A few weeks ago, I told you about the enormous number of high-yielding stocks abroad. If you remember, my research team and I found only 18 profitable U.S. companies were paying yields of more than 12%… compared with 412 overseas. Although the numbers fluctuate daily, this means… Read More

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on our sister website, InvestingAnswers.com. Back in early June, the CEO of GM (NYSE: GM) suggested the United States should hike gasoline taxes by $1 a gallon. Predictably, conservatives and… Read More

While many investors moved to the sidelines in August and September, the market slide was no deterrent to officers and directors at many companies. Insider-buying was robust throughout the period and continues at high levels now that… Read More

If you’ve read the headlines lately, then you probably know that the future for “green” energy isn’t looking too bright these days. The Solyndra scandal, in which the U.S. government loaned $500 million of stimulus money to the solar-panel firm — which later went belly-up — has… Read More

“Stick your neck out and it will get chopped.” That notion is widely known among Wall Street analysts. They realize it’s a lot safer to keep your earnings and target prices in line with the hoard of other analysts. If you… Read More

It’s going to touch everything. It will make a difference in what we eat, where we travel, how we heat and cool our homes, even how much we save and spend. Actually, these sorts of changes are already taking place. But over the next… Read More

Short sellers face two major risks when they bet against stocks, hoping they’ll sharply decline. First, their research needs to be right on the mark, correctly predicting negative future events will come to pass. Second, they hope and pray the broader market doesn’t rise… Read More

It’s no big secret how most stocks have been devalued during the past three months. Debt worries in Europe, combined with sluggish economic data in the United States (including a pesky unemployment rate above 9%) have had investors heading for the exit. Read More

I’ll bet you can name most of the world’s top 10 economies. Most of them, such as the U.S. economy, the Japanese economy and the British economy have long been global powerhouses, yet their days of peak growth have likely passed. Only two of… Read More