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Why Picking the President Is A Lot Like Picking a Stock...

Thursday, August 28, 2008 | Dylan Jovine
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CHOOSING A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IS A LOT LIKE BUYING A STOCK. Some candidates, like some stocks, have sexy stories but little else. I remember back during the early '90s when the biotech wave hit Wall Street. Before you knew it, companies with two guys in a lab testing mice had billion dollar market caps as investors pinned all of their hopes on them. As with the internet bubble, 99% of those companies flamed out. By contrast, some candidates are like stocks that have very little style but a ...

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Most Popular Finance and Investing Questions

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | Wayne Mulligan

We're back again with another TickerHound Weekly Stock Challenge. Once again, we want to hear your Top Trade of the Week! So click here and tell us what stock is on your radar right now! This Week's Most Popular Investing Questions 1.  Time to leave Agriculture market? 2.  Insider buying on CHK? 3.  How many different mutual funds should you have in your portfolio? 4.  I'm thinking of leasing a car - how much (if anything) should I put down? 5.  What is "Relative ...

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The Silent Boom in Building Stocks

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | Teeka Tiwari
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Editor's Note: Our weekly telephone call to answer your questions has been posted.  Listen now to hear Teeka answer more reader questions; including ... Consumer stocks seem to be holding up in this market. Will the rally last? Home prices are still dropping and there are new reports that there is still a lot of mortgage fraud going on.  When will this housing debacle end? Citibank told employees to stop using the color copier because it costs too much money. Sounds pretty ...

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Sour Sentiment Spells Stock Market Disaster

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Chris Rowe
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Boy oh boy, am I in the minority or what?! And I feel ever so comfortable here. This is my happy place. When you feel the same way about the market as everybody else around you, then something's wrong. And right now, the bearish camp is mob deep, holding hands and singing Kum-baya. There are two main sentiment indicators that I like to watch. One is the Investors Intelligence Advisors' Sentiment indicator, and the other is the well known CBOE volatility index (aka "the VIX".) Sentiment ...

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Insider Buys and Sells: Weekly Wrap-Up

Monday, August 25, 2008 | Tycoon Staff

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the owners and executives of those companies themselves, along with major institutional shareholders. That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of data that is monitored by people who invest for a living. As part of our continuing effort here at The Tycoon Report to level the playing field between individual investors and the fat cats on Wall Street, ...

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