A Few Catch Up Links

• Kass has a little fun on April Fools Day!

• Dow Theorists are happy. (Did you see the big moves in Fedex & UPS today?)

• Mark Hulbert also eyes the transports

• According to Morningstar, if you compare stock prices to underlying business value, stocks are cheaper now than at any time since 2000

• A nice first quarter review

• After 5 straight down months in the S&P 500, here's some data on how the market has performed in the past

• 2 positive signs: investors pull almost $100 billion out of equity funds and mutual fund managers move into cash

• Ahead of earnings, here's the bottoms up EPS growth estimates by sector

• Big Wall Street investment companies have jumped all over the Fed's emergency loans

• Signs of liquidity are starting to emerge

• Paulson's plan straight from the man himself

• A worldwide plunge protection team is about to be formed

• Wall Street gets its way

• 8 reasons we'll see no Wall Street reforms this year

• Fed actions defuse subprime ARM rate reset bomb

• Things are looking up at the pawn shop

• It's a buyer's market for U.S. consumers

• "I think a recovery has to start in the real estate markets, where the problems originated." - Liz Peek

• Where is the bottom in housing?

• Meanwhile, the recent rise in corporate bankruptcies in America may well be a sign of much worse to come

• At least the corporate insiders are still bullish

• An interesting Q&A with the former Treasury secretary

• Jeffrery Saut finds many crowded trades

• John C. Bogle is never one to mince words

• Commodities: who's behind the boom?

• The clean energy scam

• MIT startup aims to beat coal on price

• Investors cry foul over oilman riches

• Lehman sues Japan firm claiming $350 million dollar fraud

• "Inflation is clearly heating up and will eventually have to be dealt with, whether the Fed or the US financial markets like it or not." - John Kosar

• India sees 6.7% inflation

• European inflation accelerated to the fastest pace in almost 16 years

• Asian governments may not live up to economic renaissance pledges

• A Baltic Dry/Shanghai divergence indicates there may be an opportunity in China

• One of the biggest surprises of the year so far - U.S. stocks are doing better than most

• Starbucks looks for a fresh jolt

• 1st quarter winners & losers

• How does bearish investor sentiment relate to stock market returns?

• Smarter people = better traders

• Did you miss today's big gains? Mebane Faber offers some perspective to consider

• Trading basics on order types

• Learn how to apply MACD to your trading

• Do stock recommendations on blogs have value? CXO finds out

• Do informed traders tip their hands via option purchases?

• New research suggests that insider trading is more widespread in the market than previously thought

• The 10 Commandments according to Think Equity

• As the stock market gyrates, authors' proposals flourish

• Everyone chimes in on the uptick rule

• Indeed, in the long run, we are all dead

• Barclays wins race for all-global stock ETF

• It's tax time, and if you need to figure out what kind of IRA to use, here's some guidelines

• Some tools to help you answer the question: "what is my house worth?"

• Just like the Fed wants - now it's conservative savers who are feeling the credit crunch

• There's plenty of buzz about smartypig's online savings accounts

• After being accused by a number of people that I "dumb down" my analysis too much for a wider audience, I had to smile when I saw my website's reading level

• For those of you who are analyst hounds - newratings

• For news hounds, Barron's offers some great suggestions

• Stock Market A-Z

• "The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything; you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, 'Swing, you bum!'" - Warren Buffett