Santa Claus is coming to town soon, and some of these names may help your portfolio be naughty or nice.

Brian Sozzi of Wall Street Strategies had a research report earlier with a list of retail names, and how they have reacted since the August 9th intraday low. He also has some thoughts on how the names will react during the 2011 holiday shopping season.

In 1997, home prices in Hong Kong were in its final run-up to the all-time high which were unmatched even today. Then it crashed as the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis. What can you learn from the experience in Hong Kong? And what does it imply for the housing market in the United States?

Not if we embrace pro-growth fiscal policies. A good start would be the bipartisan Wyden-Gregg tax reform bill.

Once upon a time there was a land called Nectarinia. It was a land flowing with vast amounts of honey. (Yes, there was also some milk, but this wasn’t the Promised Land.)