Will Kinross Gold's New Mine Offset Lower Prices?
Filed under: Investing Gold prices have shown no mercy for gold miners this year. It's no surprise that companies like Kinross Gold , Eldorado Gold , and Yamana Gold trade near their yearly lows....
View ArticleWhat Is the Penalty for Not Getting Health Insurance?
Filed under: Investing You may have heard that, under Obamacare, everyone is required to have health insurance -- or pay a penalty. This is technically called the individual mandate, but it doesn't...
View ArticleThe 2014 Chevy Silverado Is Still Losing Ground
Filed under: Investing When General Motors launched its new 2014 Chevy Silverado pickup -- and its near-twin, the GMC Sierra -- it was hoping to reach parity with industry leader Ford Motor . Ford's...
View ArticleShould ExxonMobil Break Itself Up?
Filed under: Investing As it's often said, breaking up is hard to do. That's especially true in the energy world, where integrated behemoths like ExxonMobil simultaneously operate several different...
View ArticleA Revolution in Mining Is Underway
Filed under: Investing A revolution in mining is currently under way. Caterpillar is leading the field in automated mining equipment, which is driving down costs, boosting output and improving safety....
View ArticleIs Hewlett-Packard Stock a Buy After Its Recent Earnings Rally?
Filed under: Investing If you'd have told tech investors two years ago that then-struggling Hewlett-Packard would have trounced the performance of any of the names in the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
View ArticleWhy This Oil Shift Is Likely to Be a Profitable One
Filed under: Investing Resource diversification has allowed BHP Billiton to remain profitable despite generally weak mining markets. Looking to further diversify, BHP recently pushed deeper into oil...
View ArticleBe Greedy When Others Are Fearful
Filed under: Investing This past Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of the real-money Inflation-Protected Income Growth portfolio. The year-in-review article that celebrated that portfolio's...
View ArticleWhy Apple Will Dominate This Christmas
Filed under: Investing Things seem to be going Apple's way right now, just in time for the crucial holiday season. In the following video, David Meier and John Reeves talk about why Apple is likely to...
View ArticleDow 20,000 in 2015?
Filed under: Investing Predictions are silly and usually wrong. However, in this segment from The Motley Fool's everything-financials show, Where the Money Is, analysts David Hanson and Matt...
View ArticleProof People Don't Hate Bank of America
Filed under: Investing While many have denounced the banking services provided by the biggest banks like Bank of America , JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup , and others -- the most recent evidence shows their...
View ArticleWhy You Should Avoid Wal-Mart
Filed under: Investing Consumer spending is slowing in the U.S., and the effects can be easily seen in the lackluster earnings results many retailers have recently posted. People are not willing to...
View ArticleWhat Everyone Ought to Know About the Bakken
Filed under: Investing The Bakken has become the biggest development in the U.S. energy industry since Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. And while it has created enormous wealth for investors, you might not know...
View ArticleThis Oil Town Topples the Hedge Fund Ghetto
Filed under: Investing Oil pump jack near Midland, Texas. Photo credit: Flickr/Paul Lowry America's energy boom is reaching new heights. Its latest feat has it ascending past Wall Street according to...
View ArticleSarepta's Rocky 2013
Filed under: Investing This year was a clash of positive clinical data and regulatory uncertainty for Sarepta Therapeutics . Regulatory uncertainty won -- or, rather, became certain in a negative way....
View ArticleInvestors Shouldn't Be Worried About This Recent Decline
Filed under: Investing Rowan Companies has not had a good second half. The company's shares performed well during the first half of the year as the company reported better than expected earnings but...
View Article5 Oil Stocks for 2014
Filed under: Investing Photo credit: Flickr/Loco Steve. Oil production in America is booming. We're producing more oil than we have in nearly two decades. That's fueling strong returns for oil...
View ArticleWhy Natural Gas Could Save Coal
Filed under: Investing Natural gas is an increasingly abundant resource in the United States. It's so cheap that it's being integrated into the transportation sector, which sets the stage for lower...
View ArticleIs Now the Time to Be Cuckoo for Yahoo!?
Filed under: Investing In one of the latest moves in Yahoo!'s ongoing corporate makeover, the Internet portal has announced plans to increase its share buyback program to $5 billion. The search engine...
View Article5 Stocks That Bounced Back in 2013
Filed under: Investing It was one of my gutsier calls late last year. I took a look at some of the biggest losers of 2012 -- stocks that were down by as little as 24% and as much as 81% year to date --...
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