I admit that I’ve long been a big fan of Apple products, especially the iPhone, which allowed me to whittle down three things I often carried—cell phone, Handspring PDA (remember those?) and a point-and-shoot camera—to just one. And designing such compelling products has done well by shareholders of Apple (AAPL). The stock has more than [...]

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On this day in 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as President of the U.S., to be replaced by Gerald Ford, who had replaced Spiro Agnew as Vice President after Agnew resigned amid criminal charges of tax evasion and money laundering.
Thus Ford became the only U.S. President who was elected neither President nor Vice President, while Nixon, [...]

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By Chloe Lutts, editor of Dick Davis Digest
As an investor, you can take advantage of the growth of our new economy by investing in innovative companies in growth industries. Technology and Green are two of my favorites.
One interesting stock in the technology area is Red Hat (RHT), which was recommended in the most recent Dick [...]

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On July 4, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah attended a cabinet meeting and then responded to a Zawya Dow Jones Newswires reporter’s question about what transpired: “I told them that I have ordered a halt to all oil explorations so part of this wealth is left for our sons and successors, God willing.”
The rest of [...]

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On my own Watch List now are many familiar names that have been written about in these Wealth Advisories during the past few months.  But not all stocks on your Watch List during difficult times have to be within a few percent of their price highs.
Take Green Mountain Coffee (GMCR), for instance.  It was a [...]

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