More Of The Same, I'm Afriad

• Golf anyone? I'm sure I should be finding good trades, but I'm being very selective. Stocks I'm tracking this morning include AXYS, PMTI, RGLD, WFMI, CASA, AUGT, CTSH, HCA, MNKD, RTEC, ISON, NFX, EMITF, ELSE, AIRN, DSTI, INNO, & BYD


• There's very little doubt that Dell continues to squeeze the competition


• Financial blogs teach money management? Thank you for the interview Neville!


• Forbes visits The World Money Show and among many things, finds very little interest in gold stocks


• In weaker markets, take smaller gains & hopefully smaller losses


• Ratings for every major Canadian stock


• Despite numerous recent warnings from Rice & Dubya, Iran says it will NEVER give up its nuclear technology


• Did you know the average lifespan of a small business is about eight and a half years?


• I wish someone would pay me $21 million to walk away like the board did with Carly Fiorina


• Is the SEC going soft once again?


• "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty


• I do my banking online, but like many others, I do worry about security risks


• In my home office, I have a picture of a lion with the following quote - "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running."


• John Dorfman takes a look at a few of the big stock winners and losers


• Move over Wal-Mart (WMT), here comes Sears Essentials


• I really think someday we'll see simultaneous movie and DVD release, but it probably won't happen anytime soon


• Mea culpa - looks like my selection of Synaptics (SYNA) to the 2005 winners portfolio was the definition of a bad call. Yowza!


• Acquisition-minded banks tend to provide tepid performance


• It's only your money at risk and at the end of the day, the only opinion that counts is the one you use to make the trade. As I've said before, I've never found a successful trader who blindly takes advice from newsletters and websites.


• Bet on baby boomers?


• The reason so many people like Karmazin, the CEO of Sirius (SIRI), is that he's a deal maker


• Déjà vu? We we're sitting at these same levels in the Dow this time last year. What are the chances we'll be at these same levels a few years from now?


• Coin collectors go crazy over the new Wisconsin quarter


• Hedge funds start 2005 on the wrong foot


• Motorola (MOT) buys Lucent (LU)? Apple (APPL) buys Sirius (SIRI)? These are just two of the latest hot rumors floating around this week


• Here's the right way to put a price tag on your donations for tax purposes


• Money magazine picks the best car values for 2005


• "The key in life is to figure out who to be the bat boy for." - Warren Buffett