Monday's Daily Blog Watch
Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.
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? Check out these other fun facts about tobacco stocks.
Jim Cramer
on
Research In Motion
(RIMM)
,
Nymex
(NMX)
, and what's up with "Shortsville, N.Y."?
For the life of me,
I cannot see the girl dancing counterclockwise
.
It's growing twice as fast as the U.S. economy -- here are the
top Philippines stocks trading here in the U.S.
Stockpickr's
includes trades this morning on
Baidu
(BIDU) - Get Report
and
PetSmart
(PETM)
.
Here's a nice summary of
all the beneficiaries of online video
.
The battle between
Pepsi
(PEP) - Get Report
and
Coke
(KO) - Get Report
.
Paid Content highlights the
in
Yahoo!'s
(YHOO)
portfolio of content.
Stockerblog has the
top-selling investment-related domain names
.
Freakonomics wonders whether
tennis matches are being rigged
.
Finance Puzzle thinks
Trump
(TRMP)
might be worth a short-term gamble here
.
These are great comments from Carl Icahn on
why most companies end up being subpar
.
A nice visual on
.
In case you missed it, here's the
Barron's Roundup, Stockpickr style
.
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