Sometimes just being steady is enough to make a portfolio work. When stocks are plunging day after day and much of the bond market’s doing the same, more and more investors are eager for investments that stay put. Read More

Each year of the last five has featured pretty much the same story. Emerging markets and natural resources massively outperform, correct in scary fashion and then continue to outperform. Read More

Did something absolutely horrible happen to one of our Cash Cow companies? Did the CEO flee the country with millions of our assets? Did the headquarters blow up? Did someone from the Justice Dept show up with a writ? You’d think that one of those things—if not something worse—had happened, given the way some of our stocks have behaved recently. Read More

Enerplus Resources is cutting a deal to issue more trust shares and putting cash into tar sands— not what we’d like to see in light of pending tax changes. Read More

Residential REITs Home Properties and Mid-America Apartment have been hit by concerns about the US real estate market. Read More

Preferred stocks are one-decision investments: Buy at a price that makes sense, then sit back and collect the distributions. Even if they’re redeemed or called, the worst is you’re cashed out at a solid total return. Read More

Continued buzz surrounding the potential for nuclear plants in the US and Europe continues to help drive Toshiba, owner of the world’s largest nuclear plant construction firm, Westinghouse. Toshiba rates a buy. Read More

In late March, Porsche boosted its stake in VW to 30.9 percent. Under German corporate law, ownership of more than 30 percent of a company’s outstanding shares triggers an automatic takeover bid—Porsche is legally required to make a bid for all remaining shares of VW. Read More

Here’s one more reason to go to Las Vegas: Join Personal Finance Editor Neil George and Associate Editors Roger Conrad and Ivan Martchev at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino for the LAS VEGAS MONEY SHOW, May 14-17, 2007. Register for free at www.lasvegasmoneyshow.com or call 800-970-4355. And be sure… Read More

We’ve revisited municipal bonds a few times in the past year, but as April 15 quickly approaches it’s useful to go through the drill on this fundamental investment vehicle again. Read More