Jeff Reeves

Jeff Reeves

Jeff Reeves is a financial commentator with almost two decades of newsroom and markets experience, including a stint as an editor for the New York Times Co. He has been lead writer and editor for InvestorPlace.com since the beginning of 2010.  

Jeff’s work has appeared in numerous finance publications and broadcast outlets, including The Wall Street Journal network, CNBC, TheStreet.com, Fox Business Channel, USA Today and a host of others.

View some of his TV appearances on YouTube, or check out his writing links below.

Jeff has also penned an eBook, The Frugal Investor’s Guide to Finding Great Stocks: 11 Free Resources to Help Beginners Identify Fantastic Investments.

Write Jeff at editor@investorplace.com, or follow him on Twitter @JeffReevesIP.

Recent Articles

2010 IPO Stock Picks – The Worst Public Offerings of the Last Year

By Jeff Reeves

Stock IPOs get a lot of hype on Wall Street, and initial public offerings are often surrounded with dreams of once-in-a-lifetime investments that make investors enough money for their retirement in a matter of weeks. Even though IPO participants are always insiders and those close to the company, individual investors often race to get into a new stock as soon as it goes public in the hopes of sharing in the success right out of the gate.

Burger King Fries Hit Your Grocery Store Freezer (BKC, MCD, CAG, KFT, SNAK, CPKI)

By Jeff Reeves

The debate over whose fries are better, Burger King (BKC) or McDonald's (MCD), is one of the oldest fast food fights in the industry. But rather than just limit the debate to the drive-thru window, Burger King has upped the ante by changing the battlefield to the supermarket aisles. How? Well, with a new line of frozen foods that include crinkle-cut French fries and healthy apple fries coming soon to your grocer's freezer. There's even a healthy line of Apple Fries, with the fruit skinned and cut to look like French fries and packaged in that familiar Burger King branded paper cup.

Starbucks (SBUX) Stock – 5 Reasons to Buy

By Jeff Reeves

The bull market isn't gone, it's just been taking a bit of a coffee break. One of the best stocks to buy in the last year has been Starbucks (SBUX), a coffee icon around the world and savior to caffiene junkies everywhere. SBUX stock is up 12% year-to-date as of today's closing bell and has significantly outperformed other restaurant and foodservice stocks in recent months. What's more, in the last year shares are up over +70% -- blowing away the +15% tallied by the Dow. SBUX stock is still going strong and there are plenty of reasons to buy.

Low-Risk Trading Strategies – 3 ETFs to Protect You This Summer

By Jeff Reeves

Looking for simple trading strategies that will help you reduce your risk during the dog days of summer but not keep you out of the profits? Then consider three low risk ETF investments for the coming months that will provide built-in diversification to your portfolio and help you avoid getting jerked around by the stock market.

6 Hot Commodity Investments – How to Invest in Gold, Crude Oil, Timber and More

By Jeff Reeves

The euro is falling and the U.S. dollar is soaring, with the two currencies approaching parity. Not too long ago, the euro was trading at around $1.60 in U.S. dollars and now the currency is valued at around $1.20 and falling fast.

Dollar General Earnings Show Discount Sales Soaring (DG, DLTR, FDO, NDN, BIG, WMT, COST, TGT)

By Jeff Reeves

Discount retailer Dollar General Corp. (DG) reported strong first-quarter earnings results today that included a 64% jump in profit. Dollar General earnings data also showed that customers visited its nearly 9,000 retail locations more frequently, and that they were spending more per transaction. As a result, after earnings Dollar General also raised its outlook for the full year.

Whole Foods Sets Bar High for Grocery and Staples Retail Stores (WFMI, KR, SVU, WMT)

By Jeff Reeves

Whole Foods (WFMI) is in a class of its own, despite the fact that retail sales at grocery store stocks have not been inspiring in the last year or so as the recession weighed on consumer spending. Companies like Supervalu (SVU), Kroger (KR) and others slashed prices and squeezed margins to court shoppers – and even Walmart (WMT) had to institute a massive "rollback" to prove it was really the best bargain out there. Walmart slashed prices on over 10,000 items covering mostly food and general merchandise.

5 Reasons Chrysler is (Still) Doomed

By Jeff Reeves

Chrysler Group LLC, the Fiat-run venture that is the latest reincarnation of this automaker that went bankrupt a year ago, is recalling almost 575,000 vehicles due to brake defects. While the number of Chrysler minivans and Jeeps affected is far less than the 8 million vehicles recalled in a series of black eyes for Toyota (TM), it is larger than the 400,000 Odyssey vans and Element SUVs or so recalled by Honda (HMC).

Walmart Could Score Sales Boost From World Cup (WMT, TGT, BBY)

By Jeff Reeves

Walmart (WMT) is the biggest name in shopping, and thanks to its broad global reach it boasts the biggest retail footprints among World Cup competitors – with outlets in eight of the 32 countries competing in the contest. And strangely enough, the big-box store is banking on a correlation between sales in those markets and the performance of the corresponding football clubs. Competitors like retailer Target (TGT) and other grocery store chains are taking notice.

7 Stocks to Buy That Bucked the Market With +20% Gains in May

By Jeff Reeves

Investors know that investing in the stock market has plenty of ups and downs, and that no investment strategy will insulate you from the unexpected. The stock market can be a fickle place, where what's in one month is out the next. Investors have learned to take a short-term approach to things in the wake of the financial crisis, prepared to get defensive quickly if the market has one of its "retest" fits where it doesn't seem like any investment is going to see appreciation for a while.

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