Abreast Of The Best

• The big question on Wall Street is the economy


• It looks as if the Treasury has created a way to duplicate the Fed's power


• Simply economics!


• A schedule for the economic data due out this week


• Jobs are abundant?


• BLS' margin of error


• Government's influence over the economy is less than ever before


• "Gridlock is the last thing America needs." - Stephen Roach


• Top-performing newsletters aren't bullish on U.S. stocks


• Stocks are still undervalued?


• U.S. stocks are cheaper relative to earnings than they were four years ago


• But, some value investors are raising cash


• The Harvard Business School indicator


• Have we been stealing returns from the traditional end-of-year Santa Claus rally? Not according to history


• Oil prices are more likely than not to rise modestly over the next few months


• Renewable fuels may provide 25% of U.S. energy by 2025


• Fossil energy to dominate market through 2030


• The Democrats' energy game plan


• Peak Oil: The Infrastructure Spending Crisis


• Ethanol's goldmine moment has passed


• Cautious thoughts on ethanol stocks


• Some of the hot money is shifting from commodities to speculative energy stocks ($)


• Clean water remains the world's most precious commodity


• Boom times for the Big Board?


• A true sign of the times - traders miss the sounds of the trading floor


• An interesting look into the medical device sector


• Opportunities in the dental industry


• KB Home CEO's loved to play the options scam


• It's a bull market in home foreclosures


• Is there a danger the house of cards in credit derivatives may come tumbling down?


• Santa Clause rally is already underway in Asia


• Is the time still right for foreign bond funds?


• Western education booms in China


• Stock fever abates as Saudi market falls


• India's outsourcing firms look to hire overseas


• Why shorts are fixated on the Tupperware Party


• A hypothetical short-sellers list for the Web 2.0 bubble


• Yet another lame idea from Lycos


• A quick and easy way to spotcheck the DOW-30 and Nasdaq 100


• Friday's buybacks include CorVel (CRVL)


• Keep an eye on the sector-based ETFs


• Top stocks over $40


• A short-squeeze screen


• Wally Weitz's new holdings


• James Dines' recent buys


• IBD's screen of the day ($) is one of my favorites. IBD screens for stocks being acquired by increasing numbers of mutual funds over the past three quarters. Here are the results: AMR, ALY, ARD, ACLI, AHS, BONT, CSH, CAL, CKH, CMC, DIGE, EQIX, FDS, GYMB, GES, HRZ, ICON, IT, IDCC, ILMN, KDN, KEX, LVS, LTM, MT, MTW, NTRI, OS, PLCM, PNK, PRFT, PMTI, PWEI, RJF, RIO, RJET, RTP, SPSX, SKX, and TEX


• Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, teach him to fish and you have fed him for life


• Dr. Janice Dorn's free webinar tomorrow will take you through the five steps you can and must take right now to master the markets and trading


• Emotions determine motivation


• 15 signs that you're addicted to trading


• A disciplined investor beats the market with good data and a set of firm guidelines


• How to use Average True Range (ATR) to calculate your stop loss. Among many websites and programs, you can use Prophet.net's SnapCharts to see the ATR


• Prophet.net's technical analysis glossary


• Brett Steenbarger's web 2.0 tools for online investors


• Analyzing a pullback system


• Interesting research on the I/B/E/S analyst stock recommendations database


• Dumb money: mutual fund flows and the cross-section of stock returns


• Your ego can always get in the way when money is involved


• Have you read a really great book on trading or the markets this year? If so, please let me know as I'm compiling a recommended reading list like I did last year


• John Elder's technical papers offers lots of food for thought


• Many traders love studying other approaches. If that is your focus, you'll find tsinvest program worthwhile


• Morningstar's top 10 portfolio pitfalls


• Bill Gates adopts his bridge partner's investment style


• ETF pipeline is stuffed with new offerings


• Equal weight ETFs will likely grow in popularity


• The first hedge fund run solely by women


• Will Wall Street behave without its sheriff?


• Does everyone need a financial planner?


• Fixing the AMT is a top priority for the Dems


• The debt to the penny


• Inflation calculators!


• New I bond rate jumps, but fixed stays put


• Bankrate's 2007 financial calendar


• Have a tightwad's Christmas


• How the hedge fund jocks spend their wads of cash


• This Wednesday is National Philanthropy Day


• I wonder how much this surf shop is really worth


• Absentee Florida ballot sent with precious stamp


• Dear Santa - please send me one of these!


• Do you have the BlackBerry Thumb?


• If you watch TV, here is fascinating information on the daily metrics


• "I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend." - Martin Zweig