Trends & Innovations - Wednesday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Robots are expected to save the oil drilling industry a lot of money. Researchers plan to have the first robot-worked oil field by 2015, according to Science Daily. The benefits stretch far beyond paying fewer salaries. With a robot-controlled field, the costs are lower because many safety precautions currently required to protect workers are not necessary. These savings then compound because the process will enable companies to profit from smaller reservoirs that are currently not cost-beneficial.
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Investor's Business Daily - In today&#39;s high-tech world, there&#39;s a specialist for just about everything. For Synaptics, it&#39;s touch pads for notebook computers and other devices.
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Investor's Business Daily - Q2 prices rose 3.2% vs. a year ago, the slowest rise in a decade, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said. Price gains could turn into declines, as they have in other measures, and are taking a toll on broader economic growth. The S&amp;P/Case-Shiller index on Tue. showed Q2 home prices down 3.2% vs. a year earlier. OFHEO prices don&#39;t include homes with jumbo or subprime loans, two of the more vulnerable segments of the mortgage market. Weakness is expected to continue into &#39;08.
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Investor's Business Daily - Domestic stock funds had a rough June, but managed to hold on to solid performance for the second quarter and year to date. Growth beat value for the month, quarter and year to date.
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Stocks to watch on Wednesday: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY :
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Investor's Business Daily - Though new rumors have surfaced that IBM might buy chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, many analysts doubt it will happen.
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Investor's Business Daily - A tight election and volatile stock market slowed investor enthusiasm for stock mutual funds in October, but their appetite appeared to increase in November.
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Investor's Business Daily - Mutual funds that prospect among the fastest growing companies for winners can yield huge returns in a strong market. But they can also suffer big losses in a bear market.
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Investor's Business Daily - July&#39;s increase was higher than expected and follows a 0.4% June gain, the Commerce Dept. said. Sales rose 1.1% in the month, more than reversing a 0.3% decline in June. The inventory-to-sales ratio, a gauge of how long existing stocks will last at the current sales pace, fell slightly to 1.26 months from 1.27 months. Retail inventories rose 1%. Motor vehicles and parts climbed 2.9%. Both increases were the largest since May &#39;06.
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Investor's Business Daily - Short exchange traded funds got a small boost this week as the Dow Jones industrial average lost 416 points and the Nasdaq composite dropped 96.66 Tuesday. But that doesn't mean you should necessarily chase them, says ProShares Advisors CIO Bill Seale.
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Investor's Business Daily - InfoSpace is a rarity in this post-dot-bomb world: an Internet company with a healthy share price and bottom line.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors got a friendly package from FedEx Wednesday: big quarterly results and higher forecasts.
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Will this trend benefit investors?
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Investor's Business Daily - At first, nothing seemed amiss at last month's LinuxWorld trade show in San Francisco.
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Plus: AT&T profit rises...Samsung SDI swings to loss...Outstanding earnings for Apple...Xerox profits from color printers.
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Investor's Business Daily - If you want to figure out which sector will be the next hot investment, you could try reams of research and hours of nonstop market study. But few individual investors have that kind of time.
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Investor's Business Daily - It's not likely you've heard of James Burton. But it's likely you've heard him.