But I’d rather not invest in the automotive industry (which I discussed yesterday), where high debt levels remain a problem and profit margins seldom top 5%.
I’d rather invest in an industry that’s booming, an industry where the profit margins are high and the stocks are strong.
Today, the industry that best fills the bill is “cloud [...]

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While Thomas Edison is arguably the best-known American inventor, a cult following has grown up around Nikola Tesla, the Serbian engineer whose skills as an inventor, perhaps superior to Edison’s, were undermined by his inferior business sense.
And this cult MAY have reached its peak on June 29, when the electric car company named Tesla Motors [...]

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As always, during this difficult market period I am working hard at building my Watch List and keeping it up to date.  That last part—keeping it up to date—is difficult right now because earnings season is again upon us.  And that means a daily dose of big gaps up and down among growth stocks, depending [...]

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I’d been planning to write something about Apple’s new iPhone 4 for some time, but I wanted to wait until I actually got mine, which finally happened last Thursday.
So far, so (mostly) good with the iPhone. I was previously a Verizon (VZ) customer with a non-smart phone, which served me well over the years. But [...]

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Moving on to the market, I’m optimistic that the bottom of the May-June correction has passed, and that the market is now gathering strength in preparation for a new leg up.
I’m optimistic in part because so many people are pessimistic!  I think the unrelenting media focus on the BP oil leak has really skewed people’s [...]

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