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Friday, September 22, 2006
On The Ticker

- What's behind the meltdown in the commodity markets?
- When everybody is thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking
- Mr. Market
- What's on tap for next week?
- Martin Goldberg identifies important technicalities
- What the new highs/lows are telling us
- Most Americans live in la-la land
- 55% of new-car buyers stretch their payments over more than five years
- For the Fed, it's housing, housing, housing ($)
- 30-year mortgage rates drop to lowest level in 6 months
- Housing: a picture is worth a 1000 words
- Housing prices are going down across the nation
- Homes sales vs. consumer spending
- Confessions of an ex-mortgage lender
- Value or bubble in the homebuilders?
- Which is the worse thing to own right now - a heavily mortgaged house or a hedge fund?
- Hedge funds trawl for gossip with web filter
- The ups and downs of Brian Hunter ($)
- How do you lose $5 billion in one week?
- For Wall Street, Amaranth is just a test of the hedge fund security alarm
- Hedge funds, derivatives and their implications for the financial system
- "When a guy like that flames out, everybody gets a piece. It was like smelling blood in the water." - William Wallace
- BusinessWeek devotes a cover story to click fraud
- Analysts express doubt on recent chip run ($)
- Vietnamese stocks are Asia's best performers this year
- China's stock boom
- All is not well between the U.S. and China
- China is Nasdaq's fastest growth source
- For Bush, cheaper gas is premium
- Many alternative energy plays have gone from stud to dud
- That didn't take long - the Ethanol rush is already running out of gas
- Branson pledges to finance clean fuels
- Sugar swoon
- Bullish prospects for water
- Investors bet on rising costs for scarce water
- Jim Jubak likes the prospects of AIG, AMGN, PEP, JNJ, and PG for 2007
- Jubak mines for gold in the battered sectors
- Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is at key point
- Insider buying at Eagle Materials (EXP) draws attention ($)
- Wal-Mart (WMT) to sell cheap generic drugs
- Insiders at retailer TJX (TJX) tend to time their sells pretty well ($)
- Incredible! It has been over one month since anyone asked me my opinion on Elan (ELN)!
- IBD's screen of the day identifies stocks under accumulation by the market elephants. The top 25 are: GYMB, CWTR, DIOD, VTIV, GES, FMX, CSH, TNL, FCFS, ISE, KNOT, PRFT, TRLG, PWEI, LTM, ACLI, ICON, NCS, WCG, CKH, GHL, SEH, SYKE, ANST, and CFR
- PaceSetters
- The list of infamy
- A handful of safe and secure dividend payers
- Test your financial knowledge!
- Trading coaches: what works?
- Short-selling reverse mergers can be lucrative
- Pete explains how he trades options using seasonal trends
- Virtual-trading programs don't always match real-market experiences
- Sometimes the most basic strategies win big
- Exchange-traded funds change gold's landscape
- SEC may fast track ETF reviews
- Nasdaq doubles ETF listings
- Claymore launches stealth ETF
- Scalping and front-running is all too commonplace in the investment advisory world
- The speculator faces many enemies including persuasive personalities
- If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
- If you get a bad feeling about someone, listen to it
- The best places to retire
- 20 free ways to save energy
- 46 things I wish my mom taught me about money
- Zero commission stock trading?
- SEC revisits short-sale restrictions
- CEOs share their first big break
- Secrets of the self-made
- America's 400 Richest
- Chris Gardner serves as inspiration for many
- Stock bloggers gear up for new video offering
- I don't usually wear a watch anymore
- Multi-screen wallpaper
- Easy options to expand your screen space
- Number logic
- I accept all gimmes
- "At the end of ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' the wolf really does come. And he eats the sheep, and the boy, and the parents." - Dr. House
