What do Ford (NYSE: F), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) have in common? They’re all in the clutches of short sellers, and they are all up more than 10% in the past month. It’s no coincidence. Heavily-shorted stocks are some of the… Read More

Big Pharma just struck a big blow against its generic competition. Fueled by a string of high-profile drug patent expirations, a wave of new generics has hit the market in the past few years. A… Read More

Among the biggest losers in Tuesday’s early trading are Shuffle Master (Nasdaq: SHFL), Palo Alto Networks (Nasdaq: PANW) and Navidea Biopharma (Nasdaq: NAVB). By the time Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA), Groupon (Nasdaq: GRPN) and Facebook (NYSE: FB) all fell out of bed after much-hyped initial public offerings (IPOs), it was… Read More

Everyone is talking about them… You can’t turn on CNBC or open an issue of The Wall Street Journal without hearing about them. Even Warren Buffett has made the headlines recently because of these “risky”… Read More

I recently wrote about how September is historically the worst month for stocks, and that this September, there are more reason than ever to expect a sell-off. Some of those reasons include a potential disappointment from the Federal Reserve on the stimulus front, continued economic slowing in… Read More

In response to news from central banks in Europe and the United States, stocks and gold ended the week with solid gains following big moves on Thursday and Friday. Easing has been bullish in the past, and traders have learned they… Read More

Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is changing the world, again. The first time this happened, Amazon was changing the retail landscape and demonstrating that success didn’t require brick-and-mortar stores. In the late 1990s, Amazon gained more than 4,500% in less than three years, before peaking at $356 (unadjusted for splits) in December… Read More

Being born and raised in the former industrial city of Pittsburgh exposed me to the old-school way of doing things at a young age. Although it’s currently evolving, Pittsburgh was a city stuck in its ways for decades.  The city was built upon the so-called dirty businesses of steel and… Read More

When Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008, the U.S. financial system locked up and proceeded to plummet in a classic deflationary spiral. As the value of overpriced, overleveraged assets came back to Earth, the banks that had lent money and accepted those assets as… Read More

There are so many reasons to invest in agriculture, it’s ridiculous.  First, global population growth, which continues to fuel demand. During the next 30 years, the United Nations estimates global population will increase by 50%, climbing to 10 billion. This will have a profound effect on demand for food resources,… Read More