February Freeze in Housing Starts Is a Bad Bellwether

New housing starts fell dramatically in February as the cold, protracted winter froze new construction in the Midwest and Northeast.

Defensive Investing: Use Dollar-Cost Averaging to Reduce Volatility Risks

Dollar-cost averaging has long been a strategic staple among mutual fund buyers. Longer-term investors use it to smooth out the effects of...

A Tale of Two Investments: U.S. Steel Scenario Illustrates the Power of Dollar-Cost-Averaging

To understand the potential defensive-investing benefits of dollar-cost averaging, let's take a look at two scenarios involving United States Steel...

Buy, Sell or Hold: Peabody Energy Corp.'s (NYSE: BTU) Global Dominance Is Heating Up Profit Growth

While advanced economies are still facing high levels of unemployment, more than a billion people in emerging markets are experiencing advancing ...

Stubbornly High Unemployment Shows U.S. Economy Still Plagued by "Jobless Recovery"

While a surge in corporate profits reflect an improving economy, several government reports show that the United States continues to be plagued by...

The U.S. Employment Outlook: Bad For Paychecks, Good For U.S. Stocks

You undoubtedly know by now that the U.S. economy added 164,000 jobs in March. While that was the best number in ages, anyone who looked closely at...

The Year of the Tiger is the Perfect Time for Caterpillar Inc.

In China, the tiger is commonly thought of as lazy, merely appearing to be strong and ferocious.

But that's truly not the case....

Latest Report Shows the Jobless Recovery Still Endures

Stocks have staged surprise rebounds after seemingly poor payroll reports half a dozen times in the past year. But the one time that there was...

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