Market Mardi Gras

• Global recession risk grows

• Central bankers: divided they stand

• The economy will be a focal point of Bush's State of the Union

• An earnings preview for this week

• Earnings surprises are straying from the favorable trend

• Fed rate cuts could spur consumers to live beyond their means (isn't that the primary goal?)

• Prompt stimulus can avert a recession but only if it happens soon

• The great fiscal stimulus package of 1929

• No stimulus plan will succeed without fixing the housing sector

• This is not your father's typical recession?!

• Are expectations for another mild recession faulty or spot on?

• The economy, as politicians present it, is a folkloric thing

• Toll inflation!

• Phone inflation!

• According to the investor sentiment, the stock market's decline is now behind us

• Another sentiment check

• Yep, it’s time for the Super Bowl Predictor of stocks

• A bullish contrarian indicator - a halted IPO market

• A quick check on the Yield Curve

• A look at sector p/e ratios

• Is George Soros right that economy is doomed?

• Is this a Bear Market? Is it ever!

• Teun Draaisma recommends an overweight in equities

• Bond insurers: between a rock and a hard place

• Derivatives boom raises risk of bankruptcy

• No algorithm or triple-A rating can substitute for old-fashioned due diligence

• The loss where no one looked

• Crisis grips European hedge funds

• Seized-up credit market spurs record stock trading

• Money managers try to tap into sovereign-wealth boom

• Some strategies believe foreign currency exchange markets could be on the verge of big shift

• Emerging markets could benefit from U.S. recession?

• The next big opportunity - the worldwide infrastructure boom

• An eerie feeling in Southwest Florida

• Get ready for the new refi boom

• Despite housing slide, real-estate websites see boom

• Peak oil is coming sooner than previously thought

• A status report from the Canadian oil sands

• The next great oil patch is in North Dakota?

• The bull market in meat

• 33 trades in a blink, and getting even faster

• Walter Schloss' watchlist

• The Moneypaper's DRIP Portfolio

• Nike is on the run

• Cisco Systems really needs something new to stop its sagging stock price

• America's 25 fastest-growing tech companies

• Russell 1,000 stocks with highest short interest

• 10 ways we get the odds wrong

• A few rules of thumb for technical analysis patterns

• Tim Knight provides the art of setting stops

• Few traders end up making the leap to hedge funds, even when they have talent

• Kerviel blew up for the same reasons that brought down so many others: huge positions, zero discipline, and an overriding need to be right

• During financial uncertainty, fund investors only tend to cut back on purchases rather than unload declining shares

• While risk tolerance changes with age and macroeconomic conditions, it stays remarkably stable

• A leader-follower relation in analyst recommendations

• CXO looks at MSN's strategy lab and finds little support for the belief that experts on average consistently outperform the stock market

• 13 tips for working smarter, not harder

• 5 boundary-setting tips for the work obsessed

• Online brokers spruce up for Spring

• Jeremy Siegel thinks a 40% exposure to international stocks is ideal

• 7 strategies for a tumbling market

• Don't just dump all that mutual fund mail overboard

• Whenever you spend money on something optional, first do the math

• Hawaii on a Dime

• The Tiger Woods effect

• Investing with the stars

• 10 secrets to success

• "Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track." - Matthew Keith Groves