Mass-produced beer is a slow-growth industry, and major brewers have merged in an effort to cut costs and grab market share. But consolidation may be little more than a short-term fix. The best known

All day and every day, some of the stock market's best and brightest traders and money managers share their ideas, insights and analysis in real-time on Minyanville's Buzz & Ban

These days everyone wants to talk about the declining dollar. Today there were two separate stories in the Wall Street Journal about the buck. The first was an op-ed by David Malpass which talked abo

I’d like to discuss human nature and the paper we call money from a slightly different perspective. I was recently thinking about what's transpired in this country in the last decade: First the

This week marks the start of the third-quarter-earnings season, as Alcoa (AA) reports earnings on October 7.The Street is expecting corporate earnings to decline 24.8%, which would mark the first tim

All it took was a historically powerful stock market move and retail investors are in love with the stock market again. Equity funds brought in more money than they lost for the fifth consecutive mon

I was wrong about gold breaking out last month. See Gold to Break $1,000 This August . Turns out the yellow metal didn’t break out over $1000 until eight days later (i.e. today).Now that w

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Once again gold stole the spotlight as the yellow metal outperformed the sleepy stock market. Gold was up 1.58 % to 994.1 just off a high of 999.5, so close to breaking the psychologically important

Michael Liss is putting money to work in oil, banks, and tissue paper. As an investor, if you think that all sounds sort of boring, he doesn’t mind at all.“If making money on solid compan