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Thursday, April 19, 2007
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What's really driving the Dow
Leading indicators point to slower growth
Who is carrying the economy?
Chinese stocks shed -4.5%
Shanghai's bow-tie pattern
Dollar weakness has deep roots and wide implications
Those bullish insiders
What the market is really worth according to Morningstar
Trichet warns on complacent markets
Credit derivatives doubles again
Credit derivatives market optimism is misguided
"When you have more leverage, it increases the chances of people blowing themselves up. For the undisciplined hedge fund, this is like giving the drug addict more access to drugs." - Randall Steinmeyer
Market risk: what you don’t know can hurt you
Savvy international investors know to follow the locals
After BRIC, what will investors dream about next?
Will coal ever make it to CNBC's ticker?
Spotting the next energy all-stars
Future wars will be fought over water, not oil
Volatile gold markets demand nerves of steel
$20 billion to help subprime owners
The bears are focused on the housing bust meets equity withdrawal blues
Rates on 30-year mortgages fall
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Here's one article you would have never seen a year ago
Is satellite radio dead? You'd think so if you've looked at the charts of SIRI or XMSR lately
Home Depot turns green
Fly Delta, plant a tree
Beware of these dogs!
The world's best CEOs
10 top investment newsletter editors share their springtime buys
"You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short, trade only when you and you alone are comfortable that the expected return of your trades will be positive. That might mean you'll have to sit out a few parties, but it will also mean that you'll have more profits over the course of your trading career." - Gary B. Smith
The most common problem traders face and the most dangerous word in the trader's vocabulary
Word-of-mouth stock research
Harry Domash's stock risk score sheet
The secrets of picking great growth stocks
An interesting phenomenon all of us have experienced at one time when developing new systems
Is it time to quite your day job to trade full-time? Investopedia offers some guidelines
Some interesting websites (like TheBuyList.com) are coming out these days offering investors a lot more information than they had previously
The hotter things get, the more important it is to keep your cool
I just started reading "Beating the Financial Futures Market" by Art Collins and on page 8 he gives two lessons learned: "1) the trade we fear the most tends to pay off the most, and 2) our biggest problems are going to come out of the trades with which we're the most comfortable, complacent, and confident." Well said!
Fixed-income ETFs shine
Brazil ETF reflects both strengths and weaknesses
Fresh troubles are emerging in a number of ETFs
Equity-indexed annuities: long on sizzle, short on steak
Investors are seeking more than just financial results from their investments
Affluent investors open their portfolios to closed-end funds
The 100-largest hedge funds now control about 70% of the money in the hedge-fund world
The top 10 hedge fund managers
Where's there is money, there is political influence
T. Booone Pickens' new commoditiy: Giuliani
Yet another big perk for hedge fund jocks
Hedge funds have lost alpha
Keep an eye on Apama
Do computers understand risk?
The reversal of fortune at Thomas Brown's Second Curve Capital hedge fund is stunning
Everybody looks dumb from time to time in this business
How Uncle Sam spends your tax money
High CD yields are out there, but often come with catches
How to organize all of your financial documents in a filing cabinet
The end of a 1,400-year-old business
Ben Stein offers conversation tips
If you need a car to help you "feel special," then something is desperately wrong
Are you successful TODAY?
Money really can't buy happiness
"Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile." - William Arthur Ward

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