To The Point

• Wall Street stunned by jobs figures

• No signs of spillover from housing and mortgage market woes?

• A careful look at the recession scare

• Retailers post strong sales during back-to-school period

• Is this summer’s credit crunch hurting the real economy, or isn’t it?

• Year-end price targets - nothing has changed (at least not yet)

• Hedge fund managers see investing in distressed assets as an opportunity too lucrative to pass up

• A second quarter scorecard

• Why is Fed fighting so hard to avert a recession?

• Turmoil could take months to resolve, Paulson says

• The last time the Fed started cutting rates, it took three years and 5 1/2 percentage points for the cuts to achieve their desired effect

• More than a few believe that if the market gets through its 1998-style crisis, with (as in 1998) the aid of easy money from the Fed, then a 1999-style binge might well result

• Deals boom fizzles as cheap credit fades

• The best market timers remain bullish

• New indicator shows investors just as bullish as in May

• Put sellers are starting to come back into the options market

• After labor day, stocks hobble back to work

• 1-2-3 model still in yellow light mode

• Morpheus' broad market analysis turns up a couple of interesting observations

• A tug of war between subprime repercussions versus booming global growth

• The only thing you can truly count on - market fluctuations

• How market turmoil waylaid the quants

• One in three loans failed to close in August

• New foreclosures set record in latest MBA survey

• It’s a perfect storm for real estate agents

• Housing slump strains budgets of states & cities

• Subprime battle now underway in Congress

• Congress to renew look at fund managers' taxes

• Lex looks at global bank valuations

• Another reason why Wall Street is now so bullish on tech

• China curbs bank lending to cool economy

• Jim Kingsdale's latest thoughts on energy

• Home servers hold big promise

• Chris Perruna's fundamental screens & scans

• The time to sell is when the news is all good

• Making 36% by Dr. Terry Allen

• Are stocks with high price-to-book ratio worth buying?

• Parallel channel breakdowns

• The wikiHow on investing is pretty lame (anyone care to improve it?)

• The pros and cons to ETF stop-loss points

• 5 game-changing ETFs

• ETF diversification?

• One man's trash, is another man's fortune

• Vanguard lowers bar to qualify as affluent customer

• Mutual funds are suddenly revealing detailed portfolio information to skittish investors

• Recommended specs for a new trading computer

• It was bound to happen - a Facebook for the social elite

• Geocaching is caching on (we found several caches this summer)

• The Wall Street 150

• 3 steps for success

• "To repeat what others have said requires education, to challenge it requires brains." - M.P. Poole