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Today’s income-oriented investor has an unprecedented variety of income- paying investments to choose from: there are bonds and bond-based funds, of course, but there are also MLPs, BDCs, preferred stocks, REITs, income trusts and more. But while the yields on these instruments can be quite tempting, there’s still something to...

The Canadian government announced tha trusts will lose their tax-favored status in January.

Tim Lutts’ list of five programs that aren’t working and five things that are.

The Cabot philosophy is our growth investing rules that we’ve fine-tuned over 40 years.

After bottoming out below $45 last week, Transocean LTD (RIG, NYSE) shares have come racing back. The stock spiked from $47.22 to $50.68 on Monday. It then climbed to $53.56 on Wednesday, and bulled all the way to $57.93 today. That’s a powerful 23% advance in just four trading sessions....

I want to touch on the four factors that affect your portfolio and its return.

“As I’ve written about before, a significant government action—the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—set aside nearly $20 billion in direct funding to transition the nation’s health-care system to digital medical records. The idea is that better records, and better access to them, will eliminate a lot of redundant...

One interesting stock in the technology area is Red Hat (RHT).

Here are some tips that will help you pick high-potential growth stocks.

Represented by the symbol “Li,” lithium is the lightest and least dense of the solid elements. Lithium production has been growing for decades thanks to its use in small batteries. Powering a car with electricity takes more than a few AAA cells, but it can be done. The idea is...