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Did Amazon Just Beat Netflix to the Punch in Japan?
Filed under: Investing Japan is a highly connected market with 49 million affluent households. You'd think that the combination of high-speed Internet access, plenty of disposable income, and a bemused...
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2 Obamacare Taxes to Watch Out for Right Now
Filed under: Investing For many, the first sign that The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, had taken effect came in October, when health-insurance exchanges rolled...
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Our Third-Worst CEO of the Year Is...
Filed under: Investing It's that time of the year again, folks! It's time to dust off the cyber awards and crown five CEOs with the dubious honor of being the worst of the worst in 2013. Unlike last...
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What You Need to Know in the Beverage Industry
Filed under: Investing Over the past few days, some headlines about Green Mountain Coffee Roasters , Starbucks , Coca-Cola Femsa , Coca-Cola "Hellenic" , and PepsiCo came across the web to shed light...
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6 Inviolable Rules for Analyzing Stocks
Filed under: Investing Recently, I was a member of a panel that judged a multi-school business case competition at McDaniel College in Maryland. The case was about a junior hedge fund analyst who had...
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Why ExxonMobil Has Lagged Behind Chevron and the Dow Jones Industrials in 2013
Filed under: Investing Energy giant Dow component ExxonMobil has had a fairly good 2013, with gains of 11% this year. But compared both to the 23% gain for the Dow Jones Industrials and the 17% jump in...
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Why Renren, Inc. Shares Dropped
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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Is It Safe to Bet Against Chipotle Mexican Grill, Starbucks, or Panera Bread?
Filed under: Investing The rising stock prices of certain companies, such as Starbucks and Panera Bread have some investors worried while others think there's potential to profit from their suspected...
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One Person's Trash Is Another Person's Treasure Portfolio
Filed under: Investing Last November, I announced my intention to create a portfolio of 10 companies that investors had effectively thrown away and given up on, in the hope of showing that deep-value...
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How You Can Buy the Dow Almost Anytime
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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It's a Trader's World -- You're Just Living in It
Filed under: Investing There's no question that 2013 has been a great year for stocks with the broad market up over 25%, but it was by no means a given that stocks would boom this year. Going into...
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Why Nuverra Environmental Solutions, CorpBanca, and Frontline Are Today's 3...
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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This Week's 5 Dumbest Stock Moves
Filed under: Investing Stupidity is contagious. It gets us all from time to time. Even respectable companies can catch it. As we do every week, let's take a look at five dumb financial events this week...
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Why the Dow Missed Out on a Black Friday Record
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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This Week's 5 Smartest Stock Moves
Filed under: Investing If you're feeling good about the market, you're not alone. Take my hand as we go over some of this week's more uplifting headlines. 1. Take-Two and call me in the morning...
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AstraZeneca Stock: 3 Things to Know
Filed under: Investing Shares of international drugmaker AstraZeneca have climbed more than 17% year to date, but a number of challenges lie ahead for the company. Despite bringing in a fresh...
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Why This Jaw-Dropping Bank Move Is an Empty Threat
Filed under: Investing Recently, big banks like Bank of America , Wells Fargo , and JPMorgan Chase have gotten criticism for discussing potentially charging customers to keep deposits at their banks....
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Social Security Taxes: What You Need to Know
Filed under: Investing Social Security pays millions of Americans benefits that they rely on for making ends meet. But while many people understand the financial challenges that the program faces, they...
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Will SandRidge's Bet Pay Off?
Filed under: Investing Unlike many of its competitors, which are focused on high-growth, unconventional oil and gas plays such as the Bakken and the Eagle Ford, SandRidge Energy has focused the bulk of...
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Will Microsoft Copy the Tablet Strategies of Apple and Google?
Filed under: Investing Microsoft is planning to get rid of one of its operating systems. At the UBS Global Tech conference last week, Microsoft executive Julie Larson-Green said that Microsoft wasn't...
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