Retail is in trouble. With the ease of shopping on Amazon, endless choices available online, and the industry’s failure to keep up with the times, brick-and-mortar retail operations have been crushed. True tales of struggling chains, plunging stock prices and even bankruptcy have become commonplace in the once thriving retail… Read More

Each year, StreetAuthority releases our highly anticipated annual report of profitable forecasts... Read More

Each year, StreetAuthority releases our highly anticipated annual report of profitable forecasts and stock picks. Of course, we never claim to have a crystal ball, so we can’t guarantee that... Read More

Dividend reinvestment is an amazingly powerful investment strategy. It is used by the best of the best of long-term stock market investors to build lifetime wealth. In fact, studies have shown that over a 20-year holding period, dividends account for 60% of all the gains in the S&P 500! Think… Read More

Have President Trump’s protectionist policies gone overboard? Once heralded as the most pro-business U.S. president since Ronald Reagan, Trump’s zeal to shelter American businesses from global competition has caused many free-market economists to question his wisdom. The stock market has benefitted wildly from the White House’s corporate tax reform. Bulls… Read More

BOOM!!! I knew this might happen… Sometimes you find a company you’re absolutely in love with… You’ve done your research, bought at a good price, you’re already up big, and then… BOOM!!! That company gets acquired by a larger player in the space. That’s exactly what happened last week, when… Read More

Readers of my premium advisory, Top Stock Advisor, woke up to some good news on Monday morning.... Read More

Readers of my premium advisory, Top Stock Advisor, woke up to some good news on Monday morning. Early that day, Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC) announced it would buy oil refiner Andeavor (NYSE: ANDV)... Read More

If I asked you what was going on in the markets in January 2017, I’d bet that most folks... Read More

If I asked you what was going on in the markets in January 2017, I’d bet that most folks wouldn’t recall anything in particular that really stood out. After all, the S&P 500 was... Read More

There are very few edges left in the stock market. The tremendous amount of money, talent, and strategies combined to create a nearly efficient market that is exceedingly difficult to beat consistently. Add in structural changes like tightening spreads, decimalization, and high-frequency trading machines, and the stock market becomes a… Read More

The pain in her legs was so unbearable that she couldn’t muster one more step… let... Read More

The pain in her legs was so unbearable that she couldn’t muster one more step… let alone the dozen or so needed to make it to her sorority just down the street. She had to call a friend... Read More

I’ll admit I am getting apprehensive about the stock market. I’ve long been a... Read More

I’ll admit I am getting apprehensive about the stock market. I’ve long been a super-bull, but the last several weeks have started to change my long-term bias. I do not like what I am... Read More