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    The Stock Market Will Only Bottom When Company Executives Start Buying Their Own Shares. They Are Not.

    To make gains and be ahead of the masses in the stock market, I frequently say, look in places that others are not looking. Further, smart investing is about looking in the right places. It’s not about being first contrary to popular belief. The rub? You usually have to do a little more work and that doesn’t fit well with most investors these days who are after a quick profit. Monitoring company executives buying and selling their own shares is an absolute must for our firm and clients and an.

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    Wealth Can Be Created On The Way Down In The Stock Market. It’s Just Not Obvious. Here’s How.

    Warren Buffett’s lesser known right hand man Charlie Munger once said, “If you’re going to invest in stocks for the longer term, there are going to be periods when there’s a lot of agony. I think you just have to learn to live through them.”

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    IPO’s Are Dead. New Companies Via Spinoff Offer Extreme Value in Bear Markets. Here Are 3 Worth Watching.

    The term “Initial Public Offering” (IPO) is the process of a private company coming to the public market for the first time and offering shares in the business. It’s the ultimate accolade of a small company that can work its way up from nothing to offer ownership to a wider market whilst raising money in the process. Traditionally, these are exciting new companies to look for and analyze. Depending on the size of the offering, the fanfare around it can be deafening and can make investors.

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    Stansberry Investor Hour (Podcast) – How To Gain an Analytical and Behavioral Edge in Investing

    For this week’s Investor Hour, we’re proud to bring you Jim Osman, founder and chief vision officer of consulting group The Edge.

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    Bloomberg – AIG Defies Punishing Run for IPOs With Year’s Biggest

    The biggest US initial public offering this year appears to be designed to withstand turbulent times, meaning it should snap an eight-month drought in listings from the largest firms in the pipeline. American International Group Inc. is offering up to $1.92 billion of shares of its life and retirement business, Corebridge Financial Inc., according to a filingthis week, terms that indicate marketing has formally begun. After delaying the deal because of market volatility, the firm stuck with a.

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    Ziff Davis is a Top Pick Among Fallen Spinoffs

    We have analyzed more than 80 names to short list the ones which we felt compelling and undervalued — and have re-examined them as investment opportunities at current levels, explains Jim Osman, Founder & CEO of The Edge. As a result, we have determined that Ziff-Davis (ZD) — an Internet services firm — ranks as a current top pick among the “fallen” spinoff stocks. We note that the shares are down 33% year-to-date.

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    Wall Street Analysts Rate Stocks With a Variety of Labels. Here’s How to Read Them.

    Ratings can be confusing. Analysts slap Buy, Strong Buy, Sell, Underperform, Neutral or other labels on stocks, but investors should realize that, really, there’s just Buy or Don’t Buy. Consider 3M (ticker: MMM). Its shares are down roughly 50% from their record high, hit in 2018—and it isn’t difficult to see why. 3M is supposed to earn roughly the same amount in 2023 that it did in 2018, while sales have grown at a less-than-robust 2% clip over the past decade. The company is also dealing with.

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    Hillenbrand Should Spinoff Its Casket Business. It Would Mean 50% Upside For Shareholders.

    As humans, we find death a difficult topic as it brings up a lot of feelings of anxiety, fear and awkwardness. As well as sadness. It’s extremely unsettling to think of our mortality. We tend to put it out of our minds, but as with taxes, death is an absolute certainty, as Mr. Benjamin Franklin so succinctly put it.

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    AMTD Digital Plunges Nearly 50%—Stay Away From This ‘Absolute Scam,’ Expert Warns

    Story by Sergei Klebnikov: Shares of Hong Kong fintech firm AMTD Digital continued to plunge on Thursday, crashing for a second day in a row after rising more than 21,000% since its July IPO, with experts calling it a new meme stock and warning investors to stay away from the stock as its valuation looks like “an absolute scam.”

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    Bloomberg – J&J’s Consumer Unit Spinoff Faces Rocky Route to IPO

    Johnson & Johnson said this week it is considering an initial public offering for its consumer unit. Investors may not be so keen. J&J could carry out an IPO, Chief Financial Officer Joseph Wolk told Bloomberg Markets Tuesday, or the company could do a separation that leaves the unit entirely in the hands of its current shareholders and avoids the taxes involved in a public offering.

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