Which stock to buy?

MO, AAPL, CRDC, IBM

WHich stocks can you pick from, or which stocks are excluded ? In the current market you should screen for anything with a low PE ratio which is eithier essential or doesnt rely too much on consumer spending. Mc Donalds is a good bet, I would buy it when it looses 50. Joy global will be a major winner imo. The pe is good and resources are scarce so mining will do well.
If you can sell short (ask your teacher) I recommend apple. PE of over 40 and nothing sexy in the pipeline. Also with the markets they will be customers will forego that sleek I phone for cheaper contracts.
IBM me like very much, PE of 14 and good growth prospects, also it still relies more on buisness spending rather than consumer spending. If you want a new computer you forego it if money is tigh, but if you NEED a new one you will take the hit.
Dell is a mixed bag, pe is slightly higher and while it supplies buisnesses with personal computers and laptops it also relies on private consumption. I would only but it if it is to be had at a bargaign, pe of under 13, however i think thats goin to be unlikely.
At the next earning release be ready to jump on Etrade mbia merril lynch. Whichever doesnt dump more billion dollar write offs will skyrocket.

Right now I reccomend Aeropostale Inc. (ARO). I don't invest myslef (too young), but my dad says it's been doing well for a while, and it's still up. I like Nike Inc. (NKE) too, right now, because it appears pretty stable. I suggest avoiding real estate/ lending companies like the plague for right now. Check out Yahoo! Finance and look around for stocks you like. Hope I helped.

Wow, your teacher has picked a really bad time to run the game...

Actually the market is dropping a lot because investors are worried about an oncoming recession. If anything I would recommend shorting stocks--shorting is a mechanism where you bet on the price of a stock dropping--as I doubt that many stocks will be going up in the near future...

The stock market is down right now. World markets are down in general. I suggest that you follow the market and the sectors more closely, day by day. One good resource is http://www.federalreserve.ws which contains a lot of information about markets, economics, and finance.