Fools were out and about this week in an investing world jam-packed with actions and ideas. Here are three articles you might find useful as you decide how to invest your money.

Is This an Omen of Doom or a Buy Signal?
The stock market needs background music, especially when the topic is something called the "death cross." If you'd like to hum to yourself and just glance over this explanation of a death cross, feel free: "A death cross appears whenever the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day moving average, and technicians believe it bodes steep losses for stocks."

It's OK not to pay a lot of attention to this market signal, because as Fool Matt Koppenheffer explained, "[W]hen talking heads start blabbing about these market-level technical indicators, it's best to tune them out when it comes to your portfolio. Over the past decade, it's not death crosses, golden crosses, or Fibonacci retracements that have been impacting these stocks; it's been the explosion of iPods and iPhones for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), global growth and the need for fertilizer at PotashCorp (NYSE: POT), and a rising price of oil at ExxonMobil."

Click to the article for a fuller debunking and thoughts on where to put your money.

5 Dividend Stocks Getting Slammed
It isn't schadenfreude that compels The Motley Fool to highlight stocks getting clobbered by the market. And we don't rely on stock price movements to tell us when to tell investors to sell. If the give-and-take of buyers and sellers has whittled down a stock's price for no good reason, we want to know because it means there's a sale going on. Shares are selling for less.

Fool Jordan DiPietro ran a screen to find dividend stocks that have gotten crushed over the past three months and came up with five potential winners. Click to the article to see how Jordan goes about evaluating what has turned investors cool on stocks including Apollo Investment (Nasdaq: AINV) and Navios Maritime Holdings (NYSE: NM). Then let Jordan point out some of the broader indicators telling us that these dividend-paying stocks could be bargains.

Obama's Gusher in the Gulf
The disaster resulting from the April 20 explosion on a Transocean (NYSE: RIG) rig working at a BP (NYSE: BP) well in the Gulf of Mexico has a political angle. Fool Seth Jayson took the president to task this week for putting political popularity ahead of a sensible response. Responding to comments, Seth expanded on his thoughts:

"Obama's gusher in the Gulf is his gusher of ego. The jobs lost in other industries are being lost not only because of the accident, but because of an ill-conceived moratorium insisted upon by an administration that would prefer to look busy than to make the difficult decisions."

Seth, who owns shares of BP and Transocean, also let readers know that he thinks "there's still money to be made on drillers, equipment makers, and service providers."

Click to the article to see the full rundown of what Seth and other Fools had to say.