If you’re a skeptic, then you probably get a little nervous when you see lots of headlines about a stock or industry that are all positive. To the skeptical investor, this suggests an investment has peaked and is set to drop. Well, it’s like that right now in one popular… Read More

Billionaire investor George Soros and his team of advisors take a “top-down” approach. This means they seek out big, “macro” investing themes, and then work their way down to the best ways to play that theme. Every quarter, they adjust their stakes in a range of companies, either by loading… Read More

If you want to know where an industry is headed, then just peek inside a few checkbooks. If companies are reining in their spending, then they might be saving pennies for a rainy day. But when an entire sector starts forking over unusually large amounts for expansion… Read More

The debate regarding the future source of clean and “green” energy in America and the world rages on as it has for decades. Ever since M. King Hubbert, Ph.D., released his report on “Peak Oil” in 1956, the belief that there is a finite amount of oil in the earth… Read More

#-ad_banner-#It seems I struck a chord in my April 29 article “A Utility Stock with Triple-Digit Upside,” which described Chinese electric utility Huaneng Power International (NYSE: HNP). The article got a very strong response, though I admit I’m not surprised. Why? Huaneng is about as close as… Read More

It’s among the scarcest metals on the planet. There’s only one large above-ground store, a strategic reserve the Soviet Union spent 50 years accumulating. Russia decided to put the stockpile up for sale in 1990 when it was estimated to total 27 million ounces. Since then, buyers… Read More

For clean energy investors, 2010 finished on a dismal note. A change of political control in Congress signaled diminished support in Washington for any kind of major financial incentives in alternative energy. In Europe, fiscal challenges led countries such as Italy and Germany to scale back their previous commitments to… Read More

What would you do if you had a stock that returned 20 times your initial investment over a span of two decades? Would you sell some or all and lock in the huge gain? That would seem reasonable. After all, the stock may have run its course. Read More

Technical and fundamental investors are fond of using indicators to divine which direction stocks may be headed. These cues can come from almost anywhere: interest-rate yield curves, put/call ratios, manufacturing surveys… you name it. Some even use the Super Bowl as a prognosticating tool. Read More

Gold and silver have appreciated about 30% and 130%, respectively, in the past year. Given the returns, a pullback or correction in precious metals-related stocks would not be surprising. However, should the rally in precious metals continue to have legs, I have three… Read More