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Three Reasons Apple Should Outperform The Market In 2014

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Tim Cook gets paid more if Apple stock outperforms the S&P 500 index in 2014. His compensation is structured in a way that pays him more when his efforts reward shareholders. What’s not for...
    






I Don’t Know Anyone Who Predicted a Five Year Bull Market

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I can’t think of a single money manager or investment adviser who reckoned a year ago that the S&P 500 index would gain 31.3% in 2013, the 5th year of a bull market that was never expected to be...
    






New York Times Attacks Expert Who Opposes `Speculation’ Lawsuits

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The New York Times had an expose Friday about academics who — stop the presses! — supplement their university salaries by doing consulting work on the side. The problems with this story by reporter...
    






Tech Stocks To Buy In 2014 For Growth And Value Investors

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What are you going to snap up for the technology portion of your portfolio next year? If you’re the betting kind you could go for the premier growth stocks, ones that analysts are expecting to race...
    






Twitter Traded Every IPO Share On Thursday And Crossed $50 Billion In Value

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Twitter was down $9.56 or 13% to $63.75 on Friday after being up $3.35 to $73.31 on Thursday to reach an all-time high. The shares are up 167% from its IPO offer price of $26, up 54% from its first...
    






Meet The Real ‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ In Forbes’ Original Takedown Of Jordan Belfort

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Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf Of Wall Street” is a raucous bacchanalia of sex, drugs, and money on Wall Street that focuses on the excesses of Jordan Belfort’s career at over the counter brokerage...
    






Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks Dec. 23 To Dec. 27 And Year-to-Date

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The five highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date on the Cloud Computing Index are Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Qualys (NASDAQ: QYLS), CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA), Workday (NYSE:WDAY), and...
    






How Following The Leader Can Create Blind Spots

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Instincts are generally helpful and occasionally disastrous. For instance, ants have genetically programmed responses to chemical stimuli. If an ant smells the pheromone given off by a dead ant’s...