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...
- Great Tips From Bernie Madoff
- Oil Is Falling
- The "Slap in the Face" Award: Strange Tastes
You can check it out
in this video.
| The Most Profitable Company in the History of the World? Standard Oil... Saudi Aramco... The Dutch East India Company... These companies were bigger and more profitable than any single company on the planet today.
But one company could be on the verge of joining their ranks. It's already more profitable than just about every company on the globe. And yet, you've likely never heard of it. Details here. |
And in case you missed any of them, here are the other stories that we've featured in
Investment U this week...
Investing in This Sector? Look at This Chart First As I mentioned in a column last week, one of my favorite assets for income generation is Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) in the oil and gas sectors. If you missed the article, you can read it
here.
Today, though, I'm going to talk about a slice of the energy sector you should avoid.
Historically, the electric utilities sector has been a great source of income-producing stocks. They're the ones your grandparents bought and never sold. But as Bob Dylan so aptly put it in his 1964 classic, "The times they are a-changin'."
Are utility stocks still a good buy? Are the ones you have worth holding?
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Five Signs a Market Is Topping Out It is always a painful "learning" experience.
Like many investors, I have made the unfortunate mistake more than once of investing in booming markets at just the wrong time - right before they go into reverse gear.
While timing markets is almost always best avoided and always challenging, sometimes it is pretty clear that the momentum of a market is tapering off. This is a good time to lock in gains, reduce exposure and tighten trailing stop losses.
Let me share with you the lessons I have learned through hard experience.
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This Company's Loss Is Your Gain Shares of
Myriad Genetics (Nasdaq: MYGN) slipped last week after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided that human genes can't be patented. The ruling dealt a blow to the company's huge share of the genetic testing market.
Don't think this is some legal and science fiction mumbo jumbo that won't affect you. It likely will impact your life. And if not yours, definitely your children's.
Genetic science has come a long way. Cancer drugs are designed to target specific genes in mutated cancer cells and spare normal cells. In some illnesses, we now understand which mutations cause disease.
And the knowledge is growing every day.
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How to Play the Fed's New "Tapering" Policy It's amazing just how often - and how effectively - the media and its various talking heads get investors to take their eye off the ball. (In case you don't play golf or baseball, taking your eye off the ball causes anything from a shank to a whiff.)
Right now, for instance, the topic du jour is "When will the Fed begin 'tapering' its bond-buying program and how should I play it?"
It's a big, fat softball of a question for stock market "analysts" who like to show off how much they know while simultaneously revealing that they don't have a clue what successful investing is really about.
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The Biggest Investment Opportunity the World Has Ever Known Let me begin with an apology and a small confession. This column really isn't about "the biggest investment opportunity the world has ever known."
However, it is about the easiest, most consistent method ever devised for making money in stocks. And you are free to use it to virtually print money in your brokerage account.
So why the switcheroo?
My publisher said my original headline "Why Boring Is Beautiful in the Stock Market" would only cause potential readers to skip or delete this vital message without ever reading it. Why? Because the vast majority of investors - despite what they may tell you - don't really want consistent moneymakers that generate great returns.
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Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published this week on our website:
www.InvestmentU.com.
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