NYU's Aswath Damodaran Says Apple Acts Like the CIA (Audio) + MORE

GE looks underpriced on its long-term growth potential.    

By SA Editor Miriam Metzinger: Stocks discussed on the Lightning Round segment of Jim Cramer’s Mad Money Program, Thursday April 18.Bullish Calls:
Campbell’s (CPB), Hershey (HSY): “CPB has been good. They have it together. It is inexpensive versus other packaged goods, even though it has been a rocket ship…

April 19 (Bloomberg) — Aswath Damodaran, a professor of
finance at New York University, says Apple Inc. acts as if
revealing any future product plans will damage the company.
Damodaran talks with Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and Carol Massar on
Bloomberg Radio’s “Taking Stock.”

From moving averages and Bollinger Bands to the "golden cross," the market is littered with technical indicators. 

But there is one indicator that stands alone in its accuracy and bearishness.

This indicator has been an incredible predictor of weakness in the market, flashing bright red warning signals before the market crashes of 1987 and 2008…

The regional lender enacts the first hike in its payout since 2007.    

The CFPB recently released an interesting report entitled, "Senior Designations for Financial Advisers." You can download here: http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201304_CFPB_OlderAmericans_Report.pdf.Takeway is, there’s a ridiculous alphabet soup jumble of letters, standing for designations that in some, and possibly in a majority of cases, mean nothing…

Warren Buffett recently opined that bonds should come with a warning label these days.
That is doubly true of most bond funds. Many investors are about to get steamrolled. But if you act now, you can avoid getting hurt.
Let me explain…
Historically, the best-performing bond funds have had one thing in common: low expenses…

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The stock market has been on a tear over the past four years, more than doubling since the financial crisis. Many investors have recovered much of the money they lost during the market crash in 2008.

That said, recent bumpiness in stocks suggests that the end of the long bull market may come sooner rather than later…

It has been a very bad week for gold prices. Although the precious metal has fought back to above $1,400 an ounce, gold prices have plummeted from around $1,900 in 2011 to tally a 25% drop in about two years.
The fact that this is against the backdrop of a resurgent stock market recently setting new highs is only more uncomfortable for goldbugs…