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After a shaky start, the vacation rental and room sharing industry is catching fire, with some analysts expecting it to surpass the hotel industry by 2020.

Valuations are already stretched with Expedia buying HomeAway for $3 billion and Airbnb valued at north of $30 billion during its more recent round of funding.

Investors have taken notice, chasing the stocks of three publicly traded companies, which have an indirect exposure to the industry. Like Trip Advisor, which owns FlipKey; Priceline.com, which owns Booking.com;....More>>>

Top 10 Bank Stocks To Watch Right Now

The Federal Reserve raised its target of the federal-funds rate, the interest rate banks charge each other for overnight loans, by a quarter point to a range of 0.75% to 1%, and thats great news for Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) and its shareholders. As a bondholder, owner of insurance companies and an investor in big banks, Berkshire profits from rising interest rates in a number of ways, says David Kass, a professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business who studies Buffett and is a Berkshire investor.

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Thursday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500

Source: ThinkstockJanuary 4, 2018: The S&P 500 closed up 0.4% at 2,723.91. The DJIA closed up 0.6% at 25,073.37. Separately, the Nasdaq was up 0.2% at 7,077.91.

Thursday was yet again another positive day for the broadU.S. markets, with all major exchanges hitting a new record high. What stands out today is that the Dow closed above the 25,000 mark for the first time ever. Crude oil pushed above $60, and continues to push even higher reaching numbers not seen since 2015. The S&P 500 sectors were practically all positive. The best performing sectors were financials and materials,....More>>>

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The railroad business has been tough lately, and companies like CSX (NASDAQ:CSX) have had to deal with the ups and downs of the industrial economy and its impact on shipping volume. Coming into Wednesday’s first-quarter financial report, however, CSX investors were excited about the prospects for a resurgence in the railroad’s growth prospects.

With a new CEO at the helm, CSX’s results were indeed strong. Moreover, the company sees more good things happening in the months to come. Let’s look more closely at CSX to see how it did and what lies ahead for the railroad....More>>>

Hot Safest Stocks To Buy For 2018

Closed-end funds have become popular in recent years as bond yields have dropped precipitously. As a result, income investors have gone further out on the yield curve to find the kind of yields with CEFs they used to enjoy in the days when bonds were offering higher interest payments.

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One of the things my stock advisory newsletter, The Liberty Portfolio, does is find securities that deliver better risk-adjusted returns than you’ll find in the market. This is not an easy task because most investors don’t realize just how much risk they are taking....More>>>