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Well, it's official. It looks like technical analysis to predict stocks is useless.

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Uber-shortseller Bill Fleckenstein wonders if the strength in technology is an illusion.

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John Hussman, mutual fund manager extraordinaire, thinks the market has never been this overbought.

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Is Goldman Sachs (GS) the next GM?

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Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman thinks the banks are not ok.

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When one public company buys another, an arbitrage situation results where you can go long the acquired and short the acquirer to capture the spread. Here are the latest merger arb spreads.

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Notes from the Best Ideas symposium from all the top stockpickers.

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Julian Robertson's interview with the Financial Times. Robertson's Tiger Fund was one of the most successful hedge funds in history.

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Hedge fund manager David Einhorn has a pile of gold stashed somewhere in midtown NYC.

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The Galleon bust for insider trading could be just the tip of the iceberg for hedge funds.

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Are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac worthless?

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