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.
CDC Corp.
(CHINA)
and
Brocade
(BRCD)
and more
make the Systems Trades of the Day
list for today. Buy at the open if you play these.
24/7 Wall St.
on
eBay's
(EBAY) - Get Report
earnings.
Jim
on
ValueClick
(VCLK)
,
EMC
(EMC)
and more at Stockpickr Answers.
Wal-Mart
(WMT) - Get Report
. Here's why.
Bespoke has the
best- and worst-performing Russell 3000 stocks of the year
.
Crocs
(CROX) - Get Report
is on the list, but I haven't even heard of most of the other companies. Which really underlines why newspapers (which only have stories on "popular" stocks) are not as important as doing your own digging.
Top 10 potential short squeezes
at Stockpickr.
Eddy, a
RealMoney
contributor and Crossing Wall Street blogger,
loves my favorite stock pick
,
Illinois Tool Works
(ITW) - Get Report
.
Timmy Sykes (who turned his bar mitzah money into $2 million through trading) has his
top three potential small-cap turnaround plays
, the first two of which I've never heard of.
Freakonomics
that slices the census data in interesting ways.
Howard Lindzon
on
Interactive Brokers
(IBKR) - Get Report
.
Fascinating, fascinating post about
which public companies own expensive domain names
.
The Stockmasters
give their full breakdown
on
Altria
(MO) - Get Report
.
Sramana Mitra thinks that
Dell
(DELL) - Get Report
needs to develop a convergence strategy now
or suffer the consequences.
Lloyd's Investments gives a nice analysis of why
Baidu
(BIDU) - Get Report
.
This was
. If you forget how to multiply by 8, refer to this.
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