U.S. Investing

Learn the latest to help you profit from investing in U.S.-based assets, such as stocks, funds and options.

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...

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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...

A trader looks at a mixed financial picture

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...

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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.

There’s Always a Bull Market for Income Investors Somewhere

We’re into the seventh year of zero percent interest rates, and income investors are wondering out loud when...

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Momentum Fund Speeds into First Place

Just because the U.S. market isn’t offering easy money doesn’t mean it isn’t possible for individual investors to...

How High-Yield Assets are Performing in 2015

From Greece to China to the corner of Wall St. and Broad St., things were indeed wild.