It’s that time of year again… While the Best Stocks for 2016 contest is still going down to the wire — and yours truly is duking it out for first place, up 38% on the year — it’s already time to start planning for 2017. Here’s an excerpt from my 2017 submission: As I’m writing...Read More

Leave it to the stock market to do the exact opposite of what you expect it to do. Following Donald Trump’s surprise win, stocks have spent the past three weeks pushing higher. Ironically, given that the President-Elect is a world-renown real estate developer, real estate investment trusts (REITS) have gotten clobbered. REITs as a sector...Read More

You really can’t beat getting a dollar for 90 cents. Unless, of course, you manage to find one for 85 cents. While deals like that really shouldn’t exist in the real world, they’re actually pretty common in the closed-end fund (CEF) space. And today, some of the best bargains are to be found among the...Read More

I joined Peggy Tuck today on Mike Robertson’s Straight Talk Money to chat about the improving economy, the OPEC meeting and its impact on energy prices and more!  Read More

With one month to go in 2016, InvestorPlace’s Best Stocks for 2016 contest is going down to the wire. My pick, pipeline superpower Energy Transfer Equity (ETE), is tied for first place with Ellie Mae (ELLI), both up 40% on the year.   Energy Transfer is rallying today, mostly on the news that OPEC had reached an...Read More