If you’re like a lot of investors, then you might be getting prepped to “sell in May and go away,” shedding stocks in anticipation of the historical market-wide weakness that kicks in during the middle of the year. And the math supports this assumption. Every month from May through September… Read More

With just a quick glance, the whole “invest in India” craze appears to have run its course. India’s stock market, the Bombay Stock Exchange Sensex Index, rallied more than 200% between March of 2009 and late 2010. Read More

Did Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) recently commit an error in judgment? It’s tough to be critical of one of the world’s greatest value investors, but even the best of the best can occasionally get caught up in the hype and forget the disciplined rules that earned them their… Read More

A couple of weeks ago, several of the nation’s banks underwent a so-called “stress test” to determine whether they were healthy enough to survive a major economic contraction without requiring new capital. Some failed, but most passed. Yet, even before the dust has settled from the good… Read More

In the week of March 12, the Federal Reserve gave the nation’s major banks their third so-called “stress test” to determine whether they would survive another collapse of the financial system like the one suffered in 2008. Overall, the group passed the test, with 15 of the 19 undergoing… Read More

Last week, coffee icon Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) announced it would begin selling its own single-serve, at-home coffee maker. The device runs hot water through small, disposable containers of flavored coffee grounds to produce one cup of the drink, after which the container is discarded. If this rings… Read More

On Wednesday, March 7, word got out that Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) has been in talks with several cable TV service providers with the intent of adding a Netflix option to the content already being offered by these cable companies. While no details of these meetings were… Read More

It’s pretty safe to say hedge-fund manager Edward “Eddie” Lampert has gotten far more headaches than he bargained for in 2005 when he bought a major stake in what has since become Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD). Back then, he promised a more profitable company and more growth. Read More

Prior to the 2007 meltdown of the subprime lending market, hedge-fund manager John Paulson was a name with a solid reputation for performance, but not necessarily put on the same pedestal with the likes of George Soros or Warren Buffett. The primary fund he… Read More

Analysts aren’t always right. They’re not always timely either. But when they’re in consensus about a stock, especially when that opinion is bearish (analysts are notoriously rosy with their outlooks), then there’s a good chance their collective opinion is on target, and investors… Read More