Depending on which companies you look at, an argument can be made that it was tech stocks that led the market lower earlier this month (i.e., Netflix, IBM), and it was tech stocks that led the market back up during the past week (e.g., Apple, Microsoft). The chart below illustrates… Read More

The past provides useful guidance for the future. Read More

The recent market swoon has  made this company a great value. Read More

The Core Holdings in Utility Forecaster’s Growth Portfolio held their value during the recent selloff and have outperformed the broad market so far this year. Read More

Oil appears to have settled around $80 per barrel for West Texas Intermediate crude, close to $20 below its 2013 and 2012 averages of $98 in each year. If this is to become a long-term level, then the lower oil prices will work through the global economy, producing… Read More

Most of you have a slug of “safe money” on which you’d like to earn a higher return without risking your principal. You’d also like a way to help pay for any long-term care expenses you incur. There are tools to help you reach both goals. Read More

The right time to own a leveraged oil driller isn’t as obvious as it might seem. Read More

The data deluge is upon us: 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day, and 90% of the data worldwide has been generated in just the past two years alone! Read More

With the upcoming Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) split-up, the H-P Enterprise unit (comprised of infrastructure hardware, software and services) will be more agile and focused when it comes to building out its datacenter, cloud and security businesses.There’s no doubt that this enterprise unit will be looking to boost its tepid growth rate… Read More

Breaking up is hard to do, but sometimes it is the only way to keep moving forward. Read More