The list also includes a stock whose name alone should serve as a warning to anybody clueless enough to invest in it: Miniscribe, the Texas disk-drive manufacturer that imploded in 1989 accountingscandal that provided an early taste of the Enron, Worldcom and Adelphia accounting frauds.
"There was a panic reaction, people fear a scandal like Enron or Parmalat as soon as they hear the term 'accounting problems', " said investment analyst Thomas Veillet of Swiss firm Dynacapital.