A quick trivia question: what’s the world’s most popular brand of beer? If you answered Budweiser, give yourself partial credit. Belgium-based (yes, Belgium) Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) is the world’s largest brewer. And its top brand isn’t Budweiser — it’s actually Bud Light. Even… Read More

It used to be that owning a house was one of the best investments you could make. While that may not be the case right now, there are still ways to make a profit in real estate. As… Read More

It can easily be said that change is the only constant in the stock market, and nowhere is this fact more evident than in the technology sector. The financial world’s graveyard is littered with tech companies that failed to… Read More

Newcomers to the world of investing have much to consider: How much volatility they can handle, what asset mix to use, what securities to select, or how to keep tabs on their portfolio. Many times, though, the first thing on their mind is “Do… Read More

This year the U.S. Midwest is seeing the worst drought since 1956, sending corn prices soaring. In late June, I loaded up on the Teucrium Corn ETF (Nasdaq: CORN). Since then prices are up more than 20%.   The severe weather conditions… Read More

Thank you Mario Draghi. The president of the European Central Bank has pledged to do whatever it takes to save the euro, and investors are already feasting on the prospects. The mere expectation that an even… Read More

Avoiding big losses is just as important to your portfolio’s performance as scoring big gains. And right now, the market is sending a signal that one of the most popular names in technology is headed for a big loss. After bottoming out near $22… Read More

Historically, successful value investors have always bought stocks when blood is running in the streets. Unless you’ve been on a total news fast this summer, then you probably know the streets of Europe are knee-deep in type A-negative. As expected, value hunters have been watching that… Read More

When it comes to picking stocks, it’s not just your analysis of a company’s fundamentals that counts. It’s also your analysis of how other analysts and investors are looking at the current market events, a sort of “meta-analysis,” if you will. And I… Read More