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Editor's Note: The following was posted in real time on our premium Buzz & Banter. It's being shared here for the benefit of the Minyanville community. See also Mickey Mantle Won’t Pay Our Rent.Monday Morning Mess Around - 8:54 am  On Friday we noted that the path of maximum frustration was that we just spent hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money against the wishes of the constituencies and the markets continue lower.  That has indeed played out and the trillion dollar question becomes "Is this the necessary shake-out fake-out needed to usher in near-term capitulation before a ...

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As a sign of how difficult the markets are, a number of large companies hit 52-week lows, with a number of stocks down between 5% and 10% and bank shares off more Ford (F) dropped to $3.79. Apple (AAPL) fell to $91.11. Yahoo! (YHOO) dropped to $15.17. GE (GE) fell to $20.12. Rio Tinto (RTP) sold off to $12.60. Cisco (CSCO) fell to $20.26. Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR) dropped to $31.10. EMC (EMC) sold down to $11.03. Sun (JAVA) dropped to $6.51. Boeing (BA) fell to $51.50. Google (GOOG) dropped to $366.58 Douglas A. McIntyre

Nintendo wants revenge. Now that Apple (AAPL) has come out with an iPhone that can download games, the Japanese company appropriately believes that Jobs wants their business. According to BusinessWeek, the new Nintendo DSi will connect to the internet via WiFi and will allow for downloads of music, video, data, and games. Nintendo has sold 77 million units of the DS line.

Friday morning, a number of people jumped on an unverified report that showed up on CNN’s cit j channel iReport.com claiming—erroneously, as it quickly turned out—that Steve Jobs had a heart attack. Never mind that the site clearly bills material as unedited and unfiltered. SAI, among others, connected the words CNN and news, instead, ignoring the unverified aspect in favor of an “it could be true” approach. The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO’s health has been under the microscope—and concerns have moved the stock price on a number of occasions. Today’s report and the instant ripples had the same effect, sending the stock to a 52-week low before Apple’s denial could make the circuit, and raising concerns that someone was trying to manipulate the stock. CNN has been contacted by the SEC and, according to AP, has promised “to provide information about the posting.” The hyperbole has this billed as the “first great test of citizen journalism”—which it’s not. It’s not even the second or the third. It’s also not a failure of an entire concept. People try to game systems whether its Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) message boards, automated press releases or upload sites, and some systems are easier to game than others. CNN and other media outlets providing space for unfettered contributions inevitably tied to their own reputations need to spend even more time thinking about how to handle what shows up there. But it’s up to us as journalists and sharers of information to decide how we make use of any unsubstantiated reports. Case in point: the same report was submitted to MacRumors , which rejected it.  Arnold Kim, who compares iReport posts to forum messages, has some harsh but true words (via AllThingsD): “If you want to blame someone for dropping Apple’s stock price today, you can point fingers to the individuals on 4chan or the person that originally submitted it, but the real reason it gained traction is the reporting of it on mainstream blog sites.”

The economic releases now (and for the immediate future) will be weak – that’s a given.

Therefore, investors should give them a passing glance, evaluate the consequences and potential remedies, and move on.  In fact, the bigger picture should focus on…

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Reader Steve Albertson writes..."Seemingly obvious question, but are you as bullish as you were a week ago before this huge drop, and a second question, could you share what you see in the pattern of GOOG that is so bullish to you? I see in the last year a lower high and a lower low for the first time ever. I noticed that Allan Harris has been calling for a major drop at the same time you seem so bullish. Since you are asking for questions, do you have any updated thoughts on AAPL and[More...]

Germany Bails Their Banks OutGreece, Ireland and now Germany have now guaranteed all privately held bank accounts in their country. This means those accounts are safe, but also that these governments were worried that the banks that held these accounts might actually fail, and they are concerned enough that they feel they must assure their population that their funds are safe.What does this mean? As usual, I have no idea at all, but it does add more spice to the bubbling cauldron that is the world’s financial markets. Does this mean Canada is heading in this direction? I don’t think so, or maybe I simply, hope not.Is Jobs Apple?So a rumor on a CNN web site claiming that Steve Jobs had a[More...]

The economic releases now (and for the immediate future) will be weak ??? that???s a given. Therefore, investors should give them a passing glance, evaluate the consequences and potential remedies, and move on.?? In fact, the bigger picture should focus on how to correct these assorted problems. Expect plenty of over-analysis of the provisions of [...]

Schaeffer's Andrea Kramer takes an in-depth look at the week ahead

Tickermine polled respondents at 24 Verizon, Sprint and Radio Shack stores around the nation this week. We asked whether they stocked the i-phone, are they getting the i-phone soon, does this store stock a similar, competing phone and if so, what brand? Results were interesting. 22 people or 92% of respondents did not stock the i-Phone. Only two people or 8% did. Five people or 21% say they will stock the i-Phone soon but 19 or 79% say they will not. And three brands were cited as competing or similar quality to the i-Phone: the Samsung Instinct was cited by 6 people, 25%, the Blackberry was mentioned by 5 people or 21% and the LG Voyager got three mentions or 13%.

Schaeffer's Andrea Kramer takes a look at unusual option activity on the Street

Schaeffer's analyst Colleen S. King takes a look at the major news of the day on Wall Street.

69% of electronics stores state that the iPod is the best MP3 player they sell. The cheapest is the iPod shuffle, according to 22%, or the Sansa, according to 19%. Respondents were almost evenly divided on the virtues of the MP3 player versus a music phone, with 53% preferring the MP3 player and 47% preferring the music phone.