What are good stocks these days?

apple. It continuously rises with the release of new products.

Generally, if you want to invest you should find stocks that pay a pretty good dividend, and do not have much of a chance of dropping very much. Drug companies like pfizer, merck, johnson and johnson are usually good picks because they will never go out of business, at least not in a very long time.

However, if you are asking this question, you probably have a lot more research to do about the stock market. There are so many ins and outs that are very difficult to understand.

For example, last quarter american express made money, but their stock went down because all of the mutual funds were pulling out of the financial sector.

To learn more about stocks you should talk to other investors, or a private finance firm. Also, never take advice about which stocks to invest in without doing the research yourself. You can get advice, but always research it yourself, and learn how to look at the charts. With time you will get better at speculation.

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Yahoo, it's cheap right now and when things get turned around (and they will) it'll have no place to go but up