This tale of two tanker markets offers opportunities for investors who focus on high-yielding names with little exposure to the spot market. Read More

Looking for a good stock broker? Which broker is "good" depends upon what type of investor or trader you are. Jim discusses his seven favorite brokerage features and provides names of those brokers that fit the bill. Read More

Conspiracy theories about the Fed’s intentions make for enjoyable reading, but they don’t help investors with the decisions that really matter. Read More

Stock market history provides a surprising answer to the question of whether the S&P 500 index will continue falling after five consecutive weeks of decline. But high-yield income investors shouldn't care what the answer is as long as they reinvest their dividends. Read More

What spans more than four soccer fields in length, weighs more than six times as much as the world's largest aircraft carrier and towers 17 stories above the water? Read More

After a disastrous regional election, Germany's Christian Democrats have decided to shut down all 17 of Germany's nuclear power plants by 2022. Jim doubts that it will ever actually happen. Read More

Crude oil prices have been very volatile so far in 2011, but the trend is now firmly up. Read More

Scale is an important factor in determining how utility companies fare following unexpected events. But planning--mainly keeping a clean balance sheet--also plays a role. Income investing for the long term is about finding the companies that plan for failures. Read More

Bruce Berkowitz is criticizing the U.S. government for selling part of its stake in AIG for only two-thirds of book value. But AIG's book value of $47 may be less real than it appears. Read More

Jim argues that a huge IPO price pop is a sign of failure, not success. Long-term investors in LinkedIn should be very angry at both the investment banks involved and LinkedIn's corporate executives. Read More