Need An Income Investment? Keep Dumping GE and Buy This Stock Instead
by Louis Basenese, Advisory Panelist
Back in January, I advised you to dump everyone’s sweetheart dividend stock, General Electric (NYSE: GE) in favor of TEPPCO Partners (NYSE: TPP).
Many balked at the idea. But the results don’t lie…
Year-to-date, General Electric is the worst-performing stock in the Dow, down 22.3%. Meanwhile, TEPPCO is up 69%, including dividends. Income Investments - Full Article
Lessons for Apple in Mays, Madoff
by The Investment U Research Team
In many ways Steve Jobs return to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) was overshadowed by the demise of Billy Mays and the Bernie Madoff’s sentencing.
However, there are lessons for Apple in both of these men.
Billy Mays tragic loss should give iPhone and iPod creators pause to consider what would happen if the company did lose Steve Jobs. While Tim Cook has performed strongly by many analysts accounts, he does not bring true star leadership power that Jobs does.
Tony Daltorio, The Investment U Research Team
At times it is extremely easy to make money in the financial markets. All it takes is a bit of common sense and using your head – your “bean”.
For instance, there is a basic truism – people need to eat. Yet investors, including many on Wall Street, ignore that truism and go off in search of the next trendy hot technology stock or unproven miracle stock.
Perhaps they think people can exist simply on their Blackberry or iPhone and no longer to eat food.
I am here to tell you that people still do indeed eat food, lots of it, every day. After a year about worrying about their piggy bank, some alert investors are turning their attention again to the cupboard. And, oh my, the cupboard is nearly bare…
