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Portfolio management is simultaneously an interesting and time consuming exercise. Depending on your risk and preference profile, you can choose various tools to help you in decision making.

For stock picking, I like to supplement my own analysis with experts’ opinion. One of the ways of doing it is to check out analysts’ recommendations. Apart from reading about upgrades and downgrades, I also pay attention to the initiation of new coverage of the stocks.

iPhone 5 is a smash hit, as expected and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is consolidating its position as the biggest company on the strength of this phone. However, let’s take a look at the other stakeholders who have their fortunes tied to this phone.

All other things being equal, a stock hitting its 52 weeks high is generally a harbinger of good news. The pricing spike generally results from positive developments which may range from better than expected financial results, news about the release of bumper product to potential takeover or merger.

Analysts ratings play an important part in my decision making process for picking or dumping stocks. While I prefer to rely upon my own analysis and judgment, using analysts’ recommendations for confirmatory purpose, for my portfolio management, I have seen many people using these recommendations as the primary factor for portfolio decision making. With analysts’ […]

Markets have kicked off the week on a negative note. All the major US indices seem to have taken a clue from the global markets and are trading down. The main reason is the bleak growth outlook and weak economic conditions.

Markets are looking in buoyant mood and poised to end a fruitful week on a positive note. However, the mood in transportation sector seems to be gloomy. The sector index is down and it is not surprising since recently industry leaders like FedEx (NYSE:FDX) and UPS (NYSE:UPS) chose to slash their forecasts.

Transportation sector is one of the most telling indicators of a country’s economic health. And if we follow the latest news coming from this sector, then the things do not look particularly bright for the economy.

Thanks to a couple of positive global cues, the market is trending marginally high. However, today, I am going to take a look at the laggards of the market. Even in the green market, there are stocks hitting their nadir.

The mania continues for the big 3 U.S. new economy plays. This is the latest on the price action: Apple: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares have been in a rising trend channel on their daily chart since November, with the floor of the channel currently running through around the $655 level just above the 50 day moving […]