http://www.articlealley.com en-us editorial@articlealley.com While some Wall Street herds may be stumbling over themselves to gobble up the record setting Dow index, the numbers show that bigger is not always better. The Russell 2000 Growth Index, which consists of fast-growing small cap companies, gained 6.5% i... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142409_19.html 30th March 2007 The mid-term elections are over, the markets are back to their bullish self, and the sky is not falling. Wall Street extended its November rally earlier this week, carrying the Dow Jones industrial into new territory as investors anticipated a business... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142408_19.html 30th March 2007 The bursting of the internet bubble in March 2000 taught us (or retaught us) one thing, that is: what goes up must come down. This is why I think the recent tear that the Dow has been on could usher in renewed interest in penny stocks. The record-se... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142407_19.html 30th March 2007 Just how optimistic are penny stock traders? Is there a bull snorting at the door...or could a weak fourth quarter usher in a lumbering bear? You might want to hold off clicking... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142406_19.html 30th March 2007 Who doesn’t know a good lawyer joke or twenty? And really, is it any surprise that we have a block of them tucked away, ready for use at any party, church function, or bus stop gathering? After all, lawyers (or some I suppose) chase ambulances and ha... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142405_19.html 30th March 2007 It looks as though it'll take more than a nuclear bomb to thwart the North American penny stock markets. The world's loopiest dictator announced last weekend that he detonated a nuclear bomb. How did the ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142403_19.html 30th March 2007 Just one month ago President Bush marked Labor Day by promising to keep U.S. workers competitive in global markets and to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil. "Dependence on foreign oil jeopardized our capacity to grow," he noted. Encouraging words yes... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142402_19.html 30th March 2007 Those weren’t trumpets proclaiming the Second Coming...just analysts sounding off about the DOW Jones. On Thursday, Wall Street surged higher, carrying the Dow Jones Industrial to 11,718.45; its highest close this year and its second-highest close on... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142400_19.html 30th March 2007 The dog-days of summer are behind us. So too are the cushy days of serving on a corporate board. Being a board member use to be easy; all you had to do was attend a few meetings...say "yea" or "nay" (in harmony), enjoy the odd charming meal, and maybe ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142398_19.html 30th March 2007 While I hate to deconstruct the events of 9-11 down to an impersonal, economic level, the fact is, it's inevitable. For the events of 9-11 were in large part an attack not just on America and her people, but also on democracy and world capitalism. For ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142397_19.html 30th March 2007 If you listen carefully...you may be able to hear the big blue chip investors whispering nervously about the "R" word. Across the U.S, sobering housing statistics are beginning to reflect the sharp slowdown over the past year. U.S. home-price growth... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142396_19.html 30th March 2007 There are only two simple rules to making tons of money with penny stocks: knowing what to buy and knowing when to buy (and sell). Do some digging and hopefully you'll uncover a great penny stock company ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142395_19.html 30th March 2007 While penny stock investors are accustomed to the daily volatility of the markets, most investors are not. Wall Street declined for a fourth straight session Thursday after new data fed investors' belief ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_142394_19.html 30th March 2007 Open up your wallets, a new year of investing has officially begun. Stocks opened markedly higher in the first session of 2007 as investors cheered news that Home Depot Inc’s CEO resigned after years of lackluster performance, and that the holiday shopp... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138071_19.html 14th March 2007 In 2006, small cap stocks out performed large cap stocks, and are poised to perform well again this year. History shows that, over time, the best performing stocks started small. Just remember… correlation is not causation. For example, in Los Angele... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138067_19.html 14th March 2007 According to my calendar, winter is in full bloom, but you’d never know it if your seasonal gauge is oil prices. Crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange slipped to $50.24 a barrel earlier this week, trading at levels not seen since May 2005. In... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138066_19.html 14th March 2007 Penny stocks, those little gems of companies that can deliver startlingly good returns regardless of what their large cap peers are doing, have been performing exceptionally well these past few years. And... