Wednesday's Daily Blog Watch
Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.
Cramer's
includes questions Jim answered recently on
Nike
(NKE) - Get Report
,
Crocs
(CROX) - Get Report
and
Sears
(SHLD)
.
Adobe
(ADBE) - Get Report
has been expensive for a while, according to 24/7 Wall St. Could it be finally
? By the way, I believe Adobe is cheap here. With the iPhone having a YouTube client, and all YouTube videos using Adobe's Flash, I believe you can't go wrong with Adobe at these levels in the long term.
Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day
includes trades this morning on
Research in Motion
(RIMM)
(!) and
Ciena
(CIEN) - Get Report
.
OK, my vote for the
greenest, most solar, semiconductor stock
?
Applied Materials
(AMAT) - Get Report
.
Is
Apple
(AAPL) - Get Report
or is
Nokia
(NOK) - Get Report
too cheap?
First, let's look at the facts:
It is the largest exporter of software-related goods and services in the world.
There is no tax on royalties from copyrighted goods.
GDP growth for 2005 was 4.7%.
The country has the second-highest GDP per capita in the world.
It is No. 4 of all countries on the Human Development Index.
Gross national income per head is the seventh highest in the world.
It has the best quality of life in the world according to The Economist.
99.9% literacy rate -- tied for first in the world.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, check out the "other" green stocks:
.
AIG
(AIG) - Get Report
enters ContraHour's
Unlucky Seven list
, which is a good thing, believe it or not.
Dealbreaker's "Murdoch Meter" is almost
: it looks as though
News Corp.
(NWS) - Get Report
will get
Dow Jones
(DJ)
.
Well, its not surprising, but
(GOOG) - Get Report
is now bigger than
.
In the category of "companies I've never heard of,"
TRC Companies
(TRR)
is presented by
teenage superhero Hilary Kramer
.
Roger Ehrenberg, ex-banker extraordinaire, recharged from vacation,
weighs in
on
Blackstone
(BX) - Get Report
.
Investor Trip has the
three companies that changed the world
.
Paul Kedrosky is obsessively collecting
iPhone reviews
. Paul, you need a better hobby. By the way, great job talking iPhone on "On the Money" last night.
In case you missed it,
and needs to make some money.
Unusual stocks of the day:
stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday
, and stocks with
. These are all potential breakout plays.
At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in any of the stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.
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and
Trade Like Warren Buffett
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