Tap the Secret 6% Yield from 3 Blue-Chip Companies

Income investors need not settle for the piddling yields many blue-chip stocks offer today.  With the right security, they can capture far greater yield.  Better yet, they can capture… Read more

Coca-Cola Shares Fizzle After Earnings

Shares of Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) are down 4% in morning trading after the company  reported earnings before the market opened on Tuesday. Adjusted earnings for the fourth quarter… Read more

How Coca-Cola’s GMCR Deal Changes the Beverage Industry

What happens when the largest entity in the beverage industry buys a 10% stake in your company? In the case of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Nasdaq: GMCR), shares of… Read more

Three Tips for Avoiding Risky Stocks

Stocks have pulled back since the calendar flipped to 2014. But fresh off a banner 2013, many stocks remain overvalued. Wall Street pundits have been calling for a pullback… Read more

Why Tomorrow May Decide the Fate of Stocks in 2014

It hasn’t been a good first month for stocks. As of this morning’s market open, the S&P 500 is down more than 3.5% in January. Ordinarily a 3.5% pullback… Read more

A Retail Turnaround? Don’t Bet on These Two Fallen Angels

I’m a contrarian value investor at heart.  My curiosity is more aroused by the stock that plunges 50% than the one that surges 50%.  I love trolling the bargain… Read more

Apple (AAPL) Extends Underwhelming Earnings Start

Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) disappointing earnings yesterday were the latest in what has become a disturbing trend this earnings season. While the world’s largest company didn’t technically fall short of… Read more

Caterpillar Stock Surges

The stock market is truly insane. Last week’s sell-off was supposedly due to troubles in emerging markets. What company is correlated to goings-on overseas? Why Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), of… Read more

3 Investing Lessons Learned From 2013

Editor’s Note: Yesterday I discussed three stocks that helped the 100% Letter advisory service outperform the Russell 2000 Small Cap Index by 43% in 2013. Today, I’ll briefly discuss… Read more

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