Cheap Keeps Getting Cheaper By Tim Melvin About this article: I used to spend a great deal of my time investigating individual stocks. Throughout my career as an investor and in my previous life as a broker, I always found this to be one of the best possible ways to while away the hours. Back then, I expended very little energy looking at macroeconomic factors or day-to-day market movements. Once in a great while, I'd stick my head up and take a look around at broader factors, but it didn't really affect my stock selections. I miss those days. As the pace of activity from the Fed and Treasury began to exert a more frequent influence on the stock market over the past few years, the divvying up of my days has changed. Starting with the post-9/11 massive liquidity injection, it seemed to me that the economic activity and government responses began to exert a greater influence on... Or, call us at 1-866-321-TSCM (8726) Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET. Outside the U.S. and in Canada, call 1-212-321-5200. More Stories From RealMoney Durable Goods Up Move Down the Tech Food Chain Jobless Claims Still High Bulls' Tenacity Is the Big Question Mark Should You Buy It? Pharmaceutical Product Development Bad News Trumps All Support for Banks Holds, For Now Bummer, Yields Are on the Rise Money on the Line Makes a Big Difference Structured Products: Unsafe at Any Price MORE STORIES FROM REALMONEY

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