If you've been long the oil industry, you've had a nice run. But what next? Should you take your profits and run? After all, the oil industry is once again being made into a political punching bag with Congress...
Dry bulk shipping isn't exactly the most exciting industry sector to research. Even among sea-borne freight, oil-tanker companies overshadow dry bulk shipping companies. (The price of oil will do that.) But the dry...
Victor Niederhoffer might be the world's most eccentric trader. The son of a Jewish cop, the Brooklyn-born Niederhoffer doesn't wear shoes in the office, says the only periodical he reads is The National Enquirer and...
Robert Haugen, finance professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine, and managing partner of Haugen Custom Financial Systems, enjoys tilting at conventional wisdom. The maverick economist has blasted...
It's among the thorniest of issues in the investment world: At what point does an underperforming style of investment turn appealing? The style of the moment on this account most certainly is large-cap growth. It has...
After announcing General Electric's company-wide push into so-called green technologies in May, Jeffrey Immelt, the company's CEO, stressed that the move is not part of some save-the-planet idealism. Rather, he said...
In 1984, Julian Mayo was a trainee at Schroders, an investment bank, when he was sent to investigate a little-known automaker in a town called Ulsan on the southeast coast of Korea. The Asian nation was still under...
A recent New York magazine article declared 2005 a golden age for video games, and anyone who has played Resident Evil 4, Madden NFL 2005 or Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas can agree. What remains to be seen is whether...
Sometime or other, 40 percent of Americans will hear the words It's malignant. The good news, for both patients and investors, is that pharmaceutical companies are pioneering new, more effective cancer treatments all...
