Compare the best CD rates, the best money market rates, the best savings rates, mortgage rates, home equity rates, auto loan rates and more - as well as find financial information that can help you make better decisions with your money.
Short selling (or selling stock now with the obligation to buy it back later) was widely blamed for the collapse and instability of financial markets during 2007 and 2008. The Lehman bankruptcy...
Peter Lynch delivered a compound annual return of 29.2% over 13 years at the Fidelity Magellan Fund. In a recent interview, Lynch shared some of his insights on the economy and offered timely and...
According to recent research investors expect a return of about 13.7% per year from stocks. On a historical basis is this a realistic assumption, or are people being overly optimistic?
Citigroup, once the largest financial services supermarket in the world, has fallen on extraordinarily tough times and is practically insolvent. That hasn't deterred some of the world's smartest...
I have written many articles here suggesting the purchase of AMLN, the maker of Byetta and the long acting drug currently under review by the FDA Byetta LAR.
Verizon Communications is taking an unusual step: it's listing it's shares on the NASDAQ in addition to the current listing on the NYSE. Companies with too much cash are often prone to such folly.
With the VIX closing near 2 year lows at 18 and the S&P 500 sitting at its 18 month high, it might seem that the clouds have parted. On the contrary, with pressure being put on China to revalue...
The GM board has certainly set the record at this point for most endorsements of a completely ineffective CEO. Somehow, it doesn't make one feel to comfortable that he is also the Chairman of the...
This is the third installment in a multi-part series that looks at various options used by income investors to boost their yield while waiting for dividend growth to lift their portfolio’s...
A comparison of the Dow Jones Industrial Average today to Japan's Nikkei Index leading up to and after its peak in 1989. There are a lot of similarities and some differences. What do they mean?