We thought we'd provide our readers with a little light reading material for the upcoming summer months when many of you will be vacationing with your families. I can guarantee that if you read all five books on this list, you’ll be well prepared to invest...

Earlier this year soccer player David Beckham announced that when his contract with Real Madrid expires in June, he’d begin a new $250 million, five-year deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer, the ten-year-old semi-successful professional...

Happy Monday morning, everybody. One of our loyal RYS readers, Dheenu Sivaligam, has suggested that we start posting the answers to our weekly Friday quiz on Monday morning, and we think this is a great idea. From now on, we’ll be leaving the answers...

We’ve all heard the statistics about America’s ever worsening obesity problem. Yes, it’s true we are overweight and we do eat too much but we still need clothes to work and play in that make us look half flattering; a reality met head on by United Retail...

It’s Friday and around here at Rock Your Stock we LOVE giving away free stuff on Fridays. But if you took our quiz from a couple of weeks ago , you’d know that we don’t yet have any cool swag of our own, so we’ve resorted to giving away swag from some...

While I don’t drink as much beer as I once did I still like to have the occasional pint. When I do, I tend to order something unusual and more flavorful then your typical American beer. One of the best in my opinion is Duvel ( DUV ), a Belgian strong...

The crack team at Rock Your Stock put our heads together and came up with a list, in no particular order, of some of the little known truths about Wall Street. We hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to add to the list in the comments section. Thanks....

When I was six my grandfather retired from his job as President of Famous Players, the largest cinema chain in Canada. He spent his entire life in the entertainment business and it rubbed off on me to the extent I love movies and pretty much anything...

Anyone who does a lot of highway driving might know about today’s pick. Cobra Electronics ( CBRA ) is a leader in radar detection products but also produces two-way radios, citizens band radios, marine electronics and mobile navigation systems for the...

As I was filling up my tank this morning on the way to work, I thought about gas prices and the rising cost of fuel. As my car slowly sucked the money out of my wallet, I looked over at a man filling up a behemoth of a vehicle. I wondered how much he...

Microsoft is at the top of the financial news this morning by announcing it will buy online advertising firm aQuantive Inc. for a staggering $6 billion. The deal will see aQuantive receive $66.50 a share in cash, an amount 85 percent higher than the stock’s...

Back in the mid to late 1970s, a tennis player from Sweden captivated the crowds at Wimbledon, winning five straight titles and nearly a sixth in 1981. His name was Bjorn Borg and he was as smooth off the court as he was on it. Women adored him like no...

Boy howdy do we have a great book to give away for this week’s Rock Your Stock finance news quiz. It’s called Secrets of Millionaire Moms: Learn How They Turned Great Ideas into Booming Businesses – and How You Can Too! by Tamara Monosoff. You certainly...

If you’re a shrewd investor with few or no scruples, chances are you beefed up your portfolio’s Halliburton shares right around Q1 of 2003. And why not? Anybody with even a modicum of market sense could tell that the Texas energy giant’s shares would...

Today I’m headed down under to the land of the koala bear, Billabong, and Crocodile Dundee. Our pick is a growing baked goods franchise that went public last June at a buck a share. Now trading around $1.50 a share, Retail Food Group ( RFG ) is making...

After reading the news yesterday, I was beginning to wonder if members of the Bancroft family were reconsidering their position on Rupert Murdoch’s $5-billion bid to take Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal off their hands. After all, yesterday was...

The financial services industry is neck high in paper work and it’s not getting any better. A Pennsylvania company helps make this nightmare disappear through outsourcing. SEI Investments ( SEIC ) provides pre-packaged as well as custom solutions to financial...

Last October, before I joined Geosign, I set up my own blog using an internet provider where I live. Part of the yearly deal included some software for creating your own web sites. The product was NetObjects Fusion , and although very interesting, I decided...

My niece is a competitive swimmer. One of the tools of the trade for her is the Speedo swimsuit. In late 2003, I suggested to my sister that since her daughter was an avid swimmer, she might think about buying some stock in Warnaco Group ( WRNC ) as a...

It seems to me that private equity is the elixir of the investment world. Got a problem with your business (publicly traded) and no short-term solution, sell it to a private equity firm who’ll shade you from those pesky shareholders who want returns now,...

Today is fashion Friday and I was struggling to come up with a stock pick when I looked at the same store sales numbers for April . There was blood in the streets, carnage everywhere. Red numbers pretty much across the board, especially among fashion...

It’s time again for our finance news quiz, but to be honest we were struggling to find a prize to give away this week. Because Rock Your Stock is still in its infancy, the bean counters around here have not yet blessed us with a budget to order some cool...

Ok, this morning I wrote about the first five stocks in the Fruit Basket portfolio. Here are the remaining five. In the next few weeks, we’ll start showing readers how each of the stocks have performed since our launch April 10. Maui Land & Pineapple...

Demotion or not, JetBlue founder David Neeleman has been booted out of the role of CEO and made a “non-executive chairman” following an embarrassing service disruption on Valentine’s Day. Reuters is reporting that President Dave Barger, 49, will replace...

Today we cover the fourth and final Rock Your Stock featured portfolio. It’s called the fruit basket because each of the stocks in the portfolio either has a fruit in the name or is somehow related to fruit. While it’s meant to be funny, we believe each...