If you paid close attention during last week’s presidential debate, then you may have been tipped on a big investment opportunity and not even realized it.#-ad_banner-# I’m talking about Governor Mitt Romney’s barb about government-subsidized corporations, when he told President Barack Obama that the government doesn’t pick… Read More

Have you bought a personal computer lately? Probably not, and neither have your friends. Technology research consultancy Gartner Group just released a report showing an 8.3% year-over-year drop in global PC sales in September, the worst annualized drop in recent memory. And things are likely to get even worse in… Read More

During the past five months, natural gas has been on a tear… Yet nobody has seemed to have notice. Earlier this year, due to a warm winter and above average inventory levels, natural gas prices fell to as low $1.90 per thousand… Read More

This is what opportunity in the commodities market looks like…#-ad_banner-# Right now, you can buy one of the most important metals of the 21st century at a fire sale price… simply because no one is paying attention. Read More

A market disconnect can be a powerful — and profitable — force.#-ad_banner-# Remember the gold rush of 2009? I’m not talking about the yellow metal. After all, gold prices rose “only” about 40% in the 12… Read More

Today, I would like to take a look at a typical trade setup that the average retail investor tends to shy away from but the professional trader salivates over. The company is called Cobalt International Energy (NYSE: CIE) and is focused on oil… Read More

Last week, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) announced a far steeper-than-expected drop in 2013 profit, which sent the stock to a nine-year low. You may be asking yourself whether a company that was founded in 1939 and is expected to report more than $100 billion in… Read More

Wall Street analysts aren’t known for their boldness. They tend to analyze and value companies on the basis of what lies ahead in the next month or quarter, refusing to predict where a company — and its stock — may be headed in… Read More

Warren Buffett made billions with his trusted buy-and-hold model. But in the past 12 years, with investors battling abnormal amounts of volatility and getting burned in the dot-com bubble of 2000, the 9/11 attacks, the housing crash of 2006, the financial crisis of 2008 and the U.S. credit rating downgrade in 2011, many investors have chosen to abandon the buy-and-hold strategy to stay more nimble. Take a look at the… Read More

Warren Buffett made billions with his trusted buy-and-hold model. But in the past 12 years, with investors battling abnormal amounts of volatility and getting burned in the dot-com bubble of 2000, the 9/11 attacks, the housing crash of 2006, the financial crisis of 2008 and the U.S. credit rating downgrade in 2011, many investors have chosen to abandon the buy-and-hold strategy to stay more nimble. Take a look at the chart below for a closer look at how volatility has rocked the market ever since the dot-com implosion of early 2000 — it’s truly remarkable: S&P 500 Monthly Chart 1950-2012 This volatility trend has driven the growing popularity of technical indicators designed to help investors decide when to buy and sell stocks. Unlike fundamental analysis, which uses earnings, dividends and valuation, technical analysis… Read More

Income investors can find attractive high-yields in the pharmaceutical sector right now. Many major drug makers, including familiar names like Merck (NYSE: MRK), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) and Bristol Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), are yielding close to 4% or better. But with so many stocks in this segment, deciding… Read More