David Sterman has worked as an investment analyst for nearly two decades. He started his Wall Street career in equity research at Smith Barney, culminating in a position as Senior Analyst covering European banks. While at Smith Barney, he learned of all the tricks used by Wall Street to steer the best advice to their top clients and their own trading desk.
David has also served as Managing Editor at TheStreet.com and Director of Research at Individual Investor. In addition, David worked as Director of Research for Jesup & Lamont Securities. David has made numerous media appearances over the years, primarily on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and has a master's degree in management from Georgia Tech.
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U.S. investors are always in search of “the next Google (Nasdaq: GOOG),” hoping to latch on to a stock that can appreciate smartly over many years. In China, they’ve already had their Google moment. The country’s leading search engine provider, Baidu.com (Nasdaq: BIDU) has seen its… Read More
Clean energy has been one of this president’s favorite topics. Mr. Obama calls his strategy “All of the Above” and has vowed to continue to fund energy research and development even if it fails. This is a bold statement considering the heat he took for losing more… Read More
More often than not, a successful investment usually involves a good, basic business that sells a lot of something everybody needs. It’s a path that guys like Warren Buffett have taken time and time again to score huge long-term returns. This should also be the kind of… Read More
Although it may seem that most fund managers are simply glorified stock pickers, their task is actually quite different. They don’t beat their benchmarks by simply cobbling together a set of compelling investments. They take a snapshot of the U.S. and global economies and then decide the best ways to… Read More
Investors have been loading up on dividend stocks for good reason: These stocks are trouncing the puny 2% yield on Treasuries. In fact, more than 200 stocks in the S&P 500… Read More
The U.S. economy is seven times larger than Brazil’s economy. Yet the U.S. stock market is 12 times larger. That’s simply the result of the fact that most global investors want exposure to the United States, relatively… Read More
There may be no better time than right now to invest in energy stocks — particularly in one of my favorites. This stock is a large and well-known oil and gas producer, and is doing markedly better than the energy sector as a whole, jumping about 18% already this year,… Read More
When Forest Oil (NYSE: FST) announced in late 2010 that it would spin off its Canadian energy fields in a new company called Lone Pine Resources (NYSE: LPR), investors shrugged. But investors who bought the parent of the spin-off when the deal was completed on Oct. Read More
I don’t know about you, but in the first two weeks of February there is always this nagging feeling in my head that I am forgetting something. Do you get that? Then, inevitably, my wife will hand me a red envelope and it will dawn on me that once again,… Read More
A rising market and a still-slow economy have created a real conundrum. Should you focus on the increasingly smaller group of deep-value stocks, or should you step on the gas, searching for stocks that are set for… Read More
