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The annual InvestorPlace contest has a host of double-digit winners, including $DDAIF and $INTC. It has been an interesting ride for the stock market in 2013, with the S&P 500 up about 16% year-to-date. So how are the stock pickers faring in our Best Stocks for 2013 feature, which was meant to provide 10 buy-and-hold picks that deliver...
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China made waves with a bad manufacturing report this week, sending world equities–and particularly Japanese equities–sharply lower. But the issues in Asia go beyond just exports and currency rates. It’s about plummeting birth rates and demographics, and what it means for Chinese and Japanese investments. Jeff Reeves of InvestorPlace.com and I talk things over. As...
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Watch me discuss General Motors’s earnings and the outlook for the auto sector with InvestorPlace’s Jeff Reeves.   Auto sales have enjoyed a nice bounce in 2013, with sales the strongest they’ve been in six years, but is it sustainable? I argue that much of the sales surge is “catch up” buying that was postponed...
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The language of Wall Street is infused with pithy maxims.  “Don’t frown; average down.”  “The trend is your friend.”  And perhaps most relevant to us at this time of year, “Sell in May; go away.” The last one is perhaps the most dangerous because, at least for the past several years, it has held true. ...
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Earlier this year, I commented that semiconductor titan Intel (Nasdaq:$INTC) was my favorite tobacco stock. I said this tongue-in-cheek, of course.  I am aware that Intel designs and manufactures microprocessors, not cigarettes.  But my point was simply that slow-growth (or even no-growth) investments, such as tobacco stocks, can be wildly profitable under the right conditions:...
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