Well, I don't really follow stocks. But I was just thinking about the moving-away from petroleum products - with all of its engineering aspects. It will affect the current oil companies negatively in the short term, but I am looking at General Electric, Sharp, Finmecchanica, Westinghouse (they have multiple subsidiaries... and I dont know the stock codes for them.)

In a year or two, GM or the company that inherits it... might actually be also a good choice. Nah, probably not.

Oh, and I forgot 'Linear.'

wow, usually agree with me never thought i'd hear that

but yeah zoz, you're right i am too excited for my own good, cuz this is a one in a lifetime opportunity, and i understand it can make me rich in a couple of 5 years

but yeah, it's not over this global recession SHOULD last a bit over a year, probably 14-18 months, cuz history has shown it usually lasts near 16-18 months
however, the stock market and stock prices are only a product of this economic crisis, they're not the base of it
i think within a few weeks(2-4) we should see the bottom of some stocks, others still have a rough patch to go
that's why i opened this thread, i'm looking out for those that i mentioned above, i think they're guna see their bottom soon

retailers might get hit a bit
but tell you what.. people can't stop buying toothpaste and ttoothbrushes
PG for the win

With the steep drop in oil prices, I don't think energy will be as big of an issue.

I'm not gonna lie - I'm all for the drop
UP pretty big over the last year
+
Lots of good deals
=
Lots of investors heading my way and better chances for success

The winME fund is on the rise

Na,price of oil is collapsing

smiof, you're right.
it is an unstable market, the rate of change is great and there are too many unknowns
BUT, even so, it shouldn't take 5-6 years for the stocks to be on the upside again- for some maybe, but for the most part no
it should only take about 2-4 months, after that there may be a few hickups but, the prices you're guna get within the next few weeks are guna be unbeatable

and winME i wanna be part of that fund

"Na,price of oil is collapsing"

the idea of profiting from a bubble is buying when everybody is understimating it; the reaon why oil is collapsing is because of fear the economy is going into recession, when we have a boom time again you will see it rise again

The bottom was here. Predicting the FTSE and Dow to move up tonight.

If you all dont JUMP on solid beaten down blue chips now....while they are cheap.....you are all nuts.

1.  IBM

2.  AT&T

3.  Apple  or  Microsoft....take your choice.

4.  GE

5.  Corning GLW.....I pick this, as a stock I bought, and got clobbered on.  But, Im buying now.  Im in on this for the rebound.

Notice the Diversification on these 5 only.

Han, I hope you're not saying it's a bad idea to get into the stock market...