Dear Mr. Berko: In 2009, we took a huge gamble and bought 4,000 shares of Genworth at $1.95 a share, and it’s now $4.50. We should have sold this stock when it was in the teens but didn’t because a ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: I recently bought $10,000 of Tesla stock, and I hope I didn’t make a mistake, because it doesn’t pay a dividend. I also intend to buy some of Tesla’s 5.375 percent bonds, which are due in 2025. ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: I’ve lost money buying several stocks in the robotics industry. It seems that they go up when I don’t buy them and go down when I do. I bought Intuitive Surgical shares at $398, and a month ...

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Dear Readers: Last week, I gave you some of Ossie Ollum’s recommendations for low-priced stocks and promised to give you more this week. But for some reason, he wasn’t confident about his other picks. However, many readers are interested in ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: Could you please tell us what you think the stock market will do once this tax bill is in effect? All the people I know say that these tax cuts and changes are bearish and that the ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: I’m writing for a 46-year-old friend of mine who escaped Cuba and came to the U.S. in 1981. I told him to write to you, and he did so in Spanish (he doesn’t speak English) to ask ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: After 33 years, my wife and I sold our business to our longtime partners. We’re both 66, and we have a little over $3.2 million to invest after taxes. We’re debt-free, healthy and active, and our children ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: If I knew when insiders — for example, officers and directors or Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn — made their purchases, I could do the same and increase my chances of making money. Could you give me ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: I’m a 42-year-old female professional administrator, and I invest for long-term growth. In 2011, I bought 200 shares of LKQ Corp., which sells auto and truck replacement parts, at $23, and a year later, it split 2-for-1. ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: One of the men I admire is Claes Fornell, who developed the American Customer Satisfaction Index, or ASCI, and also manages an exchange-traded fund by that name. He purchases companies for his ETF that have the highest ...

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