Dr. Joseph Louro

It has been good being a shareholder of major oil firms like ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) and many others. The bull market has lifted the equity prices higher, and oil's new role as a safe haven asset has made the companies even more...

Of all the sectors ravaged by The Great Recession, shipping was among the hardest hit. The ETF for shipping, Guggenheim Shipping (NYSE: SEA), now under $22.50, was near $30.00 a share in July 2010. Shipping stocks such as Baltic Trading (NASDAQ: BALT), Frontier (NYSE: FRO), Nordic American...