When it comes to biotech stocks, some investors like to swing for the fences. When that plan works, it feels great. Shareholders of Dendreon (Nasdaq: DNDN), for example, saw their investment rise from $3 in March 2009 to more than $20 in just two months. The stock has doubled again… Read More

In 1999, James Glassman and Kevin Hassett grabbed headlines with their book Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market. Their timing was impeccably bad. The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked later that year at 11,900 and didn’t see the same levels again… Read More

In the last few years, we’ve seen the demise of such retailers as Bombay, Linen & Things and Circuit City. These firms were ill-equipped to handle the duel pressures of a slowing economy and the rising pressure of Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and other retailers. And… Read More

It’s never prudent to cause undue alarm. This is why European policy makers continue to speak of tactics and strategies to help Greece avoid any economic meltdown that would lead to bond defaults and a departure from the euro. To speak publicly of these… Read More

Imagine a restaurant that is so unclean, health inspectors wouldn’t allow it to reside in the same shopping center as other eateries. Well, this is just what investors have found when searching for stocks listed in the “Pink Sheets.” These stocks aren’t allowed anywhere… Read More

If the past decade was one for the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), then is this the decade of the CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa)? That was a notion I explored last summer in this article. Now, it’s time to take a… Read More

If you want to gauge the current interest in initial public offerings (IPOs), then you simply need to look at the stock chart of social media firm LinkedIn (Nasdaq: LNKD). Right now, its stock is scorching hot, as investors seek out business models that possess robust growth prospects. Judging… Read More

Earnings growth is slowing across many industries. Companies are struggling since there aren’t many costs left to cut, and the clear headwinds of a still-weak economy persist. Yet for a select group of companies, business is booming. These companies are on track to… Read More

I’ve heard an oft-repeated sentiment from colleagues throughout my two decade investment career: “If it’s not timely, it’s not worth my time.” I love that. While many of these folks are buying and selling stocks they think will make an imminent move, they are ignoring the vast universe of stocks… Read More

Momentum investing can lead to powerful gains. That’s why some investors suggest you should always “let your winners ride,” presumably to even higher prices. This was my logic when I recommended shares of Crocs (Nasdaq: CROX) last August.   The footwear… Read More