The certificates were buried somewhere in my father's law office, but dividend checks appeared in my mailbox every three months. (I remember they were usually for about $50.
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November 7 - Dividend Stocks, News
Researchers in Boston inadvertently made the discovery in the aftermath of a study that looked at sleep patterns.
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November 6 - Gold, News
If you were to cross a Bugatti Veyron with a McLaren F1 -- two cars capable of reaching 60 mph in less than 3.2 seconds -- you'd get a super machine able to leap tall buildings...
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November 6 - News
That exclusivity has driven big gains for one of Manhattan's most prized properties.
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November 6 - News
Ever wonder how the super-rich manage their investments and retire on that private island with afternoon mojitos? A big part of it is investing in the assets not available to ...
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November 5 - Dividend Stocks, News
With the recent decline in interest rates thanks to a strong bond market, dividend stocks are back in favor.
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November 4 - Dividend Stocks, News
All three companies have survived and thrived through two world wars, the Great Depression, countless financial panics and periods of booms and busts...
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November 4 - News
One of his recent favorites is DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc (NYSE:DVA), which operates a network of dialysis treatment centers in the United States catering to patients that...
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November 1 - Hedge Funds
The Wall Street Journal found that Buffett made $10 billion on the investments he made at the height of the financial crisis.
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October 30 - Hedge Funds
We're told as children (and even as adults) that you can't have your cake and eat it too.
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October 30 - News
With the recent decline in interest rates thanks to a strong bond market, dividend stocks are back in favor.
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October 30 - Dividend Stocks, News
I was turned off by "The Decision" -- a crass July 2010 show in which he announced that he would be "taking his talents to South Beach" to play for the Miami Heat after years ...
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October 24 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaires go to jail for it. Money managers have fled the country and faked suicides when it's suggested.
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October 24 - Insider Trading, News
He named his horse after the shiny metal and fashioned bullets out of it.
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October 24 - Gold, News
Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler" earned the silver-bearded singer a gazillion dollars and carried him on to fame and fortune as a rotisserie chicken magnate.
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October 22 - Gold, News
Political posturing, the government shutdown, debt default fears and an earnings smorgasbord have all hit stocks at the same time -- but despite the bumpy ride, the action has...
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October 22 - News
Investment analysts, advisors and fund managers -- the so-called experts -- spend their entire working lives and billions of dollars on research vowing to "beat the market" in...
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October 22 - News
Facebook's shares famously plunged soon after they started trading, in large part because the $16 billion offering was so large that it created a great deal of investor confusion...
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October 18 - News
After launching Citadel Investment Group with just over $4 million, Griffin's fund is now among the largest in the world, with over $40 billion under management.
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October 18 - Hedge Funds
My sense is that valuations in this sector (especially for domestic producers) have reached elevated levels relative to reserves values.
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October 16 - Commodities, News
Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been one of the best ways to cash in on the growing demand for electric cars.
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October 16 - News
The purpose of this article isn't to argue for or against Obamacare. It isn't perfect, and it will likely undergo a difficult evolution before being fully implemented.
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October 16 - News
Any ETFs that fail to gain a big enough investor following eventually are shut down.
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October 14 - ETF Trading, News
Merrill Lynch's recent report on agricultural equipment provider AGCO Corporation (NYSE:AGCO) is a great example: "Margin Upside, Divy Could Soar, Raising Estimates." It's the...
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October 11 - Dividend Stocks, News
Few investors realize it, but -- thanks to this treaty -- uranium from old Russian nuclear warheads has been used to generate about 10% of our nation's total electricity -- more...
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October 11 - News
It's not often you'll come across a stock that has risen roughly 200% in the past year and is still valued at less than six times projected 2014 profits.
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October 11 - News
Orphan drugs, those treating rare conditions for small segments of the population, do not normally get much attention compared with the likes of a $12.9 billion Lipitor -- but...
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October 11 - Hedge Funds, News
That's because my experience has shown that following the moves of insiders in a rising stock market isn't fully helpful, as a rising tide lifts all boats anyway, and stocks with...
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October 11 - Insider Trading, News
Warren Buffett is synonymous with value investing and investment success. Buffett has consistently delivered profits to his investors in Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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October 3 - Hedge Funds
If you don't stay ahead of the key trends and themes developing in various sectors, you'll be investing in yesterday's technology.
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October 2 - News
The story was picked up by the major news sources a few years ago as a "cute" human interest feature.
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October 2 - Dividend Stocks, Stock Analysis
Starting from scratch as a newly minted college graduate with a business degree, lots of nerve and very little money, I launched my venture with a $15 investment in marketing ...
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October 2 - Stock Analysis
Before the rally, shares of Apple were down due to market concern that demand for the company's flagship product line -- the iPhone -- was dwindling.
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September 27 - Dividend Stocks, News
In a typical lifecycle, a stock might go from a hot IPO to a growth stock to a value stock.
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September 27 - ETF Trading, News
The biofuels industry is abuzz this week.
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September 27 - News
StreetAuthority's sister site InvestingAnswers.com defines free cash flow as "a measure of how much cash a business generates after accounting for capital expenditures such as...
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September 27 - News
One key trait that separates developed economies (such as the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan) from emerging economies is the relative swings in GDP.
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September 27 - Commodities, News
We've seen the effect technology has had in the past 30 years, in everything from cellphones and computers to the cars we drive.
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September 27 - News
It started soon after the birth of my son. I was awakened in the middle of the night with a searing pain in my abdomen that radiated up into my chest.
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September 27 - News
A few weeks ago, Elliott Gue shared 14 stocks that have raised their dividends for 50 years or more.
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September 25 - Dividend Stocks, News
Institutional investors are so big, they move the market.
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September 25 - Hedge Funds, News
Growing up in the gearhead culture of Pittsburgh, I wasn't expecting to be impressed.
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September 25 - News
As the crisis in Syria appears headed toward a resolution, key commodities markets are no longer on edge.
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September 25 - Gold, News
It's a subtle shift right now, but in coming years, futurists predict we'll be dictating our emails, tweets, text messages and documents, as punching letters into a keyboard becomes...
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September 25 - News
The Internet would not have grown as quickly as it did without Bill Gates.
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September 25 - Hedge Funds
One such company also has high margins and generates impressively high returns on invested capital.
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September 24 - News
Although presidential power is tightly controlled by the Constitution and Congress, the office remains the most influential position on Earth.
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September 24 - News
We've written about this company several times before.
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September 24 - News
While working at an investment magazine back in the 1990s, I profiled a young technology company with a very intriguing product.
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September 24 - News
Sure enough, there were. I found something that I think applies to every single one of us.
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September 23 - News