RealMoney's Best of Blogs

It was a week filled with merger-and-acquisition news that, despite some poor earnings reports and semiconductor weakness, managed to drive the Dow to even more record closes.

Private equity struck deals for DaimlerChrysler's(DCX Quote) Chrysler Group and Alliance Data Systems(ADS Quote), while Reuters(RTRSY Quote) agreed to a buyout, and on Friday, Microsoft(MSFT Quote) said it will acquire aQuantive(AQNT Quote).

For the week, the Dow added 1.6% to record territory of 13,556.53, and the S&P 500 added 1.1% to 1522.75, but the Nasdaq, on the semiconductor weakness mentioned above, dipped 0.2% to 2558.45.

Once again, RealMoney's bloggers were all over the market action, and we'd like to share the best of their commentary this week with readers of the TheStreet.com. These posts best capture the intent of these blogs, which is to provide intelligent discussion on the issues each writer sees as most pressing that day. ...