In the current stock market environment, bargains are showing up wherever you turn. Thousands of stocks are now trading at close to two-year lows, although many of them should be avoided since business can get even worse in a slowing economy. This is why it pays to focus… Read More

Did you know it’s possible to capture emerging-market growth opportunities while downplaying risks such as inflation and currency swings? A great way to accomplish this is to own blue-chip companies that have a solid presence and significant… Read More

Has the market gone off its rocker? One day the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 500 points and the next day it’s up 500 points. Then it’s down 600 and up 400, and so on. It’s easy to spend all day trying to explain the market’s… Read More

Back in 1950, a young investor by the name of Warren Buffett discovered that his mentor Benjamin Graham was chairman of a company named Government Employees Insurance Company, or GEICO for short. Shortly thereafter, he hopped on a train to go visit the company at its headquarters in Washington D.C. Read More

I have been talking a lot about buying “forever” stocks. These are the stocks I think you can buy, hold, and basically forget about — all without losing much sleep at night. When you buy this exclusive class of stocks and let them grow year over year,… Read More

The market is taking it on the chin this week, which was to be expected, according to technical analysts. Just last week, I noted that history tells us the Dow Jones Industrial Average would need to move back to recent lows (known as a “retest”). Sure enough,… Read More

Back in the fall of 2008, virtually every equity-focused mutual fund was falling in value. The selloff was most keenly felt in many closed-end funds (CEFs). Not only did these funds see their portfolio of investments drop in value, but the fund price… Read More

The list of investing mistakes I’ve seen (and as a stock broker in the go-go 1990s and early 2000s, I had an opportunity to see plenty of them) is longer than I care to recall. Over-committing, over-trading, sector concentration, you name it — I saw it all as so many… Read More

Investors are always on the prowl for stocks that would conceivably appeal to Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) Warren Buffett. He likes established businesses that throw off ample cash flow and have a strong moat to keep competition at bay. We can speculate… Read More

On Monday, Aug. 8, the S&P 500 took an 80-point dive. That was a buying opportunity. Now, I don’t mean it was a buying opportunity in the traditional “stocks rise in the long term” idea, meaning you should buy on any dip. #-ad_banner-#Truth… Read More