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The article discusses Barron's, a periodical, fifth annual assessment of income-producing investments which includes in the U.S., municipals bond, real estate investment trusts, and electric utilities and in European blue chips and suggests to avoid telecoms and master limited partnerships in U.S.

The article offers advice on buying bonds as investments, and discusses the performances of Treasury yields and municipal stocks following the election of U.S. President elect Donald Trump.

The article discusses the impact of the President-elect of the U.S. Donald J. Trump's victory on the U.S. business enterprises, informing that the Trump's decisions on less corporate taxes, spending on infrastructure, and less laws will be tough for real estate investment trusts (ETFs).

The article focuses on the benefit of individual investors to buy Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) as they have become cheap, and talks of potential REITs, which includes Equity Residential, Macerich, and Simon Property Group; chart on REIT stocks; and impact of decreasing popularity of malls.

The article discusses the expected increase in high-yield bonds and high-dividend stocks in 2016 and its impact on master limited partnership (MLP). It mentions the impact of interest rates in the growth of stock and bond markets. It also mentions the growth in range of investments in 2016 including junk bonds, real estate investment trusts and utility stocks.

The article discusses how Warren Buffett has positioned Berkshire Hathaway for continued success even after he steps down. Topics covered include how Buffett continues to look for what he considers elephant-sized acquisitions that could reach 35 billion U.S. dollars or more, how Berskshire has historically been valued based on book value, and how Berkshire's after-tax operating earnings are projected to rise by 11,924 U.S. dollars per share in 2015.

The article discusses U.S. municipal bond market status and activity as of November 2014. Topics explored include the recorded strength of general-obligation (GO) bonds and state-supported debt, the outlook issued by Janney Capital Markets analyst Tom Kozlik for state credit quality, and the credit rankings of GO bonds issued by U.S. states including North Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

The article focuses on the shares of South Korean multinational conglomerate company Samsung, which is considered to be the world's cheapest mega-cap stock, but of late was very much out of favor with investors. Topics covered include a forecast by some analysts the company's share could gain 50% after being down 19% in 2014, the impact of the declining profits of the firms mobile business on its overall earnings, and initial public offerings (IPO) being planned by the company.

The article talks about the opportunities offered by the electric utilities sector by a recent $5.6 billion deal by Berkshire fund company for NV Energy (NVE), a Nevada electric company

The article features the periodical's annual list of 30 world's best chief executive officers (CEO) for 2012. New to the list are Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, Jeffrey Boyd of Priceline.com, Ed Clark of TD Bank and Lew Frankfort of Coach. Among the returning CEOs are Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Carlos Brito of Anheuser-Busch Inbev and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway. Those off the list include Warren East of ARM Holdings, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Reed Hastings of Netflix.

The article offers information on several stocks that could reward investors with 15 percent to 20 percent total returns in 2012. These include stocks of holding company Berkshire Hathaway, consumer products manufacturer Procter & Gamble, life insurer MetLife, cable provider Comcast, and oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell.