Trends & Innovations - Tuesday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Climate Counts, a nonprofit group, is offering consumers readily available information on how environmentally friendly products are. The group, which is funded by dairy company Stonyfield Farms, provides a cell-phone-friendly service that rates how green a products is. The company said its metric is based on 22 criteria that center on a company&#39;s voluntary actions to reverse climate change. Despite sponsoring Climate Counts, Stonyfield scored only a 63 out of 100.
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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 - 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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Plus: Samsung SDI swings to loss...Outstanding earnings for Apple...Xerox profits from color printers...Alltel profit, revenue rise.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Business Roundtable&#39;s CEO Economic Outlook Index fell 3 points to 81.9 in May amid high energy prices and the housing slump. But that&#39;s still well-above the boom-bust line of 50. Most executives expect sales, capital spending and hiring to be flat or rise in the coming months. &quot;While the survey does suggest that the economy is settling into a softer consolidation phase, as long as consumers keep spending, the economy can continue to move ahead,&quot; said Harold McGraw, the group&#39;s chairman.
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roundup Plus: PMC-Sierra lowers forecast...WebSideStory cuts IPO to 4.4 million shares...BMC looks to simplify network operations.
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Investor's Business Daily - Despite rising interest rates, the Mortgage Bankers Association&#39;s seasonally adjusted index of application activity edged up 6.6% to 666.5 in the week ending June 8. Its index of purchase activity rose 7.2%, while refinancing activity climbed 5.6%. Analysts called it a scramble to head off rising borrowing costs. Mortgage rates are at their highest since mid-&#39;06.
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Investor's Business Daily - U.S. stock mutual funds tumbled for the third straight month in July as the Federal Reserve kept raising interest rates, oil prices rose and geopolitical problems from North Korean missile tests to an Israel military strike into Lebanon kept investors on the sidelines.
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Investor's Business Daily - Chip stocks have been trying for a comeback since snapping their downtrend in mid-July. Exchange traded funds focused on chips are following suit.
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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 - 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 - Europe might be a good place to focus if you want to go global with exchange traded funds.
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Investor's Business Daily - Big Blue might be ready to lose another key link to its hardware legacy.
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Investor's Business Daily - The barbarians aren't sitting on the fence anymore. They're making leveraged buyouts.
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Investor's Business Daily - Looking for news on Russia's wireless telecom markets? Tune to a frequency somewhere between bear baiting and Russian wrestling.
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Investor's Business Daily - Heritage Mid Cap Stock Fund courts growth stocks. But it won't settle for a flash in the pan.
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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.