Wall Street Daily

For market bulls, it’s been tough to get excited about stocks so far this year.Last Friday, the Nasdaq Composite Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed in correction territory. And...

With the U.S. market still near its all-time peak, smart income investors are looking overseas.Though Europe has been mired in recession for several years, economic prospects are now looking...

It takes a number of catalysts to drive a great, lasting bull market that delights workers and investors alike.Take the great Reagan bull market ignited in the early 1980s; looking back, the fuel for...

By now, you’ve probably heard that the stock market suffered its worst start to a year in history.The S&P 500 Indexdeclined 6.0% in the first five trading days of the year. Going back to...

Many New Year’s resolutions start off with good intentions, but seem to fall by the wayside faster than you can hit the snooze button.But this year, with the help of new apps and devices that...

2016 certainly came in storming. Right off the bat, investors were met with a major selloff.The U.S. stock market was, at one point, suffering through its worst opening day of a new year since 1932....

Last Thursday, I stuck my neck on the block and issued five tech predictions for 2016.To recap, we discussed how the incredible pace of innovation looks set to continue this year… how virtual...

As you know by now, the energy sector got hammered in 2015 (the second straight year of declines).The Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (N:XLE), the exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the S&P 500...

In summing up the fortunes of the tech sector in 2015, The Verge’s Walt Mossberg pulls no punches.The “next big thing” didn’t show up. There wasn’t a single tech device...

The collapse of oil prices in 2014-15 has caused many energy master limited partnerships (MLPs) to cut their distributions, and some of them may even become insolvent.Nevertheless, not all energy MLPs...

2015 has been a pretty brutal year for stocks.Not only will the S&P 500 Index likely close the year in the red, it’s also set to post the third worst yearly performance in the last 10...

As Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes the world’s movie theaters by storm, U.S. utilities, the Public Utility Commissions that govern them, and solar energy companies are increasingly fighting...

At times, I bet your home feels like one big chore.You open the door and immediately have to perform a laundry list of tasks before you can even sit down and relax. But no longer. Today, many of those...

December 8, 2015 is not a day that master limited partnership (MLP) investors will soon forget. North America’s largest pipeline operator – Kinder Morgan (N:KMI) – slashed its...

Unless we get a major crash, 2016 will be a year of rising dollar interest rates. And that means it will be a tough year for income investors.Of course, if we do end up witnessing a crash, it’ll...

Actions have consequences. We all know this. It’s simply a part of life.But it appears that life lesson has been lost on central bankers. Central bankers have pushed interest rates to zero, and...