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Gary Dvorchak's Look at 2010's Smartphone Wars

Gary Dvorchak did an excellent 2010 Year in Review piece on TheStreet.com this morning. That’s not a typo, he’s got the same type of imagination that I have and has put it to use in order to formulate a list of events that could take place in the coming year…

20 Unpredictions for 2010

You MF’s and your prediction lists have driven me to this… Here are my 20 Unpredictions for 2010, a list of things that ain’t gonna happen next year… 01.  Fox Biz cuts the USA Today/ Human Interest stuff and gears more toward hardcore trading and investing ideas. 02.  Iran drops the pretend nuclear energy program and…

Hot Links: Megan Fox & The Siren Song of the Bears

Hot Links for Weekend Reading… David Merkel on ignoring the siren song of bearishness in a bull market.  (AlephBlog) The big BIG winners of 2009: Stocks that are up 400% plus:  (Bespoke) Bonus/ compensation discussions will be prominent at the G-20 meeting next week.  (Bloomberg) Peter Schiff: Letting Lehman go was one of the only…

Stubborn Little Winners

Today we’re going to salute some little guys who wouldn’t give up.  Small (er) cap stocks that refused to quit and have made their true-believer shareholders money this year, in one of the worst environments imaginable. What these names have in common is that they all are consumer-oriented companies, 4 of them are engaged in the…

Market Recap: All In? Nahhhhh.

[vodpod id=Groupvideo.2759320&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26]   The Reformed Broker, AKA Butchie Yost, here with today’s Market Recap… How many of y’all went All In today, like The Grouch & Eligh, with the Dow up give or take 70 this afternoon? That’s what I thought.  No one seems to have any conviction that this week’s pullback has brought us back…

Market Recap: The New Beasts

The Reformed Broker, AKA Daddy Warbucks, here with today’s Market Recap… I thought I’d skip the averages today in favor of showing three charts of The New Beasts.  From every bear market, a set of new leaders emerges, often, these are stocks that had nothing to do with the prior bull market. My highlighting of…

More Hot Links: Tech Edition

More Hot Links for Weekend Reading The New York Times Media & Advertising section comes out blasting at the tech blogs that are eating into the Times’ audience.  They point out how often the big tech blogs like Gizmodo and TechCrunch run with false rumors either deliberately or because of sloppiness, such as the recent…