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Feb 22


The Most Promising Funds Launched in 2011 and Zacks #1 Rank Additions for Monday
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There were a lot of trendy and unproven fund launches in 2011. For the most part, you can simply tune that news out. However, there are always a few promising names worth adding to your watchlist and occasionally even worth buying. The key is to find funds with proven managers and sound strategies so that there's more to go on than just a few months' returns. I'll save you the time of wading through all the flotsam by highlighting a few of the very best.Fidelity Municipal Income FundsAs I wrote last year, Fidelity has launched four defined-maturity muni-bond funds. They "mature" in 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2021. The idea is that duration (a measure of interest-rate sensitivity) will decline as the maturity date nears just like with a bond. Soon after the date of maturity (June 30), the funds will liquidate and the balance will be returned to shareholders. [Read the full article]



Stocks tend to be most volatile around earnings season, when a good or bad report can make or break it. However, a good or even great earnings report doesn't necessarily translate into a huge pop for a stock.During earnings season, BullMarket.com publishes a comprehensive 20- to 30-page Earnings Preview report for the week ahead each Friday.Over the past year, BullMarket.com used the data it has collected to correctly predict investor reactions for approximately two-third of the stocks it's previewed.In its latest earnings preview, BullMarket.com looks at several popular stocks, including Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News), Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX - News), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT - News), Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX - News), EMC (NYSE: EMC - News), Coach (NYSE: COH - News), Sandisk (Nasdaq: SNDK - News), and Potash Corp. [Read the full article]
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