The Day Ahead: Grab Yourself a Stock Today

Doing anything today? Maybe it's a sweltering round on the links with that new, sexy, white-headed TaylorMade $400 golf driver you neglected to tell the wife about? Maybe, instead, you've got plans to water the tomato plants and spray them with chemicals to boost their size for Facebook (FB) photos? (In that latter case, make sure to use Scott's Miracle Gro (SMG) -- management really needs your help to hit an earnings number, for a change.)

In between these very exciting undertakings, take a swift second and go buy a stock today. It's a new week and, presumably, there are new themes to be churned and burned. Well, to be honest, there are no new themes as of right now. But if history has been any guide, when the negative news flow dies down into smoldering embers, there'll be some opening for a positive spin on the global economy, and for markets to entrench themselves for a short duration....728 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.

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