Since the middle of July, the business headlines have been relentlessly scary as governments, corporations and individuals scramble to stay afloat in a weak global economy. Yet for airline industry executives, each day brings more good news. Oil prices are falling and look set… Read More

Depending on whom you ask, the current stock market is either too expensive and headed for a further fall, or too cheap and poised for a rebound. The issue is irrelevant. The real question involves specific stocks — not the broader market. This is because, in these challenging times, some… Read More

Think about your family and friends. How many of them have recently bought traditional computers and how many have bought tablets such as Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPad? While many tech users (especially at companies) will still need to the horsepower of a good old-fashioned computer, tablets are… Read More

Anytime Bill Gates snaps up a stock like there’s no tomorrow, investors should pay attention.  Gates, since retiring from… Read More

The markets, which had looked to be edging back toward historical valuation levels, closed down nearly 2.5% across the board Friday, Sept. 2 on poor jobs data, and I don’t mean Steve. The Labor Department… Read More

It’s so important to maintain watch lists of your favorite stocks. Even after they’ve had a great run, it pays to make sure you check in from time to time to see how they’re doing. And with the stock market zooming and plunging during the past few years, these stocks… Read More

In recent weeks, the only investors to rack up profits have been the short-sellers, who have been riding the downward market to ai their bets on falling stocks. But as stock prices appear to have stabilized (at least for now), should these short-sellers start to think about covering their positions?… Read More

Since the end of the second quarter, the stock market has fallen fast and hard. The major market indexes, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq, are down more than 8%. This has wiped out gains for the year, though the Dow has recently rallied back to… Read More

Back in early October of last year, I said individual investors would be well-served to follow the trading activity of shareholder activist and hedge-fund titan Carl Icahn. Icahn’s success as an investor has pushed his net worth to an estimated $12.5 billion and to… Read More

Benjamin Graham and David Dodd, widely considered to be the fathers of modern investing philosophy, had a deep affinity for value stocks. They taught disciples such as Warren Buffett to assess companies in the most pessimistic possible scenarios. This makes sense. These men wrote their famous book, Security Analysis, in… Read More