Stock w00t

• Recession starts next Tuesday at noon!

• Good retail sales or bad?

• Fed games

• Everything you want to know about the Fed move but didn't know who to ask

• Bankers at Work!

• Who cares about inflation!

• Central banks step in over credit crisis

• Is this the beginning of the end of the credit crisis?

• Are you feeling impatient on the Fed?

• Rate forecasters still predict lower rates ahead

• Behind Bernanke's bombshell

• ECB warns of danger of a wider squeeze

• Why the Fed bailout might not work

• Worrisome bank statements

• How not to fix the economy

• "If the Fed needed a little help from its friends, or vice-versa, wouldn’t that suggest that the situation we’re seeing is far worse than even we know?" - Herb Greenberg

• Up +21% over the past year, Harry Schultz thinks a financial tsunami is upon us

• 20 takeaways from the Fed's move

• Don't blame the Fed, blame bullish sentiment

• O'Shaughnessy thinks the sell-off in U.S. bank stocks may have run its course

• Financial advertisers show no fear

• Hedge fund vet Leon Cooperman still thinks equities are a buy and shares some of his best picks

• Bulls tie their hope to the jobs market

• Jason Kelly suggests a smart way to play this market

• Value is always in the eye of the beholder

• Please remember, participation in this market is optional

• Points & Figures: an end-of-the-year rally appears possible

• Hedge-fund guy is up SIV creek without a paddle

• If you're sitting on 12% ytd gains, how are you going to spend the final two weeks of the year?

• A historical look at the market’s history between now and after New Year’s Day

• Time to buy? That's a big YES according to Morningstar

• Four people offer perspectives for what's ahead for 2008

• Why the housing sector collapse is wonderful

• According to Standard & Poor's, about 27% of all the companies in danger of losing their investment-grade status are likely to do so because they are contemplating an acquisition or leveraged buyout

• A few reasons to look at the utilities

• Paul Tudor Jones has partnered with several big firms to form a new electronic venue for trading carbon greenhouse gases and other emissions

• Easy comes as easy goes in the copper market

• Sovereign funds should be watched with caution

• Wall Street's big bang

• 10 things every investor should know about U.S.-China Relations

• Do you own Apple, Dell, or HP? If so, check out this research

• Ho-Ho-Hoku

• Everybody now loves AT&T!

• For the right price, Cellcom may offer a decent income opportunity

• IBD analyzes Baidu

• I have been flooded with questions about Clean Energy Fuels probably because of this

• According to Brush, these retailers could surprise the pessimists

• Fortune provides 40 stocks to retire on

• Harry Domash's 10 small stocks for a happy new year

• 8 stocks to own in 2008

• MSN CAPS finds 5 stocks with great potential

• StockScouter picks are fairly widespread this week

• Five stock disappointments in 2007

• Morningstar's stocks that are priced to sell

• 10 stocks with insider buying & buybacks

• If you get the big picture right, stock picking gets easier

• ThinkEquity provides a handy product checklist among other things

• Wealthtrack profiles hot handed John Montgomery & Whitney Tilson

• 10 ways to build trading discipline

• Diversification and Portfolio Weighting

• A stock's price and value are entirely two different things

• Johnny Chan shares some real-life game theory

• 6 simple steps to achieve laser-like focus

• 5 time-management tricks

• Get started with Excel

• "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." - Benjamin Spock

• Roth IRA is the surest route to retirement-savings success

• End-of-year financial checklist

• Last minute tips for trimming your 2007 taxes

• New tax brackets for all taxpayers

• 11 year-end retirement moves

• Kiplinger's names the best 529 college-savings plans

• Trade on a Mac? VMware offers a solution that is getting good reviews

• $20 bucks a year for phone service

• A number of stock trading software & system utilities

• Indicies Snapshot!

• SectorCheck

• Rupert Murdoch is already at work at the WSJ

• The rich are taking it with them, at least as far as the mausoleum

• Bermuda will soon become the the destination of choice for hedge funds

• Track those Christmas packages!

• Make the perfect holiday party drinks

• Ron Paul beats Hillary Clinton

• How saying thanks will make you happier

• Mark Cuban on Warren Buffett, taxes and the presidency

• "I am the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don’t believe in or things I think are stupid." - Warren Buffett

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