Due to the bottom dropping out of the housing market and the price of a barrel of oil many stock market investors are scratching their heads wondering what stocks might be good investments. Cheer up! Key indicators suggest that 2008 should be better with a few hot stocks to watch. The wise stock market investor will do plenty of stock investment research before purchasing any particular stock but stock investment research is revealing the market will enjoy modest growth in 2008. One bright side to the slow down in the market is the weakening of the dollar. This translates to U.S. goods becoming cheaper in the overseas export sector.
A limited number of hot stocks to watch will include large-cap growth stocks---shares of companies with earnings growing faster than the market average. Concerning bonds look at high-quality issues like Treasuries and highly rated corporate bonds over riskier "junk" bonds. Here is your real piece of gold information and the main sector for hot stocks to watch. Research and seriously consider companies on the cutting edge of developing AI or artificial intelligence software and applications. Think algorithms and genetics.