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12/30/06 - 09:57 AM EST

James Altucher

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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.


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


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


Analyst extraordinaire Hilary Kramer wants us to take a drive in Honda Motor(HMC - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr).


The Buyback Letter, which monitors insider buying, is interested in Big Lots(BIG - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr)


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


Clean AM Ideas likes fashion retailer spinoff New York & Company(NWY - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr).


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


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 - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr)!


JoeCit takes a look at deep-value play Concord Camera(LENS - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr).


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!


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

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At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.

James Altucher is a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs several quantitative-based hedge funds as well as a fund of hedge funds. He is also the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund and Trade Like Warren Buffett. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks. Altucher appreciates your feedback; click here to send him an email.

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