Eleven Picks for Wi-Fi Greatness

As financial journalists have grown distrustful of fundamental analysis in recent months, they've turned to technical or price-driven views of the market.

Epic stories about companies and their supposedly heroic managers that dominated business news outlets in the 1990s have gone out the court house window. Instead, tortured statistical theories, ranging from January barometers to presidential election cycles, have come in through a crack in the cellblock door.

How dull. These approaches say more about reporters' emotional response to being duped by corporate leaders and brokerage analysts than about real needs of investors. ...