Investment U

What lies ahead for investors this year will surprise almost everyone. Yet I hear almost no one talking about it... and even less doing anything about it.A quick look back at 2016 will show just what...

2016 is almost over. And just in time, Janet Yellen has put an end to this year’s “will they or won’t they” interest rate hike drama. On December 14, she announced that the Fed...

Looking back over this year’s Investment U columns, I said plenty that readers disagreed with.About stocks, I suggested that “the most disrespected bull market in history” had...

Free trade agreements keep the world competitive. A level playing field increases economic growth. That’s a big reason why more and more countries have entered into these kinds of deals, as...

On Tuesday, I explained why I think artificial intelligence will be among the top technology trends of 2017. Today I’ll focus on another trend that should see big gains over the coming...

The last time we had such a strong dollar, the musical Chicago won an Oscar. iPods were a hot new technology and President George W. Bush was getting ready to run for re-election.After the Fed...

2016 has been quite a year for investors. On the one hand, we’ve seen a long-running bull market continue to new highs. On the other, we’ve seen financial and political turmoil across the...

We’re closing out 2016 with a roar. The markets are at or near all-time highs.We saw massive rebounds from the energy, materials and financial sectors this year -- particularly following the...

The Federal Reserve once again flicked its fat finger and sent the dominoes falling this week. A quarter-point hike and a faster pace to come, we’re told. As we’d expect, the stock market...

The smartphone in your pocket... the tablet on your nightstand... the fitness tracker around your wrist...They’re all powered by the same industrial metal. And as technology becomes better,...

We’ve had a volatile year with a couple of blindside shocks. But the markets have pushed higher as much of the anxiety and uncertainty that’s dogged investors over the past year has...

Many Americans learned a hard lesson after the election: The world is much less predictable than we’d like to think. The pundits and pollsters were dead certain about their forecasts. The...

December marks the one-year anniversary of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (NYSE:CMG) founder Steve Ells’ highly publicized apology...As you probably remember, an estimated 491 people became...

In my last column, I talked about the astonishing effects that Donald Trump’s win has had on the financial markets.Stocks have hit new all-time records. The dollar has climbed to a 13-year high....

Here’s a story I bet you haven’t heard before. It’s worth a read on a long holiday weekend. This interesting tale details the original “Black Friday” - a day that every...

Keep the change... It’s a phrase that could mean nothing to future generations. The same is true for the expression “cold hard cash.” Our descendants may find “cold hard...