This week on Stockhouse March 3 – 7

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Another unstable week had the Dow and the TSX down most of the week on continuing credit concerns and a darker U.S. economic outlook.

Despite closing slightly higher Wednesday, stocks on both sides of the border couldn’t recover from last week’s fall as the Dow spent most of the week down on a weak construction sector, further credit market concerns, and lowered consumer confidence.  Trouble at the banks and worries about the U.S. economy kept the TSX on a sharp decline through the week.

On Monday…

Luke Brocki dug into the recent ups and downs of the uranium companies in Uranium price cycle near bottom.

Learn more about gold stocks and how to profit from them in Get Ready – here come the gold stocks!

In Turning point for Western Prospector, Stockhouse columnist Danny Deadlock provided an update on the mining company, currently sitting on 20 million pounds of uranium in Mongolia.

Trader Thoughts provided an update on the continuing turmoil in the auction rate securities market and looked at Ben Bernanke’s semi-annual testimony before Congress in Bears back in business.

Then on Tuesday…

Why is the gold bull market not attracting the public’s interest? Boris Sobolev investigated in Crowds still not rushing into gold.

In Welcome to “The Room”, Casey Research looked back on the important news of last week.

On Wednesday…

Weekly Wizards provided a Q&A with Jay Matulich of Septos Capital Management, in Start of bottoming process?

In Mid-Day Minute, Mike Paulenoff looked at a potential Counter-trend upmove in S&P500.

Will blood substitutes be able to fill the medical need? Qualitystocks.net looked at Synthetic Blood International (OTC: BB: SYBD, Bullboard), one company attempting to do so, in An alternative to the blood industry.

Stockhouse market reporter Robert Arber provided a look at three speakers at PDAC’s Investors Forum: Lawrence Roulston, Ian Gordon, and Adrian Day

On Thursday…

Stockhouse market reporter Robert Arber continued his series on the six speakers at PDAC’s Investors Forum with Paul van Eeden and Jay Taylor.

Buzz on the Markets had Stockhouse investors discussing the Morning market slide.

Natural gas is pushing highs, in the Mid-day Minute.

BayStreet.ca looked at gold explorers that are Shining as gold peaks.

Stockhouse market reporter Robert Arber posed the question: Is natural gas headed toward an end-of-winter breakout?

Finally, on Friday…

In Financially Fit, Nancy Zambell looked at the explosion in ETFs, and details some of the more common ETF families.

QualityStocks.net reported on a company looking to revolutionize the aviation reservation business in Ultitek is hoping to soar to new heights.

Robert Arber, Stockhouse market reporter, finished his series on six of the speakers at PDAC’s Investors Forum with David Skarica.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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