Why Money Market Accounts Are a Sham

A few weeks ago I called my bank. Exasperated, I explained that the 0.3 percent annual interest being earned in my money market account was ridiculous. Now, I know it’s really not the bank’s fault. I’m well aware that ‘Helicopter’ Ben Bernanke and his low interest rate policy are the real culprits. Nevertheless, I instructed [...]

Increase Your Odds of Investment Success

If you only invest in stocks you probably think you have a good idea about your risks. But the fact is, if you’re a long-only stock investor, you’re actually taking on more risk than almost any other type of investor out there. Because as soon as you buy a stock, you’re always assuming a 100% [...]

A 10% Yielding Power Infrastructure Company With An Improving Payout Ratio

Providing an essential service with revenue backed by long-term contracts, Canadian power generation stocks occupy an enviable position in late 2011. No matter how bad things get in the credit market and economy, they’ll keep getting paid — and passing the profit along in dividends to investors. That point is widely acknowledged by investors, demonstrated [...]

Looking For A Rebound In This Hard-Hit Coal ETF

Bears expected to finally savor victory in the third quarter. They were hoping to take advantage of the market’s turmoil due to investors’ fear over the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the fiscal showdown in the US and the potential for slowing growth in China. The SP 500 (SPY ) descended into a classic correction [...]

Playing The Uncertainty In Healthcare

Investors traditionally have regarded healthcare as a defensive sector that stands to benefit over the long term from favorable demographic trends. Not only does demand for healthcare products and services remain relatively resilient when the economy weakens – consumers tend to regard these purchases as non discretionary – but an aging US population and rising [...]

China Flirts With Hard Landing While Japan Buoyed By Positive Earnings Outlook

During a telephone call with a money manager over the weekend, I was surprised to hear of a new scenario making the rounds in investing circles. Some now believe that the Chinese economy’s forthcoming “hard landing” will be so jarring that it will bring the country’s gross domestic product growth down to 5 percent. For [...]

Why U.S. Dollars Will Not Be Used as Firestarter

Apocalypse Now was a great title for Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War classic starring Martin Sheen. Today, many financial pundits are claiming that the United States – flooded with debt, burdened by high unemployment, and with an economy growing at a snail’s pace – is on the edge of a new apocalypse. “Financial Armageddon,” [...]

Q1 Preview: Microsoft (MSFT) May Gain on PC Sales, But Selling Price Issues Linger

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U.S. Debt Outlook: Watch out for 2012

(Written by Rebecca Lipman. List compiled by Eben Esterhuizen, CFA. Institutional data sourced from Fidelity. Debt data sourced from Finviz.com) For those who have lost count, the US national debt now stands at $14.8 trillion (just $490 billion shy of the nation’s GDP), and Congress has until December 23rd to approve $1.2 trillion in savings over ten [...]

Russian Stocks: Now That Putin’s Back, Should You Buy?

(Written by Rebecca Lipman. List compiled by Eben Esterhuizen, CFA. Data sourced from Finviz.) Karim Rahemtulla, writer for Wall Street Daily, believes Russia’s recent economic woes places the country’s market in an undervalued position that presents valuable investing opportunities. Russia is a bit of an enigma to many Americans who know little more than the glimpse [...]

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