AT&T is battling the U.S. government over its plan to acquire competing wireless carrier T-Mobile USA. Hasn't anybody told AT&T that the government always wins? Read More

Royal Dutch Shell’s (NYSE: RDS.A) most recent downstream LNG venture will serve a market where there’s no shortage of natural gas: North America. Read More

Problems at European banks and alarmist statements by bank CEOs have wreaked havoc on European stocks. Jim thinks the selling is overdone and offers a few diversified ways to play a European rebound. Read More

Why has the price of gasoline continued to increase despite the decline in the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil? Pundits have come up with dozens of conspiracy theories to explain this anomaly. Here's the truth. Read More

Netflix has benefited tremendously from extremely inexpensive video content licensing fees to stream movies. With these licenses up for renewal at fees at least ten times higher, the good times for Netflix shareholders are coming to an end. Read More

Much is made these days of the position of the US relative to China and how the latter will soon become the biggest economy on the planet. Whatever the nature of this global race, or whether there is a race at all, Canada and Australia--and investors who own the high-dividend-paying companies that call those countries home--are poised to prosper. Read More

The shale gas revolution also has dramatically changed the fortunes of two related industries, one brimming with promise in the early 2000s and the other forlorn. Read More

Almost 20 years ago S&P cut Canada from AAA to AA+. Ottawa responded by balancing its budget within three years. Read More

Patent litigation over smartphones is making big players like Google and Apple bid high prices for companies with communications patents. Who will be next and does Google want to become a smartphone manufacturer? Read More

Fund manager Sam Isaly of Eaton Vance Worldwide Health Sciences is excited about the new frontiers in biotech and healthcare. Read More