When it comes to shipping packages, FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) dominate the global landscape. FedEx handles roughly 8 million package deliveries every day and UPS can handle about double the packages, shipping... read more »
July 25, 2012 10:00 am / no comments
Gone are the days when traditional board games and puzzles satisfied every child’s idea of a good time. Today, the realm of toys has fully evolved into the tech world, and instead of their living room floor, most people prefer to play... read more »
July 4, 2012 10:00 am / no comments
Traditionally, investing in the airline industry has been fraught with peril. But there are always exceptions to the rule. In its earlier days, investors could have done quite well by buying and holding on to Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV).
When... read more »
June 3, 2012 10:56 pm / no comments
Quite often in the stock market, the share price of a hot company can suddenly fall out of favor, causing investors to dump the stock. The trick is to find out whether the negative sentiment is in fact warranted. If not, then this oversold stock... read more »
May 20, 2012 8:00 pm / no comments
One of my all-time favorite investing articles talks about how important growth is when buying a stock. The author goes back in time and demonstrates that, by buying into leading growth companies, investors could garner incredible annual returns.... read more »
May 13, 2012 9:25 pm / no comments
The world economy may be struggling to recover from the depths of the Great Recession, but there are still pockets of the market that are seeing explosive growth. Demand for electronic gadgets held up amazingly well during the credit crisis,... read more »
April 17, 2012 7:59 pm / no comments
In the 1994 investment classic The Warren Buffett Way, author Robert Hagstrom delves into great detail on the stocks that catapulted Buffett’s fortune into what it is today. In the chapter describing Berkshire Hathaway’s primary... read more »
April 14, 2012 3:02 pm / no comments
Back in the fall of 2010, I touted technology giant International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) in the belief that its stock was poised to have a strong run. A key part of this bullishness was a bold prediction by its management team that it... read more »
March 29, 2012 11:02 am / no comments
Warren Buffett is no fan of short-term trends. Rather than focusing on the flavor of the minute, Buffett instead fixates on trends that will last decades.
And then he makes a fortune off of them.
Take his investment in Coca-Cola (NYSE:... read more »
March 27, 2012 1:44 pm / no comments
Insurance giant American International Group (NYSE: AIG), or AIG for short, has had a tumultuous few years, to say the least. Right now, a handful of investors literally hate the stock and refuse to buy it.
That’s their loss…
As... read more »
March 12, 2012 3:53 pm / no comments