Here are two things that haven’t changed since May: Barack Obama is president and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares are trading at around $560. Read more…

Don Miller: When Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched its new line of Nexus tablets a couple weeks ago, it was a shot across the bow of Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) dominant iPad. Read more…

Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)  rose modestly in early trading Monday on news that the release of the new iPad Mini and updated iPad saw strong demand, despite hurricane Sandy. “Customers around the world love the new iPad mini and fourth generation Read more…

David Zeiler: Trying to figure out when to sell Apple Inc. stock (NASDAQ:AAPL), particularly given its spectacular performance over the past several years, is a major dilemma. Read more…

David Zeiler: Fresh reports that a long-rumored Apple iTunes Radio Service will arrive in February have caused shares of Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE:P) to swoon over the past two days. Read more…

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) officially launched its Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet computer today worldwide. The new operating system is seeking to do what Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) still hasn’t, use one OS to bridge the gap between Read more…

Andy Crowder: If you’re like most investors, you probably missed the recent growth in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). Today, a lot of people are buying shares of Apple, hoping that the company will continue to see huge growth. Read more…

David Zeiler: Even though Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) earnings for Q4 aren’t yet out – they’ll be announced after Thursday’s market close – the company is much more concerned with beating last year’s spectacular December quarter, the company’s fiscal first quarter.  Read more…

J.W. Jones: My last missive dealt with a simple trading plan for XOM using the straightforward easily managed and easily understood strategy of selling naked puts and either allowing assignment of the stock and entering a covered call campaign or closing the position after Read more…

United Advisors Chief Market Strategist Scott Martin talks with FOX Business about  whether investors should add Apple to their portfolios. Scott says, “If apple keeps doing what they’ve been doing which is nailing revenue estimates blowing Read more…

The world is certainly becoming a more complicated and even puzzling place. What first appears as a great opportunity is sometimes a mirage. And the biggest Read more…

David Dittman: We are long past the point where information technology (IT) and systems management products, services and consulting are revolutionary aspects Read more…

Jim Trippon: Investors in stocks AOL (NYSE:AOL) and Fisher Communications (NASDAQ:FSCI) had to feel the glow of holding onto a lucky winner the other day, when both companies announced special dividend payments. As part of a plan to return $1.1 billion Read more…

As spring morphs into summer, many stocks are starting to move sideways. The summer doldrums often spell lackluster demand for stocks — unless they are really deep value plays. Value investors will wade in, even when most other buyers take a break. These folks tend to rummage through the waste basket, looking for discarded stocks that have been tossed out by the crowd.

Value investors love to focus on two key points: stocks that are well off of their 52-week high and sport price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios well below the market average. Many of the names they'll encounter are in the table below. The table holds four names that I've mentioned in the past, each of which looks quite appealing if you can ride out the problems of 2011.

As spring morphs into summer, many stocks are starting to move sideways. The summer doldrums often spell lackluster demand for stocks — unless they are really deep value plays. Value investors will wade in, even when most other buyers take a break. These folks tend to rummage through the waste basket, looking for discarded stocks that have been tossed out by the crowd.

Value investors love to focus on two key points: stocks that are well off of their 52-week high and sport price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios well below the market average. Many of the names they'll encounter are in the table below. The table holds four names that I've mentioned in the past, each of which looks quite appealing if you can ride out the problems of 2011.