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.

Stocks with unusual volume in their options could have a major event on their horizons. Here are the latest stocks that fit the bill.

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There is some excellent analysis at JoeCit's blog on YouTube's profit/loss statements for 2005 and 2006. I disagree with the conclusions but the analysis is fascinating.

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Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day includes a new trade on RealNetworks (RNWK Quote).

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Alphaville brings us Abby Joseph Cohen's comments on the market action of last week.

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Whatever happened to rogue trader Nick Leeson, and what's he trading right now?

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The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz offers his rosy forecast on housing.

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The results are in: Here are the latest search stats for Yahoo! (YHOO Quote), Google (GOOG Quote) and Microsoft (MSFT Quote).

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It's rare to see a portfolio that has 35 out of 35 stocks up on the day, but that's what David Merkel accomplished recently, despite the market anguish.

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Wow, here's a subprime lender that's actually surviving this mess.

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The winning stocks in the MSN stock-picking contest.

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Eric Savitz believes Google is more focused on better targeted advertising.

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First the Apple (AAPL Quote) iPhone, now the Google Phone?

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EMarketer with the latest stats on worldwide Internet usage. U.S. growth has slowed.

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Check out Stockpickr's latest analysis of stocks at 52-week lows. Interesting new names on the list include RealNetworks, CV Therapeutics (CVTX Quote) and others.