Among the many challenges investors face these days is how to generate decent income at low risk. One of the best solutions for risk-averse investors is to consider no-load mutual funds that invest in Ginnie Maes. Read More

The uncertainty in today's markets has increased the profile of nontraditional investments, but not all investments are taxed equally. Avoid the following traps and penalties for your IRA investment. Read More

Building wealth by buying and holding high-quality, dividend-paying businesses is a strategy unconstrained by borders. And Australia is among the most attractive destinations for dividend investors in the world. Read More

AT&T is battling the U.S. government over its plan to acquire competing wireless carrier T-Mobile USA. Hasn't anybody told AT&T that the government always wins? Read More

Royal Dutch Shell’s (NYSE: RDS.A) most recent downstream LNG venture will serve a market where there’s no shortage of natural gas: North America. Read More

Problems at European banks and alarmist statements by bank CEOs have wreaked havoc on European stocks. Jim thinks the selling is overdone and offers a few diversified ways to play a European rebound. Read More

Why has the price of gasoline continued to increase despite the decline in the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil? Pundits have come up with dozens of conspiracy theories to explain this anomaly. Here's the truth. Read More

Netflix has benefited tremendously from extremely inexpensive video content licensing fees to stream movies. With these licenses up for renewal at fees at least ten times higher, the good times for Netflix shareholders are coming to an end. Read More

Much is made these days of the position of the US relative to China and how the latter will soon become the biggest economy on the planet. Whatever the nature of this global race, or whether there is a race at all, Canada and Australia--and investors who own the high-dividend-paying companies that call those countries home--are poised to prosper. Read More

The shale gas revolution also has dramatically changed the fortunes of two related industries, one brimming with promise in the early 2000s and the other forlorn. Read More