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138064_19.html 14th March 2007 I like to think that penny stocks are lone marauders that buck long held stock market trends. They don’t follow typical trading patterns, they don’t care how much oil is trading at (unless it’s an ener... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138063_19.html 14th March 2007 Whether it’s the stock market, your job, or your day-to-day relationships, it’s easy to get comfortable when things are going good. Letting your guard down and lapping up the beams of success, while duly earned, may also mean you are unprepared for an... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138062_19.html 14th March 2007 Some astute penny stock investors look on the front page of the daily newspaper to see what kinds of stocks they should be investigating in. Marketing and speculation are after all one of the engines that he... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138056_19.html 14th March 2007 I was watching Judge Judy the other afternoon. The litigant was charging her “ex-friend” with fraud. The defendant asked her friend to cash some money orders for her. Apparently, there was a Nigerian model that had some money orders she needed cashed.... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138055_19.html 14th March 2007 An article I was reading noted that more than half of all U.S. households are invested in our stock markets. In 1929, this figure was much lower. But, even in the early 1900s, businesses relied heavily on the markets for capital. And by the Roaring Twenti... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138048_19.html 14th March 2007 It’s been a little over a week since the world-wide markets went through a correction of sorts. On February 27, North American penny stock investors awoke to discover that the Shanghai Stock Exchange, which more than doubled in value over the past year,... http://www.articlealley.com/article_138046_19.html 14th March 2007 It's been well over 100 degrees in my neck of the woods these past few days...and I'm not really having all that much fun. Central air conditioning is something I'm lacking. If I could just direct this heat onto Wall Street...where it is needed...I wo... http://www.articlealley.com/article_101013_19.html 16th November 2006 When I was about 5 or 6 years old I read one of my first books; the protagonist was a furry blue puppet. Our hero told the dear reader not to flip to the end of the book, there was a monster waiting there...and like any wise blue puppet, he did not want ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_101005_19.html 16th November 2006 The sound of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's voice isn't quite as soothing and reassuring as Perry Como's... but it's something penny stock investors and market analysts are (slowly) warming up to. A quick recap...back in October 2005, Presiden... http://www.articlealley.com/article_101004_19.html 16th November 2006 Take some time grazing through the business or investing section of your favorite local bookstore and you'll discover that virtually every literary business or stock guru has some great secrets (some simple...some not) that (apparently) can help you bust ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_101003_19.html 16th November 2006 It's been almost a month since Bill Gates announced his slow departure from Microsoft, the company he launched with Paul Allen way back in 1975. In 2008, Bill Gates, the world's richest man, will step back from the daily operations of the company and... http://www.articlealley.com/article_75768_19.html 24th July 2006 Christmas and (insert your favorite holiday here) come but once a year; earnings season on the other hand, comes four times a year. And while earnings season may be devoid of streamers, balloons and cake...the outcome can be just as festive for penny sto... http://www.articlealley.com/article_75743_19.html 24th July 2006 While the early results of earnings season may not be giving investors much to cheer about, it is a nice diversion to the stock market's May-June sell-off. And like a much needed summer holiday, it may be just the break penny stock investor's need be... http://www.articlealley.com/article_75723_19.html 24th July 2006 Over the last eight weeks [June, 2006] I've been spending a lot of time reading articles describing the current market conditions...trying to figure if it really affects penny stock investors. Are we in a... http://www.articlealley.com/article_68396_19.html 29th June 2006 It's been a wild and wooly couple of weeks on the international stock markets. But is the recent slide grinding to a halt...or just taking a breather before tumbling some more? And more importantly, what does it mean to astute <a href="http://www.pennysto... http://www.articlealley.com/article_65822_19.html 23rd June 2006 Should Wiley E. Coyote ever get into buying stocks, I have no doubt he would stack his portfolio with shares of ACME. I'm just not so sure any savvy penny stock investor should follow the economic advice of ... http://www.articlealley.com/article_65821_19.html 23rd June 2006