The major indices closed out the final week of April with excellent gains led by the Dow, which jumped 2.44% over the past five trading sessions. The S&P 500 also strutted its stuff this week, adding 1.96% to its total. The NASDAQ Composite ended the week with a strong 1.89% upside performance. For the month, […]

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This week marks the final Alert for April, and all month, we’ve been celebrating the anniversary of our flagship publication, Successful Investing. This April marks our 34th year of helping investors protect their serious money, while achieving market-beating returns. One way we’ve been able to achieve this success is by adhering to the advice of

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“The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.”   –Henry Hazlitt On this Fed-driven news day, I think it’s wise to remember these words of the great economist Henry Hazlitt. That’s because the more

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There’s no denying that the equity markets have been über-resilient of late. Even through the Japanese tsunami and Middle East unrest led to market pullbacks, the trend remains upward. If the economy really is picking up globally, as it seems, you may want to add some leisure and entertainment stocks to your portfolio. One way

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Today marks an historic day for the Federal Reserve, as it is the first time ever that a Fed Chairman will hold a post-meeting news conference. This publication had to go to print before Mr. Bernanke took the podium, so I am not able to comment on the substance of what the Fed Chairman said.

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Today, we received word from the Federal Reserve that it plans to end its $600-billion Treasury bond-buying program in June, as originally planned. The Fed cited strength in the economy and the job market as two key reasons for the winding down of quantitative easing part II, or “QE2.” Ending its two-day Open Market Committee

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The week started out on a very negative note, as traders reacted harshly to news that rating agency Standard & Poor’s cut its outlook on U.S. government debt to “negative” from “stable” for the first time in history. Analysts at S&P didn’t actually lower the nation’s debt rating, but they did say that if the […]

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“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.” –Henry Ford Given the profession I’ve chosen, you better believe that I like these wise words from the great Henry Ford. The industrialist knew that his automotive innovations would change the world and, to this day, his idealism is helping people get where

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One of the sectors that I think has the best growth potential right now is biotechnology. There are a number of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that let you invest in biotechnology stocks and I recommended one to my Successful Investing subscribers in March that has performed well. The ETF that I recommended is the iShares Nasdaq

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