Monthly Archives: August, 2010

How Many Utilities are in Your Portfolio?

A powerful relative strength rally in utilities stocks is underway. The S&P 500 Utilities Index has outperformed the S&P 500 index by 12.5% since...

This Economy is Booming

The economic recovery in Brazil continues to gain momentum. Brazilian GDP grew at 11.4% in the first quarter of 2010. Inflation remains tame by...

An Investment Strategy Guaranteed to Win

In investing there is only one variable that an investor can control, and that is cost. Cost is vital to your long-term investment success....

A CEO Polygraph

How Can You Tell If A CEO Is Lying? – Kyle Stock, DealJournal, The Wall Street Journal Conference call Q&As are a confusing and cryptic...

Creative Destruction

Creative Destruction – Popularized by Joseph Schumpeter, a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old...

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US and Iran Move Toward Long-Term Peace Accord

The United States and Iran announced an interim peace...

Bond Yields Turn Negative

If you thought 25 basis point yields on two-year...

USA Rare Earth Advances America’s Mine-to-Magnet Strategy

USA Rare Earth has finalized agreements with the US...

OPEC’s Quota System Under Pressure as Capacity Gaps Widen

At Energy Connects, Robin Mills explains that tensions within OPEC...

USPS Still Does Things the Internet Cannot

Need some baby chicks delivered direct to your home?...

Largest US Fuel Delivery to Cuba in Decades Halted

A planned shipment of 250,000 barrels of gasoline and...

Big Acquisition Reshapes the Future of Streaming

Fox Corporation has agreed to buy Roku in a...

What We’re Reading 10-7-11

The Fed's 'Twist' Turns into a Problem for Pensions,...

Election Year Buzz Turns into Hangover

Surprise, surprise, consumer sentiment in America reached its post-recession...

Good ‘Ole Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett has pulled the wool over the eyes...