Taking Stock

• All eyes & ears on Turkey

• Oil soars to a new record

• Deficit increases Treasury sales & threatens bond market

• Banks to start a fund to protect credit markets

• Few lenders are willing to make mortgage modifications

• The economic calendar for this week

• A market cheat sheet!

• What's on tap for this week

• Can you trade on the CPI? CXO finds out

• General Electric is no longer the world's largest company

• The Dow Theory debate continues

• What's the market really worth?

• Three Americans to share Nobel Prize in Economics

• Could the Crash of 1987 happen again?

• Did you know that in the 17 years from 1990-2006, the S&P 500 has gained +5.9% on average from October 15 to December 31? It has only dropped twice and its biggest loss was -3.9%

• Fed Funds Rate Predictions

• Buffett predicts a long flight for loonie

• How low can the dollar sink?

• China craze continues, nervously

• Are you short small caps?

• Do we have an online advertising bubble?

• Rumblings in the commercial real estate sector

• It's time to buy tangibles!

• Even CEOs now think they are overpaid

• The survival of the dumbest

• Where do professional investors get their ideas?

• The New York Times profiles Paul Tudor Jones II

• Ken Heebner's big bets

• Tech guru Kevin Landis offers up a few picks

• Herb ponders what really is a tech stock

• Green Motors

• Goldman assets top $1 trillion for first time

• Keep an eye on Alibaba.com

• No more Naked Shorts for you!

• Four companies with great growth & value

• IBD's 10 fast-growing large-cap stocks

• Stocks for the online video trend

• Three of my best-performing screens received updates today: Cream of the Crop, Market Leaders, and Back Up The Truck

• This week's IPOs

• This week's key earnings reports

• Here's a new screening idea: new research shows that IPOs outperform with 80 or more institutional investors

• Engineering better bollinger bands

• Dr. Steenbarger offers up 10 generalizations that guide his trading (all of which are spot on)

• How to take notes like Thomas Edison (also good for traders & investors)

• "Heads I win; tails, I break even or don't lose much." - Mohnish Pabrai

• How to cash in on corporate restructuring

• Problems associated with value investing

• Research on dissecting anomalies

• Variations in biotech ETFs

• New ETFs target retirement market

• How to protect your portfolio

• Do you have a family mission statement?

• People are stressed out on Wall Street

• World's most expensive homes

• I have blue eyes - perhaps I should run for President!

• Tao of The Trade

• Don't buy books, rent them!

• Inside Fox Business News

• Ben Stein offers up some market & life wisdom

• "Sun-tzu: If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight, and if not split and reevaluate." - Bud Fox