Friday's Daily Blog Watch
Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.
If housing's at a bottom, mortgage real estate investment trusts, with their huge dividends,
.
Compete takes a look at the top 20 Web sites ranked not by traffic, but by
time spent at the site
, and the results are fascinating.
Dah Hui David points to
Warren Buffett's favorite stock in 1951
.
DealBreaker summarizes
Carl Icahn's views on the dollar
and what it could mean for stocks.
RealMoney
contributor (and Stockpickr member) David Merkel shows us where he's finding his
.
Great post by Ticker Sense charting the
of every
Dow
stock.
With oil all over the place, it might be worth looking at coal.
Here's a list of major coal stocks
.
Finding Cents gives its two cents on
the breakup
of
Tyco
(TYC)
.
The "I'm jealous" post of the day:
Searchblog interviews Excite founder Joe Kraus
, who also just sold his latest company, JotSpot, to Google.
Stockerblog notes that a penny right now might have an implicit
.
Sham Gad describes in detail a visit Warren Buffett recently made where he describes the
.
TickerSense looks all the way through the 20th century to find the other times the
S&P 500
has been up
.
Social network of the day:
.
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