BusinessWeek expands Marcial's presence online

BusinessWeek announced Monday that Wall Street columnist Gene Marcial will begin writing three times a week on its Web site and will also teach online courses on investing on the site as well.

The online video course will be the first for BusinessWeek.com’s investing channel. “Seven Commandments of Stock Investingâ€? and features Marcial, a longtime columnist for the magazine whose weekly column picks stocks. The course includes nine video lessons on how to invest in the stock market based on lessons from Marcial’s experience as a financial journalist for more than 30 years.

“We are very excited to offer Gene’s online investing course to our readers,” said John A. Byrne, editor of BusinessWeek.com. “His expertise and experience with the stock market and investing is something that is essential reading.  We’ll do more of these free online courses in the managing and small business areas in the days ahead.”

Marcial will also begin a three-times-weekly stock picking column to debut May 11 on BusinessWeek.com. His weekly recommendations as BusinessWeek’s ‘Inside Wall Street’ columnist have beaten all the major indexes for a full decade. In this new online investing course, Marcial teaches BusinessWeek.com readers how to pick the next big winners on the market, using his experience and tips his new book, “Gene Marcials Seven Commandments of Stock Investing.”