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10 Stock Alternatives to Help Protect Your Portfolio in 2020

Most novice investors focus only on stocks, stocks and more stocks.
But there are actually five principal types of long-term investments: stocks, bonds, real estate, precious metals and the catchall, cash.
Every investor’s needs are different. So there’s no perfect mix everyone should subscribe to. But we do have standards to help us get started.
For example, investors looking forward five to 10 years or more should consider something along the lines of…

60% stocks
20% bonds
10% cash/Treasurys
5% precious metals
5% real estate.

Each investor will have their personal tweaks and touches, accounting for their risk tolerance and needs.
But the most important takeaway here is that diversification …read more […]

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10 of the Best Cheap Stocks to Buy Under $10

Roughly 11 years into the longest bull market in U.S. history, investors may need to hunt a little harder than usual to find cheap stocks. Whether you don’t have much to invest or you just enjoy the psychological allure of a low-priced stock, here are 10 of the best cheap stocks to buy under $10. Since Sirius and XM Radio merged in 2008, the combined Sirius XM Holdings has enjoyed a near-monopoly on satellite radio. …read more […]

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3 Cannabis ‘Pick and Shovel’ Plays With a Lot of Potential

We all know that the overall cannabis sector took a big hit in 2019, and it probably won’t start to sustainably recover until after the second calendar quarter of 2020.While most of the big players with hands on cannabis have suffered enormous downward pressure on their share prices, some pick and shovel cannabis plays, while also participating in the downturn as measured by their share prices, are also positioned to take advantage of the recovery before their counterparts.In this article we’ll look at Grow Generation, KushCo Holdings, and Innovative Industrial Properties, and what the future holds for them. TipRanks, a …read more […]

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Alitalia bleeds around 300 million euros a year: administrator

Struggling Italian carrier Alitalia [CAITLA.UL] is burning through its cash resources at the pace of around 300 million euros ($334 million) a year, its new temporary administrator Giuseppe Leogrande told members of a parliamentary committee. In November, after months of talks, railway group Ferrovie dello Stato, U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines and infrastructure group Atlantia backtracked on a plan to rescue the carrier. Alitalia, which has been through two previous unsuccessful reorganizations, is due to receive a further 400 million euros from the government, in addition to the 900 million euros the state has injected since …read more […]