Turn on the news anytime or read a newspaper online, and you’ll probably see at least one article talking about the pending fiscal cliff and the looming consequences on the U.S. economy. But there’s something that can have a far worse… Read More

They’re low-risk, liquid investments that, upon purchase, do Uncle Sam a favor… What are these mystery tools, and what surprises do they hold?#-ad_banner-# They’re Treasury securities, or Treasuries, as they’re commonly called. Treasuries… Read More

Too often, income investors are forced to choose between dividend yields and growth. Fast-growing companies rarely pay dividends, since they need their cash for business expansion. Those with generous yields are usually either mature, out-of-favor companies or slow-growth utilities and telecoms. For… Read More

Wall Street analysts, along with the financial media, will soon scour the landscape and make bold predictions about which stocks will have the biggest upside during the next 12 months. Frankly, such bold calls hinge on the state of the U.S. Read More

Commodities are markets that many individual traders have ignored in the past. They have been traded with futures contracts in a market that is in some ways riskier than stock markets. Futures can have unlimited financial risk… Read More

We’re in a new era. I call it the era of scarcity. Around the world, literally billions of people are all fighting for the same limited resources. Once you burn a barrel of oil or a ton of coal, it’s gone forever. Demand… Read More

I’m going to do something I thought I’d never do — recommend an airline stock. Like many investors, I’ve never liked airline stocks because they’re ridiculously volatile and notoriously easy to lose money on. Take the nation’s fifth largest airline, U.S. Airways Group (NYSE: LCC). U.S. Airways has gone bankrupt… Read More

Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn is a true American success story.  Starting with just $900,000 in 1996, he has grown the assets of his fund, Greenlight Capital, to more than $6 billion. The fund has earned an average return of 22% since its launch, thanks to Einhorn’s prescient long and short… Read More

A great deal of attention has been paid to the “looming fiscal cliff” in recent months, and now it’s time to broaden your scope and track a series of key economic data points that might really spell out which kind of stock… Read More

Stocks started this week off strong, with the major averages surging nearly across the board. The gains in the market also included stocks in the tech sector, which haven’t kept pace with the broader market in recent weeks. Yet one subsector… Read More