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Chris Versace

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So far in this series, I have shared the first seven of 10 questions that you should answer before you decide whether or not to buy a share of stock in a particular company. If you missed that guidance, I encourage you to check out my previous columns: part 1 and part 2. You may […]

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Last week, I shared the first five of 10 questions that you must be able to answer before you decide whether or not to buy a share of stock in a particular company. If you missed that guidance, I encourage you to check it out. You may want to review those questions because the next […]

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For any new investor, or even for an experienced one, it can be tempting to buy the latest hot stock without doing much homework. As I’ve learned the hard way during the last 22 years, more often that not that only leads to trouble. How do you know how to gauge a company’s business and the competitive landscape if you don’t have a firm understanding of what the company does and how it makes money for itself and its shareholders?

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As you probably know, there are several parts that drive the U.S. economy — manufacturing, business investment, government spending and so on. One of the biggest is consumer spending.

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During the last few weeks and certainly the last few days, we’ve seen uncertainty come roaring back into the stock market. Leading the uncertainty brigade was the now seemingly drawn-out Greek drama, which has the European Union (EU) and Greece back at the negotiating table. Next up were Puerto Rico’s debt woes, and now we’ve […]

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Last night, we closed the books on the June quarter, and, in many ways, it was one that at the outset was expected to be better than the March quarter. However, as we learned, that wasn’t in the cards. For a variety of reasons, the second half turned out to be weaker than expected, and […]