Category: Investing 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Your Flight to Safety Investment Checklist for the Rest of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
If the second half of this year is only one-tenth as volatile as the first half of the year…buckle up!
The way it’s shaping up the markets are in for a stressful trip on a windy road.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Closed End Funds, A Safer Way to Buy Stocks / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
The last few days have sent a lot of investors scurrying back to the sidelines.
The correction, which I’ve been calling the most widely anticipated correction in years, has reignited fears that even an anemic recovery might be farther away than most investors expect.
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
The Secret to Commodity Investing Profits / Commodities / Investing 2009
Peter Krauth writes: There has never been a better time to invest in commodities.
That’s a very simple statement, but it’s backed by three powerful points:
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
How's Your Investment Portfolio Doing? Seven Long-Term Indicators / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Before Wall Street and the media combined to make investors think of calendar quarters as "short-term" and single years as "long-term", market cycles were used as true tests of investment strategies over the long haul. Bor-ing.
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Monday, July 06, 2009
The Three Best and Worse Investment Sectors for the Next Five Years / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Larry Edelson writes: I often get the question, “Larry, what do you think will be the best and worst sectors to invest in for the next five years?”
So this morning, I’m going to answer that question. For many of you, my answer won’t come as a surprise. For many, it will. Either way, it’s important you know my longer-term forecasts.
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Sunday, July 05, 2009
Global Wealth Report Shows the Way to Investing Profits / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Martin Hutchinson writes: Capgemini/Merrill Lynch World Wealth Report appeared last week and it makes for some grim reading.
But it also provides global investors with some insights into the best markets to invest in.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
The Smart Grid Will Offer Exceptional Investing Opportunities / Commodities / Investing 2009
With the likely passage of the “Cap and trade” bill, many people are excited that renewable energy is set for further growth. Investments in wind turbines, solar panels, biomass, and capturing the power of ocean waves continue to interest investors. All of these technologies generate electrical power with minimal carbon emissions. Other investors are looking for ways to benefit from a cap and trade system.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Wild, Profitable Moves Coming; Update on China Economy / Commodities / Investing 2009
Larry Edelson writes: Could the economy get any worse? Could real estate prices continue to decline? Could Detroit take more hits? Could manufacturing and retail sales slump more?
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Secret Emerging Market / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Martin Hutchinson writes: Many commentators have picked the East Asian economies of China, Korea and Taiwan to emerge the most vigorously from the ongoing global financial crisis. And with some justification, for China and the two Asian “tigers” share some alluring characteristics like:
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Country Fund Portfolio Attributes Comparison / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Looking at country and region funds in terms of fundamental portfolio attributes, there are significant valuation differences which should be appreciated when making selections.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Filtered Equity Income Stock Growth Prospects / Companies / Investing 2009
We are increasingly asked about low risk individual stocks that may be suitable for an equity income allocation within a portfolio. This is a general response to that question.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Top List of Companies with Greatest Financial Strength / Companies / Investing 2009
This list of companies selected for top financial strength characteristics could be valuable to do-it-yourself, conservative, risk averse individual stock or bond investors, as a starting place to begin looking for suitable opportunities.
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Friday, June 12, 2009
How to Make Money on the Summer Stocks & Commodities Rally / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Sean Brodrick writes: These are not normal markets — take what you know about how the market moves on fundamentals and throw them out the window, where they will probably drown in a flood of government money.
The government is spending so much money that, according to USA Today, taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover rising federal commitments made just in the past year. That’s a rise of $6.8 trillion in new obligations in 2008 alone!
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Financial Assets Classes Quantitative Chart Analysis Comparisons / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
This table presents 336 data points that quantitatively compare 12 attributes of the price charts for 28 key asset categories that may be found in many portfolios. The categories include representation for domestic and foreign bonds, hybrid securities, domestic and foreign stocks, real assets, commodities and currencies.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Long-term Review of Stock & Commodity Bull Markets, Alternating Leadership / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Over the past 120 years, there has been a constant shifting of leadership between stocks and commodities. From 1875 to 1905, the U.S. stock market provided greater relative performance than raw materials. This changed to highlight commodities over equities from 1905 to 1920. The crown shifted back to stocks throughout the 1920s only to lose that leadership again to natural resources from 1930 to 1946. Stocks, once again, offered greater relative performance over commodities in the the late 1940s and continue to prove superior until 1965 where raw material prices took the leadership back from stocks and provided higher returns for investors until 1982.
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Saturday, June 06, 2009
Investing in the Transportation System of the Future / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Sean Brodrick writes: President Obama’s chief-of-staff says …“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” —Rahm Emanuel, November 19, 2008
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Screening for Dividend Yielding, Growing, Rising Stocks / Companies / Investing 2009
What do you get when you want yield that is growing along with sales and earnings over a period of years, less than sky high valuation, and evidence of a rising price pattern?
The answer today is not very many stocks, and not necessarily the most exciting names. Not every exploration finds gold. Some of the results of this search are interesting, but we aren’t crying eureka.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Quarterly Stock Market Market Brief & Stock PickĀ / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
While from a classic Dow Theory position the markets are in a bear market rally, from a technical position the momentum indicators are very strong. Both the Dow Transports and the Dow Industrials, on a three day chart, have both indicated phased supportive movement with higher highs and higher lows. More significantly the increases are advancing from solid base positions which is granting the market solid technical structure, something it did not possess since the third quarter of 2008.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Stock Market Investing Profits Map For The Next 6 Months! / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Larry Edelson writes: Every so often it pays to take a few steps back … look at the charts from a longer-term point of view … and put the markets into perspective.
This is especially true today with so much confusion in the markets … so much misinformation in the news … so many threats to your wealth … and so much background noise and distractions.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Bullish and Bearish Stock Market Plays for the 2009 Hurricane Season / Stock-Markets / Investing 2009
Sean Brodrick writes: Whether the 2009 hurricane season turns out to be a snoozer or a bruiser, I have four picks for you — two bullish, two bearish — to play this summer’s potentially wild weather.
The major hurricane forecasters have made their predictions, and it’s for a “moderate” hurricane season. Cooler seas off the coast of Africa and a prediction of a weak El Nino get the credit for the calmer forecast.
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