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The best news ever for buy-and-hold investors

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Buy-and-hold investing is far from dead

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4 ways to beat complexity and uncertainty in your portfolio

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Being a great surgeon may have a lot in common with being a great investor.

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Foolish Preview: Media merry-go-round and debt on the agenda

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With no strong US lead, local news is likely to sway the ASX

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A strategy to beat dividend stocks

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Dividend stocks that protect your portfolio from the worst losses are also quite likely to prevent you from earning the…

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ASX Market Wrap: Resources lead market down 0.4% amid billionaire battles

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Maybe investors should be asking the EU to bail us out, too

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3 ASX stocks that fell yesterday

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This trio stocks slumped by more than 6%

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3 ASX stocks that jumped by more than 5% yesterday

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No-one told these three companies the market was falling

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Foolish Preview: ASX likely to fall and bargain hunters rejoice

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Our market likely to open lower after US markets fell overnight

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Is Apple missing out on a major opportunity?

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If hybrid devices prove to be the future, then Apple is plain out of luck

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ASX Market Wrap: ASX recovers from midday sell-off

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ASX recovers from early falls, ends down 0.5%

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3 ASX stocks that thumped the market last week

| Mike King

While the market finished the week flat, these three companies all added 10% or more

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Psst, Apple — watch out for Microsoft

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Apple can continue to grow in this environment, but it can't take its eyes off the rearview mirror, because Microsoft…

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What's on China's shopping list?

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Chinese investment into Europe is set to take off.

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Video: Amazon.com's next chapter?

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Technology continues to change the publishing world

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Apple and Baidu, sitting in a tree

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They don't call Baidu the "Google of China" for nothing

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Inside Tim Cook's Apple

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Tim Cook - "I just want to build great products"

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Why Twitter might be stronger than Facebook right now

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Twitter has generated more advertising revenue from its mobile platform than from its website recently

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Video: How to play this massively disruptive trend

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3-D printing has the potential to change the world

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Billabong and Co: Throwing good money after bad?

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Billabong shareholders are stuck between a rock and a hard place

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The investor's guide to surviving a sharemarket crash

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ASX shares are being trashed, again. The temptation is to sell everything and run for the hills. Instead, take a…

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Dow crashes, global economy slows, fear the winner

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) took a beating overnight, falling the most since the massive 2.5% sell-off on…

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Stocks for the long run: Coca-Cola vs. the S&P 500

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Coca-Cola shares have crushed the S&P 500 over the last three decades

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Yesterday's top 3 ASX 200 climbers

| Mike King

A flat market was no obstacle for this trio

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Foolish Question: Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Bendigo & Adelaide Bank shares have fallen back to $7.30. Are they a buy now?

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The astonishing growth in banker pay

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Leon Cooperman: "I determined many years ago that if you want to make money on Wall Street, you work there;…

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Video: How companies will win in the future

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Companies that win will be the ones that use big data in ways that let them act more human

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3 ASX stocks that were thumped yesterday

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These companies performed poorly despite a flat market

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Spain's problems are swept under the rug… for now

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Start your clocks now because it's only a matter of time before Spain comes crawling back for an even bigger…

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Amazon.com wants to match Apple

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Amazon has reached agreements with three out of the four major record labels and could make an announcement within weeks…

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News Corp wants more Foxtel

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More machinations in the media sector

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3 ASX stocks that were dumped yesterday

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3 stocks slump by more than 5.5%

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3 ASX stocks that jumped more than 7% yesterday

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These three stocks rose by more than 7%

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Video: 3 companies betting on Siri

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The following video is from this week's MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill, along with Joe Tenebruso, Jason Moser, and Joe…

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Did Steve Jobs crack the TV code?

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Apple TV just might be the next home-run hit for the world's biggest and most successful consumer electronics dealer

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On Buffett, market timing, and dividends

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Buying with an eye on fundamentals and a decades-long future can give you a huge advantage over Wall Street traders

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3 ASX stocks that were slammed yesterday

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While the market enjoyed one of its best days of the year, these companies missed the party

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3 ASX stocks that beat the market yesterday

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These companies thumped the index in yesterday's trade

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Video: Google eyes another massive opportunity

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Can Google make it in the local advertising market?

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Media companies doing it tough

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

When the best of these companies is down 28%, you know the sector is doing it tough

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6 stocks that rose more than 14% last week

| Mike King

6 companies you wish you owned

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