July 22, 2009 The market has been ravaged, and many of yesterday's winners simply won't be coming back anytime soon. Meanwhile, the new winners can be had at good prices. So with an eye toward portfolio diversity, let me propose some "trade-in" trades designed to help you shed popular stocks that are now past their prime for today's leaders in the same sectors.
May 4, 2009 Now, I'm not saying any of these companies are bad or evil. And I don't know whether our new climate of parsimony means the "greed is good" era of the 1980s is dead or not. What I do know is which stocks are in a position to profit today and which aren't. Here's a fun look at some stocks that symbolize the 7 Deadly Sins and how I expect them to perform.