Trade Like Bill and Hillary Clinton

Stock quotes in this article: YHOO , CSCO , HD , BIIB , WMT , BP , XOM  

Moore Capital owns several stocks the Clintons owned, including Home Depot(HD Quote). This home improvement retailer has a P/E of 14 and a yield of 2.4%. Another stock that Moore Capital and the Clinton blind trust both owned is Yahoo!(YHOO Quote).

The Clinton's largest biotech holding was Biogen Idec(BIIB Quote), a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that develops oncology, neurology and immunology therapies. During the last two years, the stock has increased by more than 42%. This stock made a recent list of Stockpickr's Top 10 Insider Purchases and Buybacks because of its recently announced $3 billion buyback.

The Clintons -- or at least their advisors -- may have liked this share-buyback strategy because this portfolio also lists Wal-Mart(WMT Quote) -- due to its $15 billion stock buyback program -- a stock that happens to be another one in the Clinton portfolio. The retail behemoth recently announced that it will cut capital spending and pare back its store growth. Wal-Mart also has received several upgrades lately and may be starting to shed some of the doom and gloom surrounding its stock.

For the rest of the 25 stocks the Clintons liquidated from their blind trust, check out the Bill and Hillary Clinton portfolio on Stockpickr.com.

To find out the stock holdings of the presidential hopefuls and other politicians, check out these portfolios:



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At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.

James Altucher is president of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs several quantitative-based hedge funds as well as a fund of hedge funds. He is also the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund and Trade Like Warren Buffett. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks. Altucher appreciates your feedback; click here to send him an email.

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