Where are oil prices headed in 2019? A review of 2018 helps answer that question.  Read More

Strolling down the aisles of your local grocery store probably gives you a reassuring family-friendly feeling, as you seek out your favorite food brands. But the grocery store isn’t a comfort zone — it’s a war zone. Big corporations are waging a ferocious daily battle for your grocery dollar. The… Read More

Annuities are insurance products that pay out income. They're a popular choice for conservative investors seeking a steady income stream. Read More

Research surrounding immunotherapy is a hot scientific area, as scientists and physicians try to find a way to get the body to fight cancer by itself, eliminating the need for costly and painful techniques such as chemotherapy and radiation. In effect, immunotherapy pursues the age-old medical dream of allowing the… Read More

Sick and tired of the "doom-and-gloomers?" If investors were to implement a simple market-timing system, these Chicken Littles would go out of business in a flash. Read More

Today we’ll look at a popular investing arena: the cheapest dividend stocks in the stock market. We need to be a little bit careful when hunting for the cheapest dividend stocks, because sometimes dividend stocks are cheap for a reason. Investors are often enticed by a very high dividend yield… Read More

Let me say this now: penny stocks are for speculators only. Even the cheapest penny stocks make for the worst securities in the stock market. Penny stocks offer ownership positions in companies that have extremely low chances of success. Penny stocks also have a higher chance of being manipulated via… Read More

Lemmings are small rodents that have been known to follow each other as they charge to their deaths into raging rivers or off cliffs. Of course, these poor creatures have become metaphors for the herd mentality in humans. Likewise, investors are susceptible to blindly following conventional thinking until it takes… Read More

We believe some of the best international stocks in 2019 can be found in one place – China. That’s because not all Chinese companies rely on exports to the United States for revenue. The escalating U.S.-China trade war is a two-edged sword. It will hurt Chinese manufacturers that sell goods… Read More

Oil baron John D. Rockefeller had amassed a fortune when he died in 1937 that in today’s dollars would be worth roughly $340 billion. He holds the record as the richest American ever and certainly one of recorded history’s richest persons. For generations, the Rockefeller surname has been synonymous with… Read More