Analysis Topic: Market Oracle's Stocks Portfolio
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
How to Protect Your Stock Market Portfolio Profits From a Crash / Portfolio / Financial Crash
By: Money_Morning
Tim Melvin writes: Thanks to billions of dollars in quantitative easing from the U.S. Federal Reserve, fears over a looming stock market crash have been put on hold lately.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is up 16% this year. The market's outstanding performance has shrugged off weak earnings reports, slowing growth in China, and continued weakness in Europe.
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Friday, March 08, 2013
How to Safely Hedge Your Stocks Portfolio in Uncertain Times / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Investment_U
David Eller writes: What a year 2013 has been. The S&P is up 6% and we’re 3% away from all-time highs. The Dow Jones broke through 14,000…
Can things get better from here? Can they even stay this good? Nobody knows where the markets will go, but there are ways to protect yourself and sleep easy at night.
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
The Biggest Risk – And Greatest Reward – Facing Your Portfolio Today / Portfolio / Investing 2013
By: Investment_U
Alexander Green writes: Virtually every American knows Uncle Sam is carrying a gargantuan debt and that we face sharply higher deficits in the future. What you may not know is how bad the situation really is, how much worse it will soon become, how widespread the problem around the world, and how little will be done about it anytime soon.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Attractively Valued Blue-Chip Dividend Stocks For Retirement Portfolios / Portfolio / Dividends
By: Charles_Carnevale
In a previous article found here I postulated that the S&P 500 was currently fairly valued. In this article, I review a specific hand-selected list of Dividend Champions that I believe are reasonably priced and therefore capable of generating above-average returns at below-average risk. In today’s low interest rate environment, I believe that high-quality blue-chip dividend growth stocks represent an attractive asset class that can provide a retirement portfolio with a growing income stream.
Saturday, November 03, 2012
The Role of Risk in Portfolio Investment Asset Allocation / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: John_Mauldin
Diversification of your investments is the only real free lunch, or so we are told. But how do we go about deciding what to diversify into? In this week’s short Outside the Box, my friend Jason Hsu of Research Affiliates argues that the real basis for diversification should be risk. And given that risk seems to be rising everywhere we look, thinking about how to deal with risk in our portfolios makes a great deal of sense.
I’m also including in today’s OTB a complementary piece by good friend Charles Gave of GaveKal. This is a short piece that is long on common sense and that winds up with a straightforward list of places where we can invest to minimize risk.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Beat Ben Bernanke's Zero Rates with These Juicy Double-Digit Yields / Portfolio / Investing 2012
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
With the economy beginning to stall, Ben Bernanke's war on the nation's savers rolls on.
From his promise to keep the Fed funds rate near zero through late 2014 to his efforts to push ten-year note yields even lower, the Fed Chairman is a saver's worst nightmare.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Five Consumer Staple Stocks For A Hearty Investment Portfolio With Yield / Portfolio / Sector Analysis
By: Fast_Graphs
The old adage that people got to eat apply to the five consumer staple companies covered in this report. From the farm to the table these companies provide sustenance to a hungry world. Therefore, we believe that conservative investors that are craving the opportunity for growth and income might want to look closer at these five consumer staples. Each appears to be reasonably priced, and the group provides various combinations of growth and yield.
Monday, April 30, 2012
How to Build a Small Fortune with Dividend Reinvestment Plans / Portfolio / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
The real secret to long-term investing success is income - and with stocks, that means dividends.
Numerous studies, both academic and financial, have found dividends accounted for more than 60% of total U.S. stock market returns since 1870.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Battle for the UK Current Bank Account Switcher / Portfolio / UK Banking
By: MoneyFacts
Moneyfacts research has shown that there has been an increasing amount of switcher incentives introduced in the last few weeks.
High street lenders including Halifax, HSBC and Santander have all launched deals to attract new customers, offering a cash payment or interest-free overdrafts.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Investors How Much Cash Should You Hold? / Portfolio / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
As you might imagine, I receive a lot of questions from readers around the world and right now the question I'm being asked most frequently is, "How much cash should I be holding?"
There's no right answer, but given the extraordinary times we're living in, I think the more interesting thing to consider is "what to do with it?"
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Investor Moves to Make Before Debt Ceiling Debacles Disfigures Your Portfolio / Portfolio / US Debt
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
One night at dinner a few years back, my Dad, Greg Fitz-Gerald, explained exactly why the "tax-takers" in Washington think that recoveries, bailouts, negotiations and stimulus packages are a good idea - while the taxpayers believe just the opposite.
"When you rob Peter to pay Paul, Paul generally thinks this is a good idea," he said.
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
How to Build a "Stockless" Investment Portfolio / Portfolio / Investing 2011
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes:
I've lectured on investment strategies the world over, but I recently got one of the most intriguing questions I've been asked in a long time at the Global Currency Expo in San Diego, California.
An attendee asked me: "Is it possible to achieve decent performance if I don't want to include stocks?"
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Bullish, But Nervous? Here's how to protect your Stock Profits - and make more... / Portfolio / Options & Warrants
By: Money_Morning
By Larry D. Spears writes:
Since bottoming out in early July, the stock market has turned in a brilliant performance, giving many investors Christmas stockings bulging with profits. However, it also has left a lot of investors nervous - though not the ones that know how to use options.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Time to Fine Tune Your Investment Portfolio / Portfolio / Learning to Invest
By: Nilus_Mattive
In my last couple of columns, I told you about two different portfolios that I’ve been running, both of which contain dividend stocks and have been performing very strongly.
That prompted some of you to write in asking what differentiates these two portfolios. It’s a great question and it raises the bigger issue of how you can tweak your own portfolio to better suit your goals and individual tolerance for risk.
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
This Simple Step Could Save Your Investment Portfolio / Portfolio / Risk Analysis
By: Jared_Levy
Just about every stockbroker, financial advisor or money manager worth their weight in salt knows that diversification is a major way to us to manage investment risk.
But here's what most -- professionals and retail investors alike fail to remember: Diversification doesn't just mean choosing to invest in different companies that do different things and that's it. Creating real diversity and ultimately protecting your investment portfolio involves a little more work, which amazingly, most professionals still get wrong.
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