With a little more than a week to go before BB10 hits the stores, Research in Motion (Nasdaq:$RIMM) has become a hot stock again. The company that invented the smartphone may be reestablishing itself as a major player in mobile. Or, we could be watching the biggest dead-cat bounce in history. As recently as this past...Read More
InvestorPlace once again offered up its 10 best stocks for the year with its annual stock pick contest, featuring 10 buy-and-hold plays from 10 market experts. The goal is to deliver outsized returns from Dec. 31, 2012 to Dec. 31, 2013 without trading in between. In today’s podcast, Charles Sizemore of Sizemore Capital Management and Jeff Reeves of...Read More
What I’m about to say may sound absurd or even offensive. But I think it is highly likely that Google (Nasdaq:$GOOG) will have disappeared by 2020—or at the very least changed to such an extent as to make it unrecognizable to readers today. I know, I know. Google is so integral to modern life that it...Read More
It may sound like a harsh question. But the man is seriously ill with cancer, and he has had no public appearances in over a month. Rumors abound that he is near death…or may already be dead. As he is reported to be in Havana, some have even speculated that the Cuban government is essentially holding...Read More
Reputations can take decades to build…and only minutes to throw away. I thought of this last week when I read that American Express (NYSE:$AXP) was gutting its travel services, laying off more than 5,000 employees—or roughly 9 percent of its workforce—most of whom worked in travel. Remember, Amex is the card for the global elite—executives and...Read More
