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Vita Nelson’s The Moneypaper specializes in direct investing through dividend-reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. However, this month Nelson also provided subscribers with some helpful advice for investing in fixed-income instruments in today’s low-yield environment, and explained the pros and cons of various types of bond funds. “Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke has promised...

The current market is not being driven by fundamental, technical or sentiment factors.

These are exciting times for observers of the automobile industry ... and for a small percentage of investors in it.

Every January, we publish two special issues of the Dick Davis Digests, featuring our contributing experts’ favorite stock picks for the coming year. In addition to giving subscribers direct access to our contributors’ best ideas, the Top Picks issues also provide an at-a-glance look at expectations for the coming year. On...

Today I am going to highlight some of our best advice from the second quarter of 2011.

If you’ve struggled in stocks during the past year or two like so many have, your best move is to eliminate these mistakes first.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . While most of you recognize this famous line as the opening to Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, you could use the line to describe dividend investing in 2012. On the one...

The worst of the European crisis has passed. While many of the overleveraged countries on the continent still have major problems to solve, the European Central Bank’s actions last year have succeeded in keeping the monetary union together. And with uncertainty surrounding the eurozone’s fate removed, European equities are already...

Traditionally, investors thinking about retirement have invested in a mix of stocks and bonds designed to balance safety and growth. The closer to retirement or more risk-averse they are, the more of their portfolio they hold in bonds for safety and regular income. The system has even been institutionalized in...

Cabot Stock of the Month Editor Tim Lutts discusses recent news about Iranian nuclear power, and names his favorite stock.

There are some potential signs that signal that illness has set into your stock. Here are the ways to recognize the bad and the ugly stocks.

There isn’t one stock that can’t go south at a moment’s notice, so build your portfolio of a group of stocks and use a strict sell discipline.

Roughly 32% of respondents agreed that all eight rules were stupid. Here are some of the best answers.

Everyone likes a stock with a good story. And there’s no story more inspiring than the turnaround story: failure (or at least some trouble) is followed by rock bottom, and then redemption. Of course, as an investor, you have to get in at some point before redemption. With that in...

Editor of Cabot Stock of the Month reviews the lessons that the Olympic games taught him and discusses a young high-potential stock.

Changing your expectations based on how you feel or what the headlines say is going to have you out of sync with the market.

With a slight bit of wistfulness for the dangers of the past, I wish you all a happy Fourth of July celebration.

“Double Your Dividends!” That’s the pitch I’ve been seeing in my inbox lately from a fellow investing advisor trying to sell a webinar on covered calls. But what are covered calls, and how can they increase your income from stocks you already own? Here’s the primer I wrote on covered calls last...

Are you interested in energy stocks, high yields or utilities? Then don’t miss the advice in today’s Investment of the Week, the latest installment in our Dick Davis Digest Contributor Interview Series. Today I’m talking to Roger Conrad, a long-time Digest Contributor who has just launched three new investment advisories. Energy...

For more than 30 years, my July Fourth celebration has included marching in the local Horribles Parade.