Where a stock is on the chart is as important as a good story with solid fundamentals.
The ValuEngine model knows where a stock has traded in the past with both better and worse fundamentals, and it incorporates this knowledge into the calculation.
An easier and much more sustainable pattern is where a stock goes sideways for several weeks or months at a time right around the lowest support levels.
While GDP can be helpful, there can be a disconnect between real GDP growth and actual equity market performance, where a lackluster stock market can exist in a country whose GDP regularly exceeds 6.5-7%.
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To her, it looked like a "gap and go" stock, a situation where the stock was rallying into uncharted territory.
Since 1946, Eisenstadt has worked at Value Line, publisher of the Value Line Investment Survey, where he developed a stock ranking system that has been the foundation of perhaps the most popular and successful independent investment advisory service in history.
The idea for the business came during a summer job in 1998 with the U.S. embassy in Morocco, where Mr. Stock visited a refugee camp in the Sahara ringed by land mines.
Nevertheless, on a day where the stock markets essentially treaded water, Timken rose 3.4% on the news.
With a target of 8% organic production growth, this is a stock where the bulk of the total return may in fact come from stock gains rather than dividend yield.
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Kevin Roxburgh from Scottish Gas-Centrica told the committee he would like to see a biased towards helping fuel poor in rural areas where the housing stock is more of a problem.
Therefore, the strength or weakness of the IPO market does not provide much of a signal for where stock prices are headed.
Here's where dividends help: When a stock pays them, the quarterly payments may be small, but they give you a reasonable return while you wait for the long-term gains.
The weight of the evidence seems to be that companies did boost dividends after the 2003 tax cuts and those increases were concentrated in firms where managers owned a lot of stock.
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If we have a full blown depression, or, we end up like Japan where the stock market is still trading at a quarter of its high 23 years later?
Other authorities have embarked on a process known as stock transfer, where tenants are balloted on moving to a housing association that would be freer to finance the levels of investment required.
This is a significant and negative technical event for Apple, and it is likely a sign that institutional investors, who were always there to support Apple at the 40-week line in the course of their own long-term accumulation of the stock, have now shifted into a mode where they are distributing Apple and selling the stock as they reduce their exposure to the stock.
For now, though, Hong Kong has the edge in a contest on where to issue stock.
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But a closed end generally has a fixed number of shares, which trade on a stock exchange, where their prices can deviate from the underlying value of their holdings.
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Another company that has struggled with weak sales and a lagging stock price: RadioShack, where CEO James Gooch stepped down in September after just over a year in the top job.
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Thursday's trading appeared to continue a pattern of unusual moves over the past week between the stock and foreign-exchange markets, where a fall in Japanese share prices seemed to be driving down the value of the dollar against the yen.
He noted that in Zimbabwe, where the stock market has collapsed, a portfolio made up all of the stocks in its index would only buy three eggs at the current price in that country.
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With a stock like Apple, where investors may have large embedded capital gains as a result of its stellar run, selling now locks in gains and offsets the possibility of higher taxes next year.
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But I suppose this is a fear that attaches to every stock that comes up under this strategy, where we run just a few weeks ahead of earnings reports.
The move comes at a touchy time on Wall Street, where pay is in decline after a year of mixed financial performance and stock-price declines.
These dramatic moves are not typical of stock but reflects a company where investor enthusiasm gets out of hand.
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This meant that Google had pulled back to a level where, historically speaking, the stock had tended to attract buyers.
After a massive IPO pop, where the stock surged more than 80% on its first day trading, shares in Caesars slowly but surely made their way lower.
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One alternative you could consider amid the global uncertainty is a stock-replacement strategy, where you sell stocks that you like and buy in-the-money or longer-dated call options on those same equities.
The block was priced at a 2.8% discount to where the stock was trading before news of the sale was announced.
The uncertainty of a stock sale in this environment, where the markets are volatile and investors are skittish about taking on risk, is one reason why expectations were high of a bank-led buyout.
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