Inevitable Correction: Weekend Reading

As for earnings, we'll see reports from Lowe's(LOW), Home Depot(HD), Gap(GPS) and Target(TGT).

Finally, here are some articles and papers worth reading:

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• The Stock Market's Little Shop of Horrors: And You Thought the Aftermath of 1929 Was Grim. (The Journal of Investing)
• Why It's Smart To Be Optimistic. (BusinessWeek)
• Barron's picks Coke(KO) and MSCI(MXB), and pans First Solar(FSLR). (Barron's)
• Iceland: what ugly secrets are waiting to be exposed in the meltdown? (Telegraph)
• Billion-dollar IPOs set to return to U.S. (Reuters)
• Asia: An astonishing rebound. (The Economist)
• There's no quick fix to the global economy's excess capacity. (Telegraph)
• Cameron dare not copy Obama's disastrous economic policies. (Guardian/Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
• The new American Dream: Renting. (The Wall Street Journal)
• How the brain hard-wired us to love Google(GOOG), Twitter, et al., and why it's dangerous. (Slate)

-- Written by Paul Kedrosky in La Jolla, Calif.

1 What would best describe your stance heading into the coming week of trading? Bullish Bearish Neutral 2 Which of these sectors do you think is set to move up in the coming week? --Choose One--Aerospace and DefenseAirlinesAutomobilesBeverages and Food ProductsBiotechnologyCommercial BanksComputers and PeripheralsConsumer NondurablesEnergy Equipment & ServicesHMOs and HospitalsHomebuildingInsuranceIntegrated OilInternet, Software ServicesInvestment Bankers and BrokersMediaMultiline RetailPharmaceuticalsPrecious MetalsSemis, Semi EquipmentTelecom EquipmentTobacco and AlcoholWireless CommunicationsUtilities 3 Which of these sectors do you think is set to move down in the coming week? --Choose One--Aerospace and DefenseAirlinesAutomobilesBeverages and Food ProductsBiotechnologyCommercial BanksComputers and PeripheralsConsumer NondurablesEnergy Equipment & ServicesHMOs and HospitalsHomebuildingInsuranceIntegrated OilInternet, Software ServicesInvestment Bankers and BrokersMediaMultiline RetailPharmaceuticalsPrecious MetalsSemis, Semi EquipmentTelecom EquipmentTobacco and AlcoholWireless CommunicationsUtilities View the results without voting

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