You never have to limit yourself to owning crummy companies just because everybody else does. We’re speaking of the ones that make up the S&P 500 as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Read More

Will Citigroup and other mega-banks stabilize in time to head off a global recession? That’s the key question gripping world markets as we head into 2008. Read More

There’s money in the green trend. But there's one stop on the money train many investors haven't visited yet. Read More

Coinmach Service Corp's buyout by Babcock & Brown is done. Credits for the deal are hitting investors' accounts in two parts... Read More

“What the hell is going on?” That’s one of the softer questions we’ve fielded during the last several weeks about our heavy dividend paying Cash Cows. Read More

Business strength: That’s ultimately what shapes returns for every investment you own. And it’s what ensures quality stocks subjected to severe market maulings always recover, so long as they keep making money and paying distributions. Read More

Zoltek reported strong fiscal fourth quarter results in late November amid strong demand for carbon-fiber blades for wind turbines. Read More

Natural gas prices have a tendency to rise during the winter months. The reason is that the winter heating season is a period of peak demand for natural gas. Read More

OPEC countries earned $243 billion from oil exports in 2000; that number should approach $700 billion for 2007, according to Cambridge Energy Research Associates. And now Persian Gulf states are looking to deploy all that petrocash. Read More

US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox sped up Massachusetts Avenue to M Street to deliver a speech at the American Enterprise Institute titled “The Rise of Sovereign Business” Dec. 5. Read More