Throughout the first eight months of 2012, investors could not be dissuaded from buying stocks. Bad news was met with a shrug, while good news were heartily embraced. These days, the half-full glass is now perceived as half-empty. Case in point: A solid employment report from the Department of Labor… Read More

Overleveraged homeowners combined with falling home prices created a perfect storm that caused untold financial damage to many who depended on their home value for a savings or retirement plan. But this storm appears to have finally blown itself out and now the housing… Read More

If you’ve ever wanted to invest in the early stages of a corporate turnaround, read on. Three of the companies below have already made money for investors who got in at the right time. And that’s precisely what makes the… Read More

During the past couple of weeks, the equity markets have seen a lot of weakness. The selling last week was prompted by a host of companies reporting earnings misses, either on the top line or the… Read More

In less than a month, Americans will celebrate Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. People stand in line for hours to get blowout bargains, and many retailers’ cash registers will be stuffed. Immediately after Black Friday, the holiday… Read More

During the past five years, engineers at Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) have managed to upend the consumer electronics industry, delivering a full suite of products that have now found a home in living rooms and on office desks around the world. The rest of the industry can only sit by and… Read More

Some stocks do so well for so long that investors start assuming these stocks will always be superstars, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. It’s a dangerous trap to fall into, since buying on reputation alone can lead to big disappointment if a stock no longer has what it takes… Read More

One of my favorite investing strategies is to follow the big money and mimick what the insiders and large money managers are doing.  Fortunately, insiders are required to make their stock transactions public using the SEC form 13F. These filings can provide you with a… Read More

It’s tough to imagine that anything could unseat Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) as the king of all-things-Internet. After all, not only does the company dominate the search engine market, but it also keeps people in the Google circle by constantly adding new tools… Read More

I used to be one of the original Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) skeptics. I disliked everything about the company, from its goofy logo to the names and artistic interfaces of the products. To me, it was clear these machines belonged in an art classroom and not the workplace like a regular… Read More