Thursday's Daily Blog Watch

 

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.


I believe that 2006 was a milestone year for creativity in ETFs. I'm blown away by the recent crop of innovative ETFs and believe that all of them (or, actually, a subset of all of them) are decent buys for 2007.


China Market Research reminds Tom Online (TOMO) that it must focus on products instead of political connections.


It takes a lot of confidence for a company to choose only a single letter to represent it on the stock exchange. Here's the list of all single-letter stocks.


Crossing Wall Street points out that uniform maker Cintas (CTAS) is trading at a P/E ratio as low as 20 for the first time in 16 years despite rising earnings.


A Dash of Insight throws cold water on every permabear justification for not investing in stocks in 2007.


Inflation down from 15% to 3%, a $45 billion trade surplus, 180 million consumers, declining political strife -- Brazil rocks, and here's the way to play it with U.S. stocks and ADRs.


24/7 Wall Street is not afraid to ask the question: Can GM (GM) buy Chrysler (DCX)?


Will Yahoo!'s (YHOO) Panama be enough to close the gap with Google (GOOG)?


Great post by Jeff Matthews about the "best" press release ever, i.e. Amazon's (AMZN) tendency each season to announce that it was the best yet. My thought -- maybe it just is?


AutoRetailStocks.com is looking for the next stock in its Auto Retail Stocks Index now that Adesa (KAR) is being acquired. Here's its four interesting candidates.


Nathan Slaughter, who, if nothing else, has a great name, shares his love for Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) at Half Priced Stocks.


The DRIP investor believes Intel (INTC) is the value play for 2007.


The top 100 domain name sales of 2006. What's fascinating to me is that Mortage.com, which is a typo of "mortgage," got $242,000 -- so people can't spell mortgage, but they are still getting loans.

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