Netflix (Nasdaq:NFLX)was born as a response to customer dissatisfaction. A late fee on his "Apollo 13" DVD prompted Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings to start the Netflix DVD rental business with...
Although 2011 was a tough year for the markets, and one in which the major indexes made little progress, investors were still willing to tip into the initial public offering (IPO) pool. Well-known...
The Wall Street Journal's Marketwatch website recently reported that in the past three years, from September 9, 2008 to September 9, 2011, the S&P has gone nowhere - 0.00% when dividends are factored...
Investing legend Peter Lynch was fond of recommending that investors buy what they know, to make money on stocks. This included finding popular stores at the local mall and finding out if the company...
If you spend any time around the investing world, you've surely heard the old proverb that investors (not the ones saying it, of course) are an emotional bunch who overreact to everything. When the...
Choosing a stock is no easy task. Beginning investors, advanced traders and everyone in between have to look at a company's operations, financial health and executive leadership to determine if a...
What's up with Wall Street? It seems all you hear about lately are insider trading scandals involving scads of money and high-profile executives previously thought beyond reproach. (For related...