September 2012 – Page 9 – Smarter Investing

Apple shares go through long consolidation periods, interrupted by short but strong rallies.

Apple strategy: buy on the rumor, sell on the news

Will stocks continue to climb the wall of worry, or does an increase in insider stock sales suggest that Mr. Market is ready to take a tumble?

Don’t worry: Hades has not frozen over. Yet bond king Bill Gross makes the case in his latest missive as to why stocks could outperform bonds.

A profit warning from any one company is rarely a danger sign for the entire economy and the stock market. FedEx may be the exception.

It still works, but you can't achieve it in the way you once could.

A stock market rally into the latter months of 2012 looks iffy, at best, judging by the latest chart of market breadth.

The SEC says there's a lot that investors do not know about what's in their investment portfolios, as well as what's behind them.

Never in the past 140 years have bond and dividend yields been this low, together.

Only 11% of the hedge funds Goldman Sachs tracks have beaten an ordinary S&P 500 index fund.

A few months ago, investors couldn't get enough of high dividend payers. Now they want nothing to do with them.