There is no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the actions of owners and executives of publicly traded companies. That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of data for investors, both institutional and individual.
As part of our continuing efforts here at The ...
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Now that all of the New Year’s festivities are over, it is time to get back to work.
Many people look at a New Year as a chance for a new beginning -- an opportunity to start over. This is where the whole New Year’s resolution thing comes in to play.
As we discussed last week, a worthy ...
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Editor's Note: The Tycoon Report will not be published tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 1; regular publication will resume Monday, Jan. 4. We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!
As we close out another year, I want to wish you and yours the best for 2010. May your health be secure and your ...
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At no other time since the 1970s has it been so in vogue to be frugal. An entire generation of Americans will leave this decade behind, indelibly imprinted by the trauma caused by their over-spending.
Exercising fiscal caution and self-restraint are no longer the social taboos that they once were in ...
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Happy Tuesday, Tycoons!
The stock market has been pretty quiet lately, with little news to keep this small rally down -- or, at least, little in the way of short-term news -- and still, less in the way of VISIBLE bad news.
But the bottom line is, the government's long-term strategy for an economic ...
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There is no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the actions of owners and executives of publicly traded companies. That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of data for investors, both institutional and individual.
As part of our continuing efforts here at The ...
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With just a few days left in the year, it's understandable to focus on the clean slate that 2010 currently represents.
However, prior to the excitement and the “fresh-start feeling” that the New Year brings, we'd be remiss to not reflect on the year that has just passed before we can truly ...
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The modern-day yardstick of wealth is an illusion perpetuated and encouraged by the marketing departments of the world's luxury-good makers.
The luxury brands have done a remarkably good job at convincing poor people to act like rich people by buying their products. The thing is, though, truly rich ...
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First, a book recommendation from Chris:
I hardly ever make book recommendations here. But one book that Tycoon CEO Dylan Jovine insisted that I read was "Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System -- and Themselves" ...
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'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring ... except Ron Ianieri, who was still trying to figure out how the banks paying back TARP can be construed as a positive thing.
The more I look at it, the more this thing stunk to high heaven from the get-go!
There ...
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There is no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the actions of owners and executives of publicly traded companies. That's why insider buying and selling is a critical piece of data for investors, both institutional and individual.
As part of our continuing efforts here at The ...
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Tycoon readers,
Today's article will be my last of 2009, because the next two Fridays are Christmas and New Year's Day and we won't be publishing a Tycoon Report on those days. So, I just want to wish all of you a very happy and healthy holiday season in advance!
Looking forward to 2010, ...
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"The rise of marketing posing as policy is one of the great and subtle advances in the never-ending effort
to manipulate the news media."
-- David Cay Johnston, author of "Perfectly Legal"
"Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
WARNING: Today's ...
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While using Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) can be a very lucrative way to make plays on sectors, countries and indices, a subset of this asset, called leveraged ETFs, has become a phenomenal trading tool for savvy investors.
In a strong trending market, these instruments have performed amazingly well. ...
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"The bull market." (Ironic that that's what we call it, isn't it?)
Will the bull market continue through 2010?
Possibly. But don't expect a straight move up like we've seen in the popular indices.
What USUALLY happens when a bull market gets started?
All but one of the 14 ...
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