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

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

When you are about to invest in a penny stock, the number one question you need to ask yourself is: What’s the catalyst? Without some big event or monolithic development coming down the road, there’s no reason for investors to care about these tiny companies. You see, the majority of investors are ...read more

“[During a recession] small stocks outperformed T-Bills, bonds, and the S&P about two-thirds of the time -- and they did so by a ridiculous margin,” claims the Motley Fool’s Ilan Moscovitz. While safe, stable stocks are usually the first place investors flock to when markets turn sour, maybe you should be ...read more

BusinessWeek calls it the “Apple Economy” – the flurry of new products, services, and companies that have sprung up over the last few years to cater to Apple customers. In recent years the Apple economy has become a multi-billion dollar business for scores of smaller companies who want a piece ...read more

Last year, oil prices went crazy. In a matter of weeks, oil shot up as high as $147 and came right back down. Today, oil is sneaking back up. The obvious temptation is to try and time it again. The smart money, however, is looking elsewhere to take advantage. We found ...read more

Here at Penny Sleuth HQ we’re often asked what we think about Company A, or Stock B, or Product C. Maybe “often” isn’t strong enough of a word – we get these emails by the hundreds! And while we can’t offer individual investment advice, we certainly can give you the ...read more