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January 2012
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Not So Fast Netflix (NFLX). Why It Won’t Work
For the longest time I had been the biggest promoter of Netflix (NFLX). I loved the stock and it has definitely been my best
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Visa (V) and Mastercard (MA) Poised For A Pullback?
Since recommended Mastercard (MA) and Visa (V) a while back, both stocks have went on a nice run. That being said, it looks like
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Time For Bank Of America (BAC) To Go Even Higher?
Bank of America (BAC) as well as many other stocks have been hitting their stride for the most of 2012 thus far. See my
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Recap Of My Stock Recommendations For 2012
The last two weeks I have been sharing some of my favorite stocks for 2012, which hopes to be a very promising year. Do
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Dunkin’ Brands Group (DNKN) Stock Outlook For 2012
In continuation of my stocks to buy in 2012, today we will look at Dunkin’ Brands Group (DNKN) – parent company of Dunkin’ Doughnuts.
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Schlumberger (SLB) Stock Outlook For 2012
In continuation of my stock picks for 2012, today we will look at Schlumberger (SLB). While I chose competitor Haliburton (HAL) for my 4
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VMware (VMW) Stock Outlook For 2012
Last week I posted my 4 stocks to buy in 2012, but there are still some other stocks I love but that just did
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JP Morgan (JPM) Stock Outlook For 2012
In continuation of my 2012 stock picks, today we will look at JP Morgan (JPM). After a lackluster 2011, is 2012 the year a
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My Personal Finance and Stock Trading Resolutions For 2012
I am not really one for New Year resolutions, but to inspire those inclined I compiled a list of financially focused items I would
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Best Finance Apps for the iPhone
Smart phones, specifically the iPhone, has made it easier to have access to our money and keep track of any budget we might have
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How Individual Investors Can Manage Their Money Like Professionals
TheStreet.com recently put out an interesting interview with Joe Terranova, author of Buy High Sell Higher. If the name sounds familiar, you have probably
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4 Stocks To Buy In 2012
It is hard to believe it is already another year, but, after a dismal 2011, I am looking to get back on track with
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4 Stocks For 2011 – What Went Wrong?
Just as quickly as the year started, my 4 stocks for 2011 tanked. I finished down 33%. Instead of sitting here and trying to
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TWI Introduces New Personal Finance Section
I am excited to announce that starting in 2012, The Wild Investor will be rolling out a new Personal Finance section. Under this new
December 2011
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Is PetSmart (PETM) The Best Recession-Proof Stock?
For the last couple of years I have been posting an analysis of PetSmart (PETM). While the real purpose was just to celebrate my
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Best Wall Street Movies Ever Made
With the year wrapping up, the next few days of the stock market should be very uninspiring. I have a lot of interesting things
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What Is An ETF?
Diversification often plays a key role in sustaining a long-term profitable portfolio. While there is always the route of buying a basket of various
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4 Stock Charts: V, MA, CAT, BAC
Last week the market had had it’s best week since 2009. Hard to believe given the ugly choppiness that has been plaguing the market
November 2011
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The Best Performing Sector Of 2011 Stock Market
I was running a scan to pull back stocks that have seen at least a 100% return year-to-date. To my surpass, Dominos Pizza (DPZ) popped
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How To Take Advantage Of The January Effect
The basis of the January effect is that investors sell losing stocks prior to year end to capture those capital losses on their tax
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Stop Worrying About The Overall Market And Focus On Individuals
Anybody else getting sick of this horrible, rationale-lacking, up and down market? It seems everyday the market moves based on a country saying this
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Watch For Breakout To Upside: AKS, CROX, OVTI
To get the most bang for your buck right now, the best way to trade is to focus on the short-term. Right now the
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Social Media’s Impact On The Stock Market
There is no denying the educational impact social media has on stock trading. Websites like Stocktwits have basically changed the landscape for how traders
October 2011
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Don’t Get Trapped By Amazon (AMZN)
I recently tweeted that the downfall in Amazon (AMZN) was nothing to be scared about. If anything, it was just an excellent opportunity to
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Why YOU Aren’t Making Money In the Stock Market
Stock trading is a funny practice. Every trader is usually a tweak away from making or losing a lot of money, but these tweaks
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Does Your Stock Really Have Global Exposure
In this market, a top criteria for any good stock buy is whether the company has global exposure. In other words, does your company
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A Glance At IBM And OVTI
The market is still up and down right now and trying to find any stock with a consistent uptrend is pretty hard to come
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4 Stocks to Buy in 2011 Q3 Results
I’ll try not to be negative, but this year keeps getting worse and worse and there are no signs of the market significantly improving
September 2011
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Why Adding Fees Won’t Help The Bottom Line
Consumers are not irrational. They will pay for quality products. For evidence, just take a gander at Apple’s (AAPL) financial statements. While we are
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Investing In The Stock Market To Repay Your Debts – Is This A Viable Option?
