U.S. Investing

Learn the latest to help you profit from investing in U.S.-based assets, such as stocks, funds and options.

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How Investors Can Make Money in this Lousy Year

It is turning out to be a tough 2015 for stock market investors. The U.S. S&P 500 is...

Higher Dollar Making for Stiff Resistance

Heading into earnings season, Wall Street analysts’ views were very mixed as to how America’s leading multinational corporations...

Mix-And-Match Sector Fund Boosts Performance

We round out our review of the top three best-performing U.S. equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) of 2015’s first...

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Why the Market Had a Weak Week

Stocks faltered this week, a far cry from where stocks stood seven days ago, when the S&P 500...

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The 10 Questions You Have to Answer Before You Buy Any Stock — Part 1

For any new investor, or even for an experienced one, it can be tempting to buy the latest...

High-Yield Income from the High-Tech Sector

For what lies ahead in the second half of the year, there is a lot of buzz surrounding...

Small-Cap Fund Shows Big Results

This fund tracks a subset of the S&P SmallCap 600 index. It chooses its holdings based on sales...

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How Tech Stocks Surged to All-Time Highs

If I didn’t know better, I would think that we were right back to Y2K in the NASDAQ.

There’s Always a Bull Market for Income Investors Somewhere

We’re into the seventh year of zero percent interest rates, and income investors are wondering out loud when...

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Momentum Fund Speeds into First Place

Just because the U.S. market isn’t offering easy money doesn’t mean it isn’t possible for individual investors to...