Marc Lichtenfeld

Rather than employing the futile exercise of trying to figure out the exact moment to buy or sell stocks, here are Four Pillars of Wealth to achieve financial goals.

There seems to be a trend in financial media to publish long lists of stocks that were bought by successful hedge funds, but it doesn't do much good for individual investors. Here's the right way to follow the "smart money," without wasting your time on lists.

Sell in May and go away? Seems so -- stocks are off to a weak start this month, and some investment analysts are saying a pullback is due following April's strong rally. What's an investor to do? When the going gets tough, the tough buy consumer staples stocks.

No one is smart enough to call the top of the market in silver, but now is the time for precious metals investors take a breath and think about protecting profits gained from the metal's recent meteoric rise. Here's how.

This week, S&P warned there's a chance that the agency could lower the U.S.'s long-term credit rating. It's too hard to say which companies will be the winners and losers were a downgrade to occur, but these stocks in the small-cap healthcare sector should do just fine.

One of the best times to invest in a biotech company is when an experimental drug candidate is in Phase II clinical trials, when a relatively small group of patients receives varying dosage levels of the drug. Here's why.

Gold bugs are celebrating, though they haven't thrown the victory party just yet. Many bullish investors believe the price of gold will reach $2,000 an ounce. But more than a century of data suggest that investing in stocks, rather than gold, is a better way to go.

Last month, the FDA approved Bristol-Myers Squibb's Ipilimumab drug for metastatic melanoma -- a breakthrough as there's no effective treatment for the deadly disease. But on the back of this news, the big picture for these five biotech companies is even more exciting.

If you're investing in stocks for the long term, buy stable companies with a track record of increasing their dividends -- and then reinvest those dividends -- to turbo-charge your portfolio's performance.

Recent polls of America's wealthiest people have found they're the most optimistic they've been in months. Of those who said they'll invest more money in the stock market, the majority said they're focused on these three sectors.