Stock Market Beat » Exterran (EXH) http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1 Our beat: The stock market. Our job: Beat it. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:44:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 Who’s Hiring? More Stock Tips from the US Government http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2008/04/04/whos-hiring-more-stock-tips-from-the-us-government/ http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2008/04/04/whos-hiring-more-stock-tips-from-the-us-government/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:45:22 +0000 Trent http://stockmarketbeat.com/blog1/2008/04/04/whos-hiring-more-stock-tips-from-the-us-government/ My latest column is up at RealMoney.

I dissect the jobs report to see which industries are showing the best/worst growth in new hiring, on the thesis that companies in these industries may present investment opportunities.

The fastest growing industries are restaurants, hospitals, mine services, machinery, and oil & gas extraction. The worst were transportation equipment and a plethora of housing-related sectors.

Disclosure: At time of publication, William Trent owns shares of Starbucks (SBUX).

Disclosure: Author is long Starbucks (SBUX) at time of publication.

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