Wall Street is becoming increasingly bipolar in its treatment of technology stocks. On one hand, you have “new generation” technology stocks like Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), which have sustained huge losses over the past several weeks. On the other hand, there are… Read More

Over the past several weeks, there has been a dramatic transition in the U.S. stock market. You won’t notice this change by looking at a chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average or S&P 500. But if you look deeper into some of the individual components, there are… Read More

Technology stocks fall into two very distinct categories. On one hand, you have high-growth tech names, many of which are associated with the social media or cloud computing industries. These names have been extremely popular over the past two years. The problem with these popular stocks such as Twitter (NYSE:… Read More

The past several weeks have not been kind to high-multiple growth stocks. Shares of speculative securities such as Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) have been losing ground, and with price-to-earnings (P/E) multiples still at premium levels the damage could continue. A sell-off in… Read More

It has been more than three years since the Fukushima nuclear power plant was crippled by a tsunami, spewing radioactive material into the environment. Similar to the way nuclear radiation lingers for an extensive time period, the financial and political effects of the disaster continue to affect nuclear power generation… Read More

Natural gas prices have been extremely volatile this year, spiking in February as frigid temperatures buffeted the Eastern United States. While spot prices for the clean-burning fuel gave up much of the early 2014 gains in March, Thursday marked the strongest one-day increase in two months. Traders were… Read More

One of the most exciting investment themes this year revolves around the electric car market. At the center of this trend is Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA), which is becoming a commanding force both as an auto manufacturer and a dynamic growth stock. In 2013, the company delivered 22,477 electric vehicles… Read More

Agriculture stocks, and fertilizer companies in particular, have turned out to be one of the strongest and most stable areas of the market this year. With crop production hindered by drought and other severe weather conditions, and the added risk of political tension in the Ukraine (sometimes referred to as… Read More

Despite the recent market pullback, natural gas producers have held up amazingly well. In addition to the unusually cold winter helping to boost natural gas prices, the overall trend has been bullish since the bottom nearly two years ago. Stable and rising spot prices for natural gas imply… Read More

U.S. refiners are in a solid bull market right now. The shale natural gas and oil boom is the primary driving force for these companies, as fracking continues to boost oil and gas production in North America.  This production increase has led to a pricing differential between WTI crude (the… Read More