Bright Ideas

• Hong Kong's stock train

• China's growth threatened by corruption

• Are you feeling nervous?

• New market highs - what's the downside?

• Retailers post weak sales & cut growth expectations

• Corporate America racked by uncertainty

• New polls show growing unease over the economy

• 41 million Americans are struggling to make ends meet

• Foreclosure filings nearly doubled last month

• Struggling homeowners won't find Fed aid

• Risky mortgages were made in nearly every corner of the nation

• Why the job market is sagging in the middle

• It is increasingly expensive to be rich

• Todd Harrison looks at the market's four legs that prop up profits

• How much more life is in this bull?

• "The pattern of “higher lows” has yet to be broken. Stick to the trend: it is your friend." - Neil Dennis

• Greenspan updates his forecast

• "If you have all the answers, you don't understand the questions." - Helene Meisler

• How well does net blogger sentiment predict future stock returns? Not so much!

• As tech heats up, off-beat bubble indicators come back in vogue

• Distressed-debt players believe their prospects are brightening

• Goldman profit amid turmoil signals big changes on Wall Street

• For private investment, the party isn't over

• Despite rally, small stocks still ailing

• Watch that Russell 2000 trendline!

• S&P finds no correlation between movements in the greenback and the performance of the S&P 500 since 1990

• US municipal bond carry game

• Reminiscences of the 1987 Crash

• S&P 500: Now vs 1997

• Lessons of '87 crash have lost their bounce

• Jim Kingsdale's latest thoughts on the energy complex

• The Rodney Dangerfield of commodities

• Speculators fuel risks for commodity brokers

• Coming soon - an ETF based on the CRB Commodity Index

• A brief look at commodity ETFs

• Climate change and the commoditizing of alpha

• Algorithms pose risks to funds’ FX trades

• Hillary throws a bone to Wall Street by announcing plans to send business their way

• GOP ignores the elephant in the room

• Is the surge in Iraq working? Ask the bond market

• The opening up of the economies of India and especially China is going to drive the world markets for a long time to come

• Did you know that China has more billionaires than any country except the United States?

• China values?

• Boom times for dentists, but not for teeth

• James Altucher on playing the boomer death trend

• Morpheus sees something to like in gold and Blue Coat Systems

• Mapping Eddie Lampert's next Sears move

• An interesting look at Wal-Mart's huge retail space

• Behind Lululemon's lulu of a stock ride

• Chipotle's valuation may be overstuffed

• A screen of stocks that guide higher the most

• Very nice - an earnings momentum and analyst upgrade screen

• Stocks that have lots of buzz

• Teresa Lo offers a spreadsheet of her daily stock scan

• Strong IPOs trending higher (and if my email is any indication - getting lots of attention)

• StockScouter's top 10

• Asia's 200 best under a billion

• Sin stocks with wide economic moats

• Top powerful women stocks

• Top dividend raisers

• Insider buys & buybacks

• The importance in finding your trading style in your own personality

• Are you a good gambler? Take Bloomberg's quiz to find out

• Now paging Dr. Brett Steenbarger

• Hedge funds are now using female hormones to trade better?

• Many investors looking for a "hedge" in hedge funds may be disappointed

• Historical testing of efficient markets

• Why using p/e ratios can frequently keep you away from the market's top winners

• Some important catalysts that need to be monitored when anticipating large market moves

• Investment lessons from the past three months

• Watch out for Cubes Jr.

• Individual investors are diversifying their investments as never before

• Retirement funds carry no guarantee

• IRS steps up scrutiny of 1030 exchanges

• You should forget the quaint notion that you should have your checking account, credit card and savings account all at the same bank

• 10 little expenses that add up fast

• 6 things Star Wars teaches us about money

• Need to keep track of your expenses? Try xpen$er

• Private banks lure Generation X

• Cayman watching Jersey hedge fund move

• Do some hedge fund managers accentuate too much positive?

• Executive pay still a mystery to investors

• Bob Rankin's top 20 questions

• Virtual worlds are catching on in workplace

• Investment Wiki raises $2.5 million

• Boy, am I glad that I found my wife when I was a poor college student

• Fortune cookies offer advice of a different kind

• 10 ways to sleep smarter and better

• "Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you." - Henry J. Kaiser