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Which Are Better? Muni Bonds or Tax Free CEFs

With the stock market volatility and uncertainty, and the possibility of future tax increases, many investors are turning to tax free bonds, also known as municipal...

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Graham Summers’ Free Weekly Market Forecast (Gold Breakout Edition)

Graham Summers’ Free Weekly Market Forecast (Gold Breakout Edition) On January 24 I published an edition of my FREE weekly market forecast telling investors to...

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How Fear of Economic Shock Drove China’s State Control and Forex Hoarding

In an interview by The Browser discussing Yasheng Huang’s book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State, Northwestern University...

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Weighing the Week Ahead: The Beat Goes On

The extended stock market rally has everyone checking the record books and looking for explanations. Your understanding of the rally is important since it helps...

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Swing Trading Week in Review – February 18, 2011

Swing Trading BLOG – Swing Trading BOOT CAMP Up Up Up and away! Yes the rally continues for yet another week! The overall market and many sector ETF's...

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Gallup:  The Unemployment Rate is 10%

Gallup: The Unemployment Rate is 10%

Jobs…jobs…jobs… I’m beginning to sound like a broken record but it’s true: This economy is going nowhere unless we start creating...

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Goodyear Posts Third-Straight Annual Loss

Goodyear Posts Third-Straight Annual Loss

Filed under: Earnings Reports , Goodyear Tire and Rubber (GT) Goodyear Tire & Rubber ( GT ), North America’s largest tire maker, posted losses in the...

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January Employment Situation Preview: Signal to Noise Ratio is Poor!

Everyone realizes that employment is a paramount consideration in evaluating the economic recovery. With jobs, we try to squeeze information out of each data point....

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Do I See Lipstick On A Pig? Or Is The Stock Market and Gold Still Going Up?

As most sophisticated investors and traders are aware, the U.S. Federal government has run up significant deficits and the long term debt burden is becoming a drain...

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Guest Post: The Case for Subsidizing Alternative Fuel Projects

By Bob van der Valk Dateline: Terry, Montana, February 2, 2011 On January 25, 2011 President Obama proposed in his State of the Union speech to eliminate $4 billion...

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Darden Optimistic on 2011 – Analyst Blog

Darden raised its earnings guidance for fiscal 2011 and initiated third quarter earnings outlook. Read more: Darden Optimistic on 2011 – Analyst Blog

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Lexmark Profits on Higher Sales – Analyst Blog

Lexmark International Inc. posted decent fourth quarter 2010 earnings per share of $1.29, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.11 and its own guidance range...

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