The following is a guest post by a fellow reader of The Wild Investor. While certainly not the most risk adverse strategy, this article
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Market Predictability At Its Finest
Yeah the markets are volatile, but that does not mean you cannot predict the next move. The saying goes that 75% of stocks move
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Charting Stocks For Dummies Part 11: Trend Line
In this addition of Charting Stocks for Dummies, I will be looking at a clear example of trend lines. Trend lines/support are some of
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Netflix (NFLX) Attracting Bidders But For What?
You are already probably aware, so I am not going revisit the entire Netflix (NFLX) action over the last couple of weeks. More about
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Bullish Trend Reversal For NXP Semiconductors (NXPI)
It is always nice to find a bullish trend reversal setup in the early stages. The volume in NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) is not the best,
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Apple (AAPL) Ready To Test $400 Again
When a company like Apple (AAPL) says they plan on producing 30 million of something they have not even confirmed yet (iPhone 5) and
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Maxim (MXIM) Breaks Out Into Bullish Territory
Maxim has made a 20% move over the last month, and it looks like it is ready to head higher as the stock has
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Read Up On Amazon (AMZN)
It has been somewhat of a challenge to try to find a stock that has been rising consistently over the last month. One stock
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How To Play Beaten Stocks
With the market being so up and down right now, you will notice a similar pattern among many stocks. These charts essentially look like
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3 Stock Chart Setups BAC, NFLX, LNKD
With the volatility index (VIX) still at high levels and still many problems among the economy, all signs are pointing for the market to
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Is Netflix Growing Too Fast?
I have this theory that you never want to be the first generation of a boom. I call this the “first in, first out”
August 2011
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If You Can Buy Clothes, You Can Buy Stocks
I have to confess that I like to buy clothes. As I was taking inventory of my wardrobe and seeing what all pieces I
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Is Hewlett-Packard The Next Great Investment?
Last week Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced that they would be spinning off or selling its PC and mobile computing business units. My first reaction was: what
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Market Recap: Is The Volatility Still Here?
It will be interesting to see if the volatility picks back up as we head into a fresh trading week. Due to it being
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Stocks That Are Currently In Play
A lot of people have been asking what stocks I am looking at. If you are using my trading strategy for these current market
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How To Play This Market
While this current market is not kind to the player practicing buy and hold, more active traders are foaming at the mouth to attack
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How To Survive A Crashing Stock Market
The other day the market basically melted right before our eyes. If you were “fortunate” enough to be invested in the market during the
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It’s Not Bad Luck It’s Your Mindset
I love talking with casual traders. They don’t know much about the market, but will buy a popular stock every now and then - only
July 2011
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4 Stocks To Watch CROX, JPM, NKE, SLB
Another week… another look at some of my favorite stock charts. A lot of setup has already taken place, so the key is to
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Crocs (CROX) Ready To Run Higher
The recent fluctuation in Crocs (CROX) stock price was a bit of a welcome as the stock had just been dangling into astronomical returns. The
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Bad Idea For Netflix (NFLX) To Raise Subscription Prices?
