Investors looking to score big gains should always pay attention to the retail sector. Not the top retail stocks that seem to pound out modest sales gains each year, but the weaker retailers that have hit a rough patch. These retail firms could see shares slide far below prior peaks once same-store sales weaken and investors shun them. Yet these broken retailers can also become vastly oversold — and great bargain-hunting fodder. For example, I suggested that women’s apparel retailer Christopher & Banks (NYSE: CBK) was far too cheap — based on… Read More

Investors looking to score big gains should always pay attention to the retail sector. Not the top retail stocks that seem to pound out modest sales gains each year, but the weaker retailers that have hit a rough patch. These retail firms could see shares slide far below prior peaks once same-store sales weaken and investors shun them. Yet these broken retailers can also become vastly oversold — and great bargain-hunting fodder. For example, I suggested that women’s apparel retailer Christopher & Banks (NYSE: CBK) was far too cheap — based on tangible book value and sure enough, the stock eventually took off like a rocket. In fact, a number of oversold retailers make up the list of leading gainers in the just completed third quarter. In almost every instance, these retailers had traded sharply lower in prior quarters, which is precisely the time that you should be focusing on them. Whether it’s a buyout offer, or simply a… Read More

The time has come to protect yourself.  On Sept. 13, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pledged to unleash a third wave of quantitative easing (QE3) to combat the economic slowdown. According to the Federal Reserve, the… Read More

It finally happened. Gold stocks are breaking out… Gold stocks — or gold miners to be exact — are the companies that physically remove gold bullion from the ground and bring it to market. How much money a gold-mining company makes is… Read More

(Editor’s note: Yesterday, we took a look at how to invest if Obama wins the election in November. To read that article, go here.) Though President Barack Obama leads the latest polls, it’s too soon to write Mitt Romney off as a winning candidate. And if Romney… Read More

On Friday, Sept. 28, we saw a big jump in corn and wheat prices, with both agricultural commodities spiking more than 5% higher in the session. The rally was due to a quarterly grain stocks report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that showed the stocks for corn and… Read More

Tech shares have led the market resurgence with the Nasdaq hitting new decade-long-plus highs in recent weeks. As you can see in the chart below, the year-to-date gains in the Nasdaq closely mirror… Read More

Unless the current polls are wrong, or unless Mitt Romney turns things around soon, Barack Obama is likely to remain as President of the United States for a second term. How will this affect the market? More specifically, what should investors do… Read More

A Canadian mining company is punching back after being hit with an uppercut by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Northern Dynasty Minerals (AMEX: NAK) is a co-owner of the Pebble project, a polymetallic deposit located 200 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska. The site contains copious amounts of gold, copper and molybdenum.  Northern Dynasty and a 50/50 European partner have put significant financial resources into studying and assessing the mine in the hope of one day pulling out its vast riches. And there is no disputing the wealth that Pebble holds: 67 million ounces of… Read More

A Canadian mining company is punching back after being hit with an uppercut by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Northern Dynasty Minerals (AMEX: NAK) is a co-owner of the Pebble project, a polymetallic deposit located 200 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska. The site contains copious amounts of gold, copper and molybdenum.  Northern Dynasty and a 50/50 European partner have put significant financial resources into studying and assessing the mine in the hope of one day pulling out its vast riches. And there is no disputing the wealth that Pebble holds: 67 million ounces of gold, 3.3 billion pounds molybdenum and 55 billion pounds of copper. But those hopes may have just been dashed, or at least delayed. The EPA recently released a harsh watershed assessment report that outlines numerous concerns, most notably the potential threat of a dam breach that could leak waste material from the mine into the surrounding Bristol Bay — one of the world’s largest salmon fisheries.   This is not the final word on the project, but the opposition does present a formidable roadblock to future development. The… Read More

Just this week renewed anxieties about Europe again weighed on stock prices in the United States. These concerns resulted in the longest market losing streak — five days — in two months. Even mighty Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) fell more than… Read More

I usually receive some quite weird emails that are generally obvious scams. But the other day I received a very unusual one. It rang with a sincerity and genuineness that was quite compelling. It requested that I contact my government representative in order to save this company. It was signed… Read More