Thrift, an Old-Time Virtue Making a Comeback
For those of you new to Free Money Finance, I post on The Bible and Money every Sunday. Here's why.
The following is a guest post from Marotta Wealth Management.

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Friday links: rumor time
It’s once again rumor time on Wall Street. (The Reformed Broker)
Individual investors still have some buying power left. (Big Picture)

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Potash Corp./Saskatchewan (POT) Shares Surge After Earnings Guidance

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Free Money Finance March Money Madness, Round 2, Posts 29-32
Here we go with the second round of Free Money Finance March Money Madness (if you wonder what's going on in these posts, see my article announcing March Money Madness and/or click on my March Money Madness category link and scroll down to read all the posts involved in this subject.)

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Solid Earnings, Strong Balance Sheets and Low Interest Rates Will Fuel The Rally - Beware!
Yesterday, the market continued to march higher and it established a new high for the year. Economic news has been light and there is nothing to stand in the way of this rally. Solid earnings, strong balance sheets and low-interest rates will fuel this rally. Every analyst on CNBC is bullish. The VIX has dropped down to two-year lows and confidence is high. The global credit crisis has been completely discounted and traders will need to see concrete evidence of a failure for this market to roll over. Consumer sentiment dropped slightly in February and retail sales were mixed.
Pre-Market Open News and Links for Friday
Chart of The Day: "Today's chart illustrates how the recent rise in earnings has impacted the current valuation of the stock market as measured by the price to earnings ratio (PE ratio). Generally speaking, when the PE ratio is high, stocks are considered to be expensive. When the PE ratio is low, stocks are considered to be inexpensive. From 1936 into the early 1990s, the PE ratio tended to peak in the low 20s (red line) and trough somewhere around seven (green line).

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Potash (POT) Raises Guidance
Reader Abraham notified me that Potash (POT) raised guidance after the bell.... hold on, need to get this egg off my face to read the press release.

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Force Protection Stuns Investors

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Bookkeeping: Closing Rackspace Hosting (RAX) and DragonWave (DRWI), Cut Some Seagate Tech (STX)
I said entering the week, these are 2 positions I'd be monitoring, along with EnerNOC (ENOC) as they are the 3 weak links we had in the long side of the portfolio. I've culled Rackspace Hosting (RAX) twice this week, and said yesterday if I did not already have other shorts maxxed out, I'd be shorting the stock at that point. Unfortunately as Greenhill

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Market Updates: Citigroup (NYSE:C), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), United Technologies (NYSE:UTX), Visa (NYSE:V)
Shares of Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose more than 1% in preopen trade on Thursday ahead of the company chief executive officer’s address to a financial services conference in New York. Late Wednesday, the Financial Times newspaper reported that Citi CEO Vikram Pandit will suggest the core business’s earnings could reach as much as $20 billion in a few years. The report said the CEO will not make a specific estimate, but will detail the bank’s strategy and earnings potential. –MarketWatch
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) will be holding its annual meeting.

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