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by Ilan Moscovitz - March 14, 2010 - 0 comments

It took a special kind of incompetence to get to where we are today. After years of "producing" billions of dollars using sophisticated financial instruments, investment banks and nominal retail banks alike got crushed by the consequences of excessive leverage and convoluted investments.

by Austin Edwards - March 14, 2010 - 0 comments

I don't know about you, but I'm starting to forget what life was like before the Internet.

by Rich Smith - March 8, 2010 - 0 comments

"As stock markets slid in March, Judy Brady lay awake at night thinking about her portfolio. 'My retired friends who had all CDs and gold, and they were still making money, and my investments just kept going and going,' she said. 'I thought: I can't afford to lose all this.' So the 70-year-old retiree in Schaumburg, Ill., sold most of her stocks."  -- The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2009

by Jim Royal - February 28, 2010 - 0 comments

We all love great, profitable companies, but the managers to whom we entrust our investments could be robbing our companies blind in a completely legal way. Research now suggests that high executive compensation is one of the clearest signs of a company's long-term underperformance. That means that if you're looking for great stock market gains, then you have to dig much deeperthan the traditional financial metrics. As time goes by, these overpaid managers will kill your returns if you don't spot them.

by Alyce Lomax - February 18, 2010 - 0 comments

Boycott? What boycott? Judging by its most recent quarterly results, it looks like Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFMI) is doing just fine, despite last summer's highly publicized furorover CEO John Mackey's views on health care, which led to some vocal protests regarding Whole Foods stores. So much for those threats.

by Rich Smith - February 6, 2010 - 0 comments
"As stock markets slid in March, Judy Brady lay awake at night thinking about her portfolio. 'My retired friends who had all CDs and gold, and they were still making money, and my investments just kept going and going,' she said. 'I thought: I can't afford to lose all this.' So the 70-year-old retiree in Schaumburg, Ill., sold most of her stocks." -- The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2009
by Anders Bylund - February 5, 2010 - 0 comments
On an otherwise pretty severe market day, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) managed to buck the trend. Thanks to an awesome earnings report, Cisco shares have edged up a sliver today while the overall market tanked.
by Rich Duprey - February 3, 2010 - 0 comments
Some companies are obviously great investments -- in hindsight. Yet for every stock out there screaming "buy me," others simply give us a nudge and a nod. How can we tell tomorrow's obviously great investments from the thousands of pretenders?
by Selena Maranjian - December 17, 2009 - 0 comments

It's tough to beat gold, isn't it? There's no better medal to win in the Olympics. For many people, there's no better component of jewelry. And when it comes to investing, quite a few folks think that other investments just aren't as safe or lucrative.

by Todd Wenning - December 13, 2009 - 0 comments

The hottest investments in 2009 have been, in no particular order:

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