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.


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.


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


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


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


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


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


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.


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


The winning stocks in the MSN stock-picking contest.


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


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


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


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

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