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The Motley Fool November 30, 2007 Sham Gad	The Secret to Great Value Investments: Part 2 An asset's financial value is what the next buyer is willing to pay for it. Value investors approach the stock market the same way, seeking investments that are selling at a discount to intrinsic value and are embedded within a catalyst that will unlock this value over time.
The Motley Fool October 22, 2007 Sham Gad	True Investors Welcome Volatility Investors, use the market to your advantage.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2007 Sham Gad	Invest in Special Situations Value investors have more than one way to take advantage of bargains. They also have special situations securities, sometimes called "workouts," whose performance is not directly tied to any market environment. Can they work for you?
The Motley Fool January 11, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bank of America Cuddles up to Countrywide After one of the most volatile weeks Countrywide's stock has ever had, Bank of America agrees to purchase it for around $4 billion, or around 90% less than its 52-week high.
The Motley Fool December 13, 2005	Arbitrage Demystified You may be dabbling in arbitrage if you're busy on eBay. In investing terms, arbitrage is the practice of profiting from short-term differences in price.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2008 Morgan Housel	Rumors Send Countrywide to the Chopping Block After shedding about 80% of its value in 2007, Countrywide Financial falls another 25% when rumors of imminent bankruptcy spread.
The Motley Fool June 5, 2007 Tim Beyers	A Dow Jones Bidding War? Shares of the media company surged nearly 15% on news that the Bancrofts would meet with News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch to discuss a potential sale. News Corp. offered $5 billion, or $60 a share, for Dow Jones last month, which the board initially rejected.
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The Motley Fool November 6, 2007 Sham Gad	The Numbers Don't Lie Among the reasons Warren Buffett may be the greatest investor of all time: he has never had a down year... he has never hidden his strategy... and he has remained largely unleveraged...
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The Motley Fool August 29, 2007 Sham Gad	The Intelligent Investor's Tool Set Using the right search tools is critical to creating a solid investment search strategy. Read on for a few excellent stock screening sites to get you started.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 Sham Gad	Value Investors Only Care About Bear Markets How you perform in bear markets is what counts.
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The Motley Fool July 3, 2007 Richard Gibbons	An Excellent Opportunity for Small Investors What would Buffett do if he had a portfolio the size of yours? Being a small investor can be advantageous. You can buy into deals that are too small for professional arbitrageurs to enter.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2007 Richard Gibbons	Buffett's Subprime Bets Buffett clearly believes that this subprime mess is providing the opportunity to purchase quality businesses at cheap prices. You'll do well if you stay alert for the same opportunities.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Sham Gad	The Art of Selling High You can buy low, but if you don't know the fair value of a company, and when to sell, your success will hinge on luck.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Profit From Arbitrage Sometimes you don't have to hit a home run to make money in the markets.
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The Motley Fool March 18, 2008 Sham Gad	Use Your Imagination and Make Money To choose the best stocks, imagine there's no market. Read on to see what we mean.
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The Motley Fool December 15, 2008 Rich Duprey	It Ain't Espionage, but Arbitrage Can Be Risky It's not easy to play the merger arbitrage game and win. When it works, you can make a tidy profit, but finding the right levers to pull hasn't been a simple task.
Investment Advisor October 2009 James J. Green	Danger & Opportunity: He's Got the Momentum Cliff Asness, a hedge fund manager who caters to institutions, is a true believer in momentum investing.
The Motley Fool January 7, 2008 Sham Gad	Luck, or Skill? The truth is that investment skill will always lead to certain moments of luck, but in the long term, luck simply can not last long enough to produce a consistent, profitable result.
BusinessWeek July 30, 2007 Lowry et al.	If Dow Jones Says No Thanks Here's what might happen to the stock if Murdoch takes his $5 billion off the table.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Bill Mann	Is Buffett Talking Up His Own Book? Reflecting on columnist David Weidner's article about Warren Buffett on Marketwatch.com.
InternetNews May 1, 2007	News Corp. Bids $5B on Dow Jones Empire Dow Jones issued a statement today that confirmed that it had received an unsolicited proposal from News Corp. to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Dow Jones common stock and Class B common stock.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2008 Selena Maranjian	What's Your Share? Here's a new way to look at a company as a possible investment: How much of the CEO's salary are you paying?
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The Motley Fool May 19, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Is This 14.4% Annualized Return Risk-Free? A merger arbitrage that looks relatively low-risk.
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The Motley Fool December 13, 2007 Sham Gad	One Way to Naturally Hedge Your Portfolio Follow the 10% rule to keep your portfolio safer from risk.
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Information Today August 6, 2007 Paula J. Hane	News Corp. (Finally) Wins Its Bid for Dow Jones Dow Jones & Co. and News Corp. announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement under which News Corp. will acquire Dow Jones.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005 David A. Twibell	On Neutral Ground Interest in market-neutral strategies exploded during the bear market, and the funds have sustained their popularity through the market's comeback.
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The Motley Fool December 28, 2007 Sham Gad	Overcome Your Losses You can take steps to overcome your losses and avoid some in the future. With this market year nearly over, let's look ahead to see how you can improve your 2008.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2008 Morgan Housel	Countrywide Falls Off the Cliff What a difference a year can make. The embattled mortgage lender has announced a fourth-quarter loss of $422 million, compared with a gain of $622 million for the same period last year.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu	Buy It Like Buffett Make a list of companies you'd love to own for the long term and the prices you'd love to pay. When one of your favorite companies goes on sale, you can revisit your list, ensure your investing thesis is still intact, and bend it like Buffett.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2011 Travis Hoium	Bank of America Shares Exploded Higher: What You Need to Know Shares of troubled Bank of America charged as much as 26% higher today before cooling off to a 10% gain on word of an investment in the company by Warren Buffett.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Sham Gad	Why We Invest Considering the behavior of many market participants, you would think people were trying to lose money. Don't let yourself be one of them.
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The Motley Fool August 9, 2006 Bill Barker	The Optimistic Prediction of Warren Buffett Now might be a great time to get into the market. But, as is always the case -- and certainly as the past seven years have reminded us -- we approach this as long-term investors.
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