With the market hitting record highs, value investors are having a tough time searching for bargains. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as pleased as anyone to see green numbers flashing when I check my trading account.#-ad_banner-# But… Read More

Sometimes the best way to play a commodity is to find one getting beaten up by Wall Street. As any seasoned investor knows, Wall Street has a tendency to overreact, and that’s happening right now with one of the most important metals on Earth… At the moment, commodities … Read More

Sometimes the best way to play a commodity is to find one getting beaten up by Wall Street. As any seasoned investor knows, Wall Street has a tendency to overreact, and that’s happening right now with one of the most important metals on Earth… At the moment, commodities analysts flat-out hate iron ore. Forecasters at prominent brokerage houses like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have slashed their short and long-term price forecasts. And top Australianeconomists are projecting prices to slide from an average of $119 per ton this year to just $90 per ton by 2015. Nobody knows the iron ore … Read More

In the depths of the financial crisis in late 2008, shares of tobacco maker Lorillard (NYSE: LO) were struggling as much as any other blue-chip stock. That summer, shares slid from around $20 to nearly $15 by… Read More

Bill Gates is well-known as the billionaire founder of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). He has an estimated net worth of $67 billion and is the second-richest person in the world. His net worth increased by about $7 billion last… Read More

It’s exciting to see the major stock indexes breaking through to new highs. The icing on the cake? Dividend stocks are also setting new records. As an… Read More

Here at StreetAuthority, we talk a lot about the appeal of rising dividends, but it’s unwise to pursue high yields solely through stocks. The market can gyrate wildly, and a bad… Read More

I have never advised my readers to invest in Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A). And it’s not because a single share of the Class A stock costs $164,690 or because I think it is… Read More

There’s a disaster just waiting to happen in America. No, I am not talking about a natural disaster, government collapse or anything like that. In fact, this is a subtle, slow-moving type of disaster that will catch many off guard. Even more will choose… Read More

With investors clamoring for dividend stocks, companies have responded by instituting large hikes in their payouts, which has led to the doubly good fortune of rising income streams and rising share… Read More