In honor of the Oscars (of which I watched every minute and loved it all), I’m going to point you in the direction of a cinema-related stock.
CineMark (CNK) is a movie theater operator with 424 theaters and nearly 5,000 screens in the U.S. and Latin America, which makes it the world’s second-largest motion picture exhibitor [...]

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I’ve been traveling a lot lately, more than I have in quite a while. I’m not sure why my trips have piled up, but it’s been a very busy (and fun) few weeks.
My first trip was more sad than fun, as I made my way to Florida for my grandpa’s funeral. He had a great, [...]

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Now on to Cabot’s weekly Stock Market Analysis Video with Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report Editor Paul Goodwin, where he discusses the recently released Chinese inflation numbers as well we some stocks that are doing well, including Sandisk (SNDK), Volterra (VLTR), Emulex (ELX), Puda Coal (PUDA), VanceInfo Technologies (VIT).
Click here to watch the video.

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A quick message for the people who are predicting that China is going to rule the economic world, reducing the United States (and the rest of the world, including Japan) to lap-dog status:
Oh, shut up!
I’m not saying you’re wrong.  I’m just saying that I don’t know what’s going to happen and you don’t either.
I was [...]

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Lake Forest University, located just north of Chicago in Lake Forest, Illinois, recently got a gift from an alum, a very nice gift. About $7 million to be exact. The donor, who died at the age of 100, wasn’t a captain of industry or a banker or even the founder of an Internet [...]

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