Top stocks the largest hedge funds are buying

A cheat sheet on where the pros see new opportunity, plus other must-reads from wealth manager and CNBC commentator Josh Brown
NOV 15, 2013
Each week I read all of the important stories affecting your business and investments. Below is the weekly catch-up, curated just for you: Here are all the stocks being bought and sold by the world's largest hedge funds this quarter. (Zero Hedge) The WSJ cover story that spooked the pros this week: Stocks Regain Broad Appeal (Wall Street Journal) Investing advice for the average investor from one of history's most above-average investors - Ray Dalio says chill out. (MarketWatch) All of a sudden the aging hippies and fashionable yuppies are all smoking marijuana out of vaporizers. And they said the future meant flying cars. (New York Post) George Clooney's Rules for Living. I mean, if you're going to be taking life advice from someone... (Esquire) Joshua Morgan Brown is a New York City-based wealth manager and popular financial commentator on CNBC. You can follow his writing at The Reformed Broker blog and his random outbursts on Twitter @reformedbroker.

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