As U.S. Treasury prices fell drastically, the dollar and stocks moved up higher. The reason for this was because jobs were created by U.S. employers at their fastest rate in three years, which gets a lot of investors thinking the economy is improving for good.

The Federal Reserve’s emergency lending program has seen less money borrowed from it in the past week as banks got less money on the easing of credit problems in the country. This spells good news for the economy and has many investors thinking that better times may be here sooner.

ABIO, BCSI, BGOI, CABL, FNM, MAIL, MFLI, MGH, Tear, WG, CERS: My Portfolio After a Month. Thats a snapshot of my current portfolio.. I am mostly into high risk high reward category right now.

One of the biggest news stories of the past few years was the near collapse of Fannie Mae, and the rescuing of the company by the government. Well, Fannie Mae is still in the news and February was not a good month for this iconic company in the United States. With all the good news about the economy recently, the Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) situation is making many worry about just how strong the economy truly is.

Emotions play a big role in everyday investing decisions made by common middle class earners. It is common for people to panic and sell if their stock drops 2% in value! Also you can see people exiting at 3% profit although the stock might be up for a flight all the way into the double digits but they just don’t have it in them to risk letting the profit go.

There are several stocks in the market right now that are worth keeping an eye on. These stocks are spread over a wide area of sectors, but what we are going to focus on here is medical equipment stocks. With the new Obama’s health care bill in place, the medical industry will probably see a big increase in the stock value of the sector.