Silver is clearly out of its rut. After steadily falling nearly 30% since its 52-week high in February, the price of silver has rebounded quickly during the past few weeks to a current price of $33 — almost entirely because of Federal… Read More

Not only is it expensive to pay roughly $3.50 — sometimes $4.40 — for the gallon of gasoline, it’s unnecessary. That’s because there is a simple strategy investors can use to reduce the price they pay for gasoline to $2.50 per gallon. I know it sounds incredible and probably too… Read More

It finally happened. Gold stocks are breaking out… Gold stocks — or gold miners to be exact — are the companies that physically remove gold bullion from the ground and bring it to market. How much money a gold-mining company makes is… Read More

On Friday, Sept. 28, we saw a big jump in corn and wheat prices, with both agricultural commodities spiking more than 5% higher in the session. The rally was due to a quarterly grain stocks report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that showed the stocks for corn and… Read More

In early 2011, this stock traded at a high near $175. Within a year, shares plummeted to less than a third of that value, near $50. They continued in a freefall into early summer 2012, hitting a low near $11.40 in early… Read More

Common sense dictates that when commodity prices fall, there will be less financial incentive to dig stuff up. And when prices cross below levels where producers can turn a profit, activity should really grind down.#-ad_banner-#… Read More

When he was head of General Electric (NYSE: GE), Jack Welch had one rule for his company: Be the top player in the field, or don’t even bother. The numbers backed him up. Business school professors repeatedly teach that an industry leader can have up to twice the… Read More

Stock prices were down slightly last week. SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) lost 0.93%, while PowerShares QQQ (Nasdaq: QQQ), an ETF that tracks the 100 largest Nasdaq stocks, lost… Read More

Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) at some of the nation’s biggest companies have a problem on their hands. They’re tasked with watching over billions, tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars every day, making sure to find ways to deliver the best returns to shareholders while keeping enough aside for a rainy day. With interest rates sitting at multi-decade lows, these executives can’t afford to let the money just sit there. That’s why more of them are looking at share buybacks, dividends, acquisitions or higher levels of capital spending to take some of that cash off of the… Read More

Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) at some of the nation’s biggest companies have a problem on their hands. They’re tasked with watching over billions, tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars every day, making sure to find ways to deliver the best returns to shareholders while keeping enough aside for a rainy day. With interest rates sitting at multi-decade lows, these executives can’t afford to let the money just sit there. That’s why more of them are looking at share buybacks, dividends, acquisitions or higher levels of capital spending to take some of that cash off of the sidelines and put it into action. This is good news for investors. Because the more cash a company deploys, the better the chances of bolstering the stock price. We took a look at the cash balances of leading corporations and were stunned to find how much some companies were sitting on. In some instances, these companies have such a large amount of cash that it equals or surpasses what some countries produce in terms of annual economic activity (GDP). Here are the top ten profitable companies sitting on stunning amounts of cash (we excluded traditional… Read More

A once-in-a-generation opportunity is developing for investors. The upside potential is enormous. I am talking about a change so important, it will affect the way our economy works and… Read More