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Some of the fizz has left the stock market as investors reassess hurdles facing consumers and lock in gains from an eight-month rally. That defensive posture may color trading in the upcoming week.

This seems somewhat strange to us: Apple is allegedly refusing to honour warranties on Macs belonging to smokers, voiding warranties while arguing that smoking near a Mac exposes the tech support worker to secondhand smoke. Which it doesn't, by the way, not in the real world. Sure,...

CNBC's Fast Money Steve Grasso thinks it would be a good idea to buy Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) on Monday. He added that they are doing everything to stay competitive with their prices. Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) dropped 0.48% on Friday.

Joe Terranova likes The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) as the food prices are going up and KR has the pricing power. Kroger (KR) gained 0.18% on Friday.

Karen Finerman likes Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Pete Najarian believes in Mylan (NASDAQ: MYL). Bank of America (BAC) added 0.06% and MYL gained 0.48% on Friday.

Not a David Letterman list, but still quite compelling.

BloggingStocks: After previously announcing that he would leave the CEO post in December, Bank of America (BAC) head Ken Lewis is backpedaling in light of the company's difficulty in finding a replacement. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports ... Read more

As compute demand increases, demand for power in data centers is soaring. To help IT professionals halt the spread of watt-consuming servers, the industry needs to develop software that can communicate the ways in which the various layers of the data center perform and interact. They need a binary version of Cesar Millan — [...]

As the old saying goes, “You’re either a contrarian, or a victim.” It just so happens that one of the savviest contrarians I know is my colleague, Louis Basenese. And nobody takes that to heart more than Lou does. I’ve scratched my head in bewilderment on many occasions after reading one of Lou’s bold ...

After almost a year of initiating the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue the nation’s financial industry, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Thursday that it would auction off stock warrants it acquired from three big banks that received a significant portion of taxpayers’ money and have fully repaid the same. The [...]

(JPM) Treasury to Auction TARP Warrants

by David Fessler, Energy & Infrastructure Expert Friday, November 20, 2009: Issue #1142 As the old saying goes, “You’re either a contrarian, or a victim.” It just so happens that one of the savviest contrarians I know is my colleague, Louis Basenese. And nobody takes that to heart more than Lou does. I’ve scratched my [...]

(IYT) The Transportation Sector: Here Are Three Investments in a Sector That’s Ready to Soar

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