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Wall Street’s Best Investments Daily Alert – 8/15/18

August 15, 2018|From Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Walter S. Frank|Wall Street's Best Investments

Here’s a recommendation to change out an international fund for a worldwide fund, in which the majority of assets are invested in the United States.
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Wall Street’s Best Investments Daily Alert

May 16, 2017|From Wall Street’s Best Investments|by Walter S. Frank|Wall Street's Best Investments

The top five holdings of this 3-star-rated fund are Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGKF, 4.72% of assets); CNH Industrial NV (CNHI, 4.71%); Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LLDTF.L, 4.68%); Allianz SE (ALIZF.DE, 4.50%) and Bank of America Corporation (BAC, 4.44%).
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Motley Fool Stock Advisor

From the issue of |by Tom Gardner|How To Invest

Motley Fool Stock Advisor is Motley Fool’s flagship investment newsletter service headed up by brothers David and Tom Gardner. Since March 2002, David and Tom's brotherly rivalry has played out in the pages of each Stock Advisor issue. They compete against each other month...
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Bonds Versus Stock Dividends: Kellogg Company (K)

From the issue of |by Chloe Lutts Jensen|Income Investing

Traditionally, investors thinking about retirement have invested in a mix of stocks and bonds to balance safety and growth.
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Three Best Dividend-Paying Tech Stocks

From the issue of |by Chloe Lutts Jensen|How To Invest

Michael Dell has succeeded in his bid to buy out investors in the company he founded, Dell (DELL), and take it private with help from private-equity firm Silver Lake, Microsoft (MSFT) and a group of investment banks. Shareholders will be getting about $13.65 share,...
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Dividend Edition: Two Dividend-Paying Stocks

From the issue of |by Chloe Lutts Jensen|How To Invest

One of the benefits of being an income investor is that focusing on dividend-paying stocks automatically screens out companies without any revenues. Speculative starts ups, biotechs and other hopefulls simply don't have the cash to dole out to their investors. Dividends essentially act a..
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Paying with Your Phone

From the issue of |by Chloe Lutts Jensen|Growth Stocks

EBAY may actually be the best investment leveraged to mobile payments at this time; the stock is strong.
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Three Monsters Under Growth Investors’ Beds

From the issue of |by Paul Goodwin|Growth Stocks

These recommendations will help you to keep your blood pressure down while playing the growth game.
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Olympics (and Stocks) Without the Crap

From the issue of |by Paul Goodwin|Stock Market

Not that you need another commentary about the Olympics, but since they've been going on for a while, I think I should weigh in.
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How to Kill a Groundhog

From the issue of |by Timothy Lutts|Growth Stocks

Fertilizer stocks have been doing well this year. The reasons? Drought and rapidly rising prices for corn.
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Four Market-Beating Dividend Aristocrats

From the issue of |by Chloe Lutts Jensen|Dividend Stocks

Dividend Aristocrats are stocks that have increased their dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years.
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Year in Review Part 2

From the issue of |by Chloe Lutts Jensen|How To Invest

Last week I highlighted some of the most interesting issues of Investment of the Week from the last six months. This week, I have highlights from July through last December (when we began Investment of the Week). On July 5, I wrote about an new...
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Why More Stocks are Likely to Pay Dividends

From the issue of |by Cabot Editor|How To Invest

The growing number of Americans approaching or at retirement age is increasing interest in dividend stocks.
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Use Options to Synthetically Trade a Stock

From the issue of |by Rick Pendergraft|How To Invest

How to use options as investment vehicles rather than trading vehicles.
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How is Skee-Ball Like Investing?

From the issue of |by Chloe Lutts Jensen|How To Invest

Many comparisons can be drawn between the arcade game and the market.
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Two Stocks for the Future

From the issue of |by Elyse Andrews|How To Invest

Walgreen and General Motors should benefit from growing interest in electric vehicles.
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The China Story

From the issue of |by Paul Goodwin|How To Invest

The little stories fill in the blanks behind the government-sanctioned news.
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The Energy Goldilocks

From the issue of |by Cabot Editor|How To Invest

In 2011, I see an oil Goldilocks rally—not too soft, not too firm, just right.
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The Eighth Wonder of the World

From the issue of |by Timothy Lutts|How To Invest

The Magic of Compound Interest and how it can increase retirement savings.
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3 Steps to Simple Investing

From the issue of |by Cabot Editor|How To Invest

The dangers of complex investments and how to succeed where 1,471 hedge funds failed.
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