shorts

Investors have generally taken a negative position on big banks lately: Major financial institutions face a host of issues that are punishing their bottom lines. However, some of Wall Street's most carefully watched investors -- short sellers -- are withdrawing their bets against them.

If 80% of professional fund managers underperform the market, how can individuals like you hope to succeed? In a new book, Matthew Schifrin of Forbes hunted down 10 of the best-performing mini-Buffetts over the past decade to get their secrets.

Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including posts about the top iPhone apps (at least this week), the Standard & Poor's 500 index's climb, the argument for going short and why stocks may be in a bubble.

German lawmakers in the lower house of parliament passed a bill banning naked short-selling of eurozone government bonds, credit default swaps based on those bonds and stocks in German companies. The bill aims to counter volatility of the euro currency, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported. "Naked...

I've noticed that people tend to forward our Daily Deals on to others when we mention men's clothing. Perhaps this is because many women desperately wish that their husbands would replace their ratty old apparel more frequently.Ladies, this is one you might want to forward on to them or, if you're...