U.S. Investing
Learn the latest to help you profit from investing in U.S.-based assets, such as stocks, funds and options.
Bond Yields Going Nowhere except Maybe Lower
The first major chink in the dollar’s armor was felt by Wall Street recently when a key employment...
The 10 Questions You Have to Answer Before You Buy Any Stock — Part 2
Last week, I shared the first five of 10 questions that you must be able to answer before...
How Investors Can Make Money in this Lousy Year
It is turning out to be a tough 2015 for stock market investors. The U.S. S&P 500 is...
Higher Dollar Making for Stiff Resistance
Heading into earnings season, Wall Street analysts’ views were very mixed as to how America’s leading multinational corporations...
Mix-And-Match Sector Fund Boosts Performance
We round out our review of the top three best-performing U.S. equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) of 2015’s first...
Why the Market Had a Weak Week
Stocks faltered this week, a far cry from where stocks stood seven days ago, when the S&P 500...
The 10 Questions You Have to Answer Before You Buy Any Stock — Part 1
For any new investor, or even for an experienced one, it can be tempting to buy the latest...
High-Yield Income from the High-Tech Sector
For what lies ahead in the second half of the year, there is a lot of buzz surrounding...
Small-Cap Fund Shows Big Results
This fund tracks a subset of the S&P SmallCap 600 index. It chooses its holdings based on sales...
How Tech Stocks Surged to All-Time Highs
If I didn’t know better, I would think that we were right back to Y2K in the NASDAQ.