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Today (Monday), Stuart Varney of FOX Business' "Varney & Co." asked Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald if technology made his "Best Investments 2014" list.
Fitz-Gerald's answer: Absolutely.
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by David Mamos
Priceline.com Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLN) has done a lot of things right over the past decade or so, and investors have rewarded it by sending its stock to more than $1,000 this year.
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The S&P 500 is up 157% since March 2009 and, until last week's pullback, the concept of value investing seemed deader than a doorknob.
Everything is too expensive, they say…
Stocks have been bid up to unrealistic levels, they insist…
Multiples can't support further growth, they challenge…
Not true.
Believe it or not, there are actually plenty of companies that have been cast aside in this year's record-setting bull run. Even more are being put on sale right now.
Here are three firms to get you started right now.
Move quickly, though.
This could be your last chance to take advantage of these "deals"...
If you've been following our twice-weekly conversations at Strategic Tech Investor, you know that I'm very bullish about technology stocks.
But I want to let you in on a little secret …
I'm also bullish about the overall stock market.
In fact, I'm predicting that the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will advance 15% in 2014, rising from the current 1,795 to 2,065. That will not only take the closely watched index up through the psychologically important 2,000 level, it will take it to the highest level in history.
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by Diane Alter
Good news is actually good news on Wall Street today.
Stocks rallied Friday following a robust November jobs report that showed U.S. employers continued to add jobs at a steady pace last month, which pulled the unemployment rate down to a five-year low at 7.0%.
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by David Zeiler
The housing market bubble isn't over, after all.
Thousands of home equity loans made in the peak years of the housing bubble are just starting to reach their 10th birthday, which for many borrowers will bring very bad news.
You see, most home equity loans are interest-only for the first 10 years. But after that, the borrower must start paying down the principal, which can cause their monthly payments to triple or more.
This 'wave of disaster' is just getting started...
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Why are people investing in bitcoin today, when it's trading around $1,000 (at this writing), even though it's been around since 2008, when it cost less than 10 cents?
The new, rapidly growing popularity of investing in bitcoin can be explained by the actions of one group: The U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Call it the "Milk Cliff" or "Dairy Cliff" or "Cow-a-Bunga-Maggedon."
Due to an outdated price support law from the Truman administration, upcoming holiday breaks and recent recesses would have one significant consequence if Congress can't reach an important bipartisan agreement by January 1: $8 milk prices.
You see, due to permanent legislation from 1949, American dairy farmers have an outrageous incentive kick in on Jan. 1 without Congressional action. Without an updated bill, the U.S. government would purchase dairy products from producers at nearly double the current market rate.
Between the stock market, bitcoin, and tech IPOs, today everyone seems in a race to spot the next biggest asset bubbles readying to pop.
The term "asset bubble" indicates that there is a marked, noticeable divergence between the market price of an asset and its fundamental value. In other words, something that people store value in – a coin, a house, a share of stock – is valued much, much higher than the thing itself could possibly be worth.
Bubbles usually end with crashes: double- or triple-digit percentage losses in the price of the inflated asset over a very short time.
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It's time to look at oil stocks to buy as the United States gets ready to surpass the world's biggest oil producers.
Earlier this month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported that the United States will jump past both Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world's top oil producer by 2015.
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