Market Treats

• Americans cut back sharply on spending

• It seems the dominant theme of the moment is change

• The once-vibrant U.S. economy has slowed to an anemic pace

• Rotblut's earnings preview for this week

• 4Q earnings to fall 9% from last year

• US leading index growth rate at six-year low

• Corporate insiders continue to be bullish

• Stock performance both before, during, and after recessions

• The Ted Spread

• Where market surprises lurk in 2008

• No S&P 500 tech stocks above the 50 day ma?

• How low will Ben go?

• Mishkin pleads for the market to stop obsessing over the Fed

• Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

• The United States is at risk of losing its triple-A credit rating?

• Ken Fisher thinks we're just too gloomy

• Jingle mail!

• Home buyers must now pony up more cash

• Guess who's helping Bank of America pay for its $4.1 billion purchase of Countrywide Financial? Answer: taxpayers of the United States

• Dollar forecasts are cut further & traders buy more precious metals

• Warehousing bullion for gold's supermarket

• Commodities: boom or gloom?

• Up from the Pits

• More gains seen for global telecoms

• India is likely to be a safe haven because of the economy's low exposure to slowing growth

• China is still on a tear, but...

• Who's afraid of Mideast Money?

• Standard & Poor's 14 debt-free favorites

• Kip Green 25 - stocks that benefit from the environmental movement

• Do companies systematically manage earnings in attempts to smooth out the bumps? If so, can investors detect and exploit such gaming? CXO takes a look

• What is short selling?

• Common sense rules for traders

• Common sense rules for investors

• Lazy portfolio's winning streak extends into 6th year

• Fight recessionary fears with a diversified portfolio

• Prudent use of sector weightings can smooth the ride out considerably

• Vanguard steps up to the plate

• State-specific ETFs are coming soon

• TIPs ETF gains foreign following

• Is Great Companies ETF a good buy?

• Tax changes for traders

• Breadth, put/call, & volatility indicators

• Tiinker - an intelligent news aggregator

• OptionEdge uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to simulate and analyze various stock option trading strategies

• Ace employee makes $152 million accounting error

• "When you step into a turnaround situation, you can safely assume four things: morale is low; fear is high; the good people are halfway out the door; and the slackers are hiding." - Nina Disesa