Wall Street just breathed a huge sigh of relief. With a deal averting the fiscal cliff in hand, the bulls have been out in force, sending the S&P 500 to its biggest two-day rally since 1973. Although resolution of the fiscal cliff has… Read More

It’s over.  Gov. Mitt Romney did not win the presidential election. A majority of Americans, in the final accounting, chose to support another political vision.  Time will tell how that turns out.  I don’t… Read More

Tech stocks have been on a remarkable run, at least as measured by the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index. The Nasdaq rose a heady 46% in 2009, and another 26% in 2010, a more modest… Read More

Sometimes, the best stock-picking strategies are the simplest ones. The “Dogs of the Dow“ theory is certainly simple enough, yet amazingly, this aging strategy still has some proven merit. What it is The Dogs of the Dow theory is now… Read More

Some of the world’s best investors are betting that the U.S. housing rebound will continue in 2013. John Paulson, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, made a fortune betting on the collapse of the housing market in 2008. Yet… Read More

The 157 pages of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 will never be a best-seller. But for income investors, it was welcome news. Here are some of the highlights…… Read More

Without these technology metals, it would be near impossible to build electric cars, iPads, smartphones, wind turbines, lasers and other essential pieces of technology. Read about rare Earth elements and see how important they are to our modern world, and what China’s near… Read More

“Let your winners ride.” It’s a favorite maxim among gamblers, and also applies to a top-performing casino stock. Recently announced monthly revenue figures from the world’s newest gambling mecca… Read More

For the past two months, if you asked most investors what they feared most, then they would have said the fiscal cliff. And why wouldn’t they? Income tax rates for all Americans were scheduled to rise. The maximum qualified dividend rate of 15% was set to expire and revert back… Read More

New gas technology such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling have changed the complexion of natural gas in North America. Natural gas reserves in the United States have doubled since 2000, and as a result gas prices reached a low in April 2012 below $2 per mcf. This infographic… Read More