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Stock market: Matt Krantz
Tuesday, June 11, 1 p.m. ET

Matt Krantz is the stock market and IPO reporter for USA TODAY. Before joining USA TODAY, he wrote about technology for Investor's Business Daily. Matt's specialty is tech stocks.

Check out Matt's daily Ask Matt feature on the Tech Investor page. He tames the unwieldy world of stock quotes and answers your questions with easy-to-understand language.

Tampa Bay: The recent Enron fall has been followed by some other stock inproprieties. Fortunately, most of my holdings are in mutual funds, 403B, IRA's,& Roth IRA's. However, I would like to invest in the market in order to maintain some balance. How can the novice determine if there aren't more Enron's out there?

Matt Krantz: Perhaps the best way to find clues is by comparing a company's cash flow from operations to its net income. Cash flow should be larger and increasing. A good site to help you with this is stockdiagnostics.com.