An easy way to make money in the market is to buy a stock that has been beaten down due to short-term worries. Of course the rub is discerning whether the problem is indeed temporary. But there is considerable upside to identifying a setback that will not permanently impair a… Read More

According to their by-laws, many mutual funds are forbidden from owning stocks that have a share price of less than $5. Of course, once those stocks hit the $5 mark, a whole new world of buyers takes a look at them. Here are some promising companies that you can buy… Read More

Anytime Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is involved in something, investors take notice. Goldman has received plenty of bad press lately, but the fact remains that they are Wall Street’s most powerful name. They are among the largest global investment bank in… Read More

Capitulation. That’s an often-used word on Wall Street to describe when investors completely give up and throw in the towel. It’s not always a bad thing: Some investors love to find situations where a stock has been so crushed that shares are… Read More

Get ready for the China collapse. Virtually every major media outlet has weighed in with dire reports that the Chinese economic miracle is about to come to an abrupt end. These Chicken Littles note that any strong asset class that looks like a bubble must come crashing down. In the… Read More

With all of the attention paid to quarterly results, investors often lose sight of the bigger picture. Suddenly, a solid growth story becomes a lagging stock. And that’s when you need to pounce. Because when the short-term noise recedes, investors will return to that stock in force. Read More

70 million represents a lot of people for a country, much less for a bank’s customers. It’s nearly a quarter of the United States’ population. In fact, you could add every person in California and Texas together and still not reach the 70 million mark. And that… Read More

The trading week began on a bullish note, as Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) weighed in with a great quarterly report on Monday. But by week’s end, stocks were slumping after a pair of downbeat reports from Citigroup (NYSE: C) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). Stocks are also feeling the pressure… Read More

Aubrey McClendon is certainly audacious. The co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) always swings for the fences. Trouble is, he has swung and missed more often than not. But hope springs eternal, and he’s taking big swings once again. And that’s why McClendon and Chesapeake Energy are either loved or hated, depending on who you talk to. There’s Gas in Them Thar Shales After seeing the natural gas market soar and fall throughout much of the last two decades, McClendon started to see a perfect storm brewing a few… Read More

Aubrey McClendon is certainly audacious. The co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) always swings for the fences. Trouble is, he has swung and missed more often than not. But hope springs eternal, and he’s taking big swings once again. And that’s why McClendon and Chesapeake Energy are either loved or hated, depending on who you talk to. There’s Gas in Them Thar Shales After seeing the natural gas market soar and fall throughout much of the last two decades, McClendon started to see a perfect storm brewing a few years ago, one that temporarily made him a billionaire. In 2008, natural gas prices were soaring and geologists were starting to see that the United States was sitting on the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas” under deep rock formations known as shales. With more and more power plants expected to switch from coal to natural gas during the next decade, and a seemingly unlimited bounty of gas underground, Chesapeake borrowed millions in order to buy up and exploit vast untapped gas fields. And McClendon had no trouble finding fans on Wall Street. Read More

“We Try Harder.” That’s the motto from Avis Budget (NYSE: CAR), and indeed they do try harder. Avis just reiterated plans to outbid rival Hertz (NYSE: HTZ) to win the rights to buy Dollar Thrifty (NYSE: DTG). Yet even though the deal would make great sense for… Read More