JLA was recommended by The Wealth Advisory at $12.07 in Dividend Digest issue 237, dated June 13, 2012.
“Nuveen Equity Premium Advantage Fund (JLA, $12) -- It’s tough to miss the way Apple (AAPL) shares have been trading lately. It certainly seems like the bloom is off the rose. while...
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In today’s Daily Alert, The Wealth Advisory Editor Steve Christ recommends a value-priced shipper currently yielding 6.5%.
“Navios Maritime Holdings, Inc. (NM, $3.70) is a dry bulk shipper. It owns 31 ships ands charters another 26. Navios’ average vessel operating cost is $4,300 a day. The industry is...
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Today’s Dividend Edition is the final part of our end-of-the-year wrap up. Dividend-paying stocks are our bread and butter at the Dividend Digest. And we’ve published plenty of explanations of their advantages, including Richard J. Moroney's comparison of their potential vs. bonds, in and...
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Today we have a detailed argument in favor of a deeply discounted financial stock from Steve Christ’s The Wealth Advisory.
“On January 11, 2008, Bank of America Corp. (BAC, $9) announced it was acquiring sub-prime lender Countrywide Financial for $4.1 billion. Of course, this would...
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In today’s Daily Alert, The Wealth Advisory Editor Steve Christ recommends investing alongside private equity in order to super-size your yields. The new recommendation is followed by a sell alert from Personal Finance.
“In this month’s issue, we’re running with the powerful and popular we’re...
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CEFs, also called closed-end investment management companies, are different from mutual funds and ETFs because they issue a limited number of shares. That actually makes them more similar to ordinary publicly-listed companies than funds: when a new investor buys into a CEF, they to...
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Fund investing has come a long way. Buying mutual funds for the security and convenience of having your money invested by a fund manager is still a popular investment practice--in large part thanks to inertia--but it's no longer the only fund game in funds,...
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Options sound risky -- and incompatible with income investing. But writing covered calls (selling call options on stocks you own) is actually an options strategy that can generate extra income stocks you already own. The one downside is that you may be forced to sell stock...
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TravelCenters of America LLC (TA) was recommended by TradeMaster Daily Stock Alerts at $5.95 in the latest Investment Digest, issue 717, dated April 18, 2012.
TradeMaster sold TA for a 0.2% gain after the stock closed beneath its sell stop of $5.81 on April 19, 2012.
- Steve Christ, TradeMaster Daily Alerts......
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"NuStar Energy L.P. (NS - yield 7.64%) is based in Houston, but its business interests range from Texas to the Netherlands and Turkey. NuStar is focused on oil and transportation operations via pipelines. The company buys refined oil products like gasoline and resells them; also...
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I've chosen five great dividend-paying stocks from the latest issue of the Dividend Digest to tell you about today.
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We recently conducted a short survey of our Dick Davis Investment Digest subscribers. Several common concerns were market volatility and economic uncertainty (which I wrote about two weeks ago here). Today, I want to address a third common refrain. As a subscriber from put...
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“One company I’ve been watching as of late is Boeing Co. (BA – yield 2.60%). For investors with a long-term time frame, this aerospace giant offers the safety of rock-solid growth with very little downside— especially as it bounces off support at the 200-week average...
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As an investor, it's important to remember that the economy is not the same thing as the stock market, and vice versa.
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As an investor, it's important to remember that the economy is not the same thing as the stock market, and vice versa. The market can roar ahead even while the economy is struggling, and stocks can falter despite economic growth. But that's not say...
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In 2007, Congress eliminated all funding for equine slaughterhouse inspectors, effectively shutting down the industry in the U.S. The animal rights activists who had pushed for the ban celebrated, but, as reported in a Wall Street Journal article last week, “some now say may...
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If you have heard it once, you've heard it a million times by now: obesity is a national epidemic. High Fructose Corn Syrup is undoubtedly one of the culprits. In fact, just [this week] a Princeton study discovered that rats which had access high...
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We must admit that on the face of it, an investment in Citigroup (C, NYSE) seems tenuous given the continued economic downturn. However, on a price-to-book basis, Citigroup is cheap trading at 0.9 times tangible book value. In fact, among peers, both Citigroup Bank...
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