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Large companies and institutions employ teams of analysts to help invest in other companies. If they buy a particular stock, the market often expects the stock to have significant upside potential.

A new member of the Weblogs Inc network owned by AOL launched formally launched today; BloggingStocks.com will focus extensively on eight major companies, including its parent firm, Time Warner.

For anyone new to investing in penny stocks, you should first be made aware of the differences between these micro-cap stocks and the more conventional blue-chip and mid-cap investments.

It is a fact of life that press releases influence the current price of a stock. People react emotionally and buy stocks on good press releases, and sell stocks on bad ones, regardless of the validity of the press release. If you can get the news first, you can be in a favorable position to take advantage and gain financially. This article describes how to obtain online stock press releases when they are first announced.

Pernod Ricard has put its "Old Bushmills" Distillery Company Limited, which includes "Bushmills" Irish whiskey, up for sale for about $363 million. The buyer is Diageo.

There are many good penny stock investments available, which could turn a small amount of capital into a small fortune very quickly. However, to discover these you need to know what to look for and what to avoid. When searching for that one big payoff, steer clear of the following examples.

Yesterday, U.S. stocks fell due as a result of rising oil prices, but today the picked back up thanks to a government report saying that the gross domestic product has grown more than expected.

Thanks partly to the decline of oil prices and news that Apple may start using Intel chips in its Mac computers, U.S. stocks have continued to rise in their biggest weekly gain in the last six months.