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    Beware Falling Profit Estimates

    By Jack Hough

    This market is more richly valued than you think, but opportunities still exist. Five stocks that look attractive, three to avoid.

  • Feature | Reshma Kapadia

    International Speedway Is Off to the Races

    Nascar's races may be unpredictable, but International Speedway will get a predictable boost from the racing group's latest broadcasting deals. Investors, start your engines.

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    Up and Down Wall Street

    Ben's Ultimate Driving Machine

    By RANDALL W. FORSYTH

    The possibility of less quantitative easing sends the market off the high road.

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    China's Pain Is Kenya's Gain

    By JONATHAN R. LAING

    Stratfor's George Friedman contends that China will be replaced as the world's low-cost producer. Its successors will emerge in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Samsung and Microsoft move into Ethiopia.

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    The Trader

    Stocks Slide on Fed Speculation, Weak Retail

    By AVI SALZMAN

    The Dow had its worst week in 14 months, after Wal-Mart, Kohl's, Macy's, and Cisco reported weak results. Airline stocks crashed on news the merger between AMR and US Airways may be blocked. But Alaska Air is still flying high.

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    A Terrific Story of Its Own

    By SANDRA WARD

    Grupo Televisa, a global power in Spanish-language TV melodramas, offers a lot to investors, including a big stake in Univision.

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    Sizing Up Small Caps

    It's Time to Take Profits on This Pair

    By DAVID ENGLANDER

    After hefty gains, neither FXCM nor Live Nation Entertainment looks inexpensive anymore.

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    A Top Advisor Blows the Whistle on the Game

    By ALEXANDER EULE

    Convergent Wealth's Steve Lockshin talks to Barron's about conflicts of interest, estate planning, and promising investments.

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    Fund of Information

    Mutual Funds Use ETFs as a Shortcut

    By STEVE GARMHAUSEN

    ETFs have become increasingly popular with all sorts of investors—including mutual fund managers. More than 100 mutual funds have 80% of their assets in ETFs, which are cheaper and more efficient to trade. So why are the mutual funds that invest in them more expensive?

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    The Return of the 5% Muni Bond

    By ANDREW BARY

    The recent selloff in the bond market has left municipal bonds at strikingly attractive levels. How to find yields equivalent to 8% on taxable bond.

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    ETF Focus

    Inverse ETFs in the Hot Seat

    By BRENDAN CONWAY

    Leveraged ETFs have a bad rap—as they should. But while they could be disastrous for your portfolio, they probably won't damage the health of the market. Probably.

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    A Growth Manager Looks for Value

    By J.R. BRANDSTRADER

    Aziz Hamzaogullari has turned the ailing Loomis Sayles Growth fund around, A key: looking for growth amid big discounts to intrinsic value.

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    How to Buy Dollar Bills for 50 Cents

    By ANDREW BARY

    Interview with Mark Boyar, the founder of Boyar Asset Management, which manages $200 million, including a small mutual fund, Boyar Value. He sees value in Weight Watchers, Bank of New York, and Molson Coors.

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    Electronic Investor

    Big Data of Your Own

    By MIKE HOGAN

    A Website is using big-data analytics to automate financial research on a remarkable 45,000 public companies worldwide.

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    Other Voices
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    Don't Ignore the Greek Problem

    By WILLIAM THAYER

    The ECB has put off a euro-zone crisis by printing bailout and bond money as fast as it can.The final cost: higher interest rates and tanking bonds.

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  • Tech Trader Daily
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    Intel May Speed Debut of Better Phone, Tablet Chips

    By TIERNAN RAY

    A brawnier, more efficient Atom microprocessor could boost the company's long-term outlook.

  • Economic Beat
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    A New Strategy for Improving Economic Growth

    By GENE EPSTEIN

    The Bureau of Economic Analysis upwardly revised U.S. GDP dating back to 1929. But the step did nothing to revise away the current weakness.

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    Summer Break

    By KOPIN TAN

    Our infatuation with U.S. stocks was too hot to go on indefinitely. But the S&P;'s slip this month is more of a blip than a breakup. Also: head winds for emerging-market nations.

  • The Striking Price
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    The MasterCard Trade

    By STEVEN M. SEARS

    Why it could pay to buy calls on the card giant in advance of its analyst day on Sept. 11.

Wall Street's Best Minds

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    Get Ready for Economic Pick-Up

    A surge in American wealth should boost consumer spending and propel stocks over the long run, writes JPMorgan's David Kelly.

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    Beware Falling Profit Estimates

    By JACK HOUGH

    This market is more richly valued than you think, but opportunities still exist. Five stocks that look attractive, three to avoid.

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