Lynch: Stocks Still Best Choice for Long Term
In a recent interview with The New York Times, former Fidelity star manager Peter Lynch says that the recent market plunge and financial crisis hasn’t shaken his belief that stocks…
Buffett Bonanza: Government vs. Fear, Bank Prognosis, and Why You Should Still 'Buy American'
Warren Buffett spent three hours on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning discussing the economy and stock market from all angles. Buffett says the economy will turn around, but that it…
Zweig Strategy: 10 Growth Investment Ideas for a Tough Market
In every other issue of my investment newsletter, The Validea Hot List, I look in detail at one of the computerized guru models on run on Validea.com. In this week’s…
O'Shaughnessy in Buying Mode; Sees S&P 900 this Year
James O’Shaughnessy, the fund manager whose study of four-plus decades of stock market returns may be the most extensive ever done, is seeing good times ahead for U.S. stocks. In…
Shiller: It's The Psychology, Stupid
Don’t underestimate the impact psychology has on the stock market and economy — that’s the message Yale economist and housing crisis predictor Robert Shiller recently gave during a lecture at…
Even Buffett Makes Mistakes -- and You Can Learn from Them
In his latest Wall Street Journal column, James B. Stewart examines some of the mistakes Warren Buffett acknowledged making in Berkshire Hathaway’s 2009 letter to shareholders, and explains what average…
Dorfman: Market Performance after Waterfall Declines – up 24% Over Next 12 Months
Value investment manager and Bloomberg columnist, John Dorfman, provides some historical stock performance statistics after periods of dramatic market declines (or what he calls, “waterfall declines”). According to Dorfman, “market…
Value Stocks: They're Riskier Than You Think
This interesting Wall Street Journal article points out that value stocks, or value investing strategies, have been some of the hardest hit during this bear market and often times underperform…