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

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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