Healing Investments
Feb 01, 2005
Sometime or other, 40 percent of Americans will hear the words It's malignant. The good news, for both patients and investors, is that pharmaceutical companies are pioneering new, more effective cancer treatments all the time. The deadliest form...
Mining the Possibilities
Jan 01, 2005
Want to invest in China? Consider Australian mining companies. Commercially speaking, China and Australia are growing closer by the minute. China's ambassador to Australia, Fu Ying, recently told a Sydney audience that the gears of the two...
Buying Insurance
Dec 01, 2004
Eliot Spitzer has gone on the warpath again, this time against insurance companies, leaving their stocks wounded some critically along the trail. When Spitzer guns for an industry, investors typically get out of the way, and it was no different...
Winging It?
Nov 01, 2004
Richard Branson, founder of Britain's Virgin Atlantic Airways, was once asked the best way to become a millionaire. There's really nothing to it, he joked. Start as a billionaire and then buy an airline. Branson's joke must seem like...
Dealing On a Large Scale
Oct 01, 2004
When famed American novelist John Updike let his philandering anti-hero Rabbit Angstrom finally improve his life in Rabbit is Rich, he had Rabbit inherit a Toyota dealership. Before long the Angstroms did well enough to purchase not one, but two...
Trailer Cash
Sep 01, 2004
Heard the one about what a redneck divorce and a tornado hold in common? (One way or another, someone's losing a trailer.) Or maybe you've run across one of those humorous trailer trash tests featuring questions like, If your front porch were to...
The Big Haul
Aug 01, 2004
Ordinarily, the phrase in the tank is one that makes investors cringe, but this time around might prove an exception. Tankers, those giant ships that haul everything from oil to iron ore, are in high demand, which means they're likely to have...
Fertile Fields
Jul 01, 2004
Rarely will you find a more obvious-sounding investing tip than this: Those seeking growth opportunities should look to agriculture. One of farming's most vocal cheerleaders is Merrill Lynch analyst Donald Carson, who notes global agricultural...
The Virtue of Moderation
Jun 01, 2004
Problem: Americans are big and fat. We also are a pragmatic people who worship expediency hence the popularity of using pills to treat health problems like high blood pressure and high cholesterol. That pill fixation also applies to weight control...
Is Steel the Next Big Thing?
May 01, 2004
Investing in steel over the past decade has been a minefield. Faced with stagnant pricing and exorbitant labor costs, the U.S. players suffered a near-death experience in 2001, when Bethlehem Steel, the No. 2 steel maker, went bankrupt. But that...
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