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April 2019 - Page 13 of 15 - Money Morning - Only the News You Can Profit From

The Dow Jones Today Is Getting a Boost from a Strong Economic Report

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The Dow Jones today is off to a hot start after the March jobs report showed the economy is in excellent shape.

According to the Department of Labor, the U.S. economy added 196,000 jobs last month. That figure topped economists' expectations of 175,000 positions.

But stocks aren't the only winners. Below we'll break down how rising oil prices are creating a new opportunity for investors.

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Millions of Investors Get Suckered by Hot IPOs - Here's What to Do Instead

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Almost nothing generates a bigger financial media splash than a red-hot initial public offering (IPO). It's like the Oscars, Christmas, and the Fourth of July rolled into one.

And (with the exception of a few cannabis IPOs) that can be a bit of a problem for regular investors, who might naturally get excited by the hype.

An IPO like Lyft is like a big, fancy dinner, where huge players – like Carl Icahn, say, or Ray Dalio – and the underwriters are all sitting at the table chowing down on gourmet food. They get first dibs, and the best prices.

In fact, just yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported Carl Icahn sold his 2.7% Lyft stake to George Soros ahead of the public offering.

Under that table, scrounging for scraps that might fall, are… regular investors like you and me.

It's often nearly impossible to buy shares, and if you do manage to get an order filled, you'll almost certainly have paid way too much.

Yep – our "competition" in the IPO game is folks trading $550 million positions like they're trading baseball cards.

I'm going to show you what else is happening with these big IPOs - and I'll name a much better way for investors and traders like us to cash in...

The 5 Top Penny Stocks to Watch in April 2019

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We've selected the top penny stocks to watch in April 2019 for investors looking to profit high and fast.

Penny stocks, by definition, trade for $5 or less.

What makes them so desirable is that they are a volatile investment – they won't beat the market any given weekday, but when they do, it's quick gains in the double and triple digits.

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The Modern Monetary Theory Could Trigger a Rome-Style Collapse

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The left wing of the Democratic Party has a lot of ambitious proposals on the table in the form of the Green New Deal, and they've come up with an imaginative way to pay for it: Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT for short. This is essentially the idea that there's nothing to prevent a sovereign government like the United States from printing as much money as it needs to pay for whatever it wants.

But here's why MMT would end in disaster...