It's Over for This Oil Monopoly... and The Best Investment Advice for 2014

Sunday, December 22, 2013 In the current edition of the Investment U Weekly Update, Bond Strategist 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... EBay for 2014 Argentina's Gas and Oil Are in Play The "Slap in the Face" Award: Wacky Winos You can check it out in this video. This Week's Best-Sellers: Forget Tesla: This Other California Company Could Kill the Big Three Have you heard? There's another West Coast company with the Big 3 in its crosshairs. It's already making bigger profits than Toyota, Ford, and Tesla... and even federal and state governments are making laws that help it. No wonder its share price just jumped 13% in one day. Get its name here. Banned! For many years, Americans were barred from owning shares in one very profitable energy company. Only traders with over $100 million were allowed to purchase the stock. But now, with the ban finally lifted, the stock could easily triple by year's end. Go here to find out why. When NASA Needs Futuristic Technology, They Go Here It doesn't get much more high-tech than sending a spaceship to Mars. And when NASA's Curiosity rover recently landed on the red planet, it was all thanks to one small company. Next up for it? Conquering a $357 billion consumer technology market. As it does, we expect shares to shoot from $9 to $224. Details here. SPONSORED Here are the stories that were featured in Investment U this week... How to Lose Big Money in 2014 Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist Recently Forbes came out with its 2014 Investment Guide. The cover promises "365 Ways to Get Rich." I plowed through all of them. Some ideas were excellent and insightful. Others were dreadful and even harmful. I'll review some of the worst advice today... Click here to read the full story. Profit From the End of a 75-Year-Old Oil Monopoly David Fessler, Energy and Infrastructure Strategist America is a peculiar place in one respect: Our oil and gas reserves are privately owned. In many other parts of the world, including some countries that otherwise have (relatively speaking) free economies, those reserves are nationalized. For more than 70 years, Mexico was a perfect example... Click here to read the full story. Europe's Comeback Kid? Marc Lichtenfeld, Chief Income Strategist I had just returned to my hotel room in Innsbruck, Austria, when my wife called. Before I could tell her about the beautiful scenery and amazing experiences I was having on The Oxford Club's European Opportunity Expedition, she stopped me. I needed to hop a flight to Portugal immediately, she said. My father - who also happened to be in Europe, though not part of our tour - was having emergency (though, fortunately, routine) surgery in Lisbon. Click here to read the full story. Silver Bells May Soon Be Ringing Sean Brodrick, Resource Strategist They say that a bell never rings at the top and the bottom of the market. But there's some real jingling going on in silver right now. And it may just be the start of something big. Could you profit from it? Yes! Here are three reasons why. Click here to read the full story. The Best Investment Advice for 2014 Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist On Monday, we covered some of the worst investment ideas in Forbes' 2014 Investment Guide. Among these were forming a family limited partnership, plunking for an annuity, ignoring high mutual fund expenses, buying (overpriced) farmland, holding off on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), and increasing your stock allocation after retirement (regardless of what it is). Mixed in with these clunkers, however, were a number of sensible pieces of advice that might well lead to higher returns in 2014. Here are the best... Click here to read the full story. Be sure to check out some of the other investment stories that we've published recently on our website at InvestmentU.com. The Hunger Games Eats up the Competition A Closer Look at JPMorgan's $13 Billion Settlement WARNING: This Bull Market Won't Last Forever Two Stocks Poised to Perform This Holiday Season – SHARE INVESTMENT U – If you enjoy reading Investment U, why not share it with your family and friends? Simply send them this link, so they can sign up (for free, of course). – QUESTIONS – Republish Investment U on your website or blog for free. Learn how. Have a question for our editorial team? Contact us. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Investment U. To unsubscribe from Investment U or to manage your account, click here To cancel by mail or for any other subscription issues, write us at: Investment U Attn: Member Services 105 West Monument Street Baltimore, MD 21201 Keep the emails you value from falling into your spam folder. Whitelist Investment U. 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