Friday's Blog Watch

09/22/06 - 08:33 AM EDT

James Altucher

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


Investment Ideas bullet-points his pessimistic view of GM (GM Quote).


Icahn gets more active on ImClone (IMCL Quote). And here's a look at all of Carl Icahn's recent holdings.


In its continuing series on the 10 worst managed companies, 24/7 Wall Street looks at Eastman Kodak (EK Quote) and H&R Block (HRB Quote).


Great blog posts from Benchmark VC Michael Eisenberg about what a Facebook acquisition means for Yahoo! (YHOO Quote), and more analysis of Yahoo!'s recent warning.


Ticker Sense looks at what typically happens in the stock market in the fourth quarter of a midterm election year.


TechCrunch observes that Napster (NAPS Quote) is for sale, but it's not necessarily the sale of a healthy company.


Special Situations is looking for opportunity in the delisting of Take Two Interactive (TTWO Quote).


Quant Investor weighs in on the worst mutual funds. Some of those beasts are ugly!


PaidContent underlines once again how the unnoticed Internet acquisition of the century (after News Corp. (NWS Quote) buying MySpace) is Scripps' (SSP Quote) acquisition of Shopzilla.


Uber ex-analyst Henry Blodget demonstrates that Yahoo!'s warning will definitely drag down Google (GOOG Quote).


ETF Trends looks at the Leisure ETF (PEJ Quote) and suggests it might be a buy now.


24/7 Wall Street asks if Wal-Mart (WMT Quote) is now a generic-drug company.


In one of the more esoteric linkages I've ever seen, CXO Advisory compares ethnopharmacology with technical analysis.


Classic Bill Gates video.
At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in any of the 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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