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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Coming back from vacation is always hard. But for someone who, like me, works with stocks, coming back from vacation to a market that’s cranky and indecisive is doubly difficult.
There were plenty of scenic wonders on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and in Zion National Park where my party of five spent [...]

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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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In this week’s Stock Market Analysis Video, Cabot Market Letter Editor Mike Cintolo says that this remains a unique and grinding type of market environment where the major indexes are clearly not in uptrends, but they’re not in downtrends either. While individual stocks are doing OK, and a lot are building bases, there’s no real [...]

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