it a good time to transfer wealth to heirs via loans or more arcane financial structures with names like SCINs, GRATs and IDGTs. The topic is becoming hot and WSJ did a great article... Read →
Several years ago Dubai was the land of milk and honey. Its economy was booming and it was lauded as the next big global financial center. Now, it's sovereign wealth fund is teetering on the edge of default and its real estate has... Read →

The new credit regulations are throwing the credit card industry into a tailspin. Many business owners are turning to their business cards to charge things, but is this the best option for them?

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If the new credit card regulations have gotten you confused, we have a simpler and more condensed version of them to help you understand them better.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of Black Swan said today at a conference that "every single human" should bet that US Treasuries will decline. He believes it's a no-brainer based on the policies of the current... Read →

I can't believe what I am seeing at 10 AM EST this morning on the the nation's leading financial channel.

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There really ought to be a law against a former Fed chair making public pronouncements on the market or the economy. This is especially that case for Alan Greenspan whose words were watched so carefully for so long and, consequently, who still has the power to shake and shape events. He did it again last night.

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