2010 April
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The Economic Recovery is Real & Investors Should Get on Board…Now
After taking a beating in the Great Recession, the U.S. economy has turned the corner… Here are three reasons economic growth will exceed expectations in 2010, and a surefire way to profit.
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China, Europe Lapping the United States in the Clean Energy Race
If the United States doesn't take drastic measures to engineer new clean energy policies and investment initiatives, it will continue to take a back seat to China and Europe, which are driving the clean energy market toward a profitable future.
Both clean energy companies and a skilled workforce are heading overseas, where government policies are creating a more welcoming and promising market for clean energy products.
Take Massachusetts-based Evergreen Solar, Inc (Nasdaq: ESLR). In 2008, it used $58 million in government aid to open a new Massachusetts factory to build silicon wafers and cells and assemble solar panels. But in November 2009, it announced the assembly of solar panels would be moved to Wuhan, China, where solar panel manufacturing will cost far less than in the United States.
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Money Morning Mailbag: Are We Headed for Over-Regulation?
As U.S. financial reform continues to be the focus of controversy and debate throughout the nation, it seems as if the same questions arise again and again: How much regulation is necessary to create a fair market? What can we learn from our previous banking policies? What does the future hold for lenders, borrowers and [...]
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China Manufacturing Data Could Presage a Rising Yuan
Manufacturing activity in China and much of Asia continued to expand in March, underscoring the region's role as a driving force in the global economic recovery.
China's official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to a seasonally adjusted 55.1 from 52 in February, according to Li & Fung Group, a Hong Kong-based company that releases data for the Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. It marked the 13th straight month the index showed expansion and was in line with the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey of 13 economists. A reading above 50 indicates growth.
Another PMI for China released by HSBC Holdings PLC (NYSE ADR: HBC) was even more positive, showing a rise to 57.0 in March from 55.8 in February.
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Turning the Corner On Unemployment?
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Three Ways to Profit From an Insurance-Sector Rebound
Regional banks, investment bankers and insurance companies will be key winners in the next phase of an advance that will be characterized by very lukewarm participation by the average private investor.
Most investors will be surprised by this turnabout – and especially by the insurance-sector rebound.
Let me show you three ways to profit.
To find out what companies will profit from this new trend, read on…
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Playing 'Follow the Guru' Can Be Fun – and Profitable – for Investors
If you wanted to distill all the world's best investment advice into a single sentence, it would probably come down to this: Follow the leader.
- Just do what Warren Buffett does.
- Or what George Soros does.
- Or what Peter Lynch does (or did).
In short: Follow the guru. That's not just a clever phrase. In fact, if you picked any of the investment world's living legends and copied what they did, odds are you'd be pretty successful over time, regardless of the general market environment during any given short-term period.
We've whittled the investing wisdom of these three stalwarts – and others – into 15 rules to live by. We offered the first five rules in Part I of this story, which appeared yesterday (Wednesday). Here in today's second installment, we offer the final 10 rules.
