A recent article in The Wall Street Journal reported on how Jimmy Choo shoes sold out immediately due to a product placement that on a soap opera that was very successful.  This did not happen in Manhattan.  It happened it China, and the soup opera was South Korean.  With consumer spending booming around the […]

  As detailed in many previous articles on this site, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are excellent stocks for growth, value, and income investors.  The recent strong results have proven that to be true.  Apple is up more than 43 percent for the last year of market action (chart below).  Over that same […]

  Led by United States Natural Gas (NYSE: UNG), the bull market continues for the natural resources sector. United States Natural Gas is up for the last week, month, quarter, six months, and year of market action.  For 2014, the UNG has soared by more than 26 percent.  As a sign of the positive outlook […]

Recent activity demonstrates the appeal of natural resource companies operating in North America ranging in size from blue chips such as Suncor Energy (NYSE: SU) and Goldcorp (NYSE: GG) to promising small caps such as Mondial Ventures (OTC: MNVN) and Premier Exploration (OTC: PMMEF).  Suncor Energy and Goldcorp are Canadian companies in oil and natural […]

  The Obama Administration, through the quantitative easing policies of former-Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, focused on bringing back the stock market from The Great Recession.  That was outlined by Bernanke in an op-ed in The Washington Post back in November of 2010.  It is being continued by his successor, Dr. Janet Yellen. The recent […]

  The double digit gain Friday by Quadrant 4 System (NASDAQ: QFOR) is yet another reason to read stockdesk.com! An article, “Quadrant 4 System is a Small Cap for Growth and Value Investors” ran on this site last week. On Friday, Quadrant 4 System soared by 13.16 percent.  It far outdistanced the Dow Jones Industrial […]

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-B), Europe’s biggest oil firm, has declared “force majeure” again for its contracts in Nigeria due to hostilities. That means it is not bound to the contractual obligations.  There is also trouble in other natural resource sectors in Africa, such as gold and copper. Tension is not limited to Africa, however, […]

A previous article on this site, “Stay Away from JC Penney, Radio Shack, and Sears,” detailed why investors should avoid those retail stocks.  The recent news from RadioShack (NYSE: RSH) that it would close 1100 stores as reported by The Wall Street Journal provides even more proof.  Over the last year of market action, RadioShack […]

Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine has oil and natural prices rising in the short term.  In the long term, it will be from increasing global economic demand due to growth around the world.  For investors, there are a wide range of selections in the oil and natural gas industry from companies of all sizes such […]

Many “Big Oil” firms such as Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-B), the second largest in the world, Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY), and BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Europe’s second largest, have been selling assets. That would seem to imply that there is a bearish future for the sector.  But it is the opposite for oil and […]