In surveying stock investment research, I was surprised to find a headline on the bottom half of the front page of a highly circulated stock and financial newspaper. The headline noted that the NASDAQ had its sixth consecutive session of gains and was said to have rose .4%. According to the free stock market quotes provided in the publication, the NYSE rose .2% and the S&P 500 climbed .1%.
Although the major indexes were jittery earlier this month, they have shown themselves well lately and the NASDAQ in particular had shown ample strength. More hot stocks to watch may be in the major banking stock where banks have sold pieces of their assets, many times to foreign investors in an effort to combat the credit crunch
A good place to spend your stock investment research time may be in Apple Computers. Apple was above 200 for the first time on anticipated strong sales of iPods, iPhones and iMacs. Although we all want to look for the hot stocks to watch and trade, it is better to keep an eye on fundamentally sound stocks like Amazon.com and Baidu.com. as both are approaching buy points.
