Back in March 2009, if someone had suggested that the Chinese jewelry company Fuqi International (FUQI) was about to embark on a six month run that would blast the stock to a 10x gain, they wouldn’t have found many takers.  Seventeen months after its IPO, with three failed attempts to break through resistance at 12, [...]

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As to the market, which is very good about following the rules of supply and demand, these are very interesting times.
Demand is down, in part because of lousy economic news (which I’m not going to go into today).
Bond yields are at record lows … a clear sign of the market’s “flight to safety.”
And it’s extremely [...]

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For this week’s issue, I’m going to dip into the mailbag. A few days ago, I received this email from a reader:
“As an employee of Delta Airlines, I would appreciate some comment on Delta’s stock. I think we are poised as ever for a great recovery.”
We’ve been writing about airline stocks a lot recently (I [...]

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I admit that I’ve long been a big fan of Apple products, especially the iPhone, which allowed me to whittle down three things I often carried—cell phone, Handspring PDA (remember those?) and a point-and-shoot camera—to just one. And designing such compelling products has done well by shareholders of Apple (AAPL). The stock has more than [...]

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My investment idea today is a low-priced stock of a Chinese company whose presentation I attended at the 2010 China Conference put on by Global Hunter Securities earlier this month.  As with many of the presentations at the conference, the strength of the story isn’t matched by the performance of the stock (nor, frankly, by [...]

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