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By The Sizemore Letter
For all of the gut-wrenching volatility, 2011 was actually a pretty good year if you managed to avoid financials and materials stocks. Defensive stocks—particularly those that pay dividends—actually did quite well.
My best pick of the year, ironically, was a financial stock—credit-card giant Visa (NYSE: $V), the winner of InvestorPlace’s “10 Stocks for [...]
I’m pleased to announce that the results are in for FXstreet.com’s Forex Best Awards 2011. Among the winners:
1st Place for Best Book: “Essentials of Technical Analysis for Financial Markets” by James Chen
2nd Place for Best Broker Research Team: FX Solutions – James Chen and Joseph Trevisani
2nd Place for Best Blogger: James Chen
Here is the full press [...]
I am very honored to have been nominated in four categories for FXstreet.com’s Forex Best Awards 2011. The categories in which I have been nominated are: Best Educator, Best Broker Research Team, Best Book, and Best Blogger. Thank you very much to FXstreet.com and every one of you for this great honor. To vote, please [...]
Can things get any better for Apple?
The stock has been a mainstay of my portfolio since I recommended it during the depths of the financial crisis. Since then I’ve owned
Apple (
AAPL ) shares and long-term options, including those I bought in 2009 with a strike price of just $50. I recommended Apple again last year [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Intel Corp. reported the best fourth-quarter earnings in company history Thursday, as both the chipmaker’s revenue and profit set new records.
Intel posted earnings per share of 59 cents. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had forecast earnings of 53 cents per share.
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Revenue for the Santa Clara, Calif., company rose 8% over the [...]
Bruce Berkowitz spends his days like a lot of other fund managers: reading economic reports, chatting about investment ideas with his chief research officer and meeting with companies he’s thinking of adding to the portfolio. But his ho-hum routine is producing something many managers can’t seem to match these days—he beats Standard & Poor’s 500-stock [...]
With stock indices at 2-year highs, even the much-beleaguered financials have rallied, spurred most recently by
Bank of America’s (
BAC ) $2.8 billion settlement with
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae . A few weeks ago I highlighted my
favorite financials , namely the large-cap Asian firms like
Mizuho Financial (
MFG ) ,
Mitsubishi UFJ (
MTU ) and
Nomura Holding (
NMR ) [...]
