Early movers this morning:

In the Bonus Material of Kill Bill Vol. 2's DVD, there's a very hot live performance of Malaguena Salerosa by Chingon. Check it out if you get the chance. (I don't quite know the difference between Chingon and Del Castillo.)

A look at GOOG's daily chart showing the recent Dummy entries. Every trader out there knows what's hot and what's not... that's why we've all been on top of the Energy stocks (APC, BHI, MRO, NBL, RIG, SLB, SUN, UCL, XLE, etc.) lo these many months. GOOG is one of the few tech stocks that merits attention.

GOOG, Daily Chart

The coil scanner picked up COST. Costco has gone, well, more or less nowhere for the last five years. In any event, watch for a break out of this tiny range contraction.

COST, 30-min. Chart

Killer Debate Ahead, by Bill Buckley:

Billionaire George Soros intensifies his anti-Bush campaign:

You should ignore the Gallup Poll; nevertheless Bush is bid 64.6 x 66 offer.

Slack-Jawed Cretins Watch "The O'Reilly Factor"

(Rupert Murdoch didn't get rich by appealing to the Highest Common Denominator.)

Safer, Smarter, More Secure $50 Bill Issued

Schwab Research Reveals Trading and Holding Differences Among Age Groups (Press Release)

That's a very fascinating table to look at (well, fascinating for some of us)... look at the levels of Cash & Equivalents held across the board! It looks like a lot of folks are hesitant about putting cash to work and are content to earn negative returns for the time being. No doubt they're waiting for prices to rise before they feel "safe" about going back into the market. ;-)

Why Are Oil Prices So High? (A kind of "Oil Prices for Dummies" article.)

Ameritrade, Bloomberg Unit Criticize NYSE 'Hybrid' Plan, by Gaston Ceron:

Thanks for linking to me, coprolalia and Lope Markets.

I've started to use Bloglines after Tom from Sixth World recommended it to me. It's a very slick "integrated service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and rich Web content." I've added a button over in the sidebar in case you want use Bloglines to subscribe to some poor Web content: mine. ;-)

You can find yesterday's Unusual Suspects on the Unusual Suspects page. TZOO finally cracked... too bad I couldn't short it (despite checking for availability daily). TZOO has an $869 million market cap, so there's still a bit of room on the downside, lol.

TZOO, Daily Chart