If you want to gauge the current interest in initial public offerings (IPOs), then you simply need to look at the stock chart of social media firm LinkedIn (Nasdaq: LNKD). Right now, its stock is scorching hot, as investors seek out business models that possess robust growth prospects. Judging… Read More

Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) started as a single restaurant in 1993. Today, it is a burrito mega-chain, with nearly 1,100 restaurants across the United States. During this time, the company’s stock price has risen almost as spectacularly as its growth in store locations. In 2006,… Read More

Earnings growth is slowing across many industries. Companies are struggling since there aren’t many costs left to cut, and the clear headwinds of a still-weak economy persist. Yet for a select group of companies, business is booming. These companies are on track to… Read More

Love him or hate him, President Barack Obama has done one thing that will change health care in the United States forever. And it’s actually a good thing. The $787 billion stimulus bill passed in 2009 contained a massive provision for the adoption of electronic medical records… Read More

With the stock market swinging triple digits from one day to the next, it’s become apparent to me that recent gains are being slowly harvested. Rather than undergoing an outright selloff, investors are broadening their list of targets to book gains and raise cash. Some stocks have been immune to… Read More

Walk through your house and rummage through your junk drawers. Buried beneath some old string, a 1996 stand up calendar from your insurance agent and a pair of stretched out reading glasses, there’s a good chance you’ll find an old cell phone that’s long since been retired. There’s an even… Read More

The best way to make money investing is to know something’s going to pay off before it actually does. But that’s impossible, no one can predict the future, right? Not per se, but occasionally there are early signs, right there for all of us to see, that… Read More

Investing in smaller companies can offer individual investors many important advantages. Perhaps the most important of all is that these companies can grow very quickly, since it doesn’t take much for new sales and profits to make a big impact on overall growth. Many stocks with small market capitalizations also… Read More

Bill Clinton flipped a switch and changed the world. On May 1, 2000, the former President instructed the Federal Aviation Administration to turn off the “Selective Availability” option on the Global Positioning System (GPS), which had made the network of satellite signals usable only by high-tech… Read More

Thanks to space age, cutting-edge design, an enigmatic CEO and rabidly devoted customers, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) can sometimes give off the aura of a cult. After all, people line up at God-awful hours of the night/morning to buy the company’s shiny little gadgets the first day they hit the market… Read More