Best Cheap Stocks To Watch For 2014

Home prices are rising again

By a lot, too. The Case-Shiller Housing Index is up almost 11% in the last year. Some cities are booming twice as fast. Los Angeles, Detroit, and Las Vegas home prices are up 20% in the last year. All of these are the biggest annual gains since 2006, when the housing bubble peaked.

We're not in a new housing bubble. Prices are bouncing off the deepest plunge since the Great Depression, and measured against rents and incomes, homes still look cheap. Bloomberg shared an amazing statistic this week: Detroit home prices are still so low that "it takes a mortgage rate of 35.8 percent to make renting more economical [than owning]."

But don't hold your breath for these gains to continue.

Home prices are surging because the supply of homes on the market is low. The number of homes on the market will now cover only about four months of sales at current rates. That's the lowest since 2004:

Best Cheap Stocks To Watch For 2014: S&U(SUS.L)

S&U Plc provides consumer and motor finance services in England, Wales, and Scotland in the United Kingdom. It offers home credit consumer finance and motor finance. The company also provides rental and other retail trading services, as well as insurance brokerage services. It serves approximately 140,000 customers. The company was founded in 1938 and is based in Solihull, the United Kingdom.

Best Cheap Stocks To Watch For 2014: Beacon Minerals Ltd(BCN.AX)

Beacon Minerals Limited engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Australia. The company primarily explores for gold mineralization, as well as for uranium and nickel ores. It principally holds interest in approximately 300 square kilometers of prospective ground in 3 tenements in the Barlee gold project located in the Murchison District, Western Australia. The company is based in West Perth, Australia.

Top Stocks To Buy Right Now: Pacific Ethanol Inc.(PEIX)

Pacific Ethanol, Inc. produces and markets low carbon renewable fuels in the United States. It sells ethanol to gasoline refining and distribution companies; provides ethanol transportation, storage, and delivery services in the Western United States, primarily in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, and Washington; and markets ethanol co-products, including wet distiller grains and syrup to dairy operators and animal feed distributors. The company also provides operations, maintenance, and accounting services to a cellulosic integrated bio-refinery in Boardman, Oregon. Pacific Ethanol, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Sacramento, California.