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Mid-Cap value investment strategies often work in various market cycles. Mid-cap stocks are in the sweet spot of future large companies and companies which also get acquired by private equity buyers...
In tough times, value investors look for stocks that they feel are valued in a manner which already discount much of the trouble and pitfalls ahead.  Defensive stocks are often the winners during...
The latest carnage in the market has left some companies at valuations that are getting hard to ignore, even knowing about the harder economic times. Value investors invest before recessions, through...
Shares of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) got a nice boost yesterday on the news that the company’s CEO had been fired. But all good things must end, and that’s what is happening yesterday as the...
The refining business has been in the news a lot recently for two things. One, it’s making money again. Two, integrated oil companies are shedding refining assets at a rapid pace. Now’s a good...
To say that Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is under pressure remains the understatement of 2011.  The DJIA industrial average component is under attack from every angle.  It is now under...
No matter what kind of cargo a shipping company moves, that company is likely to be in some financial distress. Rates for moving containers, dry bulk, and oil are all way down as the global economy...
To say that the situation had become painful at Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) would be the understatement of the year. Shares were trading at $10.22 on July 21, before the meltdown started and shares...
Is the world economy slowing or are we at the trough?  It depends upon whom you ask.  A report today from Goldman Sachs is highlighting the great value in the metals and mining sector noting that...
Many investors may not know what IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT) unless they have been around for years and years.  The company has three units: Telecom Platform Services, Consumer Phone Services, and...
For the past two years or so T. Boone Pickens has been telling anyone who will listen of the benefits of substituting natural gas for gasoline and diesel fuel. Pickens owns about 28% of natural gas...
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is in a constant state of challenge.  Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is just too formidable of competitor.  AMD has been without a CEO since Dirk Meyer...
The world of boutique apparel and retailing apparel is a boom or bust business it seems.  Many companies start out great but either missteps occur or the trends move away from the original focus of...
The sell-off and market volatility have made it difficult for many nervous investors to either stand pat or even to stay interested in the market when they are more interested in vacations, getting...
To say that Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) has undergone some winds of change would be the understatement of the year.  One analyst has come out in defense of H-P.  Auriga now sees opportunity in...