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Charles Gabriel has 30 years' experience in political forecasting for institutional investors. He left Capitol Hill after serving as a Reagan-era House staffer to join the former Drexel Burnham Lambert, and later starred as Washington research head at Prudential Equity Group. He co-founded Capital Alpha Partners in late 2007.Expand

In addition to election forecasting, budget issues and policy-related investment strategy, he has long translated developments impacting the mortgage, specialty finance and education sectors. A particular specialty is predicting, gauging and contextualizing "political risk" as seen through the eyes of money managers.

Gabriel's "Election Risk Reports" and biennial "Red Stock, Blue Stock" lists have won high regard. He is also an entertaining speaker and frequent guest on business television.Collapse

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Charles Gabriel

 | May 18, 2013 | 1:30 PM EDT

A 2013 deal is looking unlikely, so you might want to consider reining it in by late this year.

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Charles Gabriel

 | May 12, 2013 | 6:00 PM EDT

McGraw Hill could stumble -- temporarily -- on news out of an SEC roundtable next week.

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Charles Gabriel

 | May 3, 2013 | 12:00 PM EDT

Much is riding on Obama's FHFA pick to oversee the former mortgage-financing giants.

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Charles Gabriel

 | Apr 28, 2013 | 5:00 PM EDT

Super regionals might lose; credit cards could profit; and the market may hold on through the summer.

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Charles Gabriel

 | Apr 19, 2013 | 6:06 PM EDT

Three D.C. stories that make you go 'whuh?' 

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Charles Gabriel

 | Apr 10, 2013 | 6:00 PM EDT

Proposal to offset $29 billion costs of four new initiatives for middle class students.

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Charles Gabriel

 | Apr 5, 2013 | 3:00 PM EDT

Six potentially positive spring catalysts.

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Charles Gabriel

 | Apr 1, 2013 | 1:30 PM EDT

Investors have been given a lot to digest in the banking sector in the past month.

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Charles Gabriel

 | Mar 22, 2013 | 2:50 PM EDT

Potential clarifying online-gaming legislation should mean good things for a number of casinos and others in the sector.

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Charles Gabriel

 | Mar 14, 2013 | 1:00 PM EDT

These stocks have become a pure play on housing finance reform.

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Brian Sozzi

 | May 18, 2013 | 6:48 AM EDT
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How to Obliterate an Earnings Call

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Brian Sozzi

 | May 18, 2013 | 6:33 AM EDT
I approach an earnings call as I do eating a lobster: tear it apart and leave nothing for the dogs in the back alley. ...

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