Fed Up

• Everyone expects another cut!

• Fed seeks to be nimble

• Bernanke rewrites Fed Playbook

• Historically, the S&P's performance today and tomorrow

• Investors tend to retreat in September and surge back in November

• "Looking back over the past 30 years, the market has had a pretty good reaction to an additional cut, showing positive returns a week out 5 of 7 times by an average of +1.5%." - Jason Goepfert

• Can't wait for the Fed? Generate your own statement here

• Fed meeting calls for action according to Goldman

• "No one wants to put their head into a buzzsaw." - Edward Meir

• The dollar is screwed!

• Let us look at the greatest beneficiaries of the Fed’s generosity

• Can the U.S. economy pull an Indiana Jones?

• Private sector adds 106,000 jobs in October

• Home prices fall for 8th straight month

• Number of vacant homes for sale rose to 2.7%

• What's in store for housing? Bespoke offers some insight

• You ain't seen nothing yet on writedowns

• Little guy investors are shedding crocodile tears for Wall Street firms who lost $27 billion this year

• O'Neal is gone - but what about these guys?

• Has every Wall Streeter gone insane?

• Do you think the market has become nothing but a rigged casino?

• M&A boom may last for another three years

• Don't tell FedEx there's no inflation as they raise their rates by +6.9% in January (the largest price increase in 10 years)

• All elements are in place for an equity bull-run

• As seasonal patterns become well-known, they often lose their efficacy

• TrimTabs turned negative this week for the first time since April

• NYSE eliminates trading curbs set in 1987

• If there is a panic similar to 87, will the new halts be about to buoy the market?

• The weakness of Quant funds

• Commodities emerge as unlikely stars in Wall Street slowdown

• Electricity is the invisible commodity. But it's now in the limelight

• Wall of money is set to flow into Asian renewable energy

• It's time to be more conservative/selective in the clean energy space

• Peak oil?

• Do most Americans really care (or even think about) the costs of war?

• Investors advised to take the road to Singapore

• Advisor Jim Lowell makes an exception for owning China

• The U.S. has regained its status as the world's most competitive economy?

• Brett highlights 7 themes

• The hype machine is in overdrive on Google's Gphone

• Top 10 stock gainers in the past decade

• Value stocks with high short ratios

• CAPS community focuses on some unloved stocks

• Trade like Tiger Woods

• The hottest of hot stocks - then and now

• California fire stocks

• A spreadsheet of China stocks

• Are you looking for the next Google? Harry Domash offers some suggestions

• But, remember, there is never just one cockroach in the kitchen

• Lessons from Merrill

• When you are in the hole, the first step is to stop digging

• Dealing with the probability of the highly improbable

• Money management using the Kelly Criterion

• Trade commodities like Jim Rogers

• 11 ways to play the commodities markets

• 5 ways to avoid herd investing

• Using trading stops in an ETF portfolio

• Tracking errors grow as ETFs get thinner

• How ETF investors can keep costs down

• Dividend ETF overkill

• WisdomTree to launch first emerging markets small-cap ETF

• The best strategy is to use both ETFs and index funds according to Jonathan Clements

• Money market funds try to reassure investors

• ETNs face taxing times

• Some thoughts on better portfolio construction

• Clever investors are no better at picking retirement funds?

• Congress has introduced a bill to create an automatic IRA

• Tricks or treats for your bank accounts?

• It's going to be Clinton vs Giuliani according to the Iowa Electronic Markets

• brijit reads the popular business mags so you don't have to

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• Simple ways to feel your best in 15 minutes or less

• "It's okay to fail. It's not okay to give up." - Michael Jordan