Stocks Shake Off Jobs Report To End With Big Gains -- Wall Street has put an upbeat spin on the government's report that the nation lost more than a half a million jobs last month. Stocks reversed early losses to finish sharply higher as the job numbers raise hopes that Washington will again step in to help the economy.Big job losses is good news because it means that maybe we'll get free money? What? That's like saying it's good that we didn't clean our rooms because maybe now our parents will get annoyed and clean them for us and give us our allowance anyway.
Then there's another article on how gas may go down to less that $1 (whoa!). Purely speculative, as is just about everything but the punctuation on this site, but it's a nice idea. Let's see, how could I capitalize in the stock market on cheap gas. I can't buy stock in oil companies (unless, of course, you use the above logic, in which case, free money again!), so who profits from cheap gas? Probably not Ford and GM...they're too busy trying to look not-rich. My best answer so far is Coke and Doritos: if you just saved at the gas pump, maybe you'll be more likely to go into the little Mart and pick up a snack!
Does anyone out there have some oh-so-logical advice on picking up a few stocks CHEAP!!! ON SALE!!! EVERYTHING MUST GO!!! as they seem to be so much these days?
