The doom-and-gloom has its boom in the shape of the pawn industry. Search for the term “pawn shop” enjoyed steady gains since 2007. The spikes in the search traffic – with the exception of the most recent spike – relate to criminal investigations. br / br /a href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/ST0ob-H14KI/AAAAAAAAApg/4NTGRq6E6-c/s1600-h/Pawnshop.png”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/ST0ob-H14KI/AAAAAAAAApg/4NTGRq6E6-c/s320/Pawnshop.png” border=”0″ alt=”"id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277418799345557666″ //abr /span class=”fullpost”"Sell my stuff” made an emergence as a search term mid-2007 just before the market headed south. br /br /One stock with an interest in the field is First Cash Financial (strongFCFS/strong). Since it’s feature on a href=”http://zignalsblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/2009-depression-investment.html”November 20th/a the stock is up 41% and on its way to challenge August 2008 highs at $19.89. br /br /a href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/ST0sAoph1BI/AAAAAAAAApo/on9YpI-yqpM/s1600-h/FCFS2.png”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 178px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/ST0sAoph1BI/AAAAAAAAApo/on9YpI-yqpM/s320/FCFS2.png” border=”0″ alt=”"id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277422727771313170″ //abr /But looks like Ebay (strongEBAY/strong) is out of favour as an avenue to sell the brick-and-brack.br /br /a href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/ST0tZSw7k9I/AAAAAAAAApw/V25spjN3d_M/s1600-h/Ebay.png”img style=”display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 178px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WWGUfU1tOjI/ST0tZSw7k9I/AAAAAAAAApw/V25spjN3d_M/s320/Ebay.png” border=”0″ alt=”"id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277424250905138130″ //abr /div align=”center”iframe id=”zwl” frameborder=”0″ width=”330″ height=”175″ src=”http://www.zignals.com/watchlists/?UID=MjMwMQ==” marginheight=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ scrolling=”no”/iframe/divbr /Have an opinion on these stocks? Share it with our a href=”http://www.zignals.com/main/charts/trystockcharts.aspx”YourCall/a facility. Free stock charting with save and annotations too.br /br /span style=”font-size:80%; color:#cccccc;”Dr. Declan Fallon, Senior Market Technician, a href=”http://www.zignals.com”Zignals.com/a the free stock alerts, market alerts, and stock charts website /span/span

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