This is the third in a five part series in which I’m laying out the secrets to successful financial blogging. There are always exceptions to any rule, but if you follow this stuff you will see that I’m right. This is a long post, but every word counts.

Fortune is telling the story of how raw costs are starting to weigh on corporate profit margins.

Video.

Bank of America is the worst. At everything.

On the management shakeup at Google.

Just want to throw this out there a few hours ahead of Google’s ($GOOG) earnings report tonight to give you some perspective… What a lot of media and even Wall Street people don’t understand about online ad spending is that there is a very big difference between how Facebook and perhaps other social media firms…

A mighty 37-day winning streak snapped for the S&P 500.

This morning everything is lower, from techs to gold to banks to bonds. Hopefully you weren’t among the super-reckless buying semis and software names at 70 multiples like tomorrow would never come. It’s here.

Yes Yes Y’all – your links are ready.

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