Daily Posts Archive

My stock pick for this issue is a Chinese online marketplace that’s helping businesses and customers.

We don’t spend much time thinking about the news. Instead, we look at the market itself.

The current bull market has lasted either 18 months (since November 2012) or 64 months (since March 2009), depending on how and what you measure. Either way, it’s getting long in the tooth—which means that somewhere ahead lies a correction or bear market.

With major equity indexes toying with all-time highs, people are feeling pretty good about the market.

There are many ways to sell market volatility on both individual stocks and the major indexes.

This recent energy spin-off has a current dividend yield of 14.80%, paid quarterly. Alon USA Partners LP (ALDW) ?from Energy & Income Advisor Alon USA Energy (ALJ) owns refineries in Louisiana and California that have a combined nameplate capacity of 144,000 barrels per day. The company spun off its 70,000 barrels-per-day Big...

An infinite number of methods are available for you to evaluate stocks with the same intended goal.

Much of what we believe is wrong—and it has always been so. But the sooner we discover new truths, the better.

Developing healthy portfolios is as important as it is in forcing human bikini wearers to shape themselves up for summer.

Please forgive me, Mark Twain, for usurping your quotation. But I’ve seen so many outrageous reports calling for the ultimate destruction of these emerging markets that I just couldn’t resist! Goldman Sachs first coined the term, “BRICs,” to denote the emerging market economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. They were...