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1) What Unusual Stealth Change In The Workforce Could Affect Us All? + Lee’s take on ADM, UPS, CLX, DOW, CSCO, MCHP, DAL, LUV, CAL, KO, and SBUX.
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What earnings season would be complete without looking a little closer at what could be the largest expense item for most companies? Labor…
Smart CFOs from companies like Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), United Parcel Service (UPS), and Clorox (CLX) bury a chunk of their salaries, wages, and labor costs in Profit/Loss line items like “marketing”, “cost of goods”, “overhead” and one of my favorites, “essential corporate shower curtains”. But no matter how you shuffle the company cost cards, money spent in the form of paychecks is usually the largest expense item. |
Over the years, as companies like Dow Chemical (DOW), Cisco (CSCO), and Microchip Technology (MCHP) have exported large amounts of manufacturing overseas, virtually idling most of the workforce living in states like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, less of these labor costs are for red blooded Americans toiling on some factory floor. These are the people we usually think about when we hear the word Union.
But… Things have changed, and maybe not for the good…
Click Here for some surprising facts Lee has discovered about labor unions…
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No Union? Try the old fashioned way to talk to
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2) Learn from the Experts |
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Dan Passarelli
MarketTaker.com |
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Thomas Kee
StockTraders
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Matthew Buckley
TheGlobalGuru
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Using an Option Straddle to Profit on Earnings
Want to take advantage of a big move in a stock while limiting the potential risk? First, what could trigger a major upside (or downside) move for a stock? News. You want to find a major news event, but you can’t...
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The Strategic Plan
You need to have a plan, and The Strategic Plan offered by Stock Traders Daily is a great one.
This year is going to be back-and-forth for the first handful of months. The oscillations will present...
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Two Contrarian Trades for the Coming Decade
U.S stock markets have just come off of their worst decade ever, with inflation-adjusted returns in the S&P 500 dropping as much as 30%. That's a far cry from what investors were expecting at...
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4) Expert Articles Recap — In Case You Missed It The First Time… |
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PFNewsletter.com's Elliott Gue - Keep it Simple.
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BigTrends.com's Price Headley - In-Depth Look at the January Effect
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ELF Capital Management 's Henry Kaelber - Will ESO’s Gain Popularity?
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5) Feature Articles |
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This Week: What Do Investors Need to Know About Apple (AAPL) Before And After Their 1/25 Earnings Report? Strategies, Tactics, Insights, And Trade Ideas To Play This Stock…
- What accounting change at Apple could push the stock’s price up?
- In the past, how has Apple’s stock reacted in the days and weeks after its earnings release?
- How can investors use a unique strategy to play Apple for quick returns up to 115% annualized with about 6% downside protection?
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Stocks Covered: Apple (AAPL), eBay (EBAY), Microsoft (MSFT), Technology Select SPDR (XLK)
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Stocks Covered: Goldman Sachs (GS), Amazon.com (AMZN), UnitedHealth (UNH), Newmont Mining (NEM)
Targeted Combined Return: $2,400, 13.6%
Average downside protection: 10.6%
Investor Level: Beginner to Advanced
Risk Level: Moderate Relative Risk
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Summary: 2009 turned out to be a wild year, and 2010 could be even crazier. We will take a look back at lessons from 2009 that will be crucial to success in 2010, while examining the possibility of a double-dip recession, the auto industry, consumer confidence, the housing market, gold, and more.
Stocks Covered: Wal-Mart (WMT), Newmont Mining (NEM), Research in Motion (RIMM), Boeing (BA), PepsiCo (PEP), Caterpillar (CAT), Verizon (VZ), Eli Lilly (LLY), Coca-Cola (KO), Texas Instruments (TXN), and more…
Target Returns: Up to 14.9% or 60.4% Annualized*
Downside Protection: Up to 24.6%
Investor Level: Beginner to Advanced
Risk Level: Moderate Relative Risk
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