One of the stock market‘s biggest players has made three bets that should grab the attention of investors everywhere. Not only because of the amount, a whopping $3.4 billion altogether, but because this guru is so influential that his presence as a shareholder can… Read More

It’s the biggest thing to happen to the oil industry since the 20th century Texas oil boom. Thanks to new  technology like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing — better known as “fracking,” America has unlocked waves of oil and gas reserves that were previously thought unprocurable.#-ad_banner-# But… Read More

Frontier markets — the term is getting a lot of coverage these days. Last May, I wrote an article for Street Authority imploring readers to get invested in the next Brazil, Russia, India and China. I still feel strongly that the opportunity is great and the time is right to… Read More

After the financial implosion of 2008, a string of government bailouts and massive losses, many investors simply lost their appetite for the volatility and uncertainty of the financial sector. But before the group fell from grace, bank stocks were some of the most popular and powerful investments on… Read More

With all due respect to the brilliant research minds employed at Goldman Sachs, they may be on the wrong side of an important research call. Roughly a month ago, I noted that their bearish… Read More

Small-cap value stocks have consistently outperformed all other categories of stocks. That’s the message coming from the industry’s most respected academic and financial institutions. #-ad_banner-#Small-cap value stocks outperformed the general market by 4.3% annually from 1926-1997, according to Morningstar’s registered investment adviser subsidiary… Read More

Carbon is carbon. It may take the form of wood, sugar cane, algae, coal or dozens of other materials. But at the end of the day, the world still runs on processed carbon as a fuel source. That’s why venture capitalists have poured hundreds of millions — perhaps billions —… Read More

As different as they are, stocks and bonds often share a key feature — yield, the annual dividend or interest payment divided by the price of the security, expressed as a… Read More

For readers who have not been following our newsletter editors for an extended period, it’s time to acquaint you with a longstanding policy: We never buy a stock for one of our portfolios for 2 trading days after you read about it. This means we’ll never front-run a stock, getting… Read More

The classic business book The Millionaire Next Door, by Thomas Stanley and William Danko, depicted a quiet lot of wealthy entrepreneurs who made their fortunes in unglamorous, under-the-radar enterprises such as paving contracting, scrap-metal processing, plumbing or industrial supplies. These individuals clearly know how to… Read More