Despite the fact that FedEx shares have more than doubled since their March lows, its future growth potential is enormous.

Editor's Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest most controversial companies. For past columns click here. For the opposing view on Exxon see Exxon: Slick Slimy and Dangerous.Aside from the captain who was below deck when the Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989 ExxonMobil (XOM) is a smart well-run company that has rewarded investors with steady returns. What’s not to love?ExxonMobil earns its money by turning gloppy stinky crude oil into the fuel needed to ...

Forget about what he says. If you want to learn what Warren Buffett really thinks are money-making bets look at what the old guru is actually doing.The greatest value investor of our time likes to portray himself as that Cherry Coke-sipping cheeseburger-eating down home Yankee. The truth of course is that nobody becomes the second richest man in the world worth $37 billion just by acting like a soft cardigan-wearing grandpa.The man is a hard tough negotiator that doesn’t suffer incompetents says Paul Howard a research analyst with Langen McAlenney who covers Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A).“He does try ...

Over the weekend, global leaders including President Obama, abandoned any pretense that next month's long-hyped gathering in Copenhagen would yield meaningful results. For true believers this is blasphemy.

Slim gains on vacation volume still sufficed to send the Dow Jones Index up for a sixth successive session as it and the Standard & Poor’s 500 closed at fresh highs for the year. While 1 100 represents a pesky resistance point for the S&P bulletproof bullion has blown past $1 100 and gold futures are on a nine-session streak unseen since ‘82. See also Dollar Tops As Precious Metals Bottom. When the closing bell tolled for Toll Brothers (TOL)  its shares were up 16.42% good for its biggest gain in 17 years. Fifth Third (FITB) (+3.29%) also put ...

NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following Is an Investment Opinion Being Issued by Benchmark Journal.