With many wondering if the market is going to run out of steam soon, it may be time to look for some names that have underperformed in their sectors.With the price of oil on the rise, one name that d

The route was certainly circuitous but stocks ultimately staged a modest rebound from Friday’s ugly action. Ford’s (F) $997 million profit hoard, a three year high in manufacturing,

Earnings at Schlumberger (SLB) dropped by 48% during the third quarter as energy prices fell and low demand forced producers to cut back.The world’s largest provider of oil-field services, incl

Big news: This past weekend I finally beat my kids in Wii boxing. That makes my record around 1 and 50.Asian stocks were mixed overnight. The Hang Seng was up 1.23%, but the Nikkei was down 0.21%. Eu

The peak oil theory is simple on the surface: Over the long haul, oil supplies will diminish. Production rates will reach a peak and then decline. However, the simple Hubbert Curve doesn't account fo

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things th

Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions with a re

It's rarely useful to analyze preliminary GDP numbers. Everything that's reported is backward-looking, and should already be more or less known due to prior monthly economic data releases. Besides, t

It took the Wall Street Journal an entire survey to prove what readers of this column have known for months: The housing recovery, as it plays out, will be a localized event, varying greatly city to

What a weekend. The family and I hit the boardwalk and the beach. The kids got cotton candy and actually won some stuffed animals (they're pretty good at hitting balloons with darts). My souvenir: a