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Coke Might Not Be Exciting, But It Still Has its Place
If we want to go with a stock that lags over ones that don’t, including the index itself, we should need some very good reasons to do it.…
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Experts Advise Precautions Against Geopolitical Risk
With the potential for conflict between Iran and the United States at hand, while we should not overestimate the risk to stocks, some are advising that we hedge…
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Ned Davis Predicts Bond Funds to Remain Strong in 2020
Bond funds have had a big target on their back after their peak last summer. Bonds had a great first 8 months of 2019, and the outlook has…
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Designing A Simple Stock Picking Strategy for 2020
When it comes to designing a stock picking strategy, we tend to make things a lot more complicated than we need to. We can do well just by…
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Dogs of the Dow Strategy Continues to Impress Investors
A lot of investors are intrigued by the Dogs of the Dow strategy, which goes with the top 10 dividend yielding Dow stocks and beats the market. This…
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How Much Will P/E Ratios Dampen Markets in 2020?
If you believe that price to earnings ratios are a big constraint on stock prices, you probably don’t expect much from stocks in 2020. This wall is only…
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Applied Materials Stock Poised for Even More Growth
When a stock gains 90% in a single year, as Applied Materials has in 2019, we may worry that the party may be ending soon. Things are set…
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Using Sector SPDRs to Play the Market the Right Way
Sector SPDRs group the market in 10 categories, where we can select the ones we want and the ones we don’t. Going with the better half of these…
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Is Berkshire Hathaway a Contender or Pretender in 2020?
We want to avoid stocks that are more likely to lose us money than not, but there’s another type to avoid, tired old dogs that haven’t kept up…
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Goldman Predicts Stocks Will Continue to Grow in 2020
Goldman Sachs is in agreement with the consensus that 2020 will be mildly bullish. Their use of the Sharpe index to pick individual stocks is what is most…