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Stocks bounced back on Monday as the E-mini S&P rallied back above the 9 and 50 Day Moving Average on the Chart. The move was led, in part, by Purchases of Apple by bigger name funds including Berkshire Hathaway. While Apple is clearly not the Growth Stock that it once was, its Price Earnings ratio of about 10.50 and its strong core business has, in a few days, convinced large numbers that it is a worthy investment.

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Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B) released the portfolio Warren Buffett (Trades,Portfolio), Todd Combs and Ted Weschler share early Monday morning, revealing a new purchase of Apple and increases to nine of their existing holdings.

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Department stores may be having a disastrous year, but shoppers are still spending if you look at the right places.

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Consider opportunistically adding to energy-leveraged securities on pullbacks

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Since 1926, dividends have provided nearly half of the S&P 500 returns. In today's near-zero-interest-rate-world, income investors can't afford to ignore the healthy yields that the REIT sector offers. In fact, the REIT investment class has outperformed every other asset class over the past 40-year period, generating a compound annual total return, through Dec. 31, 2014, of 12.83% versus 12.19% for the S&P. The average yield for the All Equity REIT Index is 3.56%, 78% greater than the 2% average yield for the S&P. Of course, many REITs offer much higher yields, but investors should be cautious, and look for REITs that pay above-average yields; yet not so high that the companies can't afford to keep paying them.

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As an Options Trader in today's electronic markets you have the advantage of transparency. Market Prices are in front of you all of the time. You can use a live feed of Options Prices to evaluate numerous Options Trading Strategies and determine which Strategy meets your risk/reward requirements. In addition, you can quickly evaluate the Liquidity of the Market and whether algorithms are competing with you.

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China's first scheme to connect its largely off-limits stock market to a freely traded one offshore formed a beacon of optimism on an otherwise turbulent investment scene. The 19-month-old Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect lets just about anyone with money trade hundreds of shares from mainland China without special permits. They trade through the exchange in Hong Kong, an open market unlike Shanghai where the shares originate. The daily cap for those shares stands at about $2 billion. Another scheme like it is coming this year, as early as July per some news reports.

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These companies are producing plenty of growth and trade for reasonable valuations.

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Today Iэm going to share my favorite retirement investment with you. Even with the stock market at elevated levels, I expect it to earn me 8-10% annually over the long haul.

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With pre-orders rolling in, Elon Musk and Tesla are raising more money to speed up production of the forthcoming Model 3, and maybe break the habit of missing deadlines.

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