Safety and stability are complemented nicely by solid dividend growth, as Canada's Big Six banks post good numbers and spread their wealth to shareholders. Read More

Stable, high-dividend stocks with direct investment plans, or DRIPs, are an income investor’s best friend. Here’s a roundup of the cream of the crop. Read More

The war on obesity is starting to heat up. Here are two stocks that will cash in as more Americans look to cut their waistlines.   Read More

Investing Daily's investment experts share some intimate details about their investment firsts and what lessons they learned. Read More

Gilead Sciences (NasdaqGS: GILD) may lead the race to offer an all-oral treatment for Hepatitis C liver disease, but several other drug companies are also in the hunt. Read More

Taxes will increase, especially for investors, in 2013 and beyond. The only question is how high they will increase. Those in retirement or planning for retirement should expect to pay higher tax rates during their post-career years. You can act now to avoid the worst effects of the coming retiree tax attack.  Read More

Although an appeals court ruling granted coal companies a slight reprieve this week, the power industry’s inexorable shift toward cheap natural gas is likely to continue at least until the end of the decade, as the US lacks the necessary infrastructure to export its abundance of natural gas overseas. Read More

In the first installment of this two-part series, we explain why NGL prices will likely remain volatile in coming years. Next week's issue will focus on the extent to which fluctuations in the price of these commodities will impact the 17 publicly traded partnerships that own natural gas-processing assets. Read More

The stock market is near four-year highs, but that hasn't stopped some stocks from plunging. Jim discusses three such stocks, only one of which is a speculative buy. Read More

Although there are numerous investment products designed to exploit the VIX, their long-term price trajectory is toward zero. Read More