How China Will Drive Silver to $250

Silver is up over 44% in the last nine months. But thanks to a new campaign by the Chinese government, silver is about to take off higher. Much...

How "Hot Money" is Wrecking the U.S. Banking System...

When the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) released its list of "problem banks" this week, 702 institutions holding $402.8 billion in assets...

India Says Economy Will Grow by 8.75% This Year, but Obstacles Remain

The Indian economy will grow by as much as 8.75% in the coming fiscal year, the country's finance ministry predicted on Thursday. But concerns about...

Coca-Cola Follows PepsiCo's Lead and Buys Its Largest Bottler

The soda rivalry continues as Coca-Cola takes a page out of PepsiCo's playbook.

The Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE:

It's Time to Tackle Government Pay

It's fairly well known that the U.S. public sector is paid more than the private sector. What's less well known is that the gap between...

Hot Stocks: New Media Player Just One Reason to Like Seagate Technology

Disk drive makers are usually seen as the poor stepsisters of the consumer electronics world.

While their more glamorous cousins like Apple...

Billonaire Investor George Soros Questions the Euro's Future

In an editorial penned for the Financial Times, billionaire investing icon George Soros said that while Greece could be...

Home Depot and Lowe's Laying the Foundation for Recovery with Little Help From the Housing Market

The housing market that was at the epicenter of the financial crisis has yet to approach a full-fledged recovery, but that hasn't stopped the...

Obama's Targets Insurers with $950 Billion Health Care Reform Plan

Health insurance providers are protesting this week as the government comes a step closer to strengthening its industry regulation by calling for new...

Is it Time For Investors to Beware of the Bear?

With U.S. stocks down about 5% from their 2009-2010 rally peak, investors basically want to know one thing: Is this just a correction, or are they...

The Essential Eight: The Only Economic Indicators Investors Need to Know

Housing starts. PPI. Same-store sales. Weekly jobless claims. Philly Fed. Lagging indicators. Core CPI. Industrial production.

When it...

Plans to Hide Commercial Real Estate Losses Won't Avert a Double-Dip Downturn

Sooner or later, mounting losses on commercial real estate could crash through the market's 2009 optimism and send the economy and stocks into a ...

Saudi Arabia Shifts its Focus to China as the United States Falls Out of Favor

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, last year shipped more oil to China than it did the United States for the first time ever - a shift...

Schlumberger's Acquisition of Smith the Latest Evidence of a Takeover Trend

With global energy demand expected to surge over the next decade, straining production, it's no surprise that many of the sector's biggest players...

Freakish Winter Freezes Some Profit Plays, Heats Up Some Others

This article was supposed to be about investments that would allow you to profit from the typical cold-and-snowy weather that's part of the winter...

Profit From the Broadband Explosion With Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO)

Last Friday I unveiled my two most compelling stock ideas to the readers of my Money Map VIP trading service. They are the...

Where's the "Big Money" Headed Now?

The remarkable week that just concluded actually began on February 12, which was two Fridays ago. Stocks plunged in the opening minutes of trading...