Tag: investing

The ability to compare your historical returns to an index or benchmark is an important component of investment success. This exercise allows you to...

The research section in this week’s ‘Top Trading Links’ is one of my favorite lists compiled yet. Investors really need to think hard about...

I am at best agnostic about technical analysis. I tend to believe that charts are like footprints: they show where you’ve been, not where...

Back in November, I posted about the interesting bottoming action in Gasoline prices and what that could potentially mean for a bottom in Crude...

Gold Mining stocks have been badly beaten in 2013. Taking the Gold Miners ETF (GDX) as a proxy, the sector is down over 55% as...

It's been a couple months since we covered Apple (AAPL). And, although a lot has happened since my last AAPL update, the stock price...

Mortgage Regulations now being implemented as part of Dodd Frank legislation signed three years ago continue to cripple the mortgage banking industry and have...

I recently attended a PwC conference where they provided some commentary on changes to the International Accounting Standards (IAS) and International Financial Reporting Standards...

Throughout 2009 and 2010, the headlines alternated between potential bank failures and Europe's Sovereign Debt Crisis. In short, the equity and credit markets were...

As we've chronicled in several articles over the past two months, the $92 Crude Oil support level remains important to bulls.  In the beginning...