Barron's Picks and Pans: Carnival, Pandora, American Capital And More

• The cover story in this weekend's Barron's offers a look at best income ideas for 2016.
• The prospects for cruise operators, music streamers, business-development companies and more are covered in feature stories as well.
• This issue also includes reasons for art buyers to pay sales taxes, an editorial on the candidacy of Donald Trump and economic New Year's resolutions.

Related Link: 5 "Bold" Predictions For 2016

Feature Stories

Check out cover story "Get Yields Up to 9%" by Andrew Bary to see why junk bonds and high-dividend stocks such as Chevron Corporation CVX are Barron's top picks among 10 income-producing investments.

In "Cruise's Big Three Could Steam to 20% Gains," Jack Hough takes a look at why shares of cruise-ship operators including Carnival Corp CCL are on course to keep rising, buoyed by low fuel costs and booming demand from China.

"Pandora Stock Could Fall 20% or More" by Alexander Eule makes the case that Internet-radio pioneer Pandora Media Inc P could get left behind in the music-streaming business as bigger, better-funded competitors join the game.

Bill Alpert's "A Chance to Invest With Activist Elliott Management" suggests that if a sale or breakup of American Capital Ltd. ACAS results in the payoff activists seek, then other business-development companies could face similar battles.

Chris Hyzy, chief investment officer for Bank of America Global Wealth and Investment Management, is interviewed in "How Stocks Could Grind to 7%-8% Total Returns" by Lawrence C. Strauss. See why high-yield bonds, emerging markets and commodities are now traps.

In Sarah Max's "Fresh Air, Fresh Ideas," managers of the Santa Fe, New Mexico–based Thornburg Global Opportunities fund are profiled. They share how they scour the globe for promising stocks, such as Madrid-based airport operator Aena.

"A Top Advisor Sees a Strong Market in 2016" by Steve Garmhausen features the best advice from Texas-based advisor Jeanie Wyatt, who sees foresees a return to traditional asset classes and double-digit gains for the stock market in 2016. Wyatt also shares some picks.

Increased scrutiny by tax authorities means that art buyers must be more careful about paying sales taxes or risk big penalties, according to Stacy Perman's Penta article "New York Comes Down on Art Collectors." Barron's offers advice.

"King of Whoppers" is an editorial commentary by Thomas G. Donlan that discusses the candidacy of Donald Trump.

In Barron's Asia: "And the Most Attractive Stock Market for 2016 Is…" by Wayne Arnold takes a look at why China is likely to be Asia's best performing stock market next year despite its bleak economic outlook.

Related Link: Chinese Stocks Just Broke A 35-Year Support Line

Columns

Columns in this weekend's Barron's discuss:

• The trouble with China
• The prospects for an oil rebound in 2016
• The prospects for the cloud in 2016
• Two big online brokers revamped
• Why top value funds have suffered
• Economic New Year's resolutions

Disclosure: At the time of this writing, the author had no position in the mentioned equities.

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