If you are a value investor looking to boost your portfolio returns, then you could try following the stock-picking strategy of billionaire fund manager Carl Icahn. The legendary investor has amassed a fortune by identifying undervalued companies, taking big positions in the stock, and… Read More

#-ad_banner-#For many investors, May 4, 2011 marked a key turning point for stocks. On that day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 100 points. This also happened on four different occasions in that same month. Most stocks have been unable to withstand such blows and have been trending… Read More

I think we’re near a tipping point. The day to watch is June 30. Months, even years later, we might all look back upon that day as when things started to change. #-ad_banner-#If you’ve followed the news lately, you already know what happens on… Read More

The best way to make money investing is to know something’s going to pay off before it actually does. But that’s impossible, no one can predict the future, right? Not per se, but occasionally there are early signs, right there for all of us to see, that… Read More

Preparing a company for its public debut on the stock market is a long and arduous process. The numbers need to be checked and checked again, dozens of meetings with potential investors need to be arranged, and a virtual mountain of paperwork needs to be reviewed by regulators. So when… Read More

Companies are sitting on record amounts of cash. Default rates on corporate bonds — even for companies with questionable credit that pay high yields — are plummeting. So why did I just tell my High-Yield Investing subscribers to watch out? #-ad_banner-#There’s a danger lurking… Read More

With the market posting weaker results in recent weeks, an increasing number of stocks are sinking further and further away from their 52-week highs. Finding which stocks deserve to be sold off and which are just victims of a tough market can be a challenge. That’s why it pays to… Read More

Investing in smaller companies can offer individual investors many important advantages. Perhaps the most important of all is that these companies can grow very quickly, since it doesn’t take much for new sales and profits to make a big impact on overall growth. Many stocks with small market capitalizations also… Read More

Bill Clinton flipped a switch and changed the world. On May 1, 2000, the former President instructed the Federal Aviation Administration to turn off the “Selective Availability” option on the Global Positioning System (GPS), which had made the network of satellite signals usable only by high-tech… Read More

The market’s rough patch has recently knocked many stocks from their 52-week highs. Even the companies that are performing well are drifting ever lower, but the companies that have dared to stumble this spring are really taking a beating. One false move and they wake up to a share price … Read More