Holiday shoppers at a Target store in Culver City, California. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images Despite retailers banking on acceleration in the fourth-quarter from holiday sales, Wells Fargo said fundamental trends have deteriorated. “While the majority of companies appear optimistic on their ability to drive solid growth in [the fourth quarter of 2019],
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For some investors, mid-cap stocks are a perfect hunting ground for stocks to buy. Small-cap stocks offer more volatility — and generally have underperformed in this bull market. Large-cap stocks often have so much coverage that finding a real buying opportunity is difficult. So mid-cap stocks — defined here as those with a market capitalization
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Whether it’s through stocks, bonds, ETFs, or other types of securities, all investors love seeing their portfolios score big returns. But for income investors, generating consistent cash flow from each of their liquid investments is their primary focus. Source: Shutterstock While cash flow can come from bond interest or interest from other types of investments,
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Apparently gold traders hadn’t seen the steady rise in the USD since Monday, but that’s OK, humans are exuberant critters especially when they’re trading. Here’s the chart for the US Dollar index UUP showing the Dollar’s week. (credit Fidelity.com) US-China trade war news was mixed. There was a burst of news that new talks were starting,
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Download Preston’s 1 page checklist for finding great stock picks: http://buffettsbooks.com/checklist Preston Pysh is the #1 selling Amazon author of two books on Warren Buffett. The books can be found at the following location: In lesson four, we learned that a share of a business is one unit of the overall business. For example, if
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Earlier this week, stocks rallied on encouraging comments from President Donald Trump about trade talks with China. Of course, the rally was nice, but it was accompanied by doubts, confirmed by some Chinese media, that the president hadn’t actually talked to anyone in China about cooling off the long-running tensions. Source: rafapress / Shutterstock.com Fortunately,
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It’s only been 3 months since gold broke up through 1200, and just this week gold popped up through 1500. And now here we are pushing up toward 1600 just 2 days later. Your friendly Gold Enthusiast feels like he’s given you all the reasons gold should go up.  In case you weren’t following closely, they
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The market continues to treat almost any stock with significant China exposure badly. As I explained in a recent article about Micron (NASDAQ:MU), you simply can’t invest in most of these stocks until the trade war concludes. This makes AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) stock all the more interesting. As one of the tiny number of semiconductor stocks still faring
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Here’s the good news on earnings: Despite much hand-wringing around tariffs and the global economic outlook, overall earnings for the S&P 500 in 2019 remain “flattish,” meaning they are likely to be little changed from 2018’s record pace. The bad news: Investors remain on edge because confidence in the estimates are not high. “The wild
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