What You Need to Know About Stock Markets Today

Thanks to electronic trading, the stock market is wilder than ever.

My Take on Financial Reform

The new rules for our financial system are a mixed bag for individual investors.

Venture Capitalists Go for Green Companies

With enough time to wait for the payoff, the venture crowd can afford to pour millions into the clean-tech sector.

Cheap Stock Picks to Profit from a Scary Economy

What investors should do with the conflicting news about the economy and individual companies.

Deflation-Proof Your Portfolio

Falling prices may seem like a good thing, but they can be dangerous to your wealth. Here’s how to protect your portfolio.

Profit By Betting Against the Crowd

Investor-sentiment measures can tip you to rallies and corrections. Here are the ones to watch and how to exploit them.

Interview: Liz Ann Sonders

Schwab's chief investment strategist sees a choppy ride up.

7 Reasons Why Stocks Still Matter

After suffering through a wild ride the past several years, many ordinary investors have thrown up their hands in disgust. But stocks belong in many portfolios, and you shouldn’t banish them entirely and forever.

How to Fix the Economy

Republicans and Democrats are doing little but screaming at each other. If they’d stop, they’d find the answers to our problems right under their noses.

How to Measure the Economic Recovery

When four of these key benchmarks move into the green zone, you'll know that the economy is healthy again.

The 8% Solution

What rate of return should investors expect these days?

How to Do Financial Reform the Right Way

If Congress bows to Wall Street lobbyists over financial regulation, look for the next financial crisis to be even nastier.

An Aggressive Approach to Overcoming Market Mayhem

Until Europe fixes its "Club Med" debt problems, expect continued volatility in stocks worldwide. A star fund manager reveals alternative plays for proactive investors who see an eventual end to the current crisis.

Investors, Ride Out This Market's Waves

Brace for more short-term pain en route to long-term gains, says one of Kiplinger's favorite gurus in an exclusive interview.

7 Questions You Must Ask Your Financial Adviser

Understanding your financial adviser’s motives, expertise and methods is crucial to managing your wealth.

5 Stocks to Consider Selling Now

With fear, uncertainty and doubt running high, this is an especially good time to cull the turkeys from your investment portfolio.

5 Ways to Manage Market Turbulence

Start by staying calm and sticking with stocks.

Is the Bull Market History?

Europe’s financial woes must be resolved. But additional 2010 gains are still possible.

What a Rate Hike Means for Investors

The damage the stock market will sustain depends on how high and fast interest rates spike.

Momentum Mounts
For Financial Overhaul

Congress will remake the regulatory structure in an attempt to discourage excessive risk and protect consumers.

Cut Risk? Maybe Not

There's no such thing as a free lunch -- or a risk-free investment.

3 Superb Emerging-Market Fund Choices

7 Tech Stocks With Promise

Thrills and spills are a given, but the industry's prospects are surprisingly good.

Should You Buy or Rent?

Renting may be smarter if home prices in your area will fall further.

Emerging Markets Hit the Big Time

These seven companies in developing nations offer first-rate opportunities for growth.

Vacation Homes: Deal or No Deal?

Prices are attractive, but it's still tough to make the numbers add up.

5 Lessons From the Crash -- and Recovery

It's been one year since the market hit bottom. Here's what investors can learn from that experience.

Growing Risk in REITs

REIT shares are flying high, but eventually they’ll run out of fuel. Will it be a crash landing?

8 Signs of a Bear Market

You can't time the market, but you should know what might cause share prices to fall again.

Our Man Goes Undercover and Tells All

He spent days sitting through free seminars to become a super trader. Lesson number one: It’ll cost you.

What Could Derail the Recovery?

Investment strategist Ed Yardeni identifies several events that could radically change our financial lives.

How to Take the Market's Pulse

The most useful price-earnings ratio.

Don’t Write Off the Dollar Yet

How a Sinking Dollar Affects You

What it means for travelers, consumers and investors.

The Curse of Round Numbers

Big milestones turn into stumbling blocks for the Dow.

Our Take on Inflation

It's worth what reviewing what rising prices might mean for stock investors.

The Case for European Stocks

They're cheaper than U.S. stocks and safer than emerging markets stocks.

2009 Best List: Financial Resources & Advice

Click here for info on the best stocks, bonds and funds sites.

2009 Best List: Investing

Protect your portfolio, your pocketbook and your conscience.

Rational Exuberance

There is absolutely no reason to be pessimistic about either the U.S. or the world economy.