Markets wrapped up the final full trading week of the year on a minor note as the credit crunch of 2007 continued to play out. Major financial institutions began to look at covering credit-related losses through asset sales, while countries all over the world digested the news of the assassination of Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto. Gold prepared to end the year on a high note as it looks to trade above $800 at month’s end for the first time in history.
On Monday…
Nancy Zambell of Financially Fit encouraged investors to spend some time ensuring that their portfolios are up to snuff for the end of the year in It’s the season for your portfolio check-up!
Luke Brocki focused his sights on a few uranium companies that grabbed some end-of-year gains in Late December uranium stocks rally.
A look at the Bakken oil formation and the companies active there came courtesy of community regular Stacey Laliberte in Saskatchewan’s red-hot Bakken oil formation.
More community news came from littleguy123 as he finished off a multi-part series on the new “Axis of Evil” with some interesting theories about high-flying bonuses for CEOs of troubled financial companies, in Buying “loyalty” with billions in “bonuses”.
On Tuesday…
Merry Christmas!
On Wednesday…
Holiday festivities continued with Boxing Day in Canada.
Then on Thursday…
Matt Stiles put his neck on the line for the betterment of all when he recapped his predictions, successful or not, for 2007 – and then dove in with more for 2008. A great end-of-year read from one of Stockhouse’s own is called Themes for 2008, part one.
Buzz returned to collect thoughts from SH members on the red-hot commodity known as potash in More life left in potash plays.
For news about small stocks that made big moves in Thursday trading, please read the
Stockhouse U.S. Small and Micro-cap Stock Report.
Finally, on Friday…
Part two of Matt Stiles’ six-part Themes for 2008 series found the globe-trotting Canadian hunkering down for a heart-to-heart with Canada’s economic prospects for the New Year.
Stockhouse staff writer Sean Mason delivered a year-end wrap-up of ten of the most sought-after stocks on Stockhouse for 2007. Part one, called Top-10 stock searches of 2007, appeared Friday, with part two scheduled for next week.
In Buzz on the Boards, TD enjoyed the spotlight as one of not very many financial institutions that have weathered the credit storm better than most, in TD takes the high road.
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