“This is the end of everyone’s privacy as we know it.” A recent 60 Minutes Australia exposé showed how easy it is to hack anyone’s smartphone… from anywhere in the world. The TV crew filmed hackers in Germany as they completed an effortless hack of a senator’s phone back in Australia. It’s easy. A hacker […]
From Tom Dyson and Grant Wasylik at The Palm Beach Letter: If you teamed up with us on our February 2012 recommendation, you’re about to lock in one of the largest gains in Palm Beach Research Group history… Here’s what my chief analyst wrote about insurance company Symetra Financial Corporation (NYSE: SYA) at the time. […]
From Mark Ford, editor, Creating Wealth: From 1977 to 1990, the Fidelity Magellan Fund grew from $20 million to $14 billion. During that time, Magellan earned an average annual return of 29.2%… almost double the S&P 500’s return. It’s no wonder many on Wall Street consider the fund’s manager, Peter Lynch, to be one of […]
From Teeka Tiwari, editor, Mega Trends Investing: China may have given American bondholders an early Christmas gift… For a while, it looked like a “done deal” that we would see the Federal Reserve hike interest rates in September. It would be the first rate hike in almost a decade. But that all changed last week […]
If you like getting free food, don’t miss this item… An intern for the website Apartment List just deconstructed the entire Chipotle burrito menu. From it, he “reverse engineered” a simple way to get almost twice the food a regular order receives… for the same price. The best part is… you can use these tricks […]
From Mike W.: Tom, I’m confused by your comments in the August 12 Daily: “I will never buy more of a stock as it gets cheaper (like I did with Bright Station).” I understand about using stop losses and buying “dogs,” but what about Legacy-type stocks? From Herman S.: Tom, I’ve been following you since […]
From Emily Donohue, managing editor, the Wealth Builders Club: Forty-seven states allow this controversial practice… In most states, auto insurers treat people with low credit scores worse than drunk drivers. That’s because insurers admit to using credit scores to determine insurance rates. From insurer Esurance: Statistical analysis shows that those with higher credit scores tend […]