Archives for April 2014

April 2014 - Page 23 of 28 - Money Morning - Only the News You Can Profit From

Best Stocks to Buy Roundup: A Digital Payment Stock "That's Ready to Run"

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Best stocks to buy for the week ending April 4, 2014: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 159.84 points on Friday to finish at 16,412.71, marking a 0.55% rise over the week. The Nasdaq fell 110.01 points finish at 4,127.73, losing 0.67% over the week. The S&P 500 lost 23.67 points on Friday to close at 1,865.10, but was up 0.4% for the week.

Money Morning keeps readers current on the best stocks to buy now, and last week, opportunities in a few surging sectors – like biotech and energy – caught our experts' eyes. Here's where they found the latest, best ways to capture gains.

Here's where they found the latest, best ways to capture gains.

ETF Investing: This Play Let's You Profit from the Microchip Boom - Without the Risk

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While some folks are worried that the big drop in PC sales would send the semiconductor business into a nosedive, it's actually one of the hottest markets around the world today.

Sales of microchips are at multi-year highs, driven by major new trends that are reshaping the global tech landscape – including Big Data, The Mobile Wave, Cloud Computing, and Sensors – all of the things I've been telling you about here at Strategic Tech Investor each week.

This ETF investing play is the way to go…

Dividend Stocks: 23 New Increases for Yield Seekers Today

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Dividend stocks update: Although there are several ways to build a successful portfolio, the one method that stands the test of time is investing in dividend growth stocks.

A Morgan Stanley study showed that 42% of the stock market's total returns since 1930 are thanks to dividends. In four of the past eight decades, dividends contributed more to equity returns than capital appreciation.

Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOR) Climbs 30% on Mallinckrodt Deal

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Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOR) shares surged some 30% in premarket trading Monday after announcing it has agreed to be acquired by Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE: MNK) in a $5.6 billion cash and stock deal.

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Shortly after the opening bell, shares of Anaheim-based Questcor climbed 25%, or $17, to $85.07, a 52-week high. Shares of Dublin-headquartered Mallinckrodt, which had been up 7.5% in early trading, slipped 2.29%, or $1.54, to $61.30 on extremely heavy volume. Less than 30 minutes into the session, 5.6 million MNK shares changed hands, five times the stock's average daily volume.

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IPO Calendar 2014: ALLY, LQ, and 12 More Hit the Market This Week

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The 2014 IPO calendar will see one of its busiest weeks yet when 14 companies make their public debut this week.

IPO CalendarAccording to the research firm Renaissance Capital, 71 companies have already gone public this year. That's an increase of nearly 122% from this time last year. A total of 116 IPOs have been priced in 2014, which is the highest total in more than a decade.

This week's biggest IPO is that of Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY), which plans to raise $2.5 billion on Thursday.

Get a jump on this week’s best IPOs with this rundown...

Carl Icahn Just Did Your Bank Account a Big, Big Favor

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In the Go-Go '80s – back when the hit movie Wall Street told us that "Greed Is Good" – Carl Icahn was known as a "corporate raider"… and was revered for his windfall-producing decisiveness.

Icahn is still around. And he's still active. Only now – in the politically correct 2000s – he's known as an "activist investor" who's gone up against the likes of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY).

And he can make you very, very rich...

5 News Stories to Watch in the Stock Market Today

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Stock market today, April 7, 2014: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 159.84 points to finish at 16,412.71 on Friday. The Nasdaq fell 110.01 points finish at 4,127.73, while the S&P 500 lost 23.67 points to end the day at 1,865.10.

This morning, global stocks dipped from last week's six-year high due to concerns over frothy technology stocks. Meanwhile, the European Central bank is likely to ease monetary policy across the region this week. Expectations are driving down continental bond yields even further.

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The Real Reason the Stock Market Is Rigged

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Everyone's talking about Michael Lewis' latest book Flash Boys and HFT (high-frequency trading) and whether the markets are rigged.

What they're not talking about is how the markets have been set up for institutionalized rigging.

I'm not kidding.

The markets are rigged. You're going to have to get over it and deal with it.

The rigging is in the system and that's just the way it is…

As to HFT, I'll get to that...