NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following Is an Investment Opinion Being Issued by Bridgewater Equity (BWE).

NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following Is an Investment Opinion Being Issued by Benchmark Journal.

Simply leaving the plastic at home can slash spending by up to one-third.

Upbeat predictions mask enormous uncertainty.

Stock with low P/E ratios are not a sure thing, but this metric can point you in the right direction.

Kevin Depew's Five Things You Need to Know to stay ahead of the pack on Wall Street: Get Out Now! There's nothing quite like an alarming magazine cover headline to set the market's tone for the new year. Talk of a bubble in Treasuries has been making the rounds on Wall Street for a couple of months now so nothing new there. Over the weekend however Barron's gave the Treasury bubble cover story status "Get Out Now!" The piece is full of sage-sounding cautionary advice such as this warning from from Mohamed El-Erian chief investment officer of Pacific Investment ...

The secret to 50%-per-year returns is revealed.

US stocks fell sharply on Wednesday after a worse than expected employment report rattled investors ahead of Friday's key jobs data. Deteriorating corporate outlook also dampened the sentiment.[More...]

US stocks rose on Tuesday on optimism Obama's massive stimulus plan will pull the US economy out of recession.[More...]

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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer provides a look at the first six Dow stocks: Alcoa, American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, Boeing and Citigroup.

Every year I do a bottom-up analysis of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This is not the usual "I think the Dow goes to 14,000 by year-end" kind of prediction, because I believe that has little value and is just thumb-sucking. All my investing career, I have preferred looking at projections for each individual stock and then adding up what they produce as a return to find out what the percentage gained or loss might be.

This year will be particularly difficult to divine, in part because I believe that it will be split between two halves: the pre-bottom in housing and the post-bottom. The post-bottom, with interest rates that I believe are going to 4.5% for conforming loans and 5% for jumbos and a decline of another 20% in home prices, may not leave people in existing homes happy about their situation -- and therefore their wealth -- but it will certainly flush out the millions of people who have been waiting on the sidelines, and very few new homes are being built.

Of course that's a huge positive.

Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Cramer bullish on the Dow for '09 -- Part I

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US stocks finished with solid gains on Friday as beleaguered automaker General Motors (NYSE: GM) got the first $4 billion of a series of emergency loans from the US Treasury.[More...]

US stocks advanced on Wednesday on better than expected economic data. Shares also rose as US mortgage rates fell to the lowest in more than three decades.[More...]

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