Warren Buffett is currently earning a 39% dividend yield on his shares of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO). It seems impossible. If you or I were to buy the shares today, we’d… Read More

Market pundits talk about how the stock market climbs a “wall of worry,” a euphemism for the ability of stocks to go up even in the face of chronic problems in the… Read More

With a combined $22 trillion in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2011, the U.S. and China are the undisputed heavyweights of the global economy. These two nations generated more economic… Read More

The free market is truly like a jungle. In the jungle, once-mighty animals become old and frail, and they fall prey to younger, stronger beasts. The same thing happens with companies. Once-great investments become laggards if they… Read More

When it comes to investing in high-tech stocks, you need to catch companies at the right phase of their growth spurt. Major profits were made in companies like Dell (Nasdaq: DELL), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) while they were still being introduced to fresh new waves of… Read More

As the world waits for a cooperative agreement within the European Union to save Greece and keep the union together, and as traders and investors anticipate the next move by the U.S. Federal Reserve and central banks around the world, one thing remains true… U.S. treasury yields… Read More

In 1998, the Mexican government decided to privatize the country’s main airports. This became a major windfall for three publicly traded airport companies and its investors. As a result, these airports were granted concessions to operate the airports for 50 years, which limited competition. As long as… Read More

When industry veterans are asked to join a company’s board of directors, they are expected to stick around for many years. That gives them the accumulated knowledge of a company’s operations, industry positioning and economic sensitivity to help guide forward-looking investment planning decisions. And right now, many of these directors… Read More

I’ve told you before about the enormous number of high-yielding stocks abroad. If you remember, my research team and I found only 17 profitable U.S. companies were paying yields of more than 12%… compared to 227 overseas. Although the numbers fluctuate daily, that means roughly… Read More