Yesterday Neflix (NFLX) announced its plan to raise the subscription fee of the Internet-plus-DVDs-in-the-mail plan from $10 to $16 a month. The obvious question is
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The REAL Official Analyst Stock Ratings Definitions
You see these stock ratings every day. Some investment firm somewhere rates an equity in some form of buy or sell based on what
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Stock Charts Galore – 5 Stocks To Watch
Leaders have performed great in the market over the last couple of weeks. Look for this trend to continue through the summer months, so
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Worst Stocks In 2011? 4 Stocks To Buy In 2011 Q2 Stock Results
When you have a 1 year time frame, all you need is ONE month to make a great return, and that is our motto
June 2011
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Is It Time To Stop Investing In China?
It seemed like it was yesterday when you could pick virtually any Chinese stock and make great profits almost instantaneously, but like all good
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Women Are Better Investor Than Men. What?!?!
Last week an interesting study was put out that basically states that women are better investors than men. The study found that women wring
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Caterpillar (CAT) Holding Strong
Caterpillar is one of those stocks that does great during an economic recovery, so no surpse that the stocks has been hurting over the
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UBeam Allows You To Charge Your Devices Over The Air
Charging devices over the air is not a new concept, and there have been many attempts at it. The biggest knock on solutions thus
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Is Wall Street About To Get Slaughtered?
For a while now we have been hearing about this “double-dip” recession. Since than we have just been steadily moving ahead; however, are we
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Where To Trade Stocks In A Double Dip Recession
The theme in the market right now is double dip recession. People are scared and so too are investors. Try to avoid any stocks
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How To Invest In Dividends
Dividend investing is the process of allocating money to certain stocks based on the dividends that a company plans to dish out. To dive
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How To Protect Your Portfolio From A Market Crash
If you have been following the market at all over the last couple of weeks, then you know how much of a devastating impact
May 2011
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Gain Double Digit Stock Returns By Labor Day
Besides the annual barbecues and unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day also signifies the start of the summer doldrums that inevitably hits the stock
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Is LinkedIn’s Stock Surge Sign Of The Next Tech Bubble Pop?
Last week, professional social networking site, LinkedIn (LNKD), launched it’s IPO, while surging over 100% within it’s first day. This put the value of the
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Chart School Is Here!
I have recently been getting a lot of emails about how to read stock charts and any help or classes that can be taken.
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4 Stocks To Watch This Week: CROX, CAT, JPM, F
What is great about using stock charts is that it takes all the news and emotion out of trading. Using charts, traders can read
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Buy Up Some Haliburton
Haliburton (HAL) as taken a dip over the last couple of trading days, but a hold up of the support trend line could mean
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Crocs (CROX) Continues A Strong Trend Higher
Last week was a pretty good week for Crocs (CROX) as earnings remained strong and outlook still positive; however, given the recent quick rise
April 2011
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5 Best Solar Stocks To Trade
I love solar stocks. Not because I am all for alternative energy, but because I believe that solar stocks are some of the best
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Profit On Tax Day With Intuit Inc (INTU)
I do not know why I never thought of this before, but the Intuit Inc (INTU) tax day play just seems like a no
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Take A Chance On Natural Gas With El Paso Corp (EP)
I’ve been riding the coat tails of Schlumberger (SLB) for so long, it is pretty surprising that I haven’t looked for too many other
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3 Primetime Stock Charts APKT, HAL, VMW
It has been a while since I really posted an new and interesting charts, so take a look at some of the beastly charts
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Market News 4/11/11
A LOT has happened in the market and economy over the last couple of weeks. Below are a couple good “refresher” or current articles
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4 Stocks To Buy In 2011 Q1 Results
03/31/11 – See updated follow-up of 4 Stocks to Buy in 2011 Q1 Results. Blink your eyes and the first quarter of 2011 is
March 2011
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Gold Vs Silver: Which One To Buy Right Now
With all of the world’s troubles, there are plenty of reasons why one would think that both of the gold and silver market should
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The Inevitable Crossroads Dow, S&P 500, And Nasdaq
With every run, there is always pullbacks. That is fact and will always open. The big question is betting on whether the trend will
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What March Madness Can Teach Us About Stock Trading
March Madness is a great time of year for anybody, whether they follow college basketball or not – mainly because it is a bunch
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Become A Stock Market Guru Through Repetition
Every time I tell somebody I trade stocks, the first question I usually get asked is something to the effect of “What do you
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Everything You Need To Know About The iPad 2
Today Apple (AAPL) announced the details of the soon to be released iPad 2 (March 11). If you remember my article when the details
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The 20-40 Rule
What I am about to share is not a fact or a widely-known theory, but just something I have noticed over my time trading
February 2011
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5 Stocks Coming Off A Rest SLB, WFC, JPM, AAPL, CAT
It has been a while since I posted some stock charts, but, WOW, my list of stocks have been rapidly increasing in price over
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Using Smart Scan To Find Awesome Stocks
Regardless of what your trading strategy is, all of them are are comprised of 3 things: 1) find stocks 2) research them and 3)
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3 Simple Techniques To Make Good Stock Trades
Once you sort through all the trading jargon and strategies, making a good stock trade is much easier than people tend to make it.
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Gold, Silver, and Rare Earth. Which Market Has Strongest Trend
Out of gold, silver, and rare earth, which one has the strongest trend? Which one should we trade and just how much should we
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LVS Rejected Hard
Just quickly following up from my last post of the Las Vegas Sands (LVS) earnings/head and shoulders play. It was rejected and not so
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Head And Shoulders In Las Vegas Sands (LVS)
A stock that has slowly been building up some steam is Las Vegas Sands (LVS). This stock generally runs in waves, and, with earnings
January 2011
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JA Solar Bounce Off 200-day Moving Average
If there was ever a safe trade, JA Solar (JASO) bounce higher off the 200-day moving average would be it. For nearly 2 years,
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AK Steel Moving Average Crossover
What’s not to like about this chart? If we are ready to see higher prices in AK Steel (AKS), then right now looks like
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TradeKing Launches iPhone Trading App
After the success of their Blackberry trading app, now users of the the discount stock brokerage TradeKing can trade stocks via the new iPhone
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Crude Oil About To Breakout
For as much hype that was going into oil come 2011, the commodity has been somewhat of a bust early in this year. Considering
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How Low Can Gold Go?
Last week gold had one of the biggest drops it has had in a while and now the commodity is approaching critical support points.
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How YOU Can Make Double Digit Gains Year After Year
After 2 years of picking stocks to buy for the year and 2 straight years of double-digit gainers, I thought it was time to
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Take A Chance On Crocs In 2011
When putting together my 4 stocks to buy in 2011, I heavily considered adding Crocs (CROX) to the pack. After topping out at $76
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4 Stocks To Buy In 2011
New Year! New Stocks! See my 4 stocks to buy in 2012. 12/31/11 – See updated follow-up of 4 Stocks to Buy in 2011 FINAL
December 2010
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TWI’s 4 Stocks To Buy In 2010 Finishes Up 27%
See my 4 stocks to buy in 2011. Boom!! Another year and another double-digit gain for my 4 stocks to buy in 2010. The
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TWI’s Best And Worst Stock Picks Of 2010
A couple days ago I shared the most read/most searched articles on The Wild Investor. Well, now we will look at some of the
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Best Of TWI 2010
Trying to sum up the best this site has to offer is hard when everything published is so great, but I decided to give
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2010 Financial Market Recap
Before we can think about the future, we must reflect on what happened in the market during 2010 and see if we can pick
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Never Buy Another Stock Again Book Review
When it comes to investing money many people believe that the stock market is the only way you can really see substantial returns, but
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Time To Load Up On JA Solar (JASO)
The last couple of months haven’t been great for the solar market – JA Solar (JASO) in particular. That being said, right now might
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Why Brazil Is The Next Frontier
It won’t take much research to see why Brazil is all the rage in the investment world and why it will continue to thrive