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• While massive risk looms, the bulls have reasons to hope

• Bernanke provides a status report on the financial markets

• 6 signs of an economic rebound

• A real powerlunch

• Some serious dough

• The same economists who failed to spot this year's financial meltdown are now predicting that everything will soon be fine

• Hedge-fund buys hint to end of credit crisis

• The latest from Meredith Whitney

• The elephant in the room on Wall Street

• A wish list for fixing Wall Street

• Long slump may follow credit crunch

• Turn up the volume!

• Home buyers remain on the sidelines

• Foreclosure filings surge 65%

• Housing trouble in the Hamptons

• Living the American Dream in a shipping container

• 10% of boomers are borrowing for everyday expenses

• General Motors needs more cash

• What is Corporate America trying to tell us?

• Hulbert provides a sentiment update

• Is current American pessimism justified?

• The Humvee's $100 billion replacement

• It's a buyers market for used SUVs

• Q&A with T. Boone Pickens

• Use of wind energy expected to grow dramatically

• If energy conservation both saves money and is good for the planet, why don't people do more of it?

• Oil's murky math

• The looming commodity crisis

• Water risk

• Employer health costs in a global economy

• Brazil's economy has turned a big corner

• Investment banks pin hopes on Asia

• China's inflation problem

• Debt woes drive thousands of Indian farmers to suicide

• It's a bull market for tree farmers in Costa Rica

• Closing the door to Microsoft Vista

• Eric Bolling pounds the table on steel

• MBIA's book-value view

• Merill Lynch puts on some lipstick

• Hedge fund mulligans

• Two big investors played the wrong game

• The best performing stocks on earnings

• Interesting to see the 10 stocks TheStreet.com's readers are most interested in

• Cramer offers some steel & basic materials picks to profit from the China earthquake

• Cramer's charitable trust portfolio

• The gurus stay focused on energy

• Kiplinger's 7 bargain stocks

• Jubak offers 5 long-term picks in the financials

• Michael Brush provides some retail picks

• Daniel Gross' procrastinator's portfolio

• Beware the favorite investments of stock market gurus?

• High ROE screen

• The 35 largest U.S. private companies

• Eternal truths about trading success

• When you make a bad trade, own it

• Do stops hurt your trading performance?

• What does the M in CANSLIM stand for?

• Elliott wave principle: mad pseudoscience?

• Is the ECRI's weekly leading index helpful? CXO finds out

• Trading is at least 98% psychological

• According to John Mauldin - why investors fail

• Unrealistic expectations inevitably lead to disappointment

• Two keys to avoiding dividend cuts

• How interest rate changes affect the price of bonds

• Rethinking asset allocation based on on modern portfolio theory

• Six reasons why lazy portfolios beat market timing

• The ETF Invasion

• Overbought & oversold ETFs

• RIP Oil Macroshares

• How to trade red-hot commodities

• A different retirement calculator

• To deal with life's surprises, open up a freedom account

• Jon Najarian on keeping the options flame glowing

• How secure are those high-yield bank interest rates?

• Two great websites for consumer ratings: Checkbook & Angie's List

• A new phishing scam targeting rebate checks

• A high life unravels

• "Just because the river is quiet does not mean the crocodiles have left." - Malay proverb