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Should You Sell Forest Laboratories Right Now? Fri, 10/12/2010 - 11:36 by Jeremy Phillips Should you sell Forest Laboratories (NYSE: FRX) today? The decision to sell a stock you've researched and followed for months or years is never easy. If you fall in love with your stock holdings, you risk becoming vulnerable to confirmation bias -- listening only to information that supports your theories, and rejecting any contradictions. Comments Read more	Is Union Pacific a Sell? Thu, 09/12/2010 - 12:30 by Jeremy Phillips Should you sell Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) today? The decision to sell a stock you've researched and followed for months or years is never easy. If you fall in love with your stock holdings, you risk becoming vulnerable to confirmation bias -- listening only to information that supports your theories, and rejecting any contradictions. Comments Read more	I Will Tell You How to Become Rich Tue, 07/12/2010 - 11:53 by Dan Dzombak "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful." Warren Buffett gave that timeless advice in his 20s while getting his MBA at Columbia, and he's gone on to do very well with it. He avoided the tech-stock bubble of the late '90s, when everyone and their brother got greedy. And in this past downturn, he was able to snap up preferred shares of Goldman Sachs and GE on the cheap while other large investors ran for the hills. Comments Read more
4 Dividend Stocks Showing You the Money Tue, 07/12/2010 - 10:26 by Rick Aristotle ... Dividend checks continue to get fatter in Corporate America, as more companies jack up their distribution rates. Readers of the Income Investor newsletter can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking. Let's take a closer look at some of the companies that inched their payouts higher this past week. Comments Read more	Get Ready for the Bounce Mon, 06/12/2010 - 23:18 by Rich Smith "Don't catch a falling knife," as the old saw commands. (Pardon my mixing a cutlery metaphor.) The idea of buying a former superstar stock at a discount price certainly has its attractions, but you've got to make sure you catch the haft -- not the blade. That's where Motley Fool CAPS comes in. Comments Read more	Samsung Galaxy Tab touches 1 million sales Mon, 06/12/2010 - 17:40 by Anter Prakash Singh Samsung has confirmed that the global sales of Galaxy Tab had crossed the one million mark. Although no details were made available regarding the region which gave the highest sales, but it is believed that the thanksgiving holiday proved helpful in reaching that mark. Comments Read more
Dex One Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Sat, 04/12/2010 - 13:00 by Anders Bylund Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis. Comments Read more	Merck Smartens Up Sat, 04/12/2010 - 09:38 by Brian Orelli All puns aside, Merck's (NYSE: MRK)acquisition of privately held SmartCells looks like an intelligent move -- assuming it didn't overpay. Unfortunately, the financial details are fairly scant. There's an undisclosed up-front payment, followed by the potential for clinical and regulatory milestone payments. Comments Read more	Verizon Will Offer No-Contract LTE Price Plans Fri, 03/12/2010 - 23:52 by Phil Goldstein Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless will offer no-contract LTE rate plan options in addition to its postpaid LTE pricing, a Verizon spokeswoman confirmed. Verizon spokeswoman Brenda Raney said the carrier's no-contract LTE service will cost the same as its postpaid offering -- the only difference being the cost of the carrier's LTE devices. Comments Read more
Collective Brands Popped: What You Need to Know Fri, 03/12/2010 - 12:33 by Rich Smith Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis. Comments Read more	Wimm-Bill-Dann Shares Popped: What You Need to Know Fri, 03/12/2010 - 12:17 by Rich Smith Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis. Comments Read more	This "Risky" Stock Isn't That Risky Thu, 02/12/2010 - 12:13 by Anand Chokkavelu Higher risk doesn't always mean higher reward. Sometimes risk is just risk. For example, buying the shares of Motors Liquidation -- aka, the worthless "Old GM" stock that's still stubbornly trading after the recent IPO of "New GM" -- is the investing equivalent of jumping out of an airplane sans parachute. Comments Read more