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What One Stock Expert’s Epically Bad Prediction Teaches Us About Investing

September 7, 2014

Getty Images You might not be familiar with the name Whitney Tilson, but you should be, because a spectacularly wrong prediction he made back in 2004 can teach you all you need to know about investing in stoc...

Last Week’s Top Stock Movers: Trading on Trading; Dollars and Scents

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August 29, 2014

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D Dipasupil/FilmMagicJustin Bieber's Someday perfume. Plenty of stocks go up and down in any given week. The gainers inspire us to keep investing. The decliners keep greed in check while reminding us about th...

Last Quarter’s 5 Coolest IPOs: Not Just High-Tech Players

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August 18, 2014

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Mark Lennihan/APJack Ma is the founder of Alibaba. There has been no shortage of debutantes on Wall Street lately. Dozens of companies went public last quarter -- many of them names you know, or that you will...

Hilton Expects $18 to $21 a Share from IPO

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July 25, 2014

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Scott Olson/Getty Images NEW YORK -- Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. plans to offer approximately 112.8 million shares in an initial public offering of its common stock. The hotel operator disclosed in a regula...

Market Minute: Twitter Unveils Long-Awaited IPO; Adobe’s Security Breach

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July 21, 2014

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A big IPO in less than 140 characters, and customer data is compromised at Adobe. Those stories and more are what's in Friday's Market Minute. The Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI) fell 136 points Thursday, ...

Shake Shack’s IPO Had Better Bring the Beef

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July 10, 2014

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Andrew Burton/Getty Images After more than a year of hits and misses in the pool of emerging restaurants to go public, investors may soon be able to buy into a rapidly expanding gourmet burger chain. It's not...

Alibaba Soared in Its IPO. Should You Buy It Now?

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June 25, 2014

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Andrew Burton/Getty ImagesAlibaba founder Jack Ma at the New York Stock Exchange. I was inundated with emails last week asking if I had any special connections. I'm certainly not the go-to-gal when it comes t...

Money Minute: Ally’s IPO; Greenpeace Wants a ‘Cleaner Cloud’

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June 22, 2014

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Another success story from the federal bailout during the financial crisis. Ally Financial is alive only because a $17 billion taxpayer bailout. And Thursday's initial public offering cuts the government's s...

Twitter’s ‘Anti-Facebook’ IPO Tactics Win Over Some Investors

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May 10, 2014

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Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTwitter CEO Richard Costolo, left, and Chief Financial Officer Mike Gupta leave JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York last Friday. Institutional investors who met with ...

The Adrenaline-Pumping Ride of GoPro’s IPO

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May 7, 2014

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gopro.com If a thrill-seeking mountain biker wants to take on some choppy terrain, it might not be a bad idea to ride GoPro's (GPRO) stock chart. One of the market's most volatile stocks is the maker of weara...

Week’s Winners and Losers: Hot IPO, Hard Times for Hardwood

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May 6, 2014

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David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images There were plenty of winners and losers this week, with a new e-commerce company soaring by better than 50 percent on its first day of trading and one of this year...

Money Minute: Alibaba IPO Could Rival Facebook’s

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April 30, 2014

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A Chinese company could offer the biggest-ever U.S. initial public offering. Excitement is starting to build over the planned American IPO of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. Yahoo (YHOO) owns nearly a ...

Week’s Winners, Losers: Cash Flows at McDonald’s, GoDaddy

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February 28, 2014

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Richard Drew/APCEO Blake Irving waits for GoDaddy's IPO to begin trading on Wednesday. There were plenty of winners and losers this week, with the world's largest burger flipper sprucing up its image by bumpi...

Recently IPOed Restaurant Chains Giving Investors Indigestion

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January 25, 2014

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Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images Last week was brutal for restaurant operators that recently went public. Sandwich baker Potbelly (PBPB) saw its shares plunge 23 percent on the week after warning that it ...