This has led to a massive short squeeze making GameStop one of the top performing stocks.
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Brazil was the top performing emerging market in 2009, returning over 100% in dollar value.
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The top performing funds and ETFs are best positioned in the current market environment.
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Top performing companies are more creative with their business models and more proactive about asserting their patents.
Last year, Financials were the top performing sector, yet 9 out of 10 pros recommended avoiding it.
Some top performing money managers, such as Stanley Druckenmiller, closed their funds.
Buying top performing funds, at or near the highs, and selling them at or near the lows after the inevitable disappointment.
The top performing funds hold stocks with healthy growth potential and resilience, making them the best bets in a bear market.
Top performing funds routinely gather the most assets as investors pile in.
Apple is a top performing company with plenty of room to grow.
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That top performing 1 percent contributes an astounding 88 jobs per year compared to an average company that adds just two or three.
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The top performing strategies and managers tend to achieve astronomical returns by taking significant risks which could destroy a portfolio in a market collapse.
An example is hedge fund manager Jon Paulson, who has been one of the top performing hedge fund managers for the past 17 years.
According to the recent Morningstar rankings, the top performing emerging market bond funds this year all have positions in Brazil, with Russia in second place.
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Many clients are unaware of the historical returns for asset classes and may assume that it is easy to regularly select the top performing asset managers.
In addition, his proprietary TopStocks Strategy focuses on the top ranked stocks in terms of earnings strength and company performance in the top performing industry groups.
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But the company returned to profitability in 2011, and Nautilus was also the top performing sports stock for the year in 2012 with a gain of 106%.
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The top performing sector year-to-date is now Healthcare, imagine that.
Also, if you are having luck with a given ETF, you might want to carefully monitor the holdings and see if you could own the top performing individually and get a better return.
It may feel safe to put your money in the top performing funds in a bull market or into cash and bonds during a bear market, but both are actually riskier than they seem.
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Picking the top performing funds may seem intuitive but it turns out that not only is past performance a poor indicator of future performance, it may actually be an indicator of poor future performance.
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In August 2011, gold was one of the top performing areas of the market, but investors who continued to hold ETFs like SPDR Gold Shares ( GLD) lost 1% for the year ending July 31, 2012.
The performance of Massachusetts was much more successful than the US average - and was at a level that would put it among top performing science and maths countries such as Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.
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We then compared used-car prices among the top performing 2009 models in each of 14 separate vehicle classes to find which models offer the proverbial most bang for the buck, according to the most-current data provided by Kelley Blue Book.
My guess is Mongolia has a decent shot at outperforming the U.S. It certainly seems plausible that if the letters were sent any of the top performing countries, then they would have a good shot at displacing the U.S. at number one.
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As we move forward to complete this project by next June, we will maintain our firm commitment to the maintenance and operation of the system, and I hope to see wonderful results when we begin to make the world's top performing supercomputer available to users around the world.
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Everyone from mutual fund companies, to investment brokers, to the financial media has a vested interest in wanting you to believe that if you find out from them what some of the top performing funds are, you too can earn their skyrocketing returns or at least avoid the losses of others.
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