Category: Investing 2014
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Friday, March 14, 2014
Investors Big-Time Profit Play For a Scary Stock Market / Companies / Investing 2014
Michael A. Robinson writes: U.S. blue chips suffered their biggest drop in five weeks yesterday and are down nearly 3% so far this year because the latest round of economic reports are fostering a lot of uncertainty about the prospects for continued global growth.
For most investors, it’s been that kind of year.
But I continue to believe that the tech sector – especially here in the U.S. – still has a lot of fuel left in its tank.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Investors Grab These Shares… Before Google Does / Companies / Investing 2014
William Patalon III writes:As I've mentioned many times in Private Briefing, resident technology expert Michael Robinson and I talk by telephone at least once every day - and often two or three times.
On more than one occasion, in fact, Michael has joked that we could save a lot of time if we were capable of the "Vulcan Mind Meld" technique that Mr. Spock regularly used in the classic sci-fi TV show Star Trek.
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Saturday, March 08, 2014
Safe Havens Are Trouncing Stocks So Far This Year / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014
Investors are going crazy for stocks, piling into individual stocks and equity mutual funds at a near record pace. Investor sentiment polls confirm the high level of bullishness. Margin debt is at record highs. Brokerage firms and polls of investor groups show individual investors have unusually high portfolio allocations skewed to stocks and away from bonds and cash.
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Thursday, March 06, 2014
Roubini: How I'd Invest $1 Million Right Now - Not Bitcoin or Stocks / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014
Nouriel Roubini has been known as Dr. Doom since he predicted the 2008 financial crisis, but Roubini feels it's time for a new nickname. He thinks "Dr. Realist" is a better fit. So Bloomberg Television wanted to know if the self-proclaimed "Dr. Realist" would ever invest in riskier assets like Bitcoin (which he calls a Ponzi scheme) or even stocks.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Cyprus - The Time of Maximum Pessimism Is the Best Time to Buy / Companies / Investing 2014
By Nick Giambruno
“The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.”—Sir John Templeton
As you may have heard, Doug Casey and I traveled to Cyprus in search of crisis-driven bargains… and we found them. This has been previously outlined in the articles here and in our specific investment picks in Crisis Investing in Cyprus.
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Monday, March 03, 2014
Should You Invest in the Marijuana Boom? / Companies / Investing 2014
By Dan Steinhart, Managing Editor, The Casey Report
I was planning to explore the investment landscape of the burgeoning marijuana industry today, but it looks like the party’s already over.
Appearing before the Maryland Legislature, Annapolis Police Chief Michael Pristoop testified that 37 people died in Colorado on the first day of legalization from overdosing on marijuana.
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
Four Top High-Momentum Stocks to Watch / Companies / Investing 2014
George Leong writes: There is a lot of money trading the stock market each day, and this is especially true with the momentum stocks that are making many traders rich.
While anyone can trade momentum stocks; to make the real big money, you need to be trading big positions on these momentum stocks and be willing to assume the risk that the trade could go the other way. The key to trading momentum stocks is to make sure you are closely monitoring the price action and the volume on the bid side, especially. A major upward push in bids could foreshadow a pending upward move in the stock. The same can be said for rising volume on the ask side that could suggest traders are exiting the stock.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Investing Lay of the Land / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014
Building your nest egg and managing it successfully takes more work than it did six years ago, but it isn’t a Sisyphean task. You can build a portfolio that will last the rest of your life.
Waiting for the political class to come to its senses is futile.
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Why Wall Street Would Love to Bug Our Phones / Companies / Investing 2014
William Patalon writes: Every month or so, Keith Fitz-Gerald, Shah Gilani or a few of the other editors here at Money Map Press will wonder aloud if the big Wall Street investment banks have secreted a bunch of listening-device "bugs" in our offices or on our phones.
They haven't, of course. And our comments were made in jest - and meant only as a joke.
But the coincidences that prompt these surveillance-by-Big-Brother quips can be quite remarkable.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Where Stock Investors Can Find Stability in These Economically Unstable Times / Companies / Investing 2014
John Paul Whitefoot writes: While most astute investors would point to a weak U.S. economy as the reason for the recent lackluster U.S. employment data, economists, in their infinite wisdom, point to Mother Nature. She seems to shoulder a lot of the economic blame in this country.
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Monday, February 10, 2014
How to Profit from the Dow’s “Dogs” / Companies / Investing 2014
George Leong writes: Small-cap stocks are faring the worst this year and are down nearly 10% from their record-high in late 2013; many would deem this to be an official stock market correction.
Given that small-cap stocks surged upward by more than 33% in 2013, it shouldn’t be a surprise to see this group get the brunt of the selling this year.
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Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Apple, Ebay and Visa - Stocks to Watch as Activist Investors Unlock Value / Companies / Investing 2014
Sasha Cekerevac writes: One of the most hotly debated topics these days is the role of activist investors. Some people have the impression that an activist investor is not a positive factor when it comes to long-term investing. I disagree, as many times, the investment strategy recommended by these activist investors ends up benefiting all shareholders.
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Wednesday, February 05, 2014
The Perfect Profits Storm / Companies / Investing 2014
Terry Weiss writes: Michael Robinson has been following the auto sector since 1980 when he was a young analyst living in Detroit.
And over the last 34 years, he’s seen a lot of changes come to this iconic industry – both good and bad.
But he’s never seen anything like what’s happening now.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Business Development Companies Investing / Companies / Investing 2014
By Andrey Dashkov
Business Development Companies (BDCs) are publicly traded private debt and equity funds. I know that description isn’t terribly sexy, but keep reading and you’ll find there’s a lot to be excited about.
BDCs provide financing to firms too small to seek traditional bank financing or to do an IPO, but at the same time are too advanced to interest the earliest-stage venture capitalist. These companies are often near or at profitability and just need extra cash to reach the next milestone. Filling this void, BDCs provide funds to target companies in exchange for interest payments and/or an equity stake.
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
Triple Threat Firms Will Deliver Your Best Stocks Returns in 2014 / Companies / Investing 2014
Robert Hsu writes: As readers of my Permanent Wealth Investor know, alternative money management firms are some of my favorite securities for investors to own.
After a great run in 2013, those firms will have a hard act to follow in 2014.
But, here's the thing: the same sources that drove income last year for these companies are firmly in place. And will be throughout 2014.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
The Hottest Investable Market on Earth 2014 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014
China has been dominating the headlines in recent days.
And not in a good way.
Since late last week, worries about slowing growth, financial-system shenanigans and the potential for an “Asian-Contagion” type spillover have whacked global stocks – and have left folks wondering if the “China Miracle” is over.
But China’s kind of like a still-young tech venture: There are going to be reversals, it’s going to be volatile, and it’s normal to expect this kind of whipsaw market action.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
How to Profit During High Inflation / Companies / Investing 2014
Anyone with a technical degree will admit that college programmed them to consider "sell" a dirty word—to think salespeople use trickery to lure consumers into buying things they don't need. It makes no difference whether it's an investment product or a Pet Rock; anyone involved with selling or its evil twin marketing is guilty until proven innocent.
I spent the majority of my first career in sales and marketing, where I focused on negotiations and pricing. My clients included 40 of the top 500 US corporations. Now I work alongside some of the best economists and analysts in the world, and well, let's just say I bring a different perspective and experience base to our meetings.
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Stock Market Investing 2014 - Top Picks / Companies / Investing 2014
My biggest pet peeve regarding common stock investing is how so many people have a tendency to over-generalize this asset class. Commonly held beliefs such as investing in stocks is risky, or that the stock market is overvalued, or that the fed is driving stock prices, etc., are just a few examples illustrating my point. In truth, common stocks are as individually different as people are individually different. When dealing with human beings, most reasonable thinking people would reject prejudicial statements. Personally, I believe we should have the same attitude about common stocks.
Instead of attempting to put them all in the same basket, I believe it is more rational and prudent to judge each common stock based on its own merits and attributes. This is why I continuously point out that it is a market of stocks and not a stock market. All stocks are not the same, therefore, they should not all be painted with the same broad brush. Consistent with this notion is that it also logically follows that not all investors are the same. Consequently, with these thoughts in mind, different strokes (stocks) for different folks (different goals, objectives and risk tolerances) is the more appropriate stance.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Time to Buy Out of Favour Stock ETF's Turkey, Gold, Brazil for 2014 ? / Companies / Investing 2014
The best time to buy cheap is when you are afraid to bring up your ideas around the water cooler at work for fear of the peer laughter. Our work centers on looking for oversold conditions and crowd behavioral anomalies that can give us better low risk entries with good upside potential. A combination of fundamentals and technical, combined with Elliott Wave Theory patterns can lead to nice profits with low risk.
For just a few quick ideas that would make sense in this area, we point out 3 ETF’s that you could look at entering now as they are way out of favor and very oversold.
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Saturday, December 28, 2013
All Aboard the Investor Wealth Rocket 2014 / Stock-Markets / Investing 2014
Michael A. Robinson writes: New Year’s Eve is one of my favorite times of the year.
And not because I look forward to the lavish parties folks like to hold on that final night of the year.
In fact, I don’t party at all.
My wife and I have actually established a neat little ritual that lets us say adios to the outgoing year and to welcome in the new one by setting some goals for the one that’s coming in.
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