Wall Street Daily

The recent explosion of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has provided income investors with many new ways of goosing returns.However, the ETFs with the juiciest yields can be quite dangerous, as...

On Friday, I gave an overview of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deals and how the proposed changes will affect the United States.I also revealed one American company poised to benefit from those...

‘Tis the season for a stock market rally.December is the best month of the year for equities… and it begins tomorrow. Since 1990, the S&P 500’s average price change for December...

After eight years of planning and more than five years of mind-numbing negotiations, America and 11 other Pacific Rim nations representing 37% of the global economy finally reached an agreement on the...

On November 10, India’s government announced a series of aggressive measures to attract foreign direct investment (FDI).Most importantly, it eased local-sourcing requirements for international...

The last 20 years have seen a new asset category grow in popularity… farmland.And it’s easy to see why, because farmland is profitable. In fact, the National Council of Real Estate...

The alarm bells were blaring in Silicon Valley last week when digital payments processor Square Inc. (N:SQ) priced its IPO at $9.That’s a 25% discount to the midpoint of the proposed $11 to $13...

Back in October, I warned about several of the zany ideas that central bankers were ready to implement.And one of them – negative interest rates – is getting closer to becoming a reality...

Care to take a guess at Lehman Brothers’ credit rating right before its bankruptcy? I’ll give you some help.Investment-grade ratings range from AAA down to BBB- (on the Standard &...

Aerospace engineers are calling it the “biggest breakthrough in propulsion technology since the jet engine.”The “it” in question is called SABRE – a reusable, hybrid jet...

Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Commerce released its October retail sales figures.For brick-and-mortal retailers, the results weren’t pretty. Sales grew a paltry 0.1%, missing expectations...

If there’s one truism I’ve found during my years in the investing field – which date back to the 1980s – it’s the fact that everything is cyclical.What runs hot will...

Upstream master limited partnerships (MLPs) have been generally devastated by the decline in oil and gas prices that began in the third quarter of 2014.Some bankruptcies have occurred, and...

I’m always looking for a big upside while trying to limit downside risk. (Who isn’t?) Which is why I find global deep value and “distressed” plays so interesting.These stocks...

If you were searching for a one-word summary of biotechnology stock performance in September it would be “bloodbath.”On September 21, biotechs fell 6% following a tweet from presidential...

When you arrive for the first time in a new city or a foreign country, the first thing you notice is the airport, and then the roads or the subway on the way to your hotel – the...