Many investors say that you “shouldn’t try to catch a falling knife.”  Well, I did, and it hurts.  I made a big, bold $12,500 bet on Ford Motor (NYSE: F) when I launched my $100,000 Real-Money Portfolio late last year and am now paying the price… Read More

For income investors, one of the first criteria considered when making an investment decision, especially if you’re a dividend investor, is a stock’s dividend yield. And why not? After all, if the whole point is to generate income,… Read More

We’ve rarely seen such symmetry in stocks. In the first quarter of 2012, stocks zoomed ahead, almost to the very day that the quarter ended. Indeed, the S&P 500 hit its high mark for the year in the first trading session of the second quarter, and has been on the… Read More

It just might be the biggest game-changer in energy right now. And if you’ve followed along with my recommendation and bought the best stock in this industry, then you’re sitting on a 34% gain in less than two months. And that’s just the beginning. #-ad_banner-#So what is this game-changing development?… Read More

Time to party like it’s…2007? No thanks.  Just five years ago, the phrase “subprime” started to creep into the U.S. consumer lexicon. And not long after, the phrase “subprime mess” became a household name.   #-ad_banner-#In case your memory needs refreshing, the subprime… Read More

While the stock market has been down a little in the past week, there is one market that has been on fire. Ever since temperatures across the country reached triple digits, traders have been buying contracts for corn… Read More

After a steady six-month surge, the stock markets are reversing course. The S&P 500 is off roughly 5% since early April, and signs are emerging that there may be plenty more downside on the way.  The problems for Greece — and Europe — keep mounting. The continent’s major economies have… Read More

High unemployment and slow economic growth are hardly conditions under which most companies thrive. But I’ve discovered an industry that is doing just that.  In fact, my favorite stock in this space saw annual sales gains of 8.5% in 2009, 15% in 2010 and 19% in 2011 while many other… Read More

Investors have been fretting about a weaker economy and the implications for economically-sensitive assets such as steel, copper, iron ore and other commodities. Indeed, the underlying spot prices for several key commodities are at multi-year lows and… Read More