In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) Chief Executive Officer H. Lee Scott Jr. said the recession is changing consumer-buying habits.
What Scott didn’t say is that Wal-Mart is perfectly positioned to capitalize on those changes.
“The No.1 issue today is [consumers'] concern about their job,” Scott said during [...]

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We’ve survived the tech bubble and the housing bubble, but are we headed for something more catastrophic than either of those? Some experts are beginning to fear the worst.
Let’s review recent financial events. The meltdown in the global financial markets created a wave of panic and a surge of money has poured into what has [...]

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A good percentage of the rich People you have seen or heard of did not just sleep and woke up that loaded one morning.
This must have taken many years of toil, patience and sacrifice. It has to be that one day they earned that meager salary/wage just like you.
They suffered the humiliation of having to [...]

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The most recent craze for brokers, fund managers and financial planners is to buy stocks that have been paying dividends for many years. Then the investor is told to reinvest the dividends.
That sounds good, but does that mean the stock will not go down? Does that mean the investor will not lose money. But you’re [...]

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You surely have heard every one of these from your broker or financial planner. They have been good students, but poorly taught.
And they will break you unless you become a better student of the market than they are. Wall Street wants your money. They don’t want you to ever take it out of their clutches. [...]

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