How would you like to be paid to own gold? Of course, you would. This idea seems particularly attractive in light of the market‘s recent selling pressure. And I am not talking about any complex option strategies… Read More

When Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) shelled out $16.7 billion this month to acquire the half of NBC Universal still owned with partner GE (NYSE: GE), analysts suggested the deal would provide the nation’s largest cable company with another path to growth. Frankly, the deal… Read More

There’s a lot of money in looking good. Just ask the proprietors of beauty supply giant Avon Products (NYSE: AVP). Last week, the world’s largest direct seller surprised Wall Street with… Read More

Currently, the U.S. equity market is made up of two types of stocks: those being chased higher and displaying vertical moves, for an example, see Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS); and those that have underperformed the broader market… Read More

Here at StreetAuthority, we’re big fans of a theme known as “catalyst investing.” Though many stocks vie for investors’ attention, only a few of them are on… Read More

The Holy Grail of investing has always been spotting the bubble before it pops. Riding the wave of exuberance and selling out just before the market collapses has made billionaires… Read More

As investors scour the financial media, they come across investment ideas that appear to be winning moves. It’s hard enough to know which of the ideas hold merit, but even when you decide to pull the trigger and buy a… Read More

Investors looking for clues about the future of the biofuel industry in the United States need to take a look at Brazil. That’s because according to many analysts, the leading emerging market in South America is considered to have the world’s first sustainable biofuels economy.  There are a few very good reasons for this.We’ve assembled 5 biofuel stocks; buy these to keep the industry in your portfolio. #-ad_banner-# The first is age. Brazil’s ethanol fuel… Read More

Investors looking for clues about the future of the biofuel industry in the United States need to take a look at Brazil. That’s because according to many analysts, the leading emerging market in South America is considered to have the world’s first sustainable biofuels economy.  There are a few very good reasons for this.We’ve assembled 5 biofuel stocks; buy these to keep the industry in your portfolio. #-ad_banner-# The first is age. Brazil’s ethanol fuel program is 37 years old, giving the local industry, economy and infrastructure time to adapt to this new source of energy. The second is government fuel standards, which include a federal mandate that domestic gasoline contains an 18% mix of anhydrous ethanol. And finally, probably the most important element in the success of Brazil’s biofuel industry is its prodigious agriculture industry, enabling it to source biomaterials to convert into ethanol. The success of the country’s biofuel industry is a mirror image of what is currently happening in the United States. Much like Brazil, the United States biofuel… Read More

From a technical analysis standpoint, the chart of Safeway (NYSE: SWY) excites me. First, shares of the second-largest U.S. grocery-store chain have just broken a major downtrend line that dates back… Read More

Although gold prices have taken a big hit of late and may be at the onset of a major pullback, there’s one metal that’s only recently started to rebound and is taking some stocks with it — aluminum. Since August of… Read More