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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.