The final results of the Netflix Prize are in: Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) is sending out that $1 million check to Team BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos. And the next million-dollar race is already on....

Banks are the backbone of finance in the nation. They are the primary institutions you trust to keep your money safe....

Whether you're a beginning investor or a near-retiree, the importance of purchasing stocks that pay dividends cannot be overstated. Not only do companies that have quarterly or annual payouts provide ...

The Armonk, N.Y.-based computer giant has released its annual "Next Five in Five" list of five innovations expected to hit the ground by 2015. The predictions are based on surveys conducted with more ...

Nokia's smartphone business is now in something of a rut. Just a couple of years ago, the company seemed to have an unassailable position in the smartphone market, with popular devices running a combi...

Earlier this year, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) received an additional slug of capital from taxpayers to digest its Merrill Lynch acquisition. In addition to $20 billion of TARP funds, the bank receive...

The consistency of past earnings and cash flow. How much growth we can expect. Let's see what those numbers can tell us about how expensive or cheap Biglari Holdings (NYSE: BH) might be....

Everyone would love to find the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that gives you everythingyou could possibly want? One thing's for sure: If you don't look, you'll never find truly ...

Before you get too excited, I'm not planning on throwing my hat in the ring with my own predictions for the economy next year. I find plenty of ways to be wrong, and that is the kind of make-me-look-s...

It’s been a pretty kind year to stock investors, with the S&P showing a 12.7% gain in 2010. Of course, kindness might still feel relative after a lost decade of negative returns that included the na...

I don't know about you, but investing after the 2008-2009 meltdown feels eerily similar to being an Oklahoma Sooners' football fan on the eve of the yet another BCS bowl game (the Sooners have lost th...

I'm not going to dip bananas in chocolate and call them dessert. The banana business hasn't exactly been sweet over the past half-dozen years....

The pessimists who dominate public discourse insist that we will soon reach a turning point and things will start to get worse," writes Matt Ridley in his book The Rational Optimist. "But they have be...

I'm a long-term optimist. You should be, too. But even when you're an optimist, a healthy amount of skepticism maybe even pessimism can do you good. It makes you a more stable optimist....

Howard Marks is chairman of Oaktree Capital, which manages almost $80 billion in assets. He pens a monthly letter, and this past month, he wrote a thoughtful discussion of the arguments for and agains...

After the market meltdown in 2008 and early 2009, the big bounce that investors have seen in stocks has given beaten-down investors some relief after seeing their portfolios suffer big losses....

Everyone would love to find the perfect stock. But will you ever really find a stock that gives you everythingyou could possibly want?...