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The Euro is going down.

According to an unscientific poll done by NetBanker, 13% of users said they would be interested in doing their banking from within Facebook. Would you?

Techcrunch interviewed Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney On Yahoo/Microsoft/Google. It's a good interview although I tend to disagree with his conclusions.

Microsoft's numbers indicate very clearly that that technology growth by and large is anemic. There are only four stocks that anyone should be looking at - here they are.

Think the mutual fund you own is a special investment. Think again. Most financial companies package and sell mutual funds like a supermarket sells soap. Bulk it up and ship it out.

CVTX just sold half of the rights to their new stress testing drug for a price that shows just how undervalued their stock is.

Merck and Schering are way up from their recent lows- and AZN is off its recent highs. There is more money to be made here, but making the same trades I recommended last week.

Buying AZN is the best way to play enhance if you didn't short MRK and SGP

Even more fall out today from the Enhance trial at the ACC today.

Smartypig is a new company that launched several weeks ago and it has already generated a lot of buzz. It bills itself as a social savings site. Best of all, it has a very competitive savings rate.

Six months ago you could find a savings account or CD above 6%. Just a month ago you could find a rate above 5%. Soon, you'll be lucky to find a rate above 4%.

I feel like such a downer lately. Here's some info from the Fed that shows that after inflation, the net worth of Americans fell for the first time since 2002. Here's my opinion on what needs to happen before we can start growing again. There are some pretty big economic issues that have to be sorted out before growth can continue: 1) End spending - war on Iraq 2) suffer through mortgage bubble - There's not getting around this. The bubble is going to need to pop and the sooner the better.

There has been a lot of discussion recently on the different yield between AAA municipal bonds and lower rated munis. A paper by the Fed seems to indicate that if you plan on holding on to your bonds, you may be better off buying lower rates munis.