Gold is Down… This is Next + MORE

The stock market has more than doubled since spring 2009, but there are a handful of laggards that remains just as battered now as they were back then.
And with good reason.
The global economy has undergone tremendous upheaval. In technology, we saw the rise of mobile devices by companies like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and streaming media from companies like Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX)…

I'd bet most income investors know about the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index.
To be included in this index, an S&P 500 company must have raised its dividend annually for at least the past 25 years. The standard is brutal: One slip and you're out. Start all over and compile another spotless dividend track record over the next 25 years…

Blues wrote:04/2013 is what you want to put in. (And you’ll have to do it as two $5,000 bonds for a $10,000 purchase.)Also, you can put any info you wish in the serial number field.Thanks much– I got really frustrated trying to enter the date– it kept putting a space before the 2013 and then it wouldn’t let me enter the "3" so I defaulted to leaving off the leading zero and so when I tried two $5K– it didn’t work but with your handy dandy help–they are now entered!Thanks

Starbucks delivered record second-quarter results April 25. With every part of its business doing well (Europe excepted), its stock isn’t as expensive as some would like you to believe. Investopedia’s Stephen Simpson finds its current price hard to swallow given future growth likely won’t be as robust as in the past…

April 29 (Bloomberg) — Jonathan Steinberg, chief executive
officer of WisdomTree Investments Inc., discusses the success of
the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund. Bloomberg Radio’s
Catherine Cowdery reports on Exchange Traded Funds.

Gold recently hit a 19-month low, surprising gold bugs and inflation hawks. A particular government bond may be next.
Bonds and gold often move in opposite directions. It’s not hard to see why. Gold is viewed as an inflation hedge, and bonds sell off at even a whiff of higher consumer prices.
Yet bonds and gold have spent most of the last 14 years moving up hand in hand…

Boeing, Oshkosh, and UTC grab what few contracts are to be had.    

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