NYTimes: The Essential Wall St. Summer Reading List

From The New York Times:

DEALBOOK COLUMN: The Essential Wall St. Summer Reading List

The best business books offer dramatic narratives, provide a grounding in economic history or help explain the thinking inside the corner office.

http://nyti.ms/1awf6E9


Stuart

5 New Preferred Stocks Clear 7%, First Time Since July 2012 - Seeking Alpha

This article illustrates the effect that the federal reserve policy of quantitative easing had on the prices and yields of preferred stocks. Investors hungry for yield have competed for interest generating securities thereby driving up the prices and forcing the yield down. Last month the Federal Reserve hinted that they would begin to "taper" their quantitative easing program and there was a prompt selloff of all types of securities that previously were bid up in search for yield.
I am tempted to buy these for their yield but there is no guarantee that I will get my money back.


http://seekingalpha.com/article/1528392-5-new-preferred-stocks-clear-7-first-time-since-july-2012


Stuart

How To Get Excellent Returns With Utility Stocks - Seeking Alpha

Make sure that you pick companies that are raising their dividends, reinvest the dividends and sell the stocks that fail to increase their dividends.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1529982-how-to-get-excellent-returns-with-utility-stocks


Stuart

SA Article: Energizing Your Dividend Portfolio With Chevron

Energizing Your Dividend Portfolio With Chevron

Sun, Jun 30 | by Dividend Strategist

Includes: cvx

Energy is becoming an increasingly important part of the lives of the global population. While the development of alternative energy sources will be critical to the success of civilization in the future, oil and natural gas remain an important part of our lives today (and likely for the foreseeable future). Despite the volatility in this sector, stocks with exposure to energy sources such as oil a...

Full Story: http://seekingalpha.com/article/1528412?source=ipadportfolioapp

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Stuart

Intermodal Transport

I thought you would be interested in the following story from Barron's

The Not-So-Little Railroad That Could

http://on.barrons.com/14E6pSm

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Stuart

GNC

Started paying dividend.
Insider buying.
PEG ratio less than 1
Paying down debt.
Online business, pet business

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The Euro-Zone Crisis For Dummies - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/boblutz/2012/06/16/the-euro-zone-crisis-for-dummies/?feed=rss_home


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