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Car Chase:
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Rumors: Akron Starbucks Closing
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Jack is looking for a trip to Southern Ohio the week of November 16.
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Personal Rant – Why People Do Not Live in Northeast Ohio
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Video: 'Modern Warfare 2' hits the streets
Published on Tuesday, Aug 05, 2008
From Whitney Tilsen and John Heins, contributing editors at Kiplinger's magazine, here are four tips to become a better investor:
• Invest in businesses, not in stock. Focus on business fundamentals behind the stock price. Research a company's strengths and weaknesses, its competitive abilities and how it might grow in 10 years.
• Don't go outside your comfort zone. Invest in what you know.
• Go against the grain. Being a successful investor requires a certain degree of independent thinking. What the consensus thinks about a company is often already baked into the stock price.
• Don't be afraid to do nothing. Many investors feel tempted to continually reconfigure their portfolio. This gives them the false sense that they are in control. But all that tinkering often leads to losses. Once you decide on buying a stock, you should hold it for at least several years, or until the market's optimism becomes too excessive.
From Whitney Tilsen and John Heins, contributing editors at Kiplinger's magazine, here are four tips to become a better investor:
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