Dec 06 2008

Unloved Stocks Ready to Shine.

Think of investor sentiment as a pendulum that swings in tandem with a company’s share price. When investors begin to think highly of your company, its stock might also start heading in the right direction. Alas, you can rarely tell when investors are warming to a stock until after it’s made that upward swing.

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Oct 24 2008

Turn $1000 to $1 Million.

If you’ve found a get-rich-quick scheme, consider yourself lucky.

But if you buy stocks and hold them for the long haul, consider yourself a Motley Fool Hidden Gems investor — one who knows that this game has nothing to do with getting rich quick.

Sure, even amid the current carnage, our market-beating small-cap newsletter has had some astounding successes: Middleby (Nasdaq: MIDD) has quintupled since 2003, and Transkaryotic Therapies tripled before it was

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Oct 24 2008

Older Americans and Financial Mistakes

Making prudent financial decisions for retirement is fraught with difficulties. And yet, despite that knowledge, retirees and preretirees continue to behave the same way when it comes to money — they continue to make the same mistakes and decisions that put them in harm’s way.

Or at least so says academicians, researchers and authors who were among those that gathered here to discuss the future of what’s called “life-cycle” investing….

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