This Week on StockHouse January 8 to 12

It was the first full week of trading in 2007, and StockHouse columnists were in a reflective and positive mood, for the most part.

Can wind power help stave off global warming?  Monday’s Resource Report by Doug Hadfield said NaiKun Wind Development (TSX: V.NKW) is working hard to be part of the solution (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19169 ) with a proposed wind farm in the Hecate Strait off the west coast of British Columbia. 

Oil companies may want to get at potential oil reserves under the (smaller) Arctic ice cap, said Luke Burgess in Pure Energy. But the question of who owns that resource (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19185 ) is as yet unanswered.

When a big company chooses to use the technology platform developed by a small biometrics company, that’s big news in the micro-cap space. Danny Deadlock’s weekly column followed recent developments (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19168 ) for Bioscrypt (TSX: T.BYT), and other names.

While commodities took a breather in December, January could be a time of renewed strength (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19173 ) for metals and petroleum products, according to the Technical Speculator.

Basic materials may be poised for further gains, but equities may appreciate more slowly in 2007 than in 2006, said Institutional Research Partners as the Macro View of the Micro-cap World bid a good year good bye (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19177).

On the other hand, in an interview, Market Wizard Jordan Kimmel, was exceptionally positive about 2007, and called for the Dow to reach 15,000 points (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19178).

Economist

Steven Saville

Publisher and executive editor Darin Diehl laid down the StockHouse numbers for 2006 in the Publisher’s Notebook column, and they were an impressive lot of statistics (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19174 ), indeed.

Sean Mason and Keri Korteling assembled some more numbers for a five-minute look at what’s hot on StockHouse in the Top Five (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/article.asp?edtID=19183 ). 

While investors like the image of an active, decision-maker, John De Goey urged an appreciation of a more passive approach (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19175 ) to financial planning.

Nancy Zambell set out to answer the questions raised when an investor wants to pass a little wealth (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19188 ) along to one’s heirs.

And, the Securities Sleuth said real corporate governance change is long overdue. (http://www.stockhouse.ca/shfn/editorial.asp?edtID=19181 )