Dear Mr. Berko: I trusted you. In July of last year, you recommended in an email to me that I invest in Tronc at $15.75 because it was going to be bought out by Gannett. I believed you and bought ...

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Dear Mr. Berko: My spouse and I are both 55 and have $15,000 we’d like to invest for at least 12 years. Would you recommend two stocks that we can buy, hold — reinvesting the dividends — and put away ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: I’m 77. I have an $86,000 certificate of deposit that came due, from which I need more income. CDs, which used to give me good income, don’t work anymore. I must have at least $435 more a ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: I will soon retire with a good company pension, and my wife is a retired master sergeant with a comfortable payout from the Air Force. We have little debt, and the kids are on their own. We ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: My wife and I are 56, and together, our two individual retirement accounts, which own the same stocks, are worth $146,000. Why was AT&T taken out of the Dow Jones industrial average? Our broker of nine years ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: In late 2010, three of us did some research and recommended our investment club buy 200 shares of Medivation at $19. We did, and in September 2012, it went to $100 a share and split 2-for-1. Now ...

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DEAR READERS: This is an email to my 18-year-old grandson’s question about AT&T, four technology stocks and 3-D printers. DEAR JOSHUA: In April of last year, I recommended seven 3-D stocks, which began to sizzle and then months later took ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: I have a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s in sociology. I teach at a public school and made $39,000 last year. My wife also has a college degree. She is a waitress at a nice ...

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DEAR MR. BERKO: I’m a student in my senior year at the University of North Carolina, where I read your column. Looking at the latest numbers issued by the Federal Reserve, I can’t figure out whether unemployment is rising or ...

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I want to make a gift to Morning Star Development, an evangelical missionary organization that sends laypeople, doctors, nurses and teachers to Afghanistan to provide schooling, irrigation projects, medical care and nursing care to the poor people who live in the mountain villages. I have three stocks, each worth about $6,000, and want to contribute one of these three for the organization to sell and use the proceeds for its good work.

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