The Best Way to Invest in the Biotech IPO Bonanza
Filed under: Investing With the IPO bonanza of 2013 continuing into 2014 -- although abated a bit by the general sector pullback during the Spring -- investors have the opportunity to buy stock in a...
View ArticleHome Sales, Prices Showed Slow and Steady Recovery in April
Filed under: Investing Home sales and prices continued to show signs of recovery in April, according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and the Federal Housing Finance...
View ArticleCan Microsoft Beat Apple in This Critical Growth Market?
Filed under: Investing It's unclear if Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 will become a hit with consumers, but the hybrid device has already been well received by early adopters in the health care industry....
View ArticleHow Nike Powers Its Dividend
Filed under: Investing For most of the time since it joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average , Nike has been an outperformer, but the stock fell to underperform status after reporting a 7% drop in...
View ArticleThis Billionaire's Case For Saving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Filed under: Investing Flickr / insider_monkey. After researching a recent article I wrote on the aftermath of the financial crisis, I decided to dig deeper into the story that Bill Ackman (rockstar...
View ArticleIs Gene Therapy Medicine's Next Big Thing?
Filed under: Investing Bluebird Bio is a small company with big ideas. The clinical stage biotechnology company is researching novel treatments that seek to insert missing genes into patient stem...
View ArticleAre Miners About to Start Spending Again?
Filed under: Investing Joy Global and Caterpillar have been struggling since the financial crisis. However, shares of both companies have recently rallied, partly thanks to higher valuations and...
View ArticleThe Incredible Heights of America's Inspiring Oil Patch
Filed under: Investing The United States is again on the precipice of record crude-oil production, reaching 8.5 million barrels of oil per day this past quarter, the most in about 30 years. With Texas...
View Article6 Essential Tips to Sell Your House This Summer
Filed under: Investing If you're planning to put your house on the market this summer - and you hope to have it sold in time for the September school season - the clock is ticking. Even before you meet...
View ArticleWant to Work on Wall Street? Here Are 5 Careers To Pick From
Filed under: Investing Have you ever dreamed about a career in the stock market, but don't really know where to start? You're not alone - most people's idea of working in the investment world comes...
View ArticleFor $20,000, These Students Can Build You a New Home
Filed under: Investing Flickr / Flaxe. If you are mulling the idea of buying a new home, you are very likely aware that you will need to have $20,000 saved for every $100,000 worth of house you plan to...
View ArticleStudent Loan Relief is Coming to Those Who Need it Most
Filed under: Investing President Obama signed a presidential memorandum on Monday, June 9, intended to make student loan debt easier to pay off for millions of Americans. Essentially, it limits the...
View ArticleWarren Buffett's Money-Making Brilliance Was Founded on a Mistake
Filed under: Investing "Like virginity, a stable price level seems capable of maintenance, but not of restoration." - Warren Buffett For nearly a decade during the 1980s, Warren Buffett was convinced...
View ArticleBetter Marijuana Stock: GW Pharma vs Insys
Filed under: Investing GW Pharma and Insys hope to create effective treatments based on chemical cannabinoids found in marijuana. GW Pharma is already selling a THC synthetic drug as a treatment for...
View ArticleAmericans Can't Keep Their Credit Cards in Their Pockets
Filed under: Investing The economy is doing better, but not as great as the numbers initially make it seem. That's the clear common theme between the Department of Labor's May jobs report and the...
View Article3 Stocks Obamacare Is Transforming
Filed under: Investing Rite Aid has recently come under fire from some doctor's groups for offering Alzheimer's tests in 4,000 of its stores. Many are claiming that the tests should be given in a...
View Article$11 Billion Windfall: DoD Deal An Epic Gamechanger?
Filed under: Investing Communication is key in any health-care setting, but for the U.S. military's health-care leaders it is becoming job No. 1. That's because the military's vast legacy health-care...
View ArticleShould Investors Own Either of These High-Yielding Oil Tanker Stocks?
Filed under: Investing Since 2006 the oil tanker market has been a brutal place for investors. Cheap credit and record high tanker day rates (as high as $155,000/day) resulted in a massive oversupply...
View ArticleIs Israel Building an All-Drone Army?
Filed under: Investing When you hear the word "drone," do you picture a small robotic airplane, flying through the sky bearing a stars-and-stripes decal on its chassis? If you do, then chances are you...
View ArticleThe Biggest Reason to Be Wary of Energy XXI's Future
Filed under: Investing Energy XXI is one of those oil and gas producers that has flown under many investors' radars over the past couple of years because, frankly, it doesn't deal with the more popular...
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