Peter Lynch

Christmas is just around the corner, but there are still a few days left for last-minute holiday shopping. Here’s a look at six books that make excellent gifts for the stock trader in your life. 1. “The Millionaire Next Door” by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley and Dr. William D. Danko...

Tycoons aren't born, they're made through determination and a relentless pursuit of growth, improvement and innovation. Our review of several modern day business and finance tycoons reveals that successful business innovators have more than brilliant minds and a strong desire for autonomy...

Money manager Martin Zweig's great moment came on Oct. 16, 1987, when he told Louis Rukeyser that a big market crash was coming. The crash would come be soon. It would be vicious. And, what many people forget, but he also said the crash would also be short-lived. Zweig was right on all counts...

What makes Peter Lynch's investing advice so beguiling to so many is his insistence that the little guy can beat the pros on Wall Street. Go to the mall, he says. See what people are buying -- and where. Pay attention to what your kids buy and use.  Look at what's going on in your community...

Range Resources Corp. (NYSE: RRC) is an independent oil and gas company that is trading at valuations far above those for others in the sector, such as Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) and Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK). For investors looking to short a stock, Range Resources Corp. certainly looks...

Harvest Capital Credit Corp (NASDAQ: HCAP) is a small cap with a big-time dividend. A business development company, Harvest Capital Credit has a dividend yield of 8.95 percent. Required by law to pay out most of its income in dividends due to tax considerations, business development companies...

The Obama Administration is focusing the efforts of its second term on income inequality in the United States. Although Wall Street is associated with being the province of the wealthy, there is no place that any individual is treated more equitably than as a shareholder of a publicly-traded...

Still looking for last-minute holiday gifts for somebody who loves the investment markets? Or maybe you’re thinking ahead to how you will use those gift cards you receive for Christmas. When was the last time you read a book on investing? The great investors of the world didn’t get those...

Whether or not you think professional wrestling is real, the performance of World Wrestling Entertainment (NYSE: WWE) has been worthy of the championship belt. For 2013, World Wrestling Entertainment is up more than 90 percent. As with so many other publicly-traded entities, especially those in...

In case the action over the past few days hasn't made it clear, traders appear to be implementing an age-old Wall Street-ism right now... "Do nothing, absolutely nothing until there is something to do." Put another way, it looks like most investors have decided to sit on their hands until the...

Investing in small banks has been an incredibly profitable activity for decades now.The potential of these bank stocks is revealed in an examination of Peter Lynch and his legendary performance of the Magellan Fund. Mr. Lynch famously advised investors to buy what you know but he probably...

This weekend in Barron's online: profiles of five multiple-asset mutual funds for diversifying sources of yield, a mid-year review of Barron's stock picks and the prospects for the Dell buyout and the new earnings season. Cover Story "The New Breed of Income Fund" by Reshma Kapadia. Investors...

The idea that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) stock could someday trade for over $1,000 per share has been speculated about before, but what are some of the factors that make this a likely scenario? The first and most important variable to take into consideration is Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) growth rates. In...