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The Little Book that Beats the Market: Chapters 1-7

Thanks,,,sounds like a decent read. Chapter 4 is most intriguing to me.

Buy and Hold Isn't Dead Yet

If you put down $1 million in 1999 to buy S&P stocks and hold, you are much much much worst off than putting the $mil into real estate outside of Detroit. How's that a good thing?

Dow Member Year to Date Performance

Nice chart... NAS rules YTD as of today's close:

sym Today <---> Peak(Oct-07) <---> Low(Mar-09) <---> YTD Change
dow 8447.53 <---> -40.36% <---> 30.57% <---> -3.74%
nas 1835.04 <---> -35.82% <---> 45.00% <---> 16.36%
spx 919.33 <---> -41.26% <---> 37.87% <---> 1.81%

Largest Companies in the World

Outside of HSBA and hedge fund BRK, the largest banks are in China! Gone are the Citi, BoA and Goldman...

Preview from Europe: Another Late Rally Lifts Markets

euro = $1.3065? Thought Fed's money printing will devalue the green back!

Dow 30 Price Targets - Too Much Optimism?

Only 3 of the 30 showed marginal gain YTD....and that was last week. Brutal year so far.

New Lows For the Dow

Thanks for the listing...it has been a wiped out for big caps...what's not shown are similar bloodletting for mid & small caps as well. Only shining stars are oil/services and TIPs.