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Good Reads: Learning from Failures, Avoiding Traps, and Getting a Clue

Two Takes on the Financial Crisis: 'Too Big to Fail' by Sorkin and 'How Markets Fail' by Cassidy
by John M. Mason
'Managing Investment Portfolios' - Six Traps Investors Should Avoid
by Saj Karsan
'Why Are We So Clueless About the Stock Market?': A Great Primer for New Investors
by Jae Jun

More Book reviews

Big Oil Hornswoggling the SEC?

After the asset-reporting shenanigans that contributed enormously to the greatest financial meltdown in living memory, unbelievably the SEC is now set to allow more or less exactly the same thing in the oil industry, Felix Salmon writes.

Learn all about it in Alan von Altendorf's 3-parter, which Salmon calls 'stunning.'

More on: Exploration & Production, Oil & Gas Majors, Government Policy

Friday Roundup: Only Dow Clears Week

Closing Updates for today and the week (Market Currents)

Weighing Some Mining Stocks

More on: Commodity ETFs, Metal Miners, Base Metals

New SA Instablogs Worth Watching

• Ian R. Campbell is a recognized Canadian business valuation authority, having authored books used by lawyers, experts and Canadian Courts in business valuation litigation matters.

• North Fork Investors' blog tracks the value-oriented investments, both long and short, of two friends and investment partners.

• Hopeful is author, trader and internet entrepreneur Brett Buchanan, who writes TheFinalPost blog from Maui.

Bond Watch: TIPS, Treasuries, Vigilantes

Japan: Nowhere Near Recovery?

Latest on the Pharmaceuticals Pipeline

News from: WSJ

PIMCO's Bill Gross: Reasoning About Risk

More on: US Market, Economy, Government Policy, Hedge Funds

Insurance Investment Insights

Travel Stocks: Which to Pack?

More on: Internet Travel, Leisure and Gambling stocks, Airlines

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Market Currents|Top Stories

20 Nov, 5:10 PM With a billion-dollar-plus settlement with Intel (INTC) inked, AMD reverses earlier salary cuts for top executives, returning hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation. 3 Comments
20 Nov, 4:49 PM Despite the Thanksgiving holiday, next week is stuffed with data, especially housing (existing home sales - boosted by a tax credit - expected +2.3%; new-home sales expected -1.7%; Case-Shiller prices expected -9.3% for year ending in September) and a pair of consumer-confidence readings on Tuesday and Wednesday. 1 Comment
20 Nov, 4:34 PM Bonds - $4B in bonds. Suitors including News Corp. (NWS), Time Warner (TWX), Sony (SNE) and Qualia Capital are beginning to circle around the MGM film studio - owner of the "James Bond 007" franchise as well as a 4,100-film library - which considers a sale among its options to get out from under $4B in debt. 2 Comments

All today's Market Currents »

Select StockTalks

marketstudent: Back in TNA near today's bottom--55% of my portfolio

about 2 hours ago
The EconomicJoker: Attention SA Bloggers: It turns outs the USD can also be blamed for the awful 2012 movie. $9.50 loss in 2 hours 38 min.

about 5 hours ago
Jeff Farley: stopped out of GOOG Jan $600 calls at $9.50 ydy as big cap techs struggle

about 6 hours ago