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James B. Stewart
A Decade of Buying and Selling Stocks; How a contrarian approach to timing the market paid off for our columnist.
SmartMoney.comWith the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 fast approaching, it seems timely to look back at one of the most tumultuous and, for many investors, frustrating decades in stock market history.
Stocks to Own Forever; The trends to watch to spot stocks that can thrive over the long term.
SmartMoney.comThe buy-and-hold approach has come under fire in recent decades, but I still own and recommend what I call buy-and-hold stocks. These are stocks that I've owned for years, and I think they're a key reason I've been able to ...
Has the Commodities Bubble Popped? Recent turmoil suggests it's time to reduce precious metals and commodity allocations.
SmartMoney.comWhen I read recently that people were lining up to cash in their sterling silverware and heirloom silver tea services, I figured the end must be near: the end of the silver bubble and, more broadly, the long-running bull market in precious ...
Is Home Ownership Overrated? Jimmy Stewart taught us that buying a house was the key to building the American dream; James B. Stewart wonders whether that's still true.
SmartMoney.comFor generations of Americans, It's a Wonderful Life pretty much sums up the benefits of home ownership. George Bailey takes over his father's savings and loan in Bedford Falls, builds Bailey Park, an idyllic affordable-housing ...
Why Are GM Shares Stuck In Reverse? The carmaker has come a long way since restructuring, but still has work to do.
SmartMoney.comAt this year's New York International Auto Show, I made a beeline for the General Motors display with one question on my mind: After last year's wildly successful public offering and return to private ownership (albeit with the ...
With Page, Can Google Get Groove Back?
SmartMoney.com"Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one." Remember those bold words? They date from 2004 and come from the Google "owner's manual" issued by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin as ...
New Threat for Emerging Markets Investors; Stewart: Brazil's ouster of a mining company CEO may be bad news for emerging markets investors.
SmartMoney.comBrazil mining giant Vale boasts a record that most chief executives can only dream of: year-over-year revenue growth of 127%; earnings growth of 269.5%; a return on assets of 13% and an operating profit margin of nearly 50%. Shareholders ...
Why Age Alone Shouldn't Drive Asset Allocation
SmartMoney.comA time-honored investment adage is that your asset allocation should mirror your age: 60/40 stocks and bonds at age 40; 50/50 at fifty; 40/60 at sixty and so on. An entire industry of so-called target-date funds has grown in recent years to ...
Why Is Buffett Whitewashing Sokol's Exit? Berkshire Hathaway chief's handling of events not up to his own high ethical standards.
SmartMoney.comI've always admired Warren Buffett's advocacy of the highest ethical standards in business. As a journalist, I especially applaud his rule of thumb that employees consider whether they would be "willing to have any ...
After Market Dip, Highfliers Look Cheaper
SmartMoney.comWhen I recommended five "growth stocks at value prices" a few weeks ago, I said I would wait for a dip before buying them. The dip—and then some—came, not to mention an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan and allied ...
Why Investors Shouldn't Panic Over Japan
SmartMoney.comSince a devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck Japan last Friday, investors have been dumping Japanese and U.S. stocks in what can only be called panic selling.
Is Charlie Sheen Irreplaceable?
SmartMoney.comCelebrity flameouts are great for the tabloids, tell-all television and, in our digital age, YouTube. It seems no moment is too private to be recorded on someone's cell phone. But what do they mean for investors?
When Insider Trading Doesn't Pay
SmartMoney.comWarren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders (PDF), unveiled last weekend, made no mention of Rajat Gupta. But surely the famed investor would have plenty to say about the former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & ...
Should You Snap Up Oil Stocks?
SmartMoney.comIn Col. Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has had a dictator that makes Egypt's deposed Hosni Mubarak look like a humanitarian statesman. This week, in an 80-minute speech which was megalomaniacal even by Gadhafi's standards, he proclaimed ...
Why Fighting the NYSE Merger Is Fruitless
SmartMoney.comI was startled at first by the news that Deutsche Börse AG was in advanced talks to take over NYSE Euronext, the parent of the venerable New York Stock Exchange. For most of my life, the Big Board and its iconic all-American imagery—the ...
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