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As of November last year, Agilent’s (A) Electronic Measurement business unit is now traded as a brand-new public company—Keysight Technologies (KEYS). Keysight’s three main business segments are Aerospace/Defense; Communications; and Industrial, Computer, Semiconductor. Keysight currently invests more than 12% of its revenues in R&D, which has led...

Every year at this time, investment gurus debate the old adage, “Sell in May and Go Away.” The strategy says avoid summer volatility in the markets by selling your stocks in May, and then return to the markets in November.

Indeed, as our contributor Jeffrey Hirsch, the editor of Stock Trader’s...

In the market, instead of building on your strengths, the best way to improve results is to strengthen your weaknesses. If you’re very good at identifying low-risk buy points, for instance, that’s great … but there’s no reason to continue honing that skill. Instead, focus on identifying your biggest weakness—say, your ability to time the market—and build up that part of your game.

Yesterday the airline sector fell dramatically after American Airlines (AAL) CEO said that airlines are expanding capacity too quickly. Get the options perspective from Jacob Mintz.

While the overall market remains trapped in a generally sideways range, certain areas are presenting major buy points. One of them: Chinese stocks, ...

The stock market is always looking ahead, and though earnings are huge, it looks like the airline sector has topped out. Look at the Airline Index (XAL).

Kevin Matras of Zacks Investment Research recently penned an interesting article. The article focused on one calculation to find undervalued stocks that will consistently outperform the stock market indexes.

This week, I’m jumping on the “one simple rule” bandwagon that seems to be sweeping the Internet to give you an investing idea that can save your portfolio when things get stormy.

If you’re like most of us, chances are good that much of your retirement money is held in a 401(k) or other tax-deferred retirement plan that is allocated to stock markets and bond funds.

Mike Cintolo talks about his continued neutral stance, as the major indexes continue to chop sideways and most stocks are doing the same.