Dan Burrows

Dan Burrows

InvestorPlace Feature Writer

Dan Burrows is a veteran of CBS MoneyWatch, DailyFinance, SmartMoney and Dow Jones MarketWatch, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports and other publications. He favors value investing and writes about asset prices and macroeconomic trends for the long-term investor. He holds no individual securities.

Recent Articles

Ally Financial’s ResCap: A Smart Bankruptcy

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

The welcome move, plus asset sales, will free Ally from its subprime mortgage burden and help pay back Uncle Sam.

Jump on the Exodus in JPMorgan

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

A $2 billion trading loss is a screaming headline, but the panic it induced in JPM investors was overblown -- and opened up a door for new positions.

Casino Stocks Are Getting Clubbed, But the Coast Looks Clear

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

Despite recent selloffs across the table, casinos' recent earnings actually point to progress, with Macau progressing persistently and Vegas on the mend.

Health Insurers Weathering Sickly Q1 Results

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

A large swath of managed care companies had lousy Q1 earnings, but few have fallen to bargain prices. Are there any values to be found in the sector?

The Sunny Side of Recent Bank Failures

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

Five banks in four states went belly-up over the weekend, but this year's pace of failing banks is a positive sign of the industry's health.

5 Under-the-Radar Bellwether Stocks

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

Want to know what's happening across the economy? Beyond the usual big blue-chip indicators are stocks like these that can clue you in.

Caterpillar’s Breakthrough First Quarter

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

CAT just logged record earnings and has a record order backlog — and that's with a sluggish global economy.

Big Banks’ Earnings Fit for Goldilocks

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

Big banks' earnings are a case of incremental improvements in some areas and weakness in others. All in all, they're OK -- and for now, that's good enough.

Big Banks Face a Potential Ticking Time Bomb

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

BofA, Citi and Morgan Stanley could get hit with credit downgrades by Moody's. Though not a kiss of death, it would be yet another obstacle for the banks.

Treasury Yields Tarnished Again

By Dan Burrows, InvestorPlace Feature Writer

A smattering of disappointing U.S. data and global worries have pummeled the 10-year Treasury back down to 2% -- and that yield could stay low for some time.

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