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July 2015 - Page 23 of 28 - Money Morning - Only the News You Can Profit From

China's Stock Market: Echoes of the 1929 Crash

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You've heard the stories about the 1929 stock market crash, how investors should have figured out that, when taxi drivers and shoe-shine boys hawked stock tips, the end was near.

The lesson we're supposed to have learned was that cheap margin – the debt that investors can use to finance stock purchases, when wielded by uneducated, blindly optimistic "plungers," can drive stocks up and up over a cliff into an abyss.

Too bad the Chinese never got that memo.

Here's what's really happening and what you can do to protect yourself and even profit from the fallout...

NYSE Shutdown Shows Cybersecurity Risks - and Opportunities

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The New York Stock Exchange's meltdown on Wednesday shows how fragile our financial infrastructure is. But it also shows how canny investors can position themselves to profit from that fragility.
The NYSE, a unit of the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), shut down at 11:32 AM ET, and was offline until after 3:00 PM ET.

Frankly, it was scary to see the NYSE - the ideal of exchanges for a decade - melt down.

Why Did the NYSE Shut Down Today?

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It’s not unprecedented for the New York Stock Exchange to shut down. In its 223-year history, the index has had more than 400 “special closings.”

But Wednesday’s unexpected three-hour closing came without warning. It left investors confused — even panicked — and asking the question, “Why did the NYSE shut down today?”

You see, the NYSE “temporarily halted” trading at 11:32 a.m. ET. It resumed at roughly 3:10 p.m. ET.

Here’s what happened…

Today Is Our Last Chance to Capture All of PayPal's Upside

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In June 2012, in the Private Briefing report "Two Years From Now, You'll Wish You'd Bought This Stock," resident tech expert Michael Robinson recommended eBay as a profit play that was poised for a nice run.

Michael was right on the money.

eBay shares have zoomed more than 50% since then.

As it's turned out, however, this is one of those rare stock stories that's become better as time has passed.

And a plan to break into two companies – with the spinoff of eBay's PayPal digital payments unit – prompted me to re-recommend the stock in early October. (Since then, the stock has surged about 11.4% – versus only 6.3% for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.)

eBay is moving ahead with the spinoff plan. And there are some brand-new developments – additional catalysts that can ignite torrid growth in PayPal's share price.

It's time for us to look at this stock anew and pounce on one of the year's biggest opportunities...