The United States faces myriad economic challenges, yet somehow, the U.S. stock market has managed to post solid gains during the past few years, as I noted roughly a week ago. The S&P 500 has been one of the top gainers in… Read More

Market pundits talk about how the stock market climbs a “wall of worry,” a euphemism for the ability of stocks to go up even in the face of chronic problems in the… Read More

With a combined $22 trillion in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2011, the U.S. and China are the undisputed heavyweights of the global economy. These two nations generated more economic… Read More

In 1998, the Mexican government decided to privatize the country’s main airports. This became a major windfall for three publicly traded airport companies and its investors. As a result, these airports were granted concessions to operate the airports for 50 years, which limited competition. As long as… Read More

I’ve told you before about the enormous number of high-yielding stocks abroad. If you remember, my research team and I found only 17 profitable U.S. companies were paying yields of more than 12%… compared to 227 overseas. Although the numbers fluctuate daily, that means roughly… Read More

In April 2009, the S&P 500 had lost more than a third of its value over the prior year. As recalls, “No one knew if the worst was over — or had just begun,” recalls Stock of the Month’s Amy Calistri. There’s no doubt it was a… Read More

More than two decades ago, Japan sported the most dynamic economy in the developed world. The country’s Nikkei stock market index was soaring to new heights, and… Read More

This year, investing has been all about the red, white and blue. Troubles in Europe and China have sent international and emerging market stocks to multi-year lows. That is, with the exception of one market… Investors that once flocked to Chinese… Read More

They’re some of the most reliable dividend-paying stocks on Earth. Each one owns a virtual monopoly in its market, practically guaranteeing it will receive uninterrupted revenue for years to come. Of… Read More

Even as investors spent much of the last decade licking their wounds with U.S. investments after the dot-com bubble was pricked, there were still solid gains to be had for investors willing to venture abroad. Indeed, the concept of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) investing was a savvy play… Read More