Investing in Stocks

No year since the tech bubble burst has seen more IPOs than 2013. Hilton (HLT) was one of eight initial public offerings to debut on U.S. exchanges in the… Read more

Chip Wilson made a fool of himself one too many times. And that’s why he was forced to resign as chairman of the company he founded. Wilson founded Lululemon… Read more

Imagine you own a business with no physical inventory. You have no supply chain, delivery or warehouse costs. Your business can fit a nearly infinite amount of product in… Read more

Starting can be the most difficult aspect of any endeavor.  Bewilderment or intimidation frequently arise from simply not knowing how or where to begin. Stock investing is no different…. Read more

We can just about close the books on 2013. The CliffsNotes version of how stock market trends in 2013 will be remembered is something most investors already know. Stocks… Read more

The rich keep getting richer on Wall Street. The nine richest companies on the S&P 500 have a combined $460 billion cash on hand. All of them have more… Read more

It’s prudent to be cautious when a hedge fund manager takes to the airwaves to tout an investment idea…particularly when that investment has already risen considerably. At the Robin… Read more

One of my best friends works at a Silicon Valley firm that’s backed by Tesla’s Elon Musk.  Given his connections in the high-tech world, it wasn’t surprising that he… Read more

Most consumers perceive Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Target (NYSE: TGT) as interchangeable competitors. I understand, given that both are discount retailing behemoths whose product selection overlaps considerably. But the… Read more