By Michael A. Robinson, Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - • Print | Email
The end-of-year holiday season is a time for memories and reflection, and I found myself engaging in a little of both the other day.
I was alone at the house and was stringing up some Christmas lights and found myself drifting back in time… to middle school and high school.
In seventh grade, I got my first part-time job – changing lightbulbs at an apartment complex. I also began designing and building custom light boxes using colored bulbs controlled with staggered timing switches.
And here's a company that has a 25-year head start on capturing those profits...
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Dividend stocks update: For The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) shareholders, it was the happiest place on earth last week when the 90-year-old company announced its 58th consecutive dividend payment increase.
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By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Best stocks to buy for the week ending Dec. 6, 2013: After eight straight weeks of gains, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index finally took a breather, finishing last week modestly in the red.
The Dow dipped 0.41%, or 66 points, to 16,020.20. The S&P 500 slipped 0.04%, less than one point, to 1,805.09. The tech-heavy Nasdaq managed to eke out a 0.06% gain, or three-point increase, to 4,062.52, good enough for a fresh 52-week high.
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By Michael A. Robinson, Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - • Print | Email
If you've been following our twice-weekly conversations at Strategic Tech Investor, you know that I'm very bullish about technology stocks.
But I want to let you in on a little secret …
I'm also bullish about the overall stock market.
In fact, I'm predicting that the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will advance 15% in 2014, rising from the current 1,795 to 2,065. That will not only take the closely watched index up through the psychologically important 2,000 level, it will take it to the highest level in history.
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By Kyle Anderson, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @KyleAndersonMM - • Print | Email
It's time to look at oil stocks to buy as the United States gets ready to surpass the world's biggest oil producers.
Earlier this month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the United States will jump past both Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2015.
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In early November, Christie's auctioned off the most expensive art work ever, with a winning bid of $127 million. Including Christie's commission, the final sale price was $142 million. The entire auction raised $691.6 million, the highest amount ever at a single auction.
Buyers at these auctions are the very wealthy. The pieces command multimillion-dollar prices, and can mean tens of millions of dollars in commissions for the auction house.
make you wealthier by tapping into this hobby of the rich...
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
It's been a good year to own stocks, with markets hitting record highs. But investors holding dividend stocks have profited the most.
Even better, if the market pulls back from those record highs, dividend stocks typically perform better during a correction than non-dividend paying stocks.
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By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Best stocks to buy for the week ending Nov. 29, 2013: Last week's Thanksgiving holiday may have made for an abbreviated week, but there was no shortage of market-moving news.
While the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 closed Black Friday modestly in the red, both continued an eight-week winning streak and are up 22.8% and 26.6% respectively year to date.
The Dow has set 44 all-time highs this year and is up 146% since the market lows of March 2009. The Nasdaq topped 4,000 last week for the first time in 13 years and is up 34.5% since January.
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By David Mamos, Money Morning - • Print | Email
You can be forgiven for feeling conflicted over The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) and its stock.
On the one hand, the company has been hit by a lot of widely reported problems with its 787 Dreamliner commercial aircraft.
On the other hand, Boeing stock is up 78% this year. See the contradiction?
Here's why investors have so much confidence in Boeing...
By Dr. Kent Moors, Global Energy Strategist, Oil & Energy Investor • @KentMoors_OEI - • Print | Email
We've already made good money playing publically traded oil and gas companies.
125% on Cheniere… 200% on Halliburton… 210% on Western Refining… 542% on Westport Innovations… 300% on Golar LNG…
And given energy's across-the-board potential, our focus on growth isn't going to change.
In fact, it's about to expand.
Something huge just slipped under the radar.
It was so significant that it promises to change how you think about investing forever – especially in oil and gas.
A late-summer change in the rules now allows for expanded access by retail investors into the lucrative world of venture capital.
It's called direct investment, and it goes far beyond just buying stocks, bonds, and options…
It opens up the potential for all of us to make some serious money. It really is a whole new ballgame.
And for you, it starts this Thursday – perhaps even sooner. (I'll let you know.)
