Apache

High-Priced Stocks Worth Every Penny

Investing in penny stocks is one way to double your money, though it's fraught with risk, but there are equally shiny opportunities trading at the other end of the price spectrum. I call 'em "three-digit stocks," yet if they're anything like Berkshire Hathaway, they can trade in the four-, five-, and six-digit range, too.

3 Stocks That Are Automatic Wealth Machines

Suppose that, 30 years ago, you invested $1,000 in Altria, formerly Philip Morris, maker of the even-then-famous Marlboro brand of cigarettes.

3 Reasons to Buy BP Today

Tumultuous times have offered some of the best opportunities to buy stocks, and the market's recent mess surely qualifies. Although oil and gas giant BP(NYSE: BP) has been battered heavily following its Gulf oil spill, many investors expect better times ahead.

Apache's Time to Shine

Boy, things have sure changed in the oil patch since I covered Apache's (NYSE: APA) earnings last August. Commodity prices had already begun their descent by then, but certainly no one believed at the time that this would be, as Helmerich & Payne (NYSE: HP) has put it, "the worst cyclical downturn since 1981."