Ed Sheidlower is avoiding financials. But the Bryce Capital Management portfolio manager sees other sectors -- and stocks -- as good investments.   Read More

At a time of market uncertainty, what can an investor count on?  Knee replacements, for one thing.  Bruce Nudell, UBS senior research analyst, takes that as his cue in picking some promising stocks.   Read More

FBR's Christopher Warren is out with a research note to clients this morning saying that Boston Scientific is doing deals. He writes that BSX is "reportedly bundling $1,100 (that's right, $1,100) Taxus stents with defibrillators and ultrasound devices."    Read More

The second half of 2008 looks mighty encouraging to Al Meyers.  "It's all going to depend upon earnings," he told CNBC.  "It's going to set the tone for the second half.  There are some very good values out there right now."   Read More

Cramer makes the call on viewers' favorite stocks.   Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Time Warner and Borders popped while AIG and Boeing dropped.   Read More

Following are the day’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Humana and Medtronic popped while DryShips and J.C. Penney dropped.   Read More

Dow component and healthcare conglomerate (drugs, consumer products, medical devices) Johnson & Johnson beat and boosted. That's Wall Street jargon for earnings coming in higher than expectations and the guidance for the rest of the year being raised. So, why did the stock go down?    Read More

Ahead of the world's biggest gathering of cardiologists in Chicago this weekend, there's a flurry of news about stents--the expensive little wire mesh tubes that prop open clogged arteries. First, the Food and Drug Administration has posted new proposed guidelines for pre-and post-market testing of the controversial devices.    Read More

Sales of drug-coated stents, Boston Scientific's most profitable products, came in at the low end of the company's guidance in the fourth quarter. Stents are the fragile little wire mesh cylinders that act like scaffolding to prop open clogged arteries.   Read More