I would rather put my money into a mutual fund since individual companies can be considerably more risky than spreading my money out to several carefully-chosen winners.
__________________ There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. - Steven Wright
I think buying websites, improving them and selling them is more interesting and I have better control of the outcome. But I do watch a few stocks, here and there, in case I get the urge.
1) Nortel Networks. They got POUNDED way down and really can't go much lower after a scandal. New management, so it's still a dog but no more fleas
2) The Royal Bank of Canada - Canada's shift to conservative means deregulation of the banking industry which means RBC will start gobbling up some banks.
3) Qualcomm. They make the 3G component which will be in every damn cell phone one day.
No way... US economy is sketch... I would most definately invest in one of my own projects, such as a website... like my newest project http://www.imagebucks.com
I invest in domains and that's kind of it. I don't really go to stock market but if I did, I would put 90% of my stock in Hybrid type of cars and 10% in oil companies.
I am not ready to invest into anything as of now since you have to think about future. I got school years to look forward to and other things. Most probably putting all my money into RRSPs.