Nanotechnologies are not some future development. The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies estimates that nearly 1,000 products that rely on nanotech are on the market now. Currently, most applications simply integrate superior nanotech materials into existing products. Carbon allotropes are used to produce gecko tape. Antibacterial nano-silver is used in clothing, food ...read more

Water is essential for life. It's quite literally an investment that you can't live without. And while you might not be able to trade water futures on the Chicago Board of Trade, providing people with H2O is a $400 billion global industry, according to an article by Harvard's Garry Emmons. "In ...read more

“Planet Earth is probably the riskiest it has been since the day before the meteor landed in the Yucatan and wiped out most life.” -- Donald Coxe This is an eye-opener. Whenever I talk about the Great Depression and compare it with what is going on today, I get a lot ...read more

Many are suggesting that the recent bull market is over and the time to sell is here. Let’s let the charts do the talking… The Dow Industrials MAY be in the process of forming a potential Head and Shoulders Top as shown below. A break of the green support line opens ...read more

The biggest risk to the American middle class isn’t the rising cost of oil or the increasing scarcity of credit. As real as those potential problems may be, they’ve got one saving grace in common: Everyone knows about them. We can see them coming on CNN or in the pages ...read more

Newspapers and nightly television news programs are as good as dead. A study performed by Drs. Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa found that Generation Y (born between1981-1992) gets 34% of its news from the Internet, compared with only 11% from newspapers. Web sites like Digg and The Drudge Report are sending ...read more

We love a good growth story. After all, that's why we invest in the tiniest companies on the market. It gives us the chance to get in on the ground floor -- before the rest of the world tunes in to the potential that a particular company has to offer. But ...read more

Picking a broker is one of the toughest things for new investors to do. As a result, we constantly get e-mails like this one from our readers here at the Penny Sleuth… To: PennySleuth@agorafinancial.com Subject: Brokerage Do you have a particular brokerage firm you use to buy penny stocks? I have a Sharebuilder ...read more

Looking at the index charts over the last few days, we've got some cross currents going into next week. While the daily charts show everything still intact and the Full Stohcastics being in the near to oversold zone with a lift off of Wednesday’s lows, we've still not made it ...read more

Stock trading has gone mobile. Today you can research stocks, keep tabs on your portfolio, and execute trades from pretty much anywhere. That’s thanks in large part to the popularity of mobile devices like the iPhone and Blackberry in the business world. But with so many applications out there – more ...read more