By MarketWatch Don’t miss these top money and investing features: The night was dark and stormy, so dark I could barely make out the line items on the company’s quarterly report. I was eyeball-deep into the statement of cash flows when I spied the silhouette of the firm’s key product. Now I’m a numbers guy, but even I can tell when I’m looking at the business end of a business. Well, stock-market sleuths are no Raymond Chandler, but motivated mutual-fund managers and research analysts do make sharp detectives when it comes to finding out which stocks are in the clear and which could take the fall. Read about stocks these Wall-Street-wise investors are rounding up. Then see why investors aren’t as bullish as their investment advisers in this current market climate. And be sure to watch an interview with famed emerging-markets investor Jim Rogers about financial markets, China, and the U.S. economy. Apologies to Chandler, but the simple art of investing can be murder. — Jonathan Burton , Money & Investing editor Many stock investors focus on quarterly earnings expectations. But for veteran stock-market detectives, the 10-Q holds more meaningful clues to a company’s health, writes Matt Andrejczak.
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