Declaring bankruptcy has one clear benefit. It allows management to restructure a business without worrying about near-term debts coming due. Airline carrier AMR, for example, is fixing the holes in its business and aims to exit bankruptcy in a financially and operationally… Read More

More than 76 years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was signed into law. As the linchpin of the New Deal, the Social Security program was implemented in order to limit the hazards of old age, poverty, unemployment and disability.  Now, about… Read More

Third-quarter earnings season was an unmitigated disaster. With the economy stumbling along due to weakness in Europe and China, and margins reaching a multi-year cyclical high, more than a few companies disappointed the Street with… Read More

Stocks were mostly lower last week but rose Friday, Nov. 16, when U.S. political leaders expressed optimism that a deal to avert the fiscal cliff is possible. Trend may be determined by answer to ‘What If…?’ What if the tax increases and spending cuts associated with the fiscal cliff are… Read More

If you followed the recent presidential debates, you may have heard presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, attack the luxury electric car maker, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA), calling the company a “loser.” #-ad_banner-#On the heels of President Barack Obama’s re-election, the comment seems ironic. Not only did Tesla recently report upbeat third-quarter… Read More

Here’s the question I asked all of our strategists recently: What’s the single stock you would buy now if you knew that the next thousand trading days would turn out to be a wash for the broader… Read More

Score one for the “Dogs.” A look at the 2012 performance of the “Dogs of the Dow,” which are the 10 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) with the highest… Read More

Billionaire investor Jim Rogers may be most famous for calling the bottom of the commodities market and buying in 1999, just before it surged 22% during the following three years while the S&P 500 lost almost 40% in the same period. But… Read More

Stock prices, as measured by the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) have fallen about 8% in the past two months. Traditional technical indicators now say that SPY and other stock market index exchanged-traded funds (… Read More

Short-term trading can be profitable, but can also require a great deal of time to find trades and then execute them in fast-moving markets. Because of those challenges, I also look at long-term trading opportunities, hoping to find positions that can be held for six months or more. To do… Read More