Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) have emerged as the three most important players in the consumer technology landscape. These companies are so good at what they do (building deeply loyal customer bases and ever-rising revenue streams) that they may not even notice that they have… Read More

Take your mind back to the third quarter of 2011. Companies were posting robust profits and investors were wading back into the market, helping to fuel a 15% gain in the S&P 500 from early October to the second week of November. But… Read More

Everyone likes to get something for nothing. Whether it’s a hot breakfast with your hotel room, a car wash with an oil change or an order of fries with a hamburger, it’s always satisfying to feel like you’re on the receiving… Read More

If every year brings a fresh theme for investors, then 2011 will surely go down as the year cash-rich companies spent a lot more money buying back their own stock. In past periods of slow economic growth, companies deployed their cash to make deals in order to… Read More

“Insurance is sold, not bought.” This old saying may be true from the consumer side. From the shrewd investor’s point of view, however, it’s an entirely different story. Legendary value investor Shelby Cullom Davis, for instance turned $50,000 into a fortune of $800 million dollars by buying… Read More

It’s no secret that small-cap and micro-cap stocks really take it on the chin when investors grow skittish. A 5% or 10% drop in the broader market can lead to even deeper hits for these riskier stocks. The converse is also true: When… Read More

When the going gets tough, the tough… break out their checkbooks? After seeing stocks crater this summer, this is precisely what Warren Buffett did through his investment firm Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B). Buffett and his team invested $7 billion in the third quarter. To put that in perspective,… Read More

Has Warren Buffett drawn up a new playbook? The legendary mega-investor who has created vast wealth for shareholders through his investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B), has announced that he’s been secretly buying shares of one of the world’s largest tech… Read More

Even the world’s top investors need to move slowly when deciding to make major new investments. So when shares of health care information provider WebMD (Nasdaq: WEBMD) started falling in the spring, two billionaire investors, Carl Icahn and George Soros, likely tasked their team… Read More

Follow the smart money. That’s a classic adage in the investment lexicon, but it’s really not hard to follow the steps of all-time investment experts such as Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and George Soros. Thanks to the 13F filing from the… Read More