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The Kiplinger Green 25 continues to post high-energy results. Our index of 25 green stocks is up 17% from August 20, 2007, when we set the index, through the middle [...]

The market lacked direction May 4, but that didn't stop Weyerhaeuser (WY) stock from shooting up 5.7% to close at $82.62. It's not the financial performance of the big forest [...]

It's not easy to find income in the markets these days. Treasuries yield less than 5%, which doesn't leave much left over after taxes and inflation. The stock market's average [...]

Quick, who's the largest asset manager in the world? Fidelity, Vanguard and Capital Research are good guesses. But UBS, a Swiss bank with more than $2 trillion under management, is [...]

Hedge fund managers tend to be a pretty secretive bunch, rarely interacting with the press or public. Earlier this month, we had a chance to hear Leon Cooperman, founder and [...]

Not even a Wall Street seer could predict the course or end game in Iraq. Congress and the Bush Administration are locked in a struggle over policy, money and troop [...]

If the slump in residential housing is scaring you away from investing in real estate investment trusts, Rich Moore has some advice for you. 'Single-family housing has absolutely nothing to [...]

All good things must eventually come to an end. Unless star manager Bill Miller pulls a giant rabbit out of his hat, Legg Mason Value will trail Standard & Poor's [...]

Wall Street is starting to see signs of a turnaround at Borders, the nation's second-largest book retailer (see our September coverage). William Ackman, who runs Pershing Square Capital, a hedge [...]

Wall Street is starting to see signs of a turnaround at Borders, the nation's second-largest book retailer (see our September coverage). William Ackman, who runs Pershing Square Capital, a hedge [...]

After several years in the sick ward, pharmaceutical stocks are perking up. The Amex Pharmaceuticals index of 15 big drug stocks has advanced 10% this year. As economic growth slows, [...]

So the Federal Reserve Board has elected to stop jacking up interest rates for the time being. The housing and employment markets are cooling, energy prices are coming down and [...]

The outlook for inflation and interest rates is a bit blurry, but slower economic growth seems a better bet. In a cooling economy, stock investors tend to avoid the more [...]

Wal-Mart may be the 800-pound gorilla of retailing, but it doesn't get much respect these days. Politicians and unions bash the company for its labor practices and burgeoning imports from [...]

The business of immigrants without bank accounts transferring funds domestically, or remitting money back home, is a big one. Western Union, which began life as a telegraph company in the [...]

As such tech stocks as Dell and Intel roll over, old-economy stalwarts like Caterpillar continue to roll. The Peoria, Ill., heavy-equipment powerhouse on Friday announced another blow-out quarter: Earnings jumped [...]

The winters are frigid in Alberta's oil patch, but at least you don't have to grapple with flaky Latin American dictators or despotic Persian Gulf sheikhs. That's one reason Kurt [...]

Steven Roge thinks he's found the best steward of capital at a bargain price. The ace's name: Warren Buffett. That's right, Roge, a fee-only investment adviser who also manages the [...]

Owning big pharma stocks in recent years has pretty much been a prescription for losing money. Product recalls (Vioxx and Bextra, for example), litigation, patent expirations, generic competition, limp new-drug [...]

Investors have picked over the oil patch in recent years, but there's still value in small oil and gas outfits. Barry James, manager of the excellent James Small Cap Fund, [...]

Archer Daniels Midland is one of those anonymous but vital middlemen in the food chain whose products you consume regularly without even knowing it. The Decatur, Ill., company makes the [...]

The most unglamorous businesses often toss up the best values. Richard Earnest, portfolio co-manager of HighMark Value Momentum fund, thinks he's spotted a bargain in old-line Dow Chemical, the big [...]