Weekend Blog Watch

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The year is over, and it's time now to take a look at the Dogs of the Dow for 2007. The Dogs of the Dow are components of the index that historically have outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average by about 2% per year, if you rebalance on the first day of each year, which in this case going forward will be Wednesday.

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Donaldson Investing's Greg Donaldson updates his view on what "micro-cap" stock Berkshire Hathaway(BRKA Quote) is really worth.

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Investor's Business Daily's top 10 medical stocks are ranked according to earnings per share, relative strength and using the CANSLIM methodology.

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Analyst extraordinaire Hilary Kramer wants us to take a drive in Honda Motor(HMC Quote).

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The Buyback Letter, which monitors insider buying, is interested in Big Lots(BIG Quote)

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Who's the winner? The Playboy 2006 stockpicking contest is over. A 44% return over the past year is pretty good.

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Clean AM Ideas likes fashion retailer spinoff New York & Company(NWY Quote).

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Why does super investor Seth Klarman like blank-check companies so much? Let's stop the hate on blank-check companies.

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Compete shares the stats on all the online dating sites and Yahoo! Personals is the winner. And Hitwise tells us that Yahoo! Answers has 96% market share in that space as well. Go Yahoo!(YHOO Quote)!

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JoeCit takes a look at deep-value play Concord Camera(LENS Quote).

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Crossing Wall Street notes that Dow 12,500 is about 2,000 points lower than where we would be if the Dow kept pace with the Wilshire 5000. Go Dow!

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Paul Kedrosky looks at the top 10 stories for television, music, news and more for 2006.