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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Dollar Tree: A Discount Retailing Winner

November 30, 2008
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With the economy bad and likely to get a lot worse (the leading economic indicators are all shouting severe recession), retail stocks have been crushed, especially those that offer discretionary (read: expensive) items.  Any company selling HDTVs or fancy jewelry or expensive apparel has seen its stocks crushed in recent months. However, the pain being felt by those companies is benefitting many discount retailers-those that sell basic goods and services at bargain basement prices.  One of the best of the bunch is Dollar Tree (DLTR), which was featured in Cabot Top Ten Report on November 3. “With the economy...

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For the Investor on Your List

November 29, 2008
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I hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you’re recovering well from your turkey hangover. Thanksgiving is a holiday where we celebrate all that we are grateful for, our friends and family, a long weekend and our health, among others. But it’s also a holiday of retail deals, holiday sales and shopping. Many Americans start their seasonal gift buying on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, waking up in the early morning hours to stand in the cold until stores begin their notoriously good sales. You may have even joined the legions of shoppers yesterday, but if...

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There’s no Free Lunch on Wall Street

November 28, 2008
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I’ve written in the past that dividend investments can be a solid piece of your portfolio.  I prefer growth stocks, and in that realm, dividends are basically meaningless.  However, with more and more stocks, trusts, exchange-traded funds and the like, there are definitely intelligent ways to invest for yield. Today, however, many investors are looking for certainty in an insanely volatile, uncertain world.  And because of that, many people are examining certain financial stocks or trusts that have an indicated dividend yield north of 10% … sometimes 20% or more!  Thus, all you have to do is buy and...

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Locking in Low Gasoline Prices

November 27, 2008
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Happy Thanksgiving!  It’s my favorite holiday of the year, partially because I get to see so many of my old friends (who are usually in town), partially because of the food (who doesn’t love a holiday that centers around pigging out?) and partially because of football, which goes hand in hand with Thanksgiving. New England is one of the regions where high schools play their last game of the year on Thanksgiving.  As you read this, I’ve already gone to my school’s game, hopefully watched the hometown Warriors win, and then made it back to my parents’ house for...

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Strayer: A Good Education Stock

November 26, 2008
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As for the market, it stinks.  Still.  Every expectation I’ve had in recent months that the downtrend would end has been wrong.  Happily, we don’t provide advice based on my expectations, instead using proven investing systems that allow subscribers to earn great money in the long run. Our value-based systems simply ride through it, knowing that what’s undervalued (and you know there are plenty of stocks in this category today) will eventually be fairly valued again. And our growth-based systems have been recommending cash, pure and simple, because the major trends are still down. But there’s a part of...

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