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3 ASX stocks that beat the index on Thursday

| Mike King

A good day or our market - and a better one for these three companies

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How Buffett invests like a Tiger

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Learning from the masters - and yes, that Tiger

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1 of the craziest Facebook numbers I know

| Motley Fool Staff

Years ago, when Bill Gates was still CEO of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), he described a simple principle he used to manage the company's balance…

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Audio: Facebook's big red flag

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Facebook's corporate governance is far from best practice

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US jobs report: highlights and lowlights

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The US jobs data shows the benefit of higher education

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Learn from the losers of the past decade

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What if I told you that for every 1% the stock market went down, you could make 2%? Sound crazy?…

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Soul Pattinson: Australia's Berkshire Hathaway?

| Mike King

From a humble chemist shop, Soul Patts has become a market heavyweight

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3 ASX stocks that fell by more than 3% yesterday

| Mike King

The ASX was flat, but that was no refuge for this trio

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All aboard the ASX rocking-chair express

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Lots of motion, but no meaningful change on our market

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Qantas and Virgin: heading in separate directions?

| Mike King

Airlines are never far from the news, but rarely good investments

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Are Buffett's picks better than buying Berkshire?

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The companies in which Buffett invests might be better investments that Berkshire itself

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3 ASX stocks that got thumped yesterday

| Mike King

The ASX recovered Tuesday, but these 3 stocks plummeted more than 6%

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5 stocks to buy before Facebook

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Facebook: overvalued and overhyped

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The 3 commitments for sharemarket investing success

| Bruce Jackson

Three investing commitments and 7 ASX stocks firmly on our radar

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Apple gives Google the boot, faces off with Facebook

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Apple adds photo sharing capabilities to iCloud as it shapes up to Facebook

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3 ASX stocks that thumped the market last week

| Mike King

3 stocks soar more than 20%

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10 stocks trading near 52 week lows

| Mike King

Which solid stocks are being offered at bargain prices?

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4 ASX stocks you would have liked to own last month

| Mike King

May was a shocker for our market, but someone forgot to tell these four companies.

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Great Investors: the Peter Lynch approach

| Mike King

An introduction to Mr Ten-bagger

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Is Apple limited in China?

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3G is exploding in China. Apple might be missing out on the spoils

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Maybe I'm the idiot

| Bruce Jackson

The ASX is diving again, sinking below 4000 and plunging investors into a world of fear and despair.

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3 ASX stocks that shook off the gloom on Friday

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The market fell, but these three businesses rose more than 2%

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The US sneezes and the ASX catches a cold

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The US markets dropped over 2% on Friday night - and our market is likely to follow

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ASX market crash survival guide

| Bruce Jackson

Shares are being trashed, again. Instead, take a chill pill and consider The Motley Fool’s patented sharemarket survival guide.

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Is Apple too popular for its own good?

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The Cupertino Kid might just becoming 'the establishment'

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Now is the time to buy on the dips

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We've just gone down a big dipper.. and now might be the time to put spare cash to work

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The Dow Jones is going global

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Investing in US shares can give you exposure to some of the world’s most attractive economies

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Why the Euro went so badly wrong

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It promised so much... what happened?

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Video: How Facebook can avoid failure

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Fresh from the most talked-about IPO in years, how can Facebook stay at the top of the heap?

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Who says Facebook's IPO wasn't a smashing success?

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Forgive me for not sympathising with the gentle whining coming from hedge funds, institutional investors, and traders around the world about Facebook's…

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1 major key to Apple's future

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It's not the iPod, iPhone, iPad or even the Mac...

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ASX has Link Market Services in its sights

| Mike King

Is the ASX over-reaching in its quest for growth?

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3 ASX stocks that got thumped yesterday

| Mike King

Two big names and a platinum miner among the big losers

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Facebook plunging: Is it a Buffett stock?

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Would the Oracle take a bite of the Social Network?

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Great Investors: the Warren Buffett approach

| Mike King

An introduction to the Oracle of Omaha

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3 ASX stocks that beat the market on Wednesday

| Mike King

The market might have fallen, but these three companies posted gains

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Foolish Preview: ASX likely to fall and bargain hunters rejoice

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The market will test your mettle today - take advantage of shares on sale

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Warren Buffett's 3 lessons for growth investors

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Buffett is often mis-categorised as a "deep value" investor

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ASX Market Wrap: ASX bucks a strong overnight lead to finish lower

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Our market shrugs an optimistic Wall Street to close 0.5% lower

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3 ASX stocks that trounced the market on Tuesday

| Mike King

While the market rose over 1%, these stocks achieved 10 times that result yesterday

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