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Natural Gas Stocks are About to Reprise an All-Star Performance
Natural gas prices are on the rise, but natural gas stocks have failed to respond. Wait, if we look at what happened about 10 years ago… oh, wow… Read more...
Stocks to Buy Now: Profit from this Looming Flood of Money
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Best Tech Stocks to Buy Now: Beat George Soros with These Two Plays
The best tech stocks to buy now aren’t what George Soros and other big names are betting on – they’re better. Here’s how we found bigger winners. Read more...
The Best "Bargain" Silver Mining Stocks to Buy Now
Thanks to lower metals prices, the market as some “bargain” silver mining stocks to buy now. Add these three to your shopping list… Read more...
Play a Spending Surge with these Two Electronics Stocks to Buy Now
As consumers and businesses get back to buying electronics, cars, phones and tablets, these two stocks to buy now will reap the rewards… Read more...
The Best Shipping Stocks to Buy Now as the Sector Delivers High Yield, Gains
With the market logging record gains since the start of the year, it's hard to find good stocks to buy now that are still a bargain. Harder still is finding cheap equities with attractive yields and big upside potential.
But Money Morning Global Investing Specialist Martin Hutchinson found a sector that's in a spectacular uptrend.
As he explained to our Money Morning readers in late May, "If you're in the right stocks, you're going to see big growth and solid dividends for years to come."
The sector hitting Hutchinson's radar now is shipping stocks.
The shipping industry has indeed taken it on the chin since reaching its record high in May 2008. But the sector is headed higher, a trajectory that brings with it some very attractive profit opportunities.
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Stocks to Buy: Three Solid Tech Picks for Under $5 a Share
There’s no better way to capture maximum growth than with small-cap stocks, and this trio of tech companies look like terrific bargains right now. Read more...
Why Income Investors Will Love These Preferred Stocks to Buy Now
If you're looking for new types of stocks to buy now to ramp up your portfolio yield, have you considered preferred stocks?
Preferred stocks ("preferreds") trade like regular stock but they are more like bonds in that they provide a higher fixed-dividend payment than their common stock counterparts and they generally have less upside potential.
They're called "preferred" because they have higher claim on the assets and earnings of the company.
Preferred stocks are an oft-overlooked option for snagging income in today's yield-challenged markets, but several preferred stocks in industries like banking, real estate and energy can bring stability to a portfolio. And preferred stocks that have been issued recently in this lower rate environment can provide better value.
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How the Stock Market Today is Following Up Friday's Big Rally
Investors took a breather in the stock market today after driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average 207.5 points higher on Friday.
Just before noon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.26, or 0.01%, to 15,249.38. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index added 1.10 to 1,644.48. The Nasdaq tacked on 9.19 to hit 3,478.41
Friday saw the Dow's second-biggest gain of 2013, after investors cheered a "Goldilocks" jobs report: not too hot, not too cold. For the week, the Dow added 132.55 points, or 0.88%.
There was plenty of news to sway the stock market today despite its muted open.
The world's largest credit rating agency Standard & Poor's boosted its credit outlook for the United States to "stable" from "negative" and reduced the threat of further downgrades.
Citing receding fiscal risks, S&P said the chance of a ratings downgrade is now "less than one in three."
"It was a quite shocking event for the markets when the U.S. was downgraded to negative, so to have that rating repaired is meaningful," Lawrence Creaturea, a Rochester, NY-based manager at Federated Investors Inc. told Bloomberg News. "Economic data has been improving gradually and S&P's upgrade is a recognition of that."
Overseas news was mixed.
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A Huge LNG Energy Boom Has Begun
If you can sell something for $4 here and $16 somewhere else, where would you sell it?
Well, the shale gas we're producing in North America has buyers in Asia willing to pay 4x the going price here. That spells a lot of opportunity for companies helping to get liquefied natural gas (LNG) across the Pacific.
See our top choices for this nascent boom here...
Stocks to Buy Now: Two Companies with Strong Insider Buying
With strong insider buying, these may be two of the hottest stocks to buy now. Here’s why these companies’ directors see huge profits ahead... Read more...
How to Invest in the U.S. Natural Gas Revolution
It's no secret America has been in the midst of a natural gas revolution.
The technological advancement of fracking is causing nothing less than a full on shale boom, opening up amazing new profit opportunities if you know how to invest in natural gas - which I'll get to later.
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Two Turnaround Stocks to Buy Now that Most Investors Will Miss
If you’re willing to consider these “turnaround” stocks to buy now, you could triple your money in a few years – at least. Here’s how. Read more...
Two Natural Gas Stocks to Buy Now Before the Transportation Revolution
Here are two stocks to buy that sit in the sweet spot of a dramatic change that has just started to sweep through in the U.S. trucking industry. Read more...