Continued buzz surrounding the potential for nuclear plants in the US and Europe continues to help drive Toshiba, owner of the world’s largest nuclear plant construction firm, Westinghouse. Toshiba rates a buy. Read More

In late March, Porsche boosted its stake in VW to 30.9 percent. Under German corporate law, ownership of more than 30 percent of a company’s outstanding shares triggers an automatic takeover bid—Porsche is legally required to make a bid for all remaining shares of VW. Read More

Here’s one more reason to go to Las Vegas: Join Personal Finance Editor Neil George and Associate Editors Roger Conrad and Ivan Martchev at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino for the LAS VEGAS MONEY SHOW, May 14-17, 2007. Register for free at www.lasvegasmoneyshow.com or call 800-970-4355. And be sure… Read More

We’ve revisited municipal bonds a few times in the past year, but as April 15 quickly approaches it’s useful to go through the drill on this fundamental investment vehicle again. Read More

It’s estimated that the global carbon dioxide (CO2) market, now valued at $28 billion, will be worth $40 billion by 2010. Carbon trading isn’t about the environment anymore—there’s money to be made on our climate situation, and carbon credits are the new hot commodity. Read More

Conventional wisdom holds that the health of the railroads depends exclusively on economic growth. But that’s a dangerous oversimplification. Read More

When the US stock market has issues and the S&P 500 does its usual slip and slide, the financial media types come up with all sorts of rationales for why the markets did what they did. Read More

We have a single purpose: to empower subscribers to make more money from their investments. In selecting our recommendations for the Portfolios, we don’t limit ourselves to the S&P 500’s big companies, nor do we even limit ourselves to certain markets, industries or countries when we’re doing our analysis. Read More

A month ago, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) raised interest rates from 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent, taking one more step—albeit a small one—down the path of interest rate normalization. Read More

The past few weeks have been unsteady. Should we blame the Chinese again? Was it the former US Federal Reserve Bank chair making some off-handed and, as usual, misunderstood comments? Read More