Last week, coffee icon Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) announced it would begin selling its own single-serve, at-home coffee maker. The device runs hot water through small, disposable containers of flavored coffee grounds to produce one cup of the drink, after which the container is discarded. If this rings… Read More

Warren Buffett is undoubtedly one of the most prolific investors in stock market history… and for good reason. During the first decade of the new millennium (2000-2010), Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) returned a blistering 76%. By comparison, the… Read More

In the few months since I’ve launched my $100,000 Real-Money Portfolio, the market has continued to surge upward. The gains have been especially pronounced for some of the riskiest and most of unloved stocks of 2011 that have partially been the beneficiary of recent short-covering. That’s… Read More

You have to hand it to cable companies. For years, they continually boosted prices and still managed to retain customers. Only recently has their customer base begun to shrink modestly. But thanks to several recent developments, the pace of customer defections looks set to accelerate. This implies that sales and… Read More

Last year was a disastrous year for global financial stocks. This year could be different. In the European Union (E.U.), banks underperformed every other industry group last year, due to concerns about their loans to troubled European countries such as Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece… Read More

Many investors have had the agonizing experience of hanging on to a stock and refusing to let go long after it became clear the stock was no longer a keeper. If that’s you, then you know what I’m talking about — the seemingly endless watching, waiting and hoping against all… Read More

Whenever assessing a stock’s long-term growth potential, investors also need to focus on the hurdles the company must overcome before growth can take off. If you’re talking about a major technological or regulatory change, for example, then an ample amount of ground work needs to be laid before the stars… Read More

When ratings agency Standard & Poor’s set about to create a group of stock indexes, it came up with the S&P 500, 400 and 600, representing large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap stocks, respectively. What about micro-caps? The company’s… Read More

A couple of weeks ago, I told you about the enormous number of high-yielding stocks abroad. I think the amount of international dividend-payers out there is one of the market‘s biggest secrets. I told you that only 17 profitable U.S. Read More

I recently shared an important piece of news with readers of my High-Yield Investing newsletter that I think every dividend investor should know about. Last month, President Barack Obama tabled his $3.8 trillion budget for the 2013… Read More