It’s been nearly 80 years since economists Benjamin Graham and David Dodd wrote their investing bible Security Analysis. Their book established a framework for value investors like Warren Buffett and David Dreman to make their fortunes. Graham and Dodd’s whole approach was based on one simple premise:… Read More

A private think tank with an all-but unlimited budget… A maverick genius with a history of world-rattling results… A secret Pentagon “skunk works” defense project… And a fuel technology that could not only reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, but also reverse global warming. Read More

Back in November, I recommended three Brazilian stocks I thought were worth owning at the time. Since then, two of the three are outperforming the Brazilian market, with energy giant Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) up more than 20% to handily beat the iShares MSCI Brazil… Read More

Investing in the U.S. automotive industry is not for the faint-hearted. Given the well-documented woes of the auto industry, a buy-and-hold strategy would have proven disastrous during the past three decades. That’s why it’s important to closely follow and actively trade the stocks. The auto industry is… Read More

Len Riggio must be kicking himself. The chairman — and largest shareholder — of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) rebuffed a takeover last summer from Ron Burkle of Yucaipa Investments for a reported $20 a share. At the time, I thought any buyer of the beleaguered bookseller… Read More

In January, I declared that Japanese companies had the most undervalued stocks in the world. A calamitous magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami have inflicted severe damage on the eastern part of the country, the most disastrous of which has been severe and potentially permanent damage to the Fukushima Daiichi… Read More

The year surely got off on the wrong foot for travel site operator Expedia.com (Nasdaq: EXPE). On New Year’s Day, AMR (NYSE: AMR), parent of American Airlines, announced it was pulling its flight information from Expedia’s listing service. AMR’s move was just the latest twist in an airline vs. website… Read More

Investors are feeling a bit whip-sawed these days. An improving U.S. economy and troubling events abroad make it hard to know where the market will head next. In times like these, it may pay to de-emphasize growth stocks, as these types of investments need a really… Read More

Every two weeks, data is released on the level of short interest in specific stocks. You can find this data in places like the Wall Street Journal, for example. It can clue you into possible problems ahead, but it can also spell opportunity. If the short-sellers are wrong, you can… Read More

About 20% of the world’s energy supply comes from 440 nuclear power plants, located in 25 countries around the world. About 12% of these nuclear reactors are in Japan. As the headlines describe, the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 triggered a series of explosions, leading to the partial meltdown of a nuclear plant, located 150 miles outside of Tokyo. The impact of the meltdown has spread far beyond Japan, affecting nuclear-power companies worldwide. Observers suspected plans for many of the world’s 60 new nuclear plants could be stopped, or at the very least halted, for… Read More

About 20% of the world’s energy supply comes from 440 nuclear power plants, located in 25 countries around the world. About 12% of these nuclear reactors are in Japan. As the headlines describe, the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 triggered a series of explosions, leading to the partial meltdown of a nuclear plant, located 150 miles outside of Tokyo. The impact of the meltdown has spread far beyond Japan, affecting nuclear-power companies worldwide. Observers suspected plans for many of the world’s 60 new nuclear plants could be stopped, or at the very least halted, for some time to come. This week, the Swiss government announced the suspension of approvals for new nuclear plants. The German government followed suit. Furthermore, Germany’s seven nuclear facilities, built prior to 1980, will be shut down until at least May. This step leaves the country with only 10 operating nuclear facilities. In France — where 80% of the country’s electricity comes from nuclear power — the Green Party has called for a referendum on the future of nuclear power. And even China, which has had big ambitions for nuclear power-expansion, announced Wednesday, March 16, that it was… Read More