Everyone loves to ride a hot trend, but in too many cases, the hysteria is much bigger than deserved. When it comes to hot trends, it's hard to come up with a hotter one than Chinese stocks. But as I see it, the "invest in China" craze has reached ...
Though the dust is still settling from this week's two big IPOs, it's not too soon to get past the euphoria and look at what these stocks are actually worth. Fellow Fool Brian Orelli took care of business for Cumberland Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: CPIX) ...
Though the dust is still settling from this week's two big IPOs, it's not too soon to get past the euphoria and look at what these stocks are actually worth. Fellow Fool Brian Orelli took care of business for Cumberland Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: CPIX) ...
The recently enacted Credit CARD Act of 2009 gave consumers some valuable protection against card rules that, for some consumers, were the equivalent to financial quicksand. Before this new law, provisions included in the fine print of credit card ...
Wall Street's usually on the ball when assessing a company's true value, but it can sometimes forget that certain news is already baked into a stock's price. We saw one great example on Monday, when global infrastructure conglomerate SPX (NYSE: SPW) ...
Amphenol is part of the somewhat nebulous diversified electronics industry, which covers everything from coaxial cables to medical diagnostic equipment. And on looking further at this diverse industry, I found a surprisingly resilient group of ...
I had prepared myself to storm in and trash Finish Line (Nasdaq: FINL) for poor results after it announced earnings. A funny thing happened, though -- the company's third-quarter sales weren't the complete disaster I'd expected. To be fair, Finish Line ...
I'm always skeptical of company statements. All too often, the message either proves overly optimistic or seems geared toward reducing expectations to ridiculously low levels. In the case of Standard Microsystems (Nasdaq: SMSC), though, I completely ...
Nobody loves a well-reasoned trade more than I do. Sometimes, though, what seems like obvious logic ends up yielding disappointing results. Ultra-bargain-store stocks have enjoyed a year-long rally. Stores like 99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE: NDN), Dollar ...
Let's see, with inflation growing the fastest it has in 17 years last month - a whopping 0.8% - the twelve month inflation rate is now 5.6%. We've not seen annual inflation like that since 1991. Wow. The Fed really should do something (i.e. raise rates) ...
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