The Best Trade You Can Make in November... and Beware These Potential 'Bond Bombs' In Your Portfolio

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Sunday, November 11, 2012

In the current edition of the Investment U Weekly Update, Investment Analyst and Host of The Oxford Club's Market Wake-Up Call, Steve McDonald, runs down the key issues affecting the global economy - and your investments. (Click the image to play.) This week, you'll find... Beware These Potential 'Bond Bombs' in Your Portfolio... The Best Investment Opportunity for the Next 50 Years? The "Slap In The Face" Award: Garage Sale Wars Edition... You can check it out in this video. How about a little 'revenge' at the gas pump... For years, we've gotten gauged at the gas pump. Thanks to this little known "loophole" it's your turn for 'revenge...' You could even use this "trick" to make Big Oil pay you to retire! Click here now for all the details. Here are the top stories that were featured in our Investment U Daily this week... Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist Two Great Accomplishments Obama Won't Claim We can argue whether he deserves the reputation or not, but President Obama is viewed in many quarters as anti-business. Critics say his healthcare plan, regulations, mandates, and proposed tax increases stifle economic growth and prevent businesses from creating new jobs. The Obama campaign counters that this simply isn't true. And the President himself makes a point of calling the free-enterprise system the world's greatest engine of prosperity. He's certainly right about that... Click here to read full story Alexander Green Chief Investment Strategist The Best Trade You Can Make in November In December 1996, I sold some shares of Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) to offset gains elsewhere in my portfolio. I still consider it the most boneheaded investment move I ever made. A year later, the stock was up more than five-fold. A few years further on, it was up more than 30-fold. The worst part is that I didn't dislike the business prospects for Best Buy at the time. Quite the contrary, in fact. I sold it only because I had substantial capital gains and was cleaning out my portfolio to offset them... Click here to read full story Marc Lichtenfeld Senior Analyst Forget Obama - It's All About the King In an earlier article, I showed you stock market performance under both parties for the last 111 years. It was pretty close to even. Over the long term, the market goes up, no matter who is in office, whether there is war or peace, high taxes or low taxes. Over 100 years of stock market history proves this to be true. So rather than get all riled up over the election, I'm focusing on finding great stocks for the next year... Click here to read full story Carl Delfeld Senior Analyst Odd Couple Investing They say opposites attract... But I've noticed, oftentimes, after marriage, opposite partners clash. The problem seems to stem from each trying to get the other to become more like them. Such is the case with Brazil and China, tied together by economics and politics as members of the BRIC family... Click here to read full story Steve McDonald Senior Analyst That's Not Losing Money! Buying short maturity bonds in out-of-favor industries, looking for improving trends in beaten-up companies, and using all the bargain hunting skills we have (but seem to forget when it comes to investing) can get us annual returns well above what the stock market is averaging. Let's take a look at an example... Click here to read full story Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published this week on our website at: www.InvestmentU.com Is it Time to "Fire" Some of Your Stock Holdings? Money Market Fund Reform: Short-Term Stability vs. Long-Term Security Investing in Mexico: Latin America's Next Largest Economy Yum! Brands and What the Yankees and China Have in Common

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