Some people want to “play” the stock market like it’s some sort of casino, buying and selling stocks daily and hoping to make a quick profit. This is the wrong approach.
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May 24 - News
When looking for promising candidates for your stock portfolio, it's easy to just think about the prominent names of the day, such as Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Ford Motor Company...
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May 22 - News
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE:KMP) is a master limited partnership based in the United States.
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May 22 - News
What do Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE:DPZ), International Business Machines Corp.
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May 10 - News
With economic data taking a backseat to a slew of better-than-expected earnings reports, the broad-based S&P 500 continues to knock off one all-time record close after another...
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May 9 - News
There's a storm brewing in 2013, and it has major implications for U.S. rail infrastructure.
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May 9 - News
I understand the need for companies to put on a good front and say that they are pleased with the work of their employees.
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May 6 - News
The massive supply of natural gas that has resulted from new drilling technologies applied to U.S.
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April 29 - News
Railways have historically been popular investment vehicles.
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April 28 - News
When you compare the company to its peers, and find that they are the best at many performance metrics, it's a good bet the stock will perform well.
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April 27 - News
Many investors pay a lot of money for magazine subscriptions, newsletters, and other research to try and determine the direction of the economy.
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April 24 - News
Who isn't enthralled by the sound of a train whistle in the distance? Billionaire investors like Whitney Tilson, Bill Ackman, and Warren Bufffett are certainly enamored of the...
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April 24 - News
Production has grown so rapidly that midstream companies, which are working tirelessly to build out the pipeline infrastructure necessary to support the domestic oil boom, just...
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April 23 - News
Last week, the real-money Inflation-Protected Income Growth portfolio lost a few hundred dollars, essentially giving back the gains of the prior week that had pushed its total...
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April 23 - News
The purpose of a stock buyback plan should be to utilize excess cash to buy a significantly undervalued asset.
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April 22 - News
On Thursday, Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 17 - News
Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE:UNP) has the type of one-year stock chart that dreams are made of, marching steadily higher with very little volatility.
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April 15 - News
On Tuesday, CSX Corporation (NYSE:CSX) will release its latest quarterly results.
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April 14 - News
As the market zigzagged over the past couple of weeks, the real-money Inflation-Protected Income Growth portfolio just kept humming along, collecting dividends and buying shares...
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April 8 - News
The railroad industry has gained attention from analysts and investors over the last couple of years, even investing superstar Warren Buffett made a big move in this sector by...
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April 3 - News
Now more than ever, a comfortable retirement depends on secure, stable investments. Unfortunately, the right stocks for retirement won't just fall into your lap.
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April 3 - News
There is a tendency for investors to perceive large-cap stocks as slow, lumbering giants that offer stodgy and uninspiring growth rates.
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March 20 - News
In this series, we'll highlight four companies in an industry, and compare their "cash king margins" over time, trying to determine which has the greatest likelihood of putting...
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March 19 - News
New issues in U.S. corporate bond markets topped $43 billion last week, with foreign-based borrowers taking down more than half the total.
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March 18 - News
One of the largest U.S. rail network operators, CSX Corporation (NYSE:CSX). , has performed very well for its shareholders.
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March 15 - News
Some interesting news caught my interest on what could indeed be Buffett's next elephant. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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March 15 - Hedge Funds
In the search for long-term investment opportunities, I am quite interested in the sustainable businesses that are cheaply or reasonably valued on the stock market.
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March 14 - Hedge Funds
Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin on March 14, 1794. For the first time, American plantation owners would be able to harvest large amounts of cotton profitably.
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March 14 - News
Railroads reflect the health of their economies. For 2012, the US economy grew 2.2%, up from the 1.8% growth of 2011.
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March 6 - News
Warren Buffett's recent purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe shoved the rail industry into the spotlight, but trucks still serve an important function.
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March 4 - News
Value investor Edgar Wachenheim, owner of Greenhaven Associates Inc., is one of the value investors I look to for stock ideas.
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February 25 - News
Throughout the world, investors watch the Dow Jones Industrials not just because of the 30 major companies that are components of the average but also as a sign of broader trends...
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February 18 - News
Earnings season is in full swing, with huge numbers of companies having already given their latest numbers to investors, and Enbridge Inc (USA) (NYSE:ENB) is about to release...
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February 14 - News
One way to make money in the market is to look for companies that are consistently beating analyst expectations, yet the market still undervalues the shares.
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February 8 - News
The country’s major railroad companies recently came out with their 4th quarter and 2012 full year earnings.
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February 6 - News
Anyone who has read much of my posts over the last year or so knows that I like railroad stocks.
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February 4 - News
In some industries, there isn't one clear leader. For example, in the retail space you could argue that while Amazon.com, Inc.
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February 4 - News
Farallon Capital Management is one of the largest hedge funds in the world, and the combination of size, good returns, and a long operating history- the fund was founded in 1986...
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December 11 - Hedge Funds
We track insider transactions because we believe that no one knows a company better than the people who work there.
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December 3 - Insider Trading
Our database of 13F filings allows us to see how many hedge funds and other notable investors that we track own a particular stock, which in turn allows us to see which stocks...
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November 28 - Hedge Funds
Diversification is one of the most important principles of investing- not only for investors themselves, but also for company insiders.
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November 26 - Insider Trading
According to a filing with the SEC, Henry Davis, a Board member at Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) bought 67,300 shares of the company’s stock on November 16th at an average...
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November 23 - Insider Trading
Shares in The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) rose about 15% on November 13th after billionaire Carl Icahn’s money management group reported that it had acquired 10% of the ...
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November 13 - Hedge Funds
CSX Corporation (NYSE:CSX), a $22 billion market cap railroad with a focus on the eastern U.S., reported its third quarter results this week.
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October 17 - Stock Analysis
Empirical studies have proven that investors who mimic or "monkey," insider trading sentiment can beat the market by an average of 7 percentage points a year.
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September 25 - Insider Trading
Earlier today, UBS made sweeping downgrades in the railroad sector, citing decline of coal and grain volumes as the main reason.
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September 19 - Hedge Funds
Raise the drawbridge and man the parapets.
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August 3 - Hedge Funds
Billionaires Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg lead the roster of executives invited to Allen & Co.’s annual media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week, according...
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July 6 - Hedge Funds
Earlier this month Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (BAC) strategist Savita Subramanian prepared a list of Merrill Lynch’s 10 favorite stocks for 2012.
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December 26 - The Smart Set
Morgan Stanley Research analysts published a report titled “50 for 2105”on Dec 15, 2011.
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December 25 - Lists
