Week of October 3

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    Liberty Media: Better Than Berkshire

    By Andrew Bary

    Led by cable mogul John Malone and CEO Greg Maffei, the nine stocks under the Liberty Media umbrella have delivered, in the aggregate, an annualized 13% over the past decade, compared with 7.5% for Bufftet’s Berkshire Hathaway and 7.7% for the S&P 500.

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    Barron’s Asia Roundtable: What’s Next for the Region

    By ROBERT GUY

    Four market pros share their outlook for Asia and their best investment picks. Bullish on India.

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    Broadcom Could Rise 20%

    By JACK HOUGH

    Broadcom chips are doing more to power the iPhone, and could play an even bigger role with next year’s release of iPhone 8.

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    At AMC Entertainment, It’s Lights, Camera, Profit

    By DAVID ENGLANDER

    The movie-theater operator is launching new initiatives that could boost ticket sales and earnings.

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    Davenport Value & Income’s Strategy

    By JACK WILLOUGHBY

    Michael Beall has posted strong returns by investing in value stocks with the power to raise dividends.

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    A New Constitutional Convention

    By THOMAS G. DONLAN

    A movement aims to undo past “Progressive” policies with a general reconsideration of the Constitution.

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    Letter From the Editor
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    Happy Birthday, Barron’s Asia

    EDITOR AND PRESIDENT EDWIN A. FINN JR.

    We celebrate the second anniversary of Barron’s Asia’s launch with a comprehensive investment roundtable surveying local markets.

Market Week

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    Stocks Edge Up on Deutsche Bank Relief

    By LAWRENCE C. STRAUSS

    The market finished an up-and-down week on a positive note, helped by a strong showing from energy stocks.

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    What Not to Buy

    By BILL ALPERT

    Off Wall Street Research analyst Mark Roberts has flagged many stocks not worth buying.

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    Merger or Not, CBS Shares Are Attractive

    By JACK HOUGH

    If CBS and Viacom strike a deal, CBS chief Les Moonves will have an outsize say over the terms.

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    RWE’s Prospects Brighten With Innogy Spinoff

    By JONATHAN BUCK

    The German utility has struggled with weak energy pricing and a bill to decommission nuclear plants. Its answer: Break the company in two.

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    Tax Amnesty’s Limited Benefits for Indonesia Bank

    By SHULI REN

    State-owned Bank Mandiri is a designated gateway for funds returning to Indonesia. But the benefit may be small and its problems look large.

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    2016 Returns: Brazil Jumps, Greece Falls

    By DIMITRA DEFOTIS

    Through the first three quarters, Latin stocks have soared while Greek and Chinese shares have fallen.

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    High-Yielding BDCs Could Rise With Interest Rates

    By AMEY STONE

    Investors should look at business development companies, publicly traded firms that buy loans.

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    A Guide to Hedging Election Outcomes

    By STEVE SOSNICK

    Need to protect yourself against, say, a Trump victory? Take out an insurance policy of options.

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    Butter Is Starting to Melt

    A surge in U.S. demand has produced an oversupply. Prices are likely to fall further.

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    The Danger From Deutsche Bank

    By RANDALL W. FORSYTH

    By roiling the markets, it and other European financial institutions could jack rates, hurting the global economy.

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    Health-Care Stocks: Less Defensive Than Before

    By BEN LEVISOHN

    The group has become riskier, but some of its members, including Johnson & Johnson, Amgen, Medtronic, Allergan,and Lilly, are still worth a look.

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    How Alphabet and Facebook Could Lose Out in Online Ads

    By TIERNAN RAY

    As dominant as they are today, Alphabet and Facebook could lose out to new ways of delivering advertising.

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    Why “Clone” Funds Won’t Go Extinct

    By LEWIS BRAHAM

    Managers’ drive to gather assets means successors to closed funds will keep popping up even if they hurt returns.

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    ETF Focus
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    How to Play the Next Biotech M&A Surge

    It’s a good time for investors to consider biotech ETFs that hold smaller drugmakers.

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    4 Telecom Stocks That Offer Tempting Yields

    By LAWRENCE C. STRAUSS

    Most of these stocks remain quite cheap, but investors need to approach them carefully. The problem: growth challenges.

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    Balancing the Books
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    The U.S. Mess in the Greater Middle East

    Edited by GENE EPSTEIN

    Andrew Bacevich writes a riveting history of U.S. military misadventures in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Also, a meditation on mortality’s benefits.

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    No Debating Candidates’ Economic Illiteracy

    By GENE EPSTEIN

    Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump misstated realities in the first of their televised face-offs.

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