According to the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the dog. For investors, let’s hope the dog—our acronym for the three potential threats to the market: the dollar, oil, and gold—decides not to bark too loudly, scaring growth away.   For now the case for… Read More

Wallflowers with hidden sex appeal   The six seemingly ho-hum stocks in the table on p.2 have a secret weapon: huge amounts of cash they’re deploying to move into dynamic new businesses and markets. With the Street oblivious to these developments, investors have a golden opportunity to… Read More

We re-categorize some of our picks and add Wells Fargo to the mix   Sometimes all the economic signs point in a single direction, making life easy for forecasters. This isn’t one of those times.   Today, the signs are pointing every which way. Lackluster… Read More

The pending FPL merger is a boon to income investors   In the fourth quarter of 2005, utilities— one of the market’s most sparkling sectors for over the past two years—dropped 6.3 percent as profit-taking took hold. Still, the sector turned in a very solid 12.8… Read More

Many of 2005’s top groups will continue to lead the way   Results for 2005 are in. Among domestic stock funds, the biggest winners were natural resources funds, up 38.08 percent for the year, and utilities, up 13.55 percent. International funds also showed tremendous strength, led… Read More

Its new CEO is giving this tech giant new life   With the Calamos Growth fund a star performer in 2005 thanks to a bevy of tech winners, we were interested to see what it was snapping up for 2006. It turns out one… Read More

Why J&J bought Animas; Red Hat, Joy Global surge   Recently we were delighted to take a nearly 50 percent profit on our long position in Animas, a small company that makes insulin pumps, when its shares jumped more than 30 percent following the… Read More

Big Oil may want to snap some of these producers up   In a clear sign of how hard it’s becoming for big oil to keep up with the world’s growing energy needs, Chevron (Growth and Income Portfolios) recently ran a series of ads… Read More

Richard Moroney: Diviner of the Dow   Dow Theory is one of the oldest forecasting systems around. Developed by Charles Dow in a series of editorials between 1899 and 1902, the theory looks at the behavior of the Dow Industrials—representing manufacturing—in conjunction with the Dow Transports—a… Read More

Your stocks, our views   Subscribers frequently ask us our opinion about stocks not in our own portfolios, and from time to time we’re happy to comment. To ask us about a particular stock, please e-mail us at buysellhold@leeb.net or write to The Complete… Read More