I subscribe to the Motley Fool Income Investor newsletter, and PetroBras, a Brazilian oil company, was recommended twice this year. I mainly bought on that recommendation, and it has turned out to be an outstanding recommendation. I bought at $52.83 at the back end of August, and the shares now stand at $106.71, having doubled [...]

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I recently came across this article on “Seeking Alpha” about “Peer-to-Peer” investing (Covestor and VesTopia: Winners and Losers from Peer to Peer Investing - Seeking Alpha). I thought it sounded quite interesting and decided to have a go at signing up and I am now a “certified member” (I am soo important :-).

Covestor is “A [...]

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