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Dividend-Paying Stocks from Emerging Markets Pay Off
By James J. GreenLaudus Mondrian's Andrew Miller finds success with a dividend-discount model
October 18, 2010
Stocks Close Higher After Mixed Housing, Manufacturing NewsMixed economic news on the housing and manufacturing fronts did not prevent the stock market from rising as third-quarter bank earnings showed continued strength with Citigroup's report of $2.17 billion in profits.
October 10, 2010
Finding a Place to Hide in the Next Broad-Market PlungeCommodity trends funds are a unique hedge against poor stock performance
October 01, 2010
Room to Grow: Sentiment Augurs More Market Gains: Searching for Alpha for October 2010Last month's Searching for Alpha newsletter listed several reasons why I feel stocks are heading higher.
October 01, 2010
Will the Trading Range Break to the Up- or Downside?Over the past few months, the stock market's performance has been making investors sick as expectations from both bulls and bears go unfulfilled.
October 01, 2010
Room to Grow: Sentiment Augurs More Market Gains: Searching for Alpha for October 2010Last month's Searching for Alpha newsletter listed several reasons why I feel stocks are heading higher.
September 24, 2010
New Home Sales Still Dismal; Stocks Surge on Durable Goods ReportNew home sales figures released Friday by the Census Bureau showed that housing had a long way to go before it joined the "expansion" and orders for durable goods fell 1.3%, but its core components rose.
September 17, 2010
Stocks Inch Higher for the Day and Week; Consumer Confidence Drops, CPI Stays FlatConsumer confidence fell in September even though consumer prices remained mostly flat in August, and that mixed data released Friday left stocks range-bound in typically lackluster